Life

I have closed my last social media account. I held on to linkedIn, telling myself that it was useful for finding job opportunities. Social media just isn’t doing it for me.

Update We have sold our home! We are going to live without a mortgage for a while as part of our plan to save money. When I returned to work the next day, my co-workers had made a special sign for me. Thanks I owe a huge thanks to Jonathan Aguirre for shooting this drone footage of our home. That explains the title, “Home Video”. We are, once again, trying to sell our home. We tried last year, but it is hard to compete when new construction is still underway in the neighborhood. There is also construction happening on nearby Hwy 288. ...

There was a time in America when smoking was much more prevalent than it is today. Yes, people complained about second-hand smoke and how literally breathe-taking it was to walk past a group of smokers. I remember a little thing. It was the butts. They were everywhere. In parking lots, around bushes, in planters there were cigarette butts. You would see them tossed from car windows, and at night glimpse the little shower of sparks as the dying ember impacted the pavement at 60 mph. People would just toss them down where ever they happened to be when their smoke came to an end. ...