Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

- George A. Smith

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

- George Orwell

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.

- Jack Dempsey

Anyone else have books all over the place? I have physical books (hard and soft covers). I also have books in my Kindle library as well as in iBooks. I also have audiobooks in Audible as well as iBooks. And these are all books that I still need to read too.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

- Giambattista Vico

My experiment with Day One is going well. I’ve found a nice way to mix analogue and digital journaling for the moment.

This could all change when Apple releases their journaling app.

You don’t paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

- Kris Kristofferson

I’ve been enjoying the 2023 Carnivore Summit and listening to all the different speakers and interviews. Some really interesting topics and some fascinating history as well.

The Texas Rangers lost to Chicago last night with a controversial call scoring the go-ahead run. Per MLB Rules, it appears the replay center needs to go back to umpire school.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man’s belief will save me except my own.

- Anthony Collins

There’s time enough, but none to spare.

- Charles W. Chesnutt

Make mistakes and make bad decisions: you learn from them.

- Dirk Nowitzki

When the NBA meets High School

Crazy, crazy sequence of events. Here’s a picture of Greg Ostertag. This guy was a professional basketball player with the Utah Jazz. In 1996 I played a game at Reunion Arena before the Dallas Mavericks played the Utah Jazz. At some point in time during the game, Ostertag came out and watched part of the game. There was one point in time that I was called for a foul against someone.

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Played with this cutie today. She is so much fun to be around. She laughed and laughed and laughed.

I consider myself a gladiator.

- Bruce Smith

Speaking of storms. I went for a bike ride this morning and came across some of the devastation that happened from the storms the other night. I only snapped a few pictures but I could have easily snapped a dozen or more. It’s hard to believe this was just from winds and not a tornado.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but more storms are coming through the area tonight.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

- John Wesley

This expirement has turned out a lot better than I expected. I have been tempted a few times to view social media but not as often as I expected. One of the things that has helped was removing all of the platforms from my devices.

Not sure how long I’ll keep this up but for now, I’m loving it

I feel like some kind of tornado had to come through last night. There are so many downed trees around the office.