The Journal
10 entries
Journal
Things I wrote down so I would remember them.

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Life Ten Ways to Catch Up With Old Friends After discovering thousands of old photographs, I started reconnecting with friends I hadn't spoken to in decades. From high school memories to random text messages, here are ten funny, simple ways to reconnect with the people who helped shape your life.
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Random I Spent 43 Years Thinking My Brain Was Normal. Then I Read a Book For most of my life, I thought everyone's brain worked like mine. Then I read ADHD Is Awesome and recognized myself on practically every page. Here's how one book changed my understanding of my struggles, strengths, and the person I've always been.
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Life I Have 47 Hobbies and I'm Bad at All of Them I have approximately 47 hobbies, most of which began with a YouTube video and ended with an Amazon delivery. At 43, I'm starting to wonder whether constantly discovering new interests is actually a problem, or the best part of being alive.
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Life I've Reached the Age Where I Understand Why Villains Want to Destroy the World At 43, I'm starting to understand why movie villains get so frustrated with humanity. Between insurance companies, automated phone systems, international diplomacy, and printers that refuse to work, the appeal of an underground volcano headquarters is becoming increasingly obvious.
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Life I’m 43. I Still Don’t Know What I Want to Be When I Grow Up. I'm 43 with a career, wife, kids, house, and opinions about HVAC systems. By every reasonable measure, I'm grown up. I still don't know what I want to be, and I'm starting to think that's exactly how adulthood should work.
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Random “That’s What She Said” Is the Perfect Joke, and I Will Not Be Taking Questions “That’s what she said” requires no setup, almost no effort, and lets another person unknowingly write the joke for you. It’s immature, predictable, and completely irresistible. More importantly, those stupid little moments of shared laughter make adulthood considerably less boring.
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Star Wars Harry Potter Is Just Star Wars With Crappier Lightsabers Harry Potter and Star Wars have orphan heroes, mysterious powers, wise old mentors, terrifying Dark Lords, ancient magical orders, and suspiciously important family histories. One franchise gave its heroes lightsabers. The other handed them sticks. I have questions.
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Star Wars The difference between star wars and star trek is you're an idiot Just because soemthing takes place in space doesn't make it the same thing, people.
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Life My Real Estate Professor Is an AI, and Her University Is Questionable at Best My AI professor turned real estate school into a questionable university filled with recurring characters, ridiculous scenarios, and Cousin Fucking Larry. Somehow, between the jokes and profanity, I’m actually learning something about how education works best when it adapts to you.