The first month of 2026 has been a pretty busy one. It started off with my wife tripping and injuring her knee, and thus spending the night at a crowded emergency room. Super fun. The next day the family (my wife, three daughters and one son-in-law, plus me)…
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And just like that, 2025 is over. If you had any goals for the year that you haven’t pulled off yet (like perfecting your yuletide-themed latte art), well, you blew it. But oh well, not to worry, you’re in good company and there’s a whole ‘nother year to…
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November has been a mysterious and puzzling month. Or more accurately, it’s been a month full of mysteries and puzzles–at least, of the fictional and game-related variety. In terms of real life, it’s been a month spent almost entirely in the United States, visiting family and friends, and…
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Another month down the gurgler. I’m kidding. That makes it sound super-depressing, like the whole month was a waste of time, which it certainly was not. It was quite a busy and active time, actually, and on the whole was pretty good I thi/nk. The dynamic in my…
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June has turned out to be a much more full media-consumption sort of month than May was, even with the extra busyness of my birthday plus helping my youngest daughter be ready for her extended missions training course / missions trip overseas. So before I dive into all…
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This has been a challenging post to get into because from memory, I basically haven’t watched or read anything this past May. Is that really true? Have I watched nothing? How is that possible? Well, one thing is that my back is a lot better than it was…
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Another month behind us. April was a bit less dynamic than March from a family perspective–none of my daughters got married, after all. But it’s been plenty busy in other ways. My wife launched out on a trip to Africa to help run some seminars for teachers. And…
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As I was anticipating before the month launched out, March has been just crazy. A big part of that was because of my daughter’s wedding. She got married on March 16th, right in between the Ides and St. Patrick’s Day. It was a beautiful occasion that involved a…
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The new year is 1/12 of the way over…have I been making the most of it? I mean, I have tried, and I feel like I’ve been pretty occupied with lots of meaningful things, but looking back at it and I can see that I completed precious few…
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I’m on my own time machine, and it won’t move backwards. That’s a paraphrased quote (as best as I can remember) from the subtitles of one of my favorite movies, and my absolute favorite Japanese time travel slapstick comedy, Summer Time Machine Blues. And it’s a little how…
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