Science, Fiction, Life
I am not sure how to process what’s happening right now. On the one hand, NASA is in the midst of the first human mission to the Moon since 1972. I have friends and colleagues who are in mission control, and others who will be there for future missions. My social media feed is filled […]
Ok, so it is time to put together the previous two parts of this series and figure out what they give us (if anything). Let’s recap: In part 1, I introduced the issue at hand: I am stressed and anxious a lot of the time, but I feel unsatisfied by advice about “living in the […]
This is the second part in a series of philosophical posts that I started in early 2021, and which I have added to in fits and starts over the last few years. In Part 1, I started with questioning my inability to fully believe all the feel-good advice about setting aside achievement and “enjoying the […]
It is hard to believe but I started writing this series of posts in early 2021! It is now, inexplicably, mid-2025. I have of course not been working on these non-stop, but I return to them now and then to edit and add and tinker. I am not sure I have really figured any of […]
Just a quick follow-up to my post from last year. The good news is that my digestion has fully recovered from the gallbladder surgery! I can eat whatever fatty garbage foods I want with minimal issues. The less good news is that one of the small incisions from my surgery never quite healed right. It […]
I survived surgery! I’m now about a month out from surgery so as promised in my previous post, here’s a second post to share the lead-up to and recovery period after gallbladder surgery! Again this will include a lot of detail to hopefully help others who are going through this, but also to share my […]
On May 10, 2024, I am having surgery to remove my gallbladder. It has been a long road of figuring out symptoms, trying to rule out other causes, learning, and indecision. Writing this all out is a way for me to process everything, to tell friends and family what’s going on, and hopefully provide useful […]
Well, it is somehow another new year! Time just keeps on going, doesn’t it? One of my favorite end-of-year activities is thinking back over all the books I read that year, and sharing my favorites with others. I read 32 books in 2022, which achieved my arbitrary Goodreads goal of 30 books. ( I thought […]
I remember the day we met you. We drove a couple of hours from Ithaca to a rescue in Pennsylvania because we wanted to have a good selection of puppies to choose from. You were in a large cage with your littermates, but you looked nothing like them. A black lab mix among a bunch […]
In my review of 7 Days to Die, I showed a couple of screenshots of the absurdly huge Lord of the Rings-inspired base that I made in my latest single player game. Now I want to spend some more time showing off the base in more detail. Probably the easiest way to do that is […]