I was on my analytics page the other day, one of my quiet routines. Not for numbers, not really. More for the referrals. It's one of the last honest ways to discover corners of the internet that aren't trying to sell you something. Plus, it's intriguing to see where and who all sees our small smoke signals we all...

I am back on my faking it until I make it mode in regards to dealing with the stresses in my life. Lying to yourself isn't good but we all do it all the fucking time. I've successfully faked myself into genuine happiness before, it requires a lot smiling and talking bright and cheerfully turning times when you would...

3:55 my alarms start going off. I forgot to switch them off for Easter, as our store is actually closed today. Typically I'm walking in the door at just after 6 on Sundays. But instead of simply turning my alarm off and sleeping longer, I decided to get up. I fed the cats and went to start some coffee. To my dismay,...

Pattern recognition is a skill that you get better at with each passing moment. When we are young we think things like "Why me", and see the world as so biased and unfair. As we age however, we start to recognize the patterns of life. The patterns of people and things around us, and the patterns that we adhere to....

Whenever I would post to my blog here back in the day I would run the text through ProWritingAid, because to be honest, it was necessary. My spelling and grammar has tanked since the introduction of smartphones in my life. It's so embarrassing, but it is what it is. My old boss at work back in the day had on his...

Claude Code has helped me create a quality-of-life improvement for Obsidian that I thought others might make use of, so I am here to share that with you today. It's true: There are 48 active plugins installed in my Obsidian vault. Alarming to some, completely unacceptable to others. None of these plugins however are...

Christina and I had the opportunity to go to our first game of the year. We sat as close as either of us have ever been to the field in our lives. I love being at the stadium so much. I bet it would be a fun place to work inside of. Despite the allure of the pageantry, there was a dark cloud in the form of...

Back in the day when I would blog I would scour sites like Unsplash, Pexels and the like for an image that would perfectly fit whatever it was I was talking about in a particular post. Eventually that would add this layer of stress to the act of blogging itself, an unnecessary layer of course, but a layer...

Today is March 30th, 2026. When I sat down just now to write, I invoked the internal web-browser inside of Obsidian. My "homepage" is the /posts dashboard for this very blog. I can quickly see the date of my last post this way. "...Four days ago. March 26th. Maybe I should just say fuck it." And how easy it would...

I think a big part of the reason the Matrix and particularly Neo was so popular with people (aside from obvious things like the ability to dodge bullets) was because he "rose up" with no effort. That is to say he was sought out. As theatrical as it may seem, I believe a lot of us do this in life as well. We wait to...

I grew up in what was a small village at the time, Menomonee Falls. When I was coming up in the world, our small village decided to start a Little League Baseball program that was not related to the school system, which was how many kids played sports back in the day. I spent almost nine years playing the game and I...

While it does seem impossible to come up with a 'dark pastel' theme, I have modified the "Midnight Operator" palette a bit in the spirit of the upcoming holiday. This will be my subtle, subconscious was to slip into the spirit of the holiday as we have decided to get together for Easter this year as a family. There...