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Making last minute preparations for a trip leaving on Saturday. YLW -> YVR and then onto YXY on Sunday for a week. I'm exhausted already and I haven't even left.

Going back through my website and editing the posts that I haven't touched since I imported them into Ghost a few years ago. It's shocking to see me write about writers or podcasts seven years ago that I still enjoy now. Somethings never change.

It's been a frustrating start to my week. Work stress + challenges with my daughter = one grumpy dad. Hoping the rest of the week goes better for me.

Watching the NFL conference championship games today. Some wild, entertaining games that could have been won by either team. More of this, please.

My day was spent exploring Make and seeing if it was possible to create a cross-posting engine from my blog to different sites. Frustrating, yet rewarding when it actually works. I need to do more of this type of thing again.

If today is an indication of what’s to come, 2024 is going to be a challenging year.

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This is the 13th year of writing these annual reflections for my birthday: soberness, aloneness/solitude, and recommendations for books, music, and podcasts.

Twitter has been fracturing the last 4-6 months. I still struggle with figuring out where to invest my time. Do I focus on my broad interests (Twitter), the nerdy ones (Mastodon), or do I discover new audiences and interests (Spoutible being the latest one)?

The best things in life we don’t choose — they choose us. A great love, a great calling, a great illumination — they happen unto us, like light falling upon that which is lit. We have given a name to these unbidden greatnesses — genius, from the Latin for “spirit,” denoting the spirit of a universe we can only submit to but cannot govern.

— Maria Popova, The Marginalist

A nice reflection on genius, including quotes from Emerson and Twain.

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