Hey all! I'm officially a little over 1 week into my 6 week sabbatical, and so far doing absolutely nothing is everything I thought it could be. Over the last week, the little dude went to skateboarding camp and absolutely loved it, the teen went to cheerleading hell week and did great, Jen did a bunch of dancing and sewing... which le...

Another late one. I just started a six week sabbatical so my schedule is a bit off. I'm still going to try to post weekly, but the day might shift as I (hopefully) lose track of what day it even is. If you want to talk about anything in here, please reply to this email (or email me at takeo@hey.com if you're reading this on RSS)! I'd l...

If you want to talk about anything in here, please reply to this email (or email me at takeo@hey.com if you're reading this on RSS)! I'd love to talk shop. Shit I'm... Reading The Only Moral Abortion Is My Abortion After writing about abortion a few issues ago, it's been heartbreaking and enraging to read about the wholly predictable a...

Shorter one this week. I'm currently in Indiana visiting with family for my grandpa's memorial service and haven't had much time this week to write. Mostly links and stuff this time around. If you want to talk about anything in here, please reply to this email (or email me at takeo@hey.com if you're reading this on RSS)! I'd love to ta...

If you want to talk about anything in here, please reply to this email (or email me at takeo@hey.com if you're reading this on RSS)! I'd love to talk shop. Shit I'm... Reading So yeah, the whole Elon Musk Buying Twitter thing. I haven't paid too much attention to it, but it did seem like a generally bad thing. Musk is a ridiculous atte...

Sorry this is late. I'm currently in a hotel room in Long Beach during a week long trip to socal to visit family, go to Disneyland, and not work. Shit I'm... Reading, watching I mentioned a few issues ago that we were watching Severance on AppleTV+ on the recommendation of some friends. It looked pretty interesting from the marketing b...

Shit I'm listening to, reading, learning about... I grew up in socal, going to high school from 1990 - 1994. I was a skater and I got into straight edge and hardcore right around then. It was a fertile scene, following the era of the Reagan and Bush 80s, and people were still pissed. The Moral Majority and all that shit were just windi...

Sending this one out a bit later than usual because I was hanging out with a friend who is moving away to Nashville tomorrow, and then went to a pride party until 2am. My old ass is not even remotely able to handle that anymore, so instead of getting home and posting, I slept in until 11am. I think I'll probably just aim to get these o...

Shit I'm… Considering… I don't have a single tattoo on my body. I've always been pretty certain I'd never be satisfied with anything enough that I wouldn't obsess over it and regret it. But, dammit, Paw Tattoo is really making me rethink that: Using Obsidian Stuff, Part 2 A couple issues ago I talked about the general baseline theming ...

Shit I'm… Reading I just started reading The Untethered Soul. Seems kinda cheesy but it came as a recommendation. Not much to say just yet, but it’s pretty wild right off the bat. Starts off with stuff like this: “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who he...

Shit I'm… Reading More or Less – his and hers apartment, side by side – interesting article about a couple splitting their living space into two different areas to accommodate their wildly different aesthetic preferences. The wife, a former curator for the Cooper Hewitt museum of design, is a collector and her area is pretty extra. Rem...

Thanks for continuing to read these things! Please reply and let me know if there's anything you want to chat about, I love when people do that. Shit I'm… Reading Our Misguided Obsession with Twitter Cal Newport, Thought Leader extraordinaire, doing a victory lap on his claim that he's never even had a Twitter account. But, that's a pr...

I haven't seen most of my family for three years now because of covid and all that. It sucks. I'm originally form southern california, have a pretty huge family, and am the only one who has moved away. Portland isn't that far, but it's far enough that it means we don't see each other often. Throw in a pandemic and vaccinations and all ...

Issue 3 – another drawing app, scream therapy, a demonstration of my inability to understand lyrics, and more. Update: Jen's 40th birthday was awesome! Here's me dressed up as a wish.com interview with a vampire type of thing: And here's Jen looking fabulous as a moon goddess with a tasty margarita and Lebanese food: Ok, onto the shit ...

In this issue: an extremely verbose essay that started as a book review and turned into my career life story; a surprisingly in-depth essay praising my favorite brand of socks; other random stuff. Also, today (well, yesterday the 29th, technically, since this was posted at 12:10) is my wife's 40th birthday!! I'm extremely lucky to have...

I dunno, I guess I'm going through a bit of a mid life crisis. I'm 45, which, if I'm lucky, is pretty much smack dab in the middle of the ~4200 weeks I'll have on this planet, and all the things that sound like cliches are kinda true. My hair, which has always been black and thickly luxurious, is much thinner than it used to be. I'm st...