Year: 2026
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The courage to be disliked
I recently read the book The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. It was recommended to me by my daughter, who also recently read it. It is a book which is a combination of psychology and philosophy. It is structured as a Socratic dialogue between a young person and an older…
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Little Birdie
Yesterday evening I started hearing this strange sound while I was working. I went outside and looked around, but I couldn’t hear it anymore. I went back inside. Then I started hearing it again. I followed the sound towards the laundry room, and there it was. A gold finch was pecking at the window. I…
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Peter Estin Hut Trip
Last weekend I went on a hut trip. I had my friends Nick and Karen over for dinner a couple weeks ago, and they mentioned that they had some extra spots for a hut trip in a couple weeks, and asked me if I wanted to join them. At first I said no, because I…
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Biking along creeks
Over the past month I have taken this route three times. It takes 2-2.5 hours, depending on how hard I pedal. The first two times I headed out going east and returned west. The last time I did it in reverse (by accident really, I just started going that way out habit for some reason).…
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Big Dry Creek trail
Today was quite nice weather again, high around 7C (45F) and sunny, so I decided to take a walk again. I had some packages to return to Amazon, so Clare dropped me off around 11 a.m. at the UPS store, and I walked home. I started off on the Big Dry Creek trail towards Standley…