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Twenty-Five Years and One Pinched Seagull

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Rachel and I will have been married twenty-five years this November. November in Ohio is not beach weather, so Rachel asked to celebrate in a warmer part of ...

Fifty, Pixar, and Cheese

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At fifty, I had earned at least one trip whose itinerary was “look at things I think are cool.” For my birthday, Rachel and I planned a few days at COSI. Las...

Five Hours and Zero Stories

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Last month I took the Southwest Chief out to Las Vegas and back for SmartSense’s company summit. Flying would have taken five hours and zero stories. The tra...

Choosing the Uncomfortable

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A teammate texted me about an escape room on Sunday night, the Sunday night before our work summit started. My first instinct was to figure out how to polite...

AI Didn’t Write the Manual

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One thing I wasn’t expecting to use AI for was call-in support. Several weeks ago, I could hear one of my PC fans starting to die. My computer is at least se...