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April 4 - Andrew Huberman in These Foolish Things
I can’t remember how I’d fairly recently discovered Andrew Huberman, the neuroscientist professor at Stanford who also had a podcast and a popular Instagram page with 6.2M followers, but I’m sure...
April 3 - Agility in These Foolish Things
The days seem to fly by lately. Today’s read was about agility. You know how the older you get the less flexible you are? Unless you practice stretching both mentally and physically, you become ...
April 2 - Authenticity in These Foolish Things
Hey, good morning! I have read my book for the day and today’s lesson was in authenticity. It’s funny - I feel like I’m pretty authentic on the daily - just being my dorky self. But maybe I do t...
April 1 in These Foolish Things
Good morning! Gonna see if I can add quick journal entries to my morning routine. I’m still figuring my morning routine out - always a work in progress - but I would love to add this to my 75 Har...
Been a While Since a Biz Trip in These Foolish Things
Good morning, all! I feel like it’s a Monday of new beginnings for some reason. I’m back from my first business trip of this new-ish job and it was fantastic to be traveling again! This time it w...
Pulling Bullets in These Foolish Things
Hi! Let’s see. New week. New me? Hah. Here are some things, in no real particular order, but some of it is sort of chronological: Did I tell you I noticed a concerning spot/lesion on my eyelid la...
Lots Going On. Some Teasers... in These Foolish Things
I think I’ve decided to try and do one volunteer event per month. This month, I volunteered at a huge, HUGE multi-day convention that happens in my city every year. So many amazing, successful,...
RAD: Moondoggie in These Foolish Things
Name: Moondoggie Introduction Platform: No platform, this was a pure and natural meet-cute! This is the guy I met at his coffee shop/cafe on the lake where I sometimes like to hang out. His dog...
Leap Day 2024 in These Foolish Things
I just wanted to write an entry so I can look back on this four years from now and have an On This Day entry! Does anyone else love going back and reading those entries that you wrote years ago? ...
Catch UP! in These Foolish Things
Catching up with life…it’s been a while. So much has happened. I went to the fun lesiban dance party! It was so interesting. The Birthday Girl (my crush-ish) had invited several people who live ...
Post V-Day in These Foolish Things
I feel like I don’t have much to say lately. Or maybe it’s that when I feel like writing, it’s always close to bedtime and I feel like I”m winding down and my eyes are closing. It’s February. It...
Backup Computer? in These Foolish Things
I haven’t felt like working all afternoon. Spent the whole morning and most of the afternoon in meetings - from 8:30am (talking to China) until 2:00 (meeting with the Exec Team) - I sat here at ...
RAD: Dr. Speed Racer in These Foolish Things
Name: Dr. Speed Racer Introduction Platform: Bumble Age: 56 Relationship Status: Divorced for a while (he said, but I missed it because of the background noise!). Two kids, a girl who’s 16, an...
Early February Check-Ins in These Foolish Things
75 Hard Check-in: End of week 6 of the 75 Hard program. Essentially, it’s two workouts a day (one of them has to be outdoors, and that’s when I walk the dog), a progress photo daily, read 10 page...
RAD: John Candy in These Foolish Things
Happy Wednesday! Sitting in a coffee shop tryna get shit done before my big process meeting with my boss and….he’s got Covid! So he canceled and I now have a sec to write about last night’s date...
Friday Stuff in These Foolish Things
Been sitting at my computer for what seems like forever. Tonight I discovered that Bumble can be viewed in an actual browser on the web - not just through the app on a mobile phone. What a game-...
Jan Twenty-Two. in These Foolish Things
Sitting here watching the new Bachelor (not as much fun as the Golden Bachelor) and waiting for some comments on a sample prototype that the Head Cat should have in his possession by now. Ugh. Wo...
Are You High? in These Foolish Things
I saw a job posted on LinkedIn several days ago at a company I was very interested in about a year and a half ago. In fact, I’d previously been contacted by a headhunter about a role that was my ...
Mystery, Sadly, Solved. in These Foolish Things
A couple of entries ago, I wrote about walking out of my apartment to see several police cars and emergency vehicles, and an EMS vehicle a building over from mine. I noted that there wasn’t a lot...
Jan Twelve. in These Foolish Things
I wish I could tell you what the commotion was last night. Was it a crime scene? Was it a (heaven forbid) suicide? Was it a MURDERRRR?! I don’t know. And I don’t know any neighbors on that side t...
Jan Eleven.* in These Foolish Things
Gah. I started writing an entry about some of the things I’m starting to like about working from home and then I was like, nahhhh. So many people have been doing this for YEARS since the pandemic...
Jan Nine. in These Foolish Things
Tomorrow is my dad’s 85th birthday! He had a rough day with my mom today. After she was diagnosed with a massive pulmonary embolism in July, she had a small procedure called an IVC (Interior Ven...
Jan Nine. in These Foolish Things
Tomorrow is my dad’s 85th birthday! He had a rough day with my mom today. After she was diagnosed with a massive pulmonary embolism in July, she had a small procedure called an IVC (Interior Ven...
Jan Seven. in These Foolish Things
Skipped a few days there. Not much new, save for a couple of things. Tomorrow I have to start digging into the “new” job in a much more meaningful way. I’ve been really enjoying not being crazed...
Jan Three. in These Foolish Things
Feeling better today - at least from a worrying perspective. Mom and Dad seem to have had a decent day. Mom’s MRI results came in, and there are no weird abnormalities. The stroke in her eye did ...
