Got all my approvals in line, which means I have a paper ready to be presented at DASC in October!

One of the side-effects of losing a significant amount of weight is that I seem to be cold a lot more often than I used to. I guess when you get rid of a lot of insulation that can happen… where’s my hoodie?

2024 Reads: Wounded Pastors by Carol Howard Merritt 📚

Short and practical.. can see it being useful to almost all pastors and those in ministry.

After 28 months of an Iowa living experiment, we loaded my mother-in-law’s stuff into a trailer today for her to move back to North Carolina. Big transitions get harder, I think, the older you get. We’ll miss her, but hope she’ll be much happier back in NC.

2024 Reads: The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes 📚

This went from middling espionage thriller to “WTF is this even?” in about 20 pages. Weird.

Yesterday I went through the final interview step for an internal role change that would be a significant career move. I think it went well. Now I wait for 6 weeks to find out. A little annoyed that it takes so long, but mostly glad to have that done with.

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.

Woke up this morning to a notification that the first leg of our afternoon flight home from New York to Iowa was already delayed.

Blessedly, we were able to move to an earlier flight, and assuming the plane we’ve just boarded in Chicago gets out, we’ll get home earlier than originally scheduled. 👍

If the post-series handshake is the best thing about the #NHL playoffs, the Edmonton fans singing O Canada is a close second. Chills.

When in DC, and your kid has a college interest, you do the college tour. It’s hot, but let’s look at Georgetown.