When I am further along and in a more thoughtful mood, I’ll write a more complete post explaining why I decided to join a community wind ensemble and play tuba again. This post, however, is just a smattering of reactions from going to my first rehearsal in about 8 years. Overall, the experience was a lot […]
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A Cursive Blog Post
(Author’s note: you probably have to view this blog post on my site and not a reader or link because the entire body text is an image.)
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Stories versus Statistics
I like statistics. Statistics don’t lie. Out of context, they can mislead, but they can’t lie. I like stories. Stories create meaning. Out of context, they can mislead, but they are just as impactful. Unfortunately, stories and statistics are very different approaches and often conflict with each other. Here are a few examples. Baseball loves statistics. […]
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Great Things About My Birthday
Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. As it is, I think Julie gets more excited about my birthday than I do, but it’s still really nice to be treated specially once a year for pretty arbitrary reason. Here are a few of the nice things about it, some of which may resonate more with […]
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Memories of my Po-Po
About two weeks ago, my po-po (maternal grandmother) passed away. At the funeral, several members of my family patched together a more complete look at her life than I had ever heard. I knew that she had come to Canada under her sister’s name, but when that happened and how she met my gong-gong (maternal […]
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My Regular TODO List
I am, by upbringing, a planner. Recently, I have become a more self-aware planner, and a need to rebel has pushed me to be more spontaneous. The result is that I have rapidly gone through phases of more and less planning depending on what I’m reacting against. Currently, I’m in a planning mindset, which has […]
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The Consequence of a Canker Sore
(Author’s Note: I wrote this in my journal a few weeks ago) A few days ago, I cut myself while chopping vegetables. As I was shifting my knife over to cut again, I just nicked my finger, and though I quickly got a bandaid on and kept cooking, I was still angry at myself for […]
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My Top 10 Christmas Songs
Thanksgiving has passed, and the holiday season is well underway. As is now American tradition, there’s outcry about how commercialized Christmas and other December holidays have become, but there are also the more heartwarming parts. There’s the tree decorating that I don’t do because I just go home a few days before Christmas. There’s the […]
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Flowing Through
(Author’s Note: I wrote this a few weeks ago. Also, new WordPress theme so it looks like every other WordPress blog made this year) Last week, we had a very clogged tub drain. The flow slowed down over the past few weeks, but our vicious attack one morning of Julie’s shaved legs and my shaved […]
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The Car-ful World is a Little Smaller
I began seriously looking into buying a car last month. Somewhat ironically, getting a car is one of the activities that would have most benefitted from having a car. I first went to the DMV to get a license, which I technically should have done several months ago (within 10 days of moving). Unfortunately, the […]