Earlier this year I went to a business lecture, and I was a little bored, so I took notes. I waited long enough so that the particulars of the event are no longer relevant, but my notes still seem to be applicable. In fact, I’ve applied them to several other seminars since…
Having a brother-in-law in the house for a month has been surprisingly painless.
Almost completely painless, in fact, but I can’t very well fill a blog post talking about the things he hasn’t done.
So, I posted a photo of myself on Flickr recently. Several good friends said I look really serious in the picture. But I don’t think I look that serious. In fact I think I look a little happy. What do you think?
I went to a Canadians baseball game tonight. It wasn’t just a Canadian baseball game—the team is called the Canadians. Like Vancouver’s hockey team is called the Canucks. So original.
I’m up early to head to Sunday breakfast, but I’m glad to be up, because I had a fairly awful dream.
Susie and I were in Los Angeles, working not at our house, but in an office somewhere….
A largegaggle of people came over last night for what turned into a rather larger gathering than I’d initially planned. We ate Eatery sushi from the ‘00s, played some magic from the ‘90s, listened to music from the ‘80s, and we’re all from the ‘70s.
The rest of the weekend stretches out ahead of me as formless and empty as summer vacation did when I was 12.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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