Ugh, this debate. On one side, a lying gasbag. On the other side, an old, tired man. I mean, I’ll vote for the old, tired guy over the lying gasbag in a split second. But I wish we had a better option.

2024 Reads: Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell 📚

Not bad, but not nearly as good as it could’ve been. Ended up sort of light and fluffy when it could’ve been tough.

After poking around a while finally realized that I can pay Tailscale to have it use Mullvad as an exit node. Think this is finally the right VPN solution for my needs.

Wordle 1,103 5/6

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So many options to guess. Gah.

26 years with my favorite person. Here’s to a whole bunch more!

Wedding photo of a young man in a tux and a young woman in a white bridal dress standing in front of a candelabra. An older, bearded man next to a still young-looking woman standing under an umbrella in front of a brick wall

2024 Reads: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar 📚

What a beautiful story and exploration of life and meaning.

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.