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  • Memorial Day Cooking

  • Gone Fishin’

    Enjoy Your Weekend!

    Wooden sign reading 'Gone Fishin'' with cartoon fish and fishing rod by lake and dock
    A colorful ‘Gone Fishin” sign hangs near a tranquil lakeside scene

  • Not Today, Media! (Unedited)

    I didn’t mean to, but I sort of didn’t look at the news today. I will say “sort of” because I did watch the local morning news to see what the weather would be like for the kid as she got dressed for school, and I did read one op-ed as I was doing laundry…

    But outside of that…

    And it felt pretty good. It felt good not know what was going on today in the world. I mean, I know the Knicks won yesterday.

    I wanted to stay off social media as well, but that is a harder egg to crack. I know I should do a detox, as a couple of friends of mine have done that from time to time. They all say it did them good, but then they all return to social media.

    What I will fully admit is that since Pandemic, I have horrible habits when it comes to my phone, and even watching tv. I am ashamed to admit how much YouTube I have started watching at night before bed. It’s not that these habits eat up all of my time; its that these habits have diminished my attention span, and have also become my go to action when I feel bored or if I have time to kill.

    You know what this feels like? When I used to smoke. Smoking used to fill up the dead time in my day. If I had an extra ten minutes; why not smoke? If I’m board; smoke. So, IO know I am not being dramatic when I say the social media is an addiction. I have an addiction.

  • Taking Responsibility for My Choices

    I stayed out and up too lat last night. I was having drinks with an old friend, and I had a great time. No regrets in that decision.

    Now, I am moving rather slow today, and I have run out of time to accomplish all thing things I wanted to do. I take full responsibility for this outcome. And also, no regrets in this decision, either.

    The older I get, the harder it is to see my old friends. And for that reason, I do my best never to pass up an opportunity to see my old friends.

  • ODDS and ENDS: Oxford Shirts, Sleep, and Walking in the City

    ODDS and ENDS: Oxford Shirts, Sleep, and Walking in the City

    (Right here where we need ya…)

    Man walking on city sidewalk holding coffee cup and shopping bag with fall trees
    AI generated this image, but I would NEVER wear loafers without socks, and I would NEVER wear loafers with shorts… But AI is gun’na do what AI is gun’na do… But I like how AI thinks I would have all that hair!

    I might have an addiction, or at least an unhealthy obsession with Oxford shirts. Like the very classic, button down collar, Oxford weave fabric, that once you have washed the shirts like a million times they end up becoming soft and a little thin. But I’m also really frugal, which means that I have several shopping carts on several different apparel sites waiting for their Oxford shirts to go on sale so I can scoop them up at a discount. And I do all of this because if I had my way, and could live the way I wanted in the climate and location I wanted, I just might be that dorky guy who wears an Oxford shirt with a sweater and shorts in Summer.

    Me and the wife are working on our sleep schedules. The doctors have been hammering home to us that we need to, have to, start getting seven to eight hours of sleep a night. And yes, as we get older, our bodies will start waking up earlier, so that means that we have to also go to bed earlier. Personally, I hate this idea, as the night is when I do my best thinking, while sitting in front of the tv watching bad movies and tv shows, often eating ice cream or some other sugary snack. BUT… this also has to do with taking care of myself so I can extract a few extra years to spend with my wife and kid, as they do make me happy, and kind’a make life worth living. So, for this past week, we have been making an effort to go to bed earlier. Normally, I get about five hours of sleep, and the wife is close to six or seven, depending on what show we are catching up on. What our efforts have yeilded is 8 hours for the wife and seven hours for me. I can’t speak for her, but for me, I don’t feel rested or excited about getting at the day, but what I did notice is that as the week progressed, I wasn’t waking up in the middle of the night and having to fight tot get back to sleep. As such, I will take that as a small step forward.

    I still love walking around this town. Might still be my favorite part about living here. I got to do it last week, and a little later today, I will have an excuse to do it again. This time I’ll be on the East Side of Manhattan, a place I very rarely get to. It’s a small joy, but a joy none the less that I am looking forward to.