Our daughter loves bubble tea. If you’ve not had bubble tea, it doesn’t sound appetizing no matter how I describe it, but I’ll try anyway. Bubble tea, or at least the bubble tea we order at our local Ninja Café — Large Classic Kung Fu Milk Tea with Boba — reminds me of Thai iced … Continue reading Boba run
This afternoon, I’ll take our daughter out so she can practice driving. She wants to drive the route from our house to the pool when there’s no traffic. This will prepare her to start driving the route the six times a week we currently take her, usually in rush hour, such as rush hour is … Continue reading Parenting is weird
Spoiler alert: I don’t have big plans. I’m writing this before I perform my Saturday morning ritual of taking our daughter to swim practice, then pushing a cart up and down the aisles at our Kroger supermarket to do the grocery shopping for the week. My biggest plan this weekend is to finish reading my … Continue reading Big plans for the weekend
Every couple of months, I get a notification from Apple: “Your iCloud storage is almost full.” When I first started getting the email, it inspired me to go through my Apple photos and cull the blurry, mediocre, meaningless, and unnecessary shots, like the pictures of the grocery list on the kitchen chalkboard. After 5 minutes, … Continue reading Digital Hygiene
A few weeks ago, I found myself avoiding my home office. I’d start my day down there, but by midmorning I was desperate to get out. My office space is a diminutive utility room in our finished basement. It’s half underground, and along with my desk and bookshelf, it houses the fuse boxes, water heater, … Continue reading Office refresh
I walked around the house in a wetsuit last night. The wetsuit is my latest purchase effort to welcome winter. Or at least to welcome fall. This insulated body suit will extend the paddleboarding season into November, and will allow me to get on the water again as early as March. Well, maybe April. I … Continue reading Everything old is new again
