Cinnamon rolls were ready just as the family gathered around the tree for gift exchange and a #feast of holiday cheer.
Textpattern, the content management system I use for The Zuiker Chronicles, released an upgrade today. I’ll need to upgrade my hosting account before I update my sites. I’m so grateful to the developers who keep this CMS current and useful.
Sunday morning pick-up soccer, Oliver joined me. We had fun. Now home and ready for our annual holiday bagel brunch. Cool temperature is perfect for a fire on the patio.
That box of old records we brought back from Erin’s family home is the gift that keeps giving. Listening now to Billy Idol. Maybe Erasure next.
Been playing soccer for nearly 50 years and have been baffled by the position numbering system used these days. Watching Chelsea-Everton and heard Alcaraz described as a ‘box-to-box number 8’ so finally decided to look up a chart.
Saw this film last weekend: Hamnet Film was good, that birthing scene intense and the final scene emotional. I loved the book. 🍿
Josh Ritter will be in the area at the end of January, but I’ll have to miss his two shows at Haw River Ballroom. More on why next month. However, I have just purchased tickets to see him perform solo at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, a city I’ve never visited, next May. Road trip!
Good night to come to the Canes game. I’m here with the Science Communicators of North Carolina sitting way high up.
There are hundreds of American robins in the woods around our house. I don’t remember this winter migration from the last few years, but here they are, digging through the leaves.
Here’s my long history with the World Cup, but I gave not one second of my attention to today’s draw for the 2026 edition. Fuck that corruption and craziness.
Just watched the awesome Tiny Desk Concert by David Byrne and his band. Reminds me of watching the film Stop Making Sense with my father in the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, Illinois in 1985 or so.
Finished reading: Theo of Golden by Allen Levi 📚An engrossing tale, a parable, and a nice end cap to my year of growing deeper in observation, awareness, listening, conversation.
Home again in North Carolina. Oliver and I played in the Durham morning pick-up soccer game. I took a hard shot square in the face. Thankfully, no concussion so kept playing. Shower, coffee, eggs, now to rest.
Virginia sour cherries via North Carolina canning into a pie for Thanksgiving meal in Ohio.
Finished reading: The Notebook by Roland Allen 📚 This was fascinating, and so close to home and descriptive of my own life as a notebooker, so I’ll write a longer blog post in the week ahead.
Working from 5 Points Cafe in Cleveland’s West Park neighborhood. Stepped over this sign to get inside.
More live music, this time a new venue: Globe Iron, big brick former foundry in Cleveland’s Flats. We’re seeing The Beths, band from New Zealand.
Working from Icon Coworking in Lakewood, Ohio. Walked to lunch past a fire station. Must always send a photo of fire stations to my brother, an Austin firefighter.
What a way to celebrate our uncle Dennis but with a cousins happy hour and then the CU Buffs Stampede on Boulder’s Pearl Street.
Up early in Louisville, Colorado. Walked over to Paul’s Coffee and Tea, a coffeeshop with great vibe and character. Menu even has a ‘true cappuccino’ of only 6 oz.