A few shots from today’s route: It was weird to be the only customer in V.I. who wasn’t staring at a phone… Luckily I had my Kindle to fill the gap between ordering and eating. 🙂 I’m still getting some separation anxiety from my iPhone; I leave it home, and…
After picking up a couple of sodas at 7-11 on the way in to work this morning, I stepped off of a curb into a pothole and unceremoniously face-planted right there in front of God and everybody… I managed to twist my ankle, bang up my right knee, take a…
A few weeks ago I discovered that some of the local steak places are selling ‘you cook it’ steaks, chicken, pork-chops, etcetera to offset the lack of eat-in business. For me this is a nice alternative to going to the steakhouse, which I can’t do thanks to the zombies. There…
While waiting for the new phone to arrive, I’ve been training myself to not rely on the iPhone quite so much; leaving it on my desk when I go to bed, leaving it at home when I go out, etcetera. I even managed to leave it at work yesterday and…
I’m making the move to ditch my thousand dollar iPhone XS Max in favor of a $250 thing called the Light Phone 2. The move from a “smart” phone to a “tool” phone is driven by a couple of factors: One — I’m not happy with how intrusive and all-consuming…
Mono-no aware: the ephemeral nature of beauty – the quietly elated, bittersweet feeling of having been witness to the dazzling circus of life – knowing that none of it can last. It is the sad beauty of seeing time pass – the aching awareness of impermanence. Please, appreciate the moment,…