Category: Daily Life

It’s been 3.75 years since I gave up my desk in the basement of my house. From time to time, I wonder why.

The default American workplace is fundamentally flawed.

Yesterday our very active neighborhood watch, which sends an email when an unfamiliar face walks down the street, was completely silent as a tow truck maneuvered around our parked cars to drag off two clunkers from our lot. Instead of calling to ask if this was expected, left over 4th of July party favors exploded among the exuberant cheers of our rejoicing neighbors who did not care if the cars were being stolen by metal scrapers or legitimately being removed by a car dealer. Thanks guys!

I take you back to 1939 when people had backbones and priorities and our society made progress because we weren’t hampered by political correctness.

[h/t Buzzfeed]

Today is the first day of school for many Tennessee students. It’s a special kind of hell where you have to wake up early, walk around the house like zombies, and still arrive at work far later than desired. I had just attuned my body to getting to work between 7am and 7:30am.

This year we return to having a child in elementary, a child in middle, a child in high school, and a child in college. It’s not quite the same as the year we had 5 children in 5 schools and only had 1 working vehicle. But this is close.

Please drive safely particularly in school zones. The children are out. Those few seconds you save by speeding are not worth the lives you risk.

I feel Wyoming slipping away.

This has been an action packed weekend. Well, Saturday could have been better. Saturday was taxi day. I woke at 5:45am to drive Tommy to work. Instead of staying up and being productive, I went back down for a "nap" and was left little productive time before taking Amy to her friend’s house across town. A few errands (Home Depot) later and it was time to pick Amy up and head off for some Tax Free Weekend shopping which culminated in sending the children to the grandparents and having a date with my wife. Today, Sunday, was far more productive. A great cleaning occurred in the downstairs (still hard to tell). Noah helped empty the Dodge Neon (a car being used as storage for Ladies of Charity) which I hope will motivate me to install the new water pump. I did not get to install the shelving downstairs that I set as my weekend goal but at least now I can access the wall where the shelving will be installed. I attended a meeting for the launch of the cub scouting year. I’ve worked on a plan to help a local organization with a technical endeavor. And now, weary, I work to finish a client obligation only which after it is done can I begin to relax and figure out where the unfinished business will fit into this week’s schedule.

I’m rekindling my effort to toss something every day for a year. Today, I have already successfully discarded a box of documentation from 2000 (mostly old business paperwork) including an IRA application my mother had asked me to fill out and return to her. Oops. And the mint condition Palm Pilot III manuals.

Next, my notesbooks from high school. Er, yes, I may have notebooks from my high school classes in my garage.

For my younger friends who will one day be old:

Depart SLC 10:17am Frontier Airlines flight F9 570.
Arrive Knoxville at 5:17 pm, Frontier flight F9 600.