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Travel day
We are done with the Mexico trip and flying back to the USA Today. Traveling during COVID had been interesting to say the least. On the way to Mexico my ears felt like they were falling off due to the mask we need to wear in the airports. On the plus side the flight attendants…
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Tips for Rowing the Big Rapids in the Grand Canyon (Colorado River Whitewater Rafting)
Some of my friends have rafted the entire Grand Canyon and from listening to their stories it sounds like they are falling off of cliffs. While I am sure it is terrifying and formidable this video helped me get a better idea of what happens on the river in the Grand. Someday I will need…
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Don’t forget to take your Malaria pill
Since we are traveling to Mexico for an extended period of time it is recommended that we take Malaria pills as well as get a number of vaccines. Its been a busy couple of months getting shots for Hep A and B, Typhoid, COVID Boosters, and the flu. At one visit to the pharmacy I…
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Review: Chernobyl the miniseries
I have hesitated watching this series for a few years now. I was 9 years old when the reactor exploded in 1986 and the cold war was at its height. I remember the news reports about radioactive dust clouds potentially covering much of Europe. It was a wild and scary time and I knew the…
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Positive feedback loop
Feeling deep this morning while listening to an early Kinsta podcast with Joe of WP Buffs. It’s a great conversation about business and entrepreneurship. Joe is such a positive guy it’s infectious and I’ve seen it pervade in his organization. It made me think about how I need to act more positively. I do my…
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Review of: Our remote work future is going to suck
In reality, remote work makes you vulnerable to outsourcing, reduces your job to a metric, creates frustrating change-averse bureaucracies, and stifles your career growth. Our remote work future is going to suck I have only worked for about 30 years at this point but each of those points has always been applicable. Since I have…
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ISS docking simulator from SpaceX
This is pretty cool, and really hard – ISS docking simulator for SpaceX You got the right stuff? Makes me think of how the video game in The Last Starfighter was a recruiting device.
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Set your alarm for bedtime
We are getting our alarm clocks all wrong. Everyone sets their alarm for when they want to wake up. We don’t take into account when we go to bed. If you set your alarm for 6am but goto bed at 1am, thats only 5 hours of sleep. At this point it’s pretty much decided that…
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Never not felt better
One truth I have relearned multiple times is that I need to get up and do something first thing in the morning. Usually that is a workout of some kind: cycling, yoga, strength training, This gives me time to wake up before I try to be productive with my day. Waking up is more than…
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Always open in List view
I have been using a Mac for over 22 years at this point, and I still have Finder windows open with a view of files in something other than List view. It drives me crazy every time. I like list view for the same reason I like ll and ls -la on the command line.…