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Vital Statistics

Lower deck finished

Bike miles in 2022: 0

Aches & pains: sciatica, right shoulder, left knee

Current reading: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Recent listening: Talking Heads, Making Sense with Sam Harris, Very Bad Wizards

Recent viewing: Air Disasters, Call the Midwife, Seinfeld, Five Days at Memorial, The Patient

Recent playing: Wordle, Quordle, Duotrigirdle

Recent events: Columbia River Gorge adventure, annual birthday party, first public performance, Thomas visited, new glasses (goggles)

Visited family in Iowa, Graham & Kate got engaged, several family members got Covid

Recently accomplished: Finished replacing lower deck, fixed ice maker, cleaned shed roof, carpet cleaning

Imperative To Do: Fix the Spector, fall lawn care, clean the gutters, paint touch-ups

Vital Statistics

Bike odometer: n/a

Aches & pains: right shoulder

Current reading: Getting Things Done

Recent listening: Kendrick Lamar, NWA, Childish Gambino, Reel Big Fish, Bill Frisell, Oasis, Greta Van Fleet, Led Zeppelin, Genesis

Recent viewing: Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Safe, The Pixar Story, Cooked, White Right: Meeting the Enemy, The Ritual, Disenchantment, BoJack Horseman, SNL, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Goldbergs

Recent playing: Bloons 6

Recent events: Presidents weekend in San Francisco with Thomas, PDX Jazz festival, snow in Portland

Recently accomplished: House cleaning, bought robot vacuum, filing reorganization, turned compost, bought dress shirt

Imperative To Do: Ride bike again, read more, exercise, file 2018 taxes, find wedding rings, FSA documentation

Vital Statistics

Recently accomplished: Clean laser printer, start van, pay bills, server maintenance, spam cleanup

Aches & pains: jaw muscle (healing after mouth infection)

Current reading: The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons

Recent listening: Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, Shadows in the Night by Dylan, The Magnolia Electric Co., re: Bach by Lara St. John, Hozier, Little Big Music, Gris-Gris by Dr. John, AM by Arctic Monkeys

Recent viewing: The Tonight Show, Grimm, Parks & Recreation, SNL40, The Daily Show, Scandal, Resurrection, Inside Amy Schumer, Duct Tape Messiah, The Nightly Show, Marco Polo, 30 Days, The Bletchley Circle, QI

Recent playing: Kingdom Rush Frontiers

Recently accomplished: Cleaned laser printer kopen, started van, paid bills, server maintenance, spam cleanup

Imperative To Do: Contact Social Security, turn compost, fix blog CSS, send bike to Thomas

Page 2: In Which I Explain My Life To The Class of 1985

At 43 years old, the question of who I am is complex. Mostly I’m a father then a husband and then a software engineer.

I’ve been in Portland since 1990 after a short detour to San Diego after graduating from Wartburg. I met and married my wife, Tina, in 1992. We have two awesome boys who dictate how we spend most of our time. Both are very active in Boy Scout Troop 820 (troop820.org) and both play the double bass in the school orchestra after converting from the cello.

Graham is a nerd of the first order and thinks I’m the coolest nerd on the planet. He loves to play video games on our Xbox and Wii but is enthusiastic in almost everything he does — even when I enlist his help in yard chores. Since he was a baby we have known that he is strong-willed and joyous. He’s also very intelligent and somewhat arrogant about that fact, regarding it as a fact of life that he’s smarter than everyone else. I’m trying to work that out of him.

Thomas is more reserved than Graham and less likely to risk looking uncool. A year ago I helped him buy his first electric bass. Since then he has learned to play all of his favorite sons and a few “classics” that I asked him to learn. He can also has pick up Tina or my guitar and play them much better than either of us. In many ways he’s very much like I was at that age: long hair, quiet except with friends, stubborn and often inconsiderate. He’s also very smart but not always willing to work hard for great grades.

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