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Eclipse Day 2024

Update! The eclipse ended up being one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed. There will be a total solar eclipse today and my home town of Bloomington, Indiana is in the path of totality. The eclipse will start at 1:49pm EST and will peak …

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Some things I can't remember

I keep this note in my Obsidian vault called Things I can't remember anymore. This is probably not of interest to most people, but some of these things brought up a lot of feelings when I realized I couldn't remember them anymore. Some of it made me …

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Playing shows with Yuki

I started playing in a new band on a fairly regular basis this year. My friend Yuki is a singer-songwriter that has been working on a new album and ask me and some of our other friends to play in her back-up band. We started regular rehearsals early …

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Weathering a shitstorm

It's been a heck of a few weeks around here. It started off when we got back from spending a week in Florida for spring break with some of our close friends and their kids. I caught a nasty cold the day before we left to come home which made for a …

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November 2022

I would like to start writing a monthly check-in post that I can aggregate into a feed for a new now page. I tried keeping a Now page a few years ago and it never really stuck, but I think treating is as a feed of short, focused posts might work a …

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Bye, 2018

It's almost 4pm on the last day of 2018 and after reading so many wonderful end-of-year wrap up posts and top three accomplishments tweets I'm motivated enough to at least record some of my thoughts about this past year, even if it's just for me. …

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I felt more permanent today

My partner and I bought a house this summer in the town where we've lived and worked for the past five years. She, our son, and I just finished moving this past week and are enjoying our first weekend in the new place. Yesterday I mowed the lawn for …

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What is next

I graduated college with a degree in industrial design at the beginning of 2004. I got my first design (unsurprisingly not in industrial design) job in 2006 designing menu screens for DVDs. It was just a few short years before the financial crisis …

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January 2016

It's January 2016. I love this time of year and the sense of optimism it brings. That's what resolutions are all about—looking at the future and deciding that we want to be a better version of ourselves. Like many others I've decided that I want to …

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