Well, cancelled my YouTubeTV subscription. Activated Hulu+LiveTV. A minor hassle needing to create a new HuluDisneyEspn account; upside is I get the introductory rate for a few months!

As of last night YouTubeTV pulled all Disney & ESPN content thanks to a contract dispute. I’ve used YTTV for 6+ years, but they’re lucky that tomorrow’s sports I care about are on Fox and NBC. If it’s not resolved by early next week, I’m off to Hulu.

Paul Kingsnorth’s book Against The Machine is the most thought-provoking thing I’ve read in a good while.

Cover of a book with a distorted picture of trees on the cover. Paul Kingsnorth, author. Against the machine: on the unmaking of humanity

Had good intentions of going to the gym this morning. Then I turned off my alarm and slept another hour. Guess I was tired.

Maybe after work?

Doing squats at the gym is always deceptive for me.

Never feel like I’ve pushed that hard at the time.

The next day: oof.

18 innings? Phew, glad I didn’t try to stay up and watch the end of the game last night. Tired enough as it is turning it off at 11:20p, going to the 12th inning, and doing today on 5.5 hours of sleep.

Even better after a full day at speech and debate: my daughter took first place in the spontaneous speech category! (You’re given a choice between 3 prompts, you have 2 minutes to prepare and then give a 5 minute speech on the topic… phew.)

Spending the day in Des Moines at a high school speech and debate tournament. Judged a few of the early rounds. (My first time judging!) My daughter is in the finals for extemporaneous speech at the moment. 🤞 A fun day.

2025 Reads: Holy Hurt by Hillary L. McBride, PhD 📚

“When we set down what we had to believe in order to survive, what felt like our entire lives, that’s when we begin to find ourselves again.”

  • Hillary McBride adapting Matthew 16:25.

Phew, that’s a word.