Back on May 26 I finished writing the first draft of a new story. This was something of a milestone for me. I’ve written about my five-year bout with writer’s block when it comes to fiction-writing. This new story represents the first story draft that I have completed since 2015–even before my soon-to-be six-year old…
For as long I can remember, my showers have been orderly affairs of strictly utilitarian purpose, varying only by season. In the depth of winter, I take them scalding hot. In the heat of summer, I don’t even bother with the hot water faucet. Aside from that, I’ve tried to make my showers as quick…
For more than 26 years now, I have kept a list of all of the books that I have read. There is only one criteria for a book to make it onto this list: I have to have finished the entire thing. Many are the books that I made it two-thirds, or three-quarters of the…
About a year ago I wrote about my morning routine. Routines evolve and change, even as the habits form, which I find both comforting and ironic. I thought it would be useful, therefore, to describe how my morning routine has changed over the last year. In July 2021, my morning routine looked like this: Walk…
If someone asked the seven-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I’d tell them I wanted to be an astronomer. There was a time in my senior year in high school when I carried around a large paperback edition of Grey’s Anatomy. I would study it in spare moments, and if…
Here is what I read this week. Some of the articles/posts may require a subscription to read them. Once again, my article/blog reading was down this week because of my book reading and my renewed focus on fiction writing. Books Finished The Age of Voltaire: The Story of Civilization, Volume 9 by Will and Ariel Durant.…
When I lived in Los Angeles, one of my favorite restaurants was the 94th Aero Squadron at Van Nuys airport. Yesterday, I learned through the Valley Relics group on Facebook that 94th Aero Squadron has closed its doors after 49 years in the community. The restaurant was themed after Eddie Rickenbacker’s 94th Aero Squadron in…
Welcome to my blog series, “Practically Paperless with Obsidian.” For an overview of this series, please see Episode 0: Series Overview. I thought I would wrap up this series with a demonstration of how I use Obsidian to manage software projects I work on. In my day job, I make software and manage software projects. Aside…
I have been falling behind on my writing here on the blog. In some ways, this is a good thing. There are only so many hours in a day, as much as I wish that weren’t true. The hour or so I spent writing posts and doing other tasks on the blog (responding to comments,…
When I was young we would sometimes head to my grandparent’s house and spend the night. They had a guest bedroom that my brother and I would sleep in. A shelf mounted above the bed contained a bunch of books. The books on that shelf rarely changed. There was probably a time when I knew…