Even if you’re good enough to make pros, you’re only one injury away from ending your career. There was a kid from my high school with a 96 mph fastball in high school. He was scouted out of high school and went to a minor league team. He made it two years before screwing up his arm and coming home.

From what I’ve seen, the “serious” parents are living vicariously through their kids. One parent I know talks nonstop about her daughter’s success on multiple softball teams - two or three teams each season - her daughter’s height, and her shoe size. We often hear about out-of-town softball tournaments and how busy…

I’m a damn yankee with Texas relatives. Whenever I visit, I feel like the locals are all competing to proclaim their love of Jesus and Texas the loudest. It feels fake and showy. At least that explains why Ted Cruz keeps getting reelected.

I hope they’re paying writers by the slide.

We decided to stop with two kids. My wife wanted to finish with pregnancies by age 30 and I didn’t want to have more than two.

Agreed. Responding is playing into (I’m confidently assuming) his game.

Thank goodness it’s only the pledge drives. I thought it is a weird choice to make the pledge drive programming so different than the regular programming. If you want to remind people what their pledge dollars buy, show more Downton Abbey or Nova.

Cecily Strong’s “My Way” absolutely felt like an exit moment.

They’re Google employees, so they do few things willingly anymore.

For planning and month-to-month record keeping, paper works best for me. I manually enter checking and savings account transactions, loan payments, and investments into a spreadsheet. It takes a while, but those couple of hours on a Saturday morning help me plan for the future. (Sometimes, convenience is a bug, not a…

[Redacted - More funny in my head than out loud.]

I’m getting ready to finish my second week of running in a moment. I’m still following the plan from the video I shared last week. The run/walk intervals really help with gently getting back into running. Next week, the plan bumps up the total run/walk time to 24 minutes and the “long” run is 2 km.

Rick Riordan is another author who deserves more attention. His books are more fun than Harry Potter as well as more inclusive.

I had no idea Pokemon cards were still valuable. I dropped off all of my a Goodwill a few weeks ago. I still don’t regret the decision.

Given how 2016-2020 went, it’s progress that we’re back to this point.

I started running May 3rd after many years off. I’m following a 12 week beginner to 10k plan in this video:

The characters got to explore Isla Nublar pretty thoroughly in Jurassic Park, so I think it deserves to be on the list.

Then you need to read my article: “A Recontexualiztion of Airplane! as a Critique of Regan-Era Capitalist Philosophy.” It’s in the June 1998 issue of Nun’s Life.

What inspires me to exercise is any episode of The Simpsons where Homer weights himself and is lighter than I am.

The linked article says that the fonts are available as a cloud font. I found them in my version of Word already.