Well, that was a fun meeting to kick off the day. Time for another cup of coffee.

So nice of the internet to declare it’s a Pie Day just in time for my birthday!

I’ve been closer to 50 than 40 for a while now… Today I am closer to 50 than to 45. Still, it’s just a number.

On the upside, this conference room I’ve been sitting in all day has windows so I can see the sunshine outside.

On the down side, there’s sunshine outside and I’ve been sitting in this conference room all day.

Gotta love some above normal weather.

Screenshot of phone notification saying “KCRG Weather: Above normal weather continues”

Hosting some visitors at work today through Thursday. Glad they are coming, needed visit, already tired thinking about hosting all week.

Spent the afternoon in our first rehearsal for singing Mozart’s Requiem with Orchestra Iowa in April. Such beautiful music, so much fun to sing.

2025 Reads: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 📚

A beautiful, intimate story about love, loss, and displacement.

Theming a scavenger hunt activity at work… my cultural point of referenced was Carmen Sandiego. My younger coworker’s reference: Blue’s Clues.

Dang it, I’m getting old.

Happy for a Friday at the end of a long week. Assuming this morning’s snow doesn’t snarl plans, our youngest kid is heading out with the school Academic Decathlon team for the state competition this weekend, leaving my wife and I with the house to ourselves overnight for the first time in… years. 😲

2025 Reads: Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr 📚

The first half: socio-political observations as relevant in 2025 as they were in 1931. The second half: meanders, with an ultimately disappointing conclusion.

I’ll allow that maybe I just don’t get it, but…