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Health
Wednesday July 12, 20232023 daily challenge 🏋️♂️
Push-ups: 07 + 12 = 19 push-ups today, 87 push-ups total in 2023 ✅
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Health
Tuesday July 11, 20232023 daily challenge 🏋️♂️
Push-ups: 07 + 11 = 18 push-ups today, 68 push-ups total in 2023 ✅
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Health
Monday July 10, 20232023 daily challenge 🏋️♂️
Push-ups: 07 + 10 = 17 push-ups today, 50 push-ups total in 2023 ✅
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Reading
Monday July 10, 2023Currently reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 📚
This is one of my favorite science fiction books! It is so unique from anything else I’ve read. I’m apprehensive and hopeful that the Netflix adaptation will do it justice.
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Photos
Friday July 7, 2023Almost home, just one flight left.
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Thursday July 6, 2023
Threads feels like it’s going to win and win fast. I have account there but I’m long past caring about the game they are playing. May it be a safer place for those that like and/or need it. I’m quite happy here on my quiet Micro.blog beach.
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Wednesday July 5, 2023
2023 Daily push-up challenge: 7+5 = 12 push-ups.
I did them yesterday but didn’t post: 7+4 = 11 push-ups
Total challenge push-ups to date: 33 (started July 4, 2023)
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Monday July 3, 2023
Inspired by Andrew Welch, @gaijinity, I’ve started the daily push-up challenge. The amount of daily pushups is determined by adding the Month + Day. So today it was 7 + 3 = 11. I’ll add pull ups (just the month) when I’m back from my travels.
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Friday June 30, 2023
Today’s itinerary. Bend ➡️ Seattle ➡️ Vancouver Canada ➡️ Brisbane Australia
It still hasn’t quite sunk in that I get to do this type of thing professionally. My clients are amazing and I’m thankful for each one.
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Thursday June 29, 2023
EOS Traction Library: The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick M. Lencioni 📚
Read this again for the third time. I learn something new every time. This time around what really stood out is how the entire business really runs on just four things applied to everything else. This leaves very little to hide behind, keeps everyone on the same page, surfaces challenging things regularly, and provides the framework for resolving them.
This kind of simplicity is difficult to achieve and well worth it.
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Reading
Thursday June 29, 2023Finished reading: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 📚
Teared up a bit at a the end. It has been a while since I’ve read a book I’d describe as “sweet.”
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Tuesday June 27, 2023
Binge watched the HBO Shaq series on the flight from NYC to Seattle. There is a lot to be learned from his approach to life. He’s earned “The Big Aristotle” title many times over.
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Reading
Sunday June 18, 2023Stopped reading: Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds 📚
Probably the most well written book I couldn’t finish. The lesson here is that I shouldn’t read two complicated plot, multi-character books in a row. My brain just needed a break. I’ll give it another shot in the future.
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Photos
Friday June 16, 2023Why does this airport mural in Kalispell include this creepy dude? There is something seriously wrong with him. Why is he staring at the dog like that?
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Reading
Friday June 16, 2023Currently reading: Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds 📚
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Reading
Friday June 16, 2023Finished reading: A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon 📚
I didn’t know that Samantha Shannon drew inspiration for this series from the story of St. George and the Dragon. Now that I’ve ready it, it makes total sense and also explains why this ended up being one of my favorite modern fantasy books.
Her research led her through many versions of St. George’s story, which is a basic sort of damsel in distress tale, in which a handsome knight rescues a beautiful princess from a monster. But, Shannon says she was particularly interested in one version of the story which contained, as she puts it, “conditional heroism,” In which St. George promises to save the land being tormented by the dragon but only if its residents convert to Christianity…. What if they hadn’t converted, would he have just ridden off?” she asks.
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Friday June 16, 2023
I find myself obsessed with this album. The band had a vision for this album and have the musicianship to make it work start to finish.
Much of the fun comes from the way the sheer joy of creation and experimentation practically radiates from each of the album’s 11 tracks, each of which takes at least one totally unexpected (if not completely batshit) musical turn.
Review: AVENGED SEVENFOLD’s ‘Life Is but a Dream…’ is totally bonkers, totally brilliant
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Photos
Sunday June 11, 2023Across the Spider-verse, waffles, and ice cream with the 13 year old. A solid morning and afternoon.
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Reading
Sunday June 4, 2023Currently reading: A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon 📚
I’m about 1/3 in and loving the deep, fascinating characters and world.
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Reading
Saturday May 27, 2023Finished reading: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson 📚
Fun but didn’t quite live up to the hype for me.
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Wednesday May 24, 2023
When the Mexican restaurant is actually packed with Latinos I feel safe ignoring whatever Yelp says and giving it a try. Let’s see if this holds for Los Robles in Denver.
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Photos
Tuesday May 23, 2023Good morning.
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Reading
Sunday May 21, 2023Finished reading: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 📚
Fantastic piratical fun!
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Reading
Wednesday May 17, 2023Finished reading: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 📚
Pollan’s work is an excellent introduction to psychedelics that covers their history all the through to current medical use cases and research. I deal with ADHD + C-PTSD and wanted to know if psychedelics might be helpful in quite literally changing my mind.
The short answer appears to be yes which led to my first field trip, which was indeed helpful and enlightening. That’s a story for another time.
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Reading
Wednesday May 10, 2023Currently reading: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 📚
Stoned apes indeed.
