Last year, I signed up for this year’s Around the Bay Road Race. Before I ran the 2024 one. Talk about optimism! And now, I’m realizing that it’s only two months away! Last year, I wasn’t consistent with my training. I started late. And I didn’t do much of it. This time, I’ve been running…
You know, sometimes I don’t get it. Weight loss, I mean. I weigh myself every day. So, I see the ups and downs. And usually, I can see a gain and know where that came from? My weight went up? Oh, yeah, I ate a medium pizza by myself. My weight went down? Oh, yeah,…
I spent a good amount of time reading plays this week. I’m on a play reading committee. And our first meeting was today, so I needed to have some plays to recommend. I read more plays this week, than I’ve read in the last couple of years. That’s crazy! I should be reading more plays.…
I submitted a play to the Hamilton Fringe Playwriting Contest. I didn’t expect to win. And I didn’t. I didn’t even place in the top three. Who knows? Out of 54 entries, mine might have come in at 54… I didn’t expect to win. I didn’t expect to place. Why did I submit a play…
Choir started back up a couple of weeks ago. But I’m still enjoying that quiet before rehearsals start up. I mean, I’m looking forward to starting rehearsals. It will be fun to play and get ready for the show. But it’s also nice to be able to stay home after work. In a few weeks,…
Happy News! We just found out that our son Keaton and his girlfriend Kate got married. Yesterday! Which is their eighth anniversary of being together. They had planned to get married during their recent trip to Japan. They had all the paperwork they needed. But bureaucracy and scheduling got the better of them. In the…
That’s the name of the next play that I’ll be in. It’s written by Andrew Bovell. It’s a family drama and I play Bob, the father of four kids. We start rehearsals on February 4th. I’m looking forward to it. I have worked with or know most of the people involved in the show. I…
We took down the Christmas tree last week. The ornaments came off. The lights were untangled. Everything went back into their boxes. The boxes went back on the shelves in the basement. The tree was bare. And then it went outside for pickup. It is just Deb and me, again. There are still some remnants…
Choir started up this week. Unfortunately, I can only attend for the next few weeks. Starting February, my play rehearsals will conflict with choir rehearsals. Choir rehearsals are recorded though. So, I can listen to them after the fact and work on the songs on my own. My play should finish before the choir’s big…
I don’t usually use “chunking” as a productivity process. Chunking is when you batch up similar types of work and dedicate time to do them. For example, I could “chunk” writing blog posts. I could spend a couple of hours on a Saturday or Sunday. And write a bunch of blog posts. In fact, I…
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