Through one quarter, Nebraska looks like a team with great potential but no polish. False start while going for it on 4th-and-1, then they miss the FG. Frustrating.

2024 Reads: Airframe by Michael Crichton 📚

I’m sure I read this years ago, but it’s interesting to re-read after spending a career in aircraft certification. Crichton did a pretty good job getting the details right.

My HS sophomore got the job shadow hookup that she wanted, which means that in a couple weeks she’s going to spend a morning shadowing at the local FBI Field Office. 🤨

Flu and COVID shot clinic at work today. Couple of sore shoulders is far preferable to a bout with a virus!

As a necessity of my job I am signed up for FAA email notifications when they update certain guidance documents. Something in the system broke, and I have received 100+ email notifications for the same Advisory Circular in the past 20 minutes. Make it stop!

So, if MLB had a promotion/relegation scheme like English football does, the White Sox and Marlins would move down to AAA for next year and the Sugar Land Space Cowboys and Omaha Stormchasers would move up to MLB. That would be kinda awesome.

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I have played the piano and sung with it for most of my life. I’ve rarely ever sung in a choir, though. This weekend I’m going to audition to sing with the Orchestra Iowa Chorus. They’re doing Mozart’s Requiem in the spring. That could be really fun. 🤞

2024 Reads: Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde 📚

It’s rare that I read a novel that feels like nothing I’ve read before. This combination of clever humor and dystopian adventure was a real winner.

What we need more of in popular music today: powerful and appealing ballads with ukulele accompaniment.

Cover of an old sheet music single titled “too many parties, too many pals” with a picture of an elegantly dressed woman on the front. Text under the song title describes it as “a powerful and appealing ballad with ukulele accompaniment”

If Moses really signed this I think they should be asking more than $75.

A large book titled The Ten Commandments with a post it note saying it is Signed By Author and a price tag of $75