I feel like I nailed the headline*, but this first sentence? Hard pass. Was trying to figure out where in the world it made sense to go backpacking in May, and came across reports of an enchanted valley in Olympic National Park called Enchanted Valley. Pitched it to Ben, was in agreement, and eventually it
I need to be my actual self from now on. I’ve gotten whatever it was I was going to get from not doing that. When I was living in Oklahoma, I was so depressed I was worried I was just going to not wake up one day. That was the main factor that drove my
The LDS church is no longer part of my life. It seems like a good time to compile the good parts and put that chapter to bed. I’ve been mostly Mormon for my whole life up until semi-recently (2020), where by “mostly Mormon”, I mean… I dunno. I usually (not always) went to church, only
I wrote this on Day 9 after the surgery. Pre-surgery, I was trying to find info on what the experience was like. Everyone said it was miserable, but couldn’t explain anything beyond that. So, yeah. Read this, and then you’ll know. The first couple of nights, there was phlegm or something in the back of
Last summer, I sold my house in River Heights. It was a little small and not super expensive when I bought it — I chose it originally because (a) I hadn’t sold my house in Okie yet, and so didn’t have as much cash as I would’ve liked, (b) the house was slightly below median
Plus a hearty acknowledgement that I’m posting this more than a year after it happened. I shrug. After the conference, the conference in 2019 (here), I thought it’d be fun to extend my trip into a Euro ski vacation, despite the fact that I’ve written multiple notes-to-self with the instruction that I should never (again)
My brother told me that I should visit Salzburg while I was in Munich, so I did. It was cool. An amazing place for a one-day tourist (it’s probably great for more than one day — I just had a day and it was amazing). Rainy day though. bkd
I go to this conference every year, but every year it takes place in a different city. In 2019, it (ICIS) took place in Munich, a Bavarian city. SLC > DEN > MUC. I dropped money to fly business class. It was more comfortable than coach. I still didn’t sleep much. I got there a
I’m going to start building a house having someone else build a house to my specification and on my behalf next month. I’m not sure why I became committed to this future, but it kind of happened about a year ago — I started looking for building lots and, more to the point, coming up
It’s sort of a type for my life in that sense. I go backpacking sometimes. I’m not really a serious backpacker and I don’t know that it’s a particularly integral part of who I am, but still: sometimes I pack up, drive somewhere, walk somewhere, then sleep on the ground for a night or more.
