Earlier this week I read yet-another Buzzfeed listicle/quiz for amusement, "There Is No Way Anyone Has Done More Than 25 Of These Things Unless They're Over 65". It's in the same vein as a similar Buzzfeed listicle I read (and wrote about) a few months ago. I suggested Buzzfeed retitle that article as It's Official, Gen Z Thinks Anyone Over 40 Is A ( Read more... )

I clicked on a BuzzFeed listicle today with a click-bait headline, You're Officially A Boomer If You've Done Half Of These 40 Things (4 Apr 2024). It was pretty amusing... but not in the way I expect the authors thought. It was amusing because of how stupid it was. Most of the things on their list have been done by typical Gen Xers, and quite a few ( Read more... )

The other day I wrote about how the unglamorous reality of business travel is cookie-cutter office park hotels, chain restaurant food, and long days that preclude going out for nightlife. See Dullsville in Austin, TX and I'm busy. Well, the reality is that occasionally it's not like that. I had one such brief occasion on Thursday night when a few ( Read more... )

It was in the news Friday that a mother in Italy won a court order to evict her two sons, age 40 and 42, from her house. She complained they were "parasites" who contributed nothing, either in money or time, to the upkeep of the house. The men maintained that Italian law requires parents to support children as long as necessary. A judge agreed that ( Read more... )

Ahead of our new dining table arriving a few days ago we listed the old one for sale. "We'll put it on Craigslist and if we get no bites there after several days, we'll try Freecycle or donate it to Goodwill," we agreed. But then I paused for a moment to ask, do kids these days still use Craigslist ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving '22 Travelog #3
Woodbridge, VA - Sun, 20 Nov 2022, 9:30amSaturday was a good day visiting family in Virginia. Though I spend most of the day feeling burnt from lack of sleep (3 hours aboard a redeye flight Friday night) I managed to stay awake through it. I met my cousin Matt for lunch in Alexandria. We chatted for a few hours about ( Read more... )

An interesting article from Quartz popped up in my feed this weekend. It was interesting partly because it's from four years ago; why did it appear now and not sooner? But also interesting because its subject material that might seem oh-so of-the-moment is still topical. "The Venmo Line: Read what happens when a bunch of over-30s find out how ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was thinking to myself, if we'd had kids what kind of names would we have chosen? Speaking for myself, I'd be okay with traditional names recognizing our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc. Names like Joseph and Diane ( Read more... )

Key West, FL - Friday, 6 Apr 2018, 10pm

After taking a leisurely drive from Key Largo today we arrived in Key West close to 6pm. Our room at the Marriott Courtyard was nice.
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Thanksgiving Travelog #17
Washington, DC. Saturday, 26 Nov 2016. 3pm.

Today we met my sister, C., and her family at the National Air & Space Museum in downtown Washington, DC. See Air & Space website and Wikipedia's NASM pageI still remember the fascination that the Air & Space Museum held for me when I was a kid. The epic moon landing (1969) ( Read more... )