Decided to go with Strava for activity tracking for a while. Imported my last 90 days of activities from Apple Fitness and here I go.

Strava: cjhubbs

While I have failed at the career goal of “never have an investigative reporter knock on your front door”, I can still aim for “never have Chinese intelligence set a honey trap for you”.

#goals

2026 Reads: Certainty: A Novel by John Twelve Hawks 📚

My antique shopping find for the weekend: a very nice first edition of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Book cover in cream and brown colors: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Flyleaf from the back cover of the book, featuring an author photo

Would’ve expected this to be a lot shorter.

Book of sheet music titled “Everybody’s Favorite Accordion Pieces”

Out for an overnight trip and somehow the hotel TV doesn’t have the basic Fox channel. I kinda wanted to watch Nebraska/Illinois football… but Nebraska would probably disappoint me again, so maybe this is for the better.

Me, a guy who has mostly stayed away from carbs for the past almost 3 years, had a bowl of leftover pasta for lunch. Felt sluggish, over-stuffed, and tired the rest of the day. Can’t believe I used to eat like this on the regular. Oof.

2026 Reads: Scandalous Witness by Lee C. Camp 📚

A really excellent book, accessible, well-reasoned, and timely.

Got out and voted!

Selfie of a bald man smiling with a “I Voted” sticker on his shirt.

The number of people from my old evangelical world who hear I’m moving from Iowa to Seattle and immediately make a joke about making sure I don’t get infected by all those awful liberals out there… sigh