2021s

• 01 Jan 2022

  Some charcuterie action tonight. I might not make it to midnight, though.

  

• 01 Jan 2022

  I took a long hiatus away from micro.blog. I am not sure why I am trying it again, but here we are.

• 31 Mar 2021

  A nice mountain bike ride with a friend this morning.

  

• 30 Mar 2021

  A movie and a fire in the backyard. A nice end to a crazy day. Happy spring :)

  

• 29 Mar 2021

  Fully vaccinated! Fingers crossed that we can move forward and return to something resembling “normal,” soon.

• 03 Mar 2021

  I discovered a new app/community: Slowly. I really like the premise: a digital version of an old-fashioned pen pal, complete with stamp collecting and really long wait times (hours, not days) between messages. This could be fun :)

• 02 Mar 2021

  I got my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine yesterday. I was feeling kind of lethargic yesterday afternoon and my shoulder is pretty sore this morning. But, I am looking forward to having all of this behind us!

• 26 Feb 2021

  Sometimes I wonder about the obsession with #productivity. Why is that the thing we’re supposed to care about? Why is maximizing #productivity a goal worth pursuing?

• 26 Feb 2021

  A quick mountain bike ride today, the first in quite a while. I felt good, but out of shape. The recent rain has made everything nice and green. I should have taken my phone to snap a few pictures.

  

• 25 Feb 2021

  “I’m not here. This isn’t happening.”

• 24 Feb 2021

  How many “today’s the day” days does it take until it really is “the day?”

• 19 Feb 2021

  I have always found it odd that we ever used the word “conservative” to refer to people like Rush Limbaugh. Sure, a small aspect of his schtick might fall into that political “box,” but everything else about him (and those whom he inspired) is the opposite of “conservative.”

• 14 Feb 2021

  One of the highlights of my day is the little badge on DailyArt, reminding me to stop for a few moments and look at some art.

• 14 Feb 2021

  I keep wishing I had an exit strategy out of my current situation. I feel trapped by a political system I despise, an academic culture I am starting to question, and an overall feeling of “ugh” about nearly everything around me.

• 14 Feb 2021

  A Mardi Gras gig with a view, yesterday. The recent rain has turned all of the brown into green.

  

• 12 Feb 2021

  RIP Chick Corea

  I am not a huge fan of the Elektric Band or Return to Forever, but Now He Sings, Now He Sobs was one of the first “moder...
• 11 Feb 2021

  on TaskPaper

  I really want to like TaskPaper. I like everything about it, in theory. But, I have never really found a way to make it ...
• 06 Feb 2021

  Surfing and biking in the same day? I’ll probably sleep well tonight. 😴

• 06 Feb 2021

  I am generally happy with iA Writer (and Pages when iA isn’t the right tool), but I am finding Craft to be a really interesting, exciting app.

• 05 Feb 2021

  on Taking Only One French Class

  The Spring 2021 semester started on Monday. Late last week, I suddenly started to feel kind of overwhelmed. This, before...
• 04 Feb 2021

  This is always a nice feeling, no matter how fleeting!

  

• 03 Feb 2021

  In French, Groundhog Day is “Jour de la marmotte,” which I think I like better.

  Happy Marmot Day, y’all!

• 01 Feb 2021

  A fun day playing in the snow

  A fun day playing in the snow. @ Mount Laguna, CA
• 31 Jan 2021

  One of the funny quirks of living in Southern California: today, we had to discuss if we should go to the beach or go to the mountains to play in the snow.

• 28 Jan 2021

  The neurotic side of my brain can’t figure out which way to organize these icons. Should they be aligned by color (as they are now) or by function (like they perhaps should be)?

  

• 26 Jan 2021

  I just gave a quick “Intro to Markdown” presentation to a handful of other professors. They seemed to “get it,” which is good. Hopefully they will find a way to use it. I use it all the time, including right here in Micro.blog :)

• 25 Jan 2021

  on Taking More French Classes

  Two years ago, I decided to take Conversational French 1 at Grossmont College. I came to that decision because my wife a...
• 24 Jan 2021

  We just rebooked flights to Brussels (originally planned for December 2020, but canceled due to COVID). Fingers crossed that we’ll be in the clear in June 2021! 🤞

• 23 Jan 2021

  on Social Media (my obligatory I-am-leaving-Facebook Facebook post)

  I find people’s compulsion to make a grand exit kind of comical, so I am hoping this doesn’t come across like that. But,...
• 22 Jan 2021

  Mesmerizing and transportive! Jean Rondeau plays the “Goldberg Variations”.

• 21 Jan 2021

  A bright, shiny morning here in San Diego.

  

• 21 Jan 2021

  I relistened to Low’s Double Negative today. It’s a masterpiece!

• 17 Jan 2021

  Speaking of studying foreign languages … This will only be funny to the francophones out there :)

  

• 17 Jan 2021

  I really enjoy using Tandem to practice speaking and writing in foreign languages. If anyone is wanting to brush up on a foreign language, I highly recommend it.

• 16 Jan 2021

  I rode my bike for the first time in over a month today!

  You can see a bit of the ride/terrain via Relive.

• 15 Jan 2021

  Something tells me this guy’s not going to show up.

  

• 14 Jan 2021

  Our last day in Washington. Back to “normal” tomorrow. (I am still not sure what normal is these days.)

  

• 11 Jan 2021

  Some haunting scenery on the Olympic Peninsula.

  

• 09 Jan 2021

  I am not sure if I have ever been “proud to be an American” but I have definitely been embarrassed to be one.

• 06 Jan 2021

  Surfing this morning. Woot! It was a little chilly out there, but still worth it. This is one positive thing the COVID situation has brought me: I’ve been surfing a lot more since everything else closed down (including working and schooling from home).

  

• 05 Jan 2021

  I was just reading about some craziness that went on over on Twitter. The “cancel culture” stuff needs to stop, or at least cool it a bit. I wish people were allowed to be less than perfect and the mob wasn’t so quick to jump onto the guilt-by-association train.

• 04 Jan 2021

  Some coyotes found their way into our backyard yesterday!

  

• 03 Jan 2021

  I stumbled across this photo I took at the British Museum in June 2019. My wife and I had tickets to take our kids to London and Paris over Christmas/New Year. But, everything was canceled due to COVID. I am mostly supportive of virus-suppression efforts, but I am still bummed.

  

• 02 Jan 2021

  This Christmas, I received two ways to keep my feet warm. One for surfing; one for all of the other times.

  

• 01 Jan 2021

  I went on a crazy hike a few days ago. 4500 ft climb within about 4 miles. There was more or less no trail after about a mile. Lots of cacti and agave to try to avoid along the way.

  I am still nursing some sore muscles and cactus wounds :)