With the kid back at college my home office gets moved back up out of the basement. I had kinda forgotten how nice it is to have sun coming in the windows while I’m working.

2026 Reads: The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen 📚

2026 Reads: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 📚

Beautiful writing. Horrific story. Astonishing book.

Today we drive 2 hours to Des Moines for the youngest daughter to get senior pics at the Iowa state capitol. Then 2 more hours on to Nebraska to move the middle kid back to college. Middle kid is basically moving out for good this year. My heart is not ready for this.

It’s always a good day to support a Ben Shive Kickstarter campaign.

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The Cubs with a nice W against the Nationals and the Brewers get swept by the Padres… suddenly the Cubs are only 3 games back in the NL Central with a lot of baseball left to be played. Should be a fun last 6 weeks of the season!

#MLB #Cubs

OK, that’s kinda cool: just saw that I got my first patent issued! It’s obscure, unlikely to be used for anything substantive, and belongs to a previous employer, so I probably won’t even get the plaque for it. But it’s my idea, with my name on it. Neat.

A good chuckle at church this morning as a sweet older lady from the vestry stumbled over the church picnic announcement and said the vestry would be providing the meat and the condoms.

(Why is “condiments” such a difficult word, anyway?)

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2026 Reads: Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virginia Woolf 📚

2026 Reads: In the Beginning was the Spirit Science, Religion, and Indigenous Spirituality by Diarmuid Ó Murchú 📚

Well, that was a hand-waving mess. Bleh.