my kids can fly
Please enjoy another in the Sunday Seven series.
Today marks another tour around the sun for me, the start of my 59th.1 I suppose every day marks another year, or really, every second does. Time’s like that, just marching forwa...
On another platform I used to frequent, there was (and may still be) a tradition called “Sunday Seven” where you’d share seven different ideas, usually in a shorter format of about a paragraph each. I’m going to try to resurrect that here this year o...
Arlee
It’s something like tradition for me to pause today to observe and celebrate the winter solstice. I’ve always been finely attuned to and affected by the amount of light around me, even more so as I’m getting older. This darke...
some ansible code
This post is primarily to prove out the new server I built for this blog this week. I need to make sure the content management system I use, Hugo, is configured properly, as well as the various other subsystems that make the machin...
I knew it was hopeless. At 3:15, I reached up to turn on the little halogen lights in the headboard, then reached over to pick up my phone and turn off the alarm. 5:00 would get here soon enough. That’s the thing about events that play out over exce...
For the real running nerds out there, or the morbidly curious, here’s a detailed recap of the race, mile-by-mile. This might make more sense with the map in front of you.
Marathon Route 2024
And a preemptive, general note: at no point did I wet my pa...
Waldheim Cemetery
It’s hard to avoid them. The western part of Cook County is essentially one long band of cemeteries running north-south at approximately the longitude of the Des Plaines River. Presumably, about 200 years ago, shortly after c...
Cassiopeia A (see footnote 1)
I kinda feel like I lost the first half of this year. The first four months were largely consumed by taking care of my dad, and then the next two in dealing with the aftermath (emotional, logistical, financial) of his p...
hospice window
People who know their way around the hospice experience will tell you about “the rally,” or the bounce-back. Terminal lucidity is the more formal name. For reasons science can’t speak to definitively (though there are theories), patie...
1IL2 -> 4IS3
Dad heard it first. “What the hell is that?”
I wasn’t entirely sure right away, either, but it was obviously coming from outside. A repetitive, mechanical thumping sound, distant yet growing steadily louder. Was it some piece of main...
