Tinder for Kids

My brother gave me this idea... He may have presented it a lot more eloquently, but I enjoy this phrasing much more. There's a standard pitching strategy when you have a new startup idea. You compare…

Intermittent Fasting for a Year

I spent most of my childhood enjoying sweets and playing video games. Food helped me through difficult times, including those when I felt bad about being overweight. This scene in Austin Powers really summed things up…

Retirement Update: February 2021

I will turn 39 in April, and I have been retired for almost 9 months now. All thanks to Top Gun and Office Space. How's Retired Life? That's the question I get most often. I feel…

Am I Really Learning Piano?

My Mom always wanted me to learn piano. I never saw the joy in it. I had to practice piano for about a year when I was a kid. I stressed over how little I practiced.…

EpicFieldTrip.com

Did you know I have another blog? epicfieldtrip.com Before the pandemic, I actually had a vision of a beautiful way to spend the first fall of my retired life. I wanted to visit every NFL stadium…

Giving Winks

There is a minefield ahead. I don't know the exact solution, because so many other similar pieces of technology have existed to create more harm than good. But I would like to make something to help…

My Handwritten Journal

I'm a child of the growing digital age. I wasn't born with a computer in my hands, but I was there to see it spread like wildfire. I was handling floppy discs to crunch numbers and…

Valuable Meetings

One of the reasons why I stopped working was because I didn't want to go to any more meetings. A meeting is basically a way to hide from your actually responsibilities and pretend to help make…

Why I Read Every Day

I was never an avid reader as a kid. My Mom read to me, I was loved, I just didn't have a passion for it. Blame TV. Blame video games. Blame music. Blame food. I again…