2019s
Happy birthday to my beautiful bride, my co-wrangler of our three yahoos. She’s truly a Wonder Woman. I love you, sweetheart!
Who has two thumbs and is co-hosting and presenting at Tapestry Conference in October? This guy! But don’t let that stop you from taking advantage of early bird registration pricing that ends today! tapestryconference.org
There’s a new episode of the Sneaky Good podcast up, and we packed the booth for an early preseason look.
ESPN showing the Joey Gallo/Bryce Harper youth baseball photo again, because they’re broadcasting a game one of them is playing in. Everyone drink. #SoPredictable
So long, comments
Occasionally, those follow-a-link-from-a-link-from-a-link blog trains land you in a thought pattern that ends up in a situation of “Why didn’t I think of this sooner?” And so I have arrived at disabling all comments on the blog. Jon Saddington’s post convinced me to take the plunge, and I even used the plug-in he suggested. Took less than three minutes. Easy.
Why do this? I don’t expect a lot of comments, for one. I don’t post often enough for conversations to happen, unlike my friend Michael’s blog. Second, I don’t need another time-wasting distraction that is approving or not approving comments, or going through the ones marked as spam looking for false positives. If there is a need for reader interaction to take place, they can hit me up on any of the major social platforms, or use the contact form linked at the top of the page. Finally, this blog should be about me writing what I want to write, not writing what I think people want me to write. Disabling comments helps that focus to happen.
And now I have one less thing to worry about.
The fact they felt the last four words of the tweet were necessary is what makes it. twitter.com/NBCNews/s…
You may laugh. You may cry. You may decide it’s better than “Cats”. We aren’t singing show tunes in the latest Empowered Parent Podcast episode, but we are talking about memories.
The Star Wars sticker family is not long for this world, as Kid2’s AT-AT driver is starting to peel badly. And you cannot get these particular stickers any more thanks to Disney Legal.
iPhone home screen, 2 July 2019
The wallpaper is a shot from the beach at Destin, Florida, by my longtime friend Tammy.
Walked through an Aldi supermarket today for the first time ever. If these had been around when I was in college, I would’ve lived at this store.
Had Quiznos a bit ago for a late lunch. First time I’ve eaten at one in a couple of years, and boy do I miss having one in our burg.
Sitting down for another Empowered Parent Podcast recording, and for the first time, we’re going to be live on Facebook.
LSU and sports peeps, the latest episode of the Sneaky Good Podcast is out, and we answer the really important questions. Like, which athlete would you like to punch? www.andthevalleyshook.com/2019/6/26…
Ever since @Amazon took over their own shipping, service from them on that end has gone downhill. I got an email today that Amazon’s delivery driver was unable to find a delivery location that packages ordered from Amazon have been going to for two decades. Trust me, this location is in any GPS app a driver should be using. Meanwhile, a package ordered the same time as that one arrived just fine; courtesy of UPS.
We have another episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out, and we talk about fear and felt safety. www.onebighappyhome.com/2019/06/2…
You know what to do, social media peeps! Help my partner in crime, er, conference presentation partner help foster kids! twitter.com/Jake1725/…
What a delightful surprise to find @viticci and @johnvoorhees interviewing, on the latest Dialog podcast, one of my favorite artists, @frankturner! dialogpodcast.net/season/1/…