2025 Reads: The Human Being by Walter Wink 📚

The Nebraska women continue their dominance through the NCAA volleyball tournament. They just picked apart Kansas in quick straight sets. It was never close. They get Texas A&M on Sunday in the regional final. Can the Aggies at least make it interesting? (I’m OK if the answer is no.)

Just managed to snag tickets to see Bob Dylan in March. I mean, the guy is old, but he’s Bob freaking Dylan. You go see him if you can. (Never seen him before, excited for the chance!)

It’s hard to get morning runs in when you’re on work travel, especially in the winter. Finally but the bullet this morning and set the alarm early. Disliked it at 5:30 but man do I feel better after 3 miles on the treadmill.

Well, Iowa - Iowa State was a heckuva women’s basketball game. Audi Crooks is a FORCE. Hawks kept it competitive but needed a guard to catch fire if they wanted to win, and just didn’t get that. Still a hugely entertaining game.

In DC this week for work. Sounds cool, in reality is sitting in meetings all day for 3 days in a row and it being dark by the time we’re done every day. Ah well.

My old AppleTV HD (2015) is starting to feel very slow. Would be happy to replace it but the current newest AppleTV available is still 3 years old. They’ve been rumoring a new one for months… will see how long I can put up with the lagginess while waiting for Apple to release the new one.

2025 Reads: We Did Ok, Kid by Anthony Hopkins 📚

I’ve enjoyed Hopkins since seeing him in The Remains of the Day. His memoir here is brisk and easy to read, but you get the sense that he has slowly done the work to come to peace with and acceptance of himself. May we all be willing to do that work.

Apparently there are vendors now that will make custom tropical shirt fabric prints; my department found one and now we have shirts with our test aircraft on them, including the correct N-number. Yeah, we’re nerds.

Close up of a brightly printed Hawaiian shirt that also has a white and blue Cessna 208 in the pattern

My One Album a Day for yesterday—which I’m just catching up to this morning—is Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton from 1966. My first familiarity with Clapton was his Unplugged. I was in high school. This is… not that. Lordy, this guy’s electric guitar smokes. (Some hot blues organ in there, too!)