
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Don't need this in Orlando. 22F when I left the house, 79F here

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Came home to this and surprisingly made it all the way to the ranch

Friday, November 8, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
An audience of one for the keynote. Should I be disappointed?

Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
Travel shitt du jour. This is what happens when I get up before 5

Chilly, gray, and rainy in Seattle? Who'd have guessed that for November?

Back at the airport again. Rarely down here but decided to get a few minutes is fresh air

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
It's Wednesday. Have an extra job today because sometimes you need to just pitch in and help

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
A long day today changing all the brakes on the BMW. Took quite a few hours and still have to route a new sensor wire tomorrow

Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Sprinkler blowout day. Not sure if I'm a little early but I don't want to gamble anymore. Plus it's warm today

Monday, October 14, 2024
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Flying into Pittsburgh. Cool to see a nuclear plant from the sky

Friday, October 11, 2024
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
My wife left town. Kid #1 moved out last year. Kid #2 went to a concert. Kid #3 had a date. Me and this crew are home alone, unsure of what to do. Leftovers and a little Netflix on the agenda.

Colorado Has Great Work Life Balance
A report based on a survey says Colorado has the best balance between work and life.
It's a survey, so take it with a grain of salt. Only a small number of people were surveyed, and likely, they were all professionals with good, salaried jobs. This doesn't mean Colorado is great, but that it's the best of many bad situations.
For context, here are some of the stats
All good things, all apply to me and many in my industry.
But, for the average person in Colorado (or anywhere), they might work a lower-skilled job, or be a tradesperson, or a teacher, or some other job where they commute every day, they work more than 40 hours, they get no maternity or paternity.
Colorado is a great place to live, but for many people, life may not be great. This isn't a Trump or Biden thing, or a Democrat or GOP thing. This is a sad fact of the modern world, where technology and very large companies have eroded a lot of things in the world that made the top of the lower class through the middle class successful.
I read a few comments when our governor posted this link. I see the anger and the disbelief, but that's because those people don't see life the same way and don't have the advantages of those that answered the survey.
Or they're just mad at Democrats. That's a stupid view, and equal to the stupid view that all Republicans are a problem.
78F in Denver today. Still warm enough but the gym bailed and drained the pool. Until next summer

Monday, October 7, 2024
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Leaving BOS. A fun bit tiring trip. Down to 3 for the year

Friday, October 4, 2024
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Great views in downtown Boston today. Not of me, though hopefully I said something smart.

Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Back again. Had a fun train ride to the A gates, on to B gates, and back to A gates because I don't know to check a boarding pass. Still managed to get here in time to get some food.

Monday, September 23, 2024
Friday, September 20, 2024
Last day of the year outside. 2:10/100 which is much faster when I haven't spent half a day on ranch work

Friday, September 13, 2024
A little lunch at Classified, a private restaurant at EWR. Pretty neat, a bit pricey but very quiet

Thursday, September 12, 2024
Planes, trains, automobiles Punctuated by shoes carrying me around the world Now a bus, riding through the English countryside Before more shoes, planes, and cars tomorrow.

I find myself lucky enough to find a seat in a train as I leave Cambridge, Lucky enough to be able and allowed to visit this small city in another country. I am smiling sadly as the memories of quick goodbyes with friends linger Tempered by the anticipation of meeting another colleague on a Reading, a city I've never visited The view backward, literally from my seat, and figuratively in my head is full of life. If I'm lucky enough the view forward contains more of the same.

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
My quiet corner in the Redgate office where I can take a break and strum for a few minutes.

Saturday, September 7, 2024
A little reminiscing before the event today. Walked around campus, which I last did in 1986. This was Shaw,.my freshman dorm. I walked through the doors here one morning in 1986, checked my mail and went into the common area. I stopped to watch the space shuttle take off, intending to go study. Instead I saw the Challenger explode. A sad and wild day as many of us were glued to the little media we had trying to understand what went wrong. The glass sides are the dining hall, where I ate most meals. I'd often see Rony Seikly, Pearl Washington, Sherman Douglas and more in here at lunch. This was the closest dorm to the South campus area where they had afternoon practice.

Shirt du jour. When your only home for 10 hours, sometimes you don't pack well
