Ice climbing is a sport for total badasses with a fundamental misunderstanding of both mortality and probability.

Just a little 3 mile jog after 6 miles of dog walking and a lot of bug-hunting this morning. It’s always the missing parentheses.

Credit rating hit 850. Back when I drank, I was fortunate to have the resources I needed, but I was too incompetent a person to pay on time. Then, during my first marriage, we racked up a lot of credit card debt that took me years to pay off. Now? Years of basic discipline have paid off.

I do wonder sometimes. When the last immigrant is deported, when the last "aggressive" protestor is murdered in the street, when the last trans person has killed themselves, who will you blame when society is still broken and life isn't what you want it to be?

Towel game is Astra’a favorite game

Risotto with carrots, peas, and lion’s mane mushrooms; seared ahi. 435 kcal

Whoof. Bike tune up and repair is gonna be $550.

6.6 miles and 500’ of gain at 11:15. Good enough.

Missed this when it came out: MRNA Covid 19 Vaccines fight lung cancer... REALLY well. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Utterly predictable consequence of poor trade policy: Europe and India ink free trade deal. And it ALSO covers increased student and post-study visas. stocks.apple.com/AsByyut5qRWS...

Planting seeds now: October 2-6 I am attempting the Mammoth 200 ultramarathon in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. I will need crew/pacers. This means: days at high elevation, sleeping in a van, hiking through the night carrying a 15lbs pack. Keeping me sane, and on course. But FREE!

This is the only appropriate course of action for patriots in the GOP. The time to do it was 2016, but now is better than never.

Woot!

Salmon and butternut squash with handmade pappardelle.

Woohoo

This is how Sunday dinner starts.

10km walking on a “rest” day. 41.5 miles running and 20 miles walking for the week. With a total of 7300’ climbing.

Everything is a lot. I am going to sit in the jacuzzi and listen to football.

I watched Alex Honnold’s climb of Taipei 101 live. It was anxiety provoking and fascinating. I don’t much care for the criticisms of him - he seems to do things ethically to me. And the wailing about “he’s a father!” are silly. Don’t agree with risk-taking parents? Well don’t take risks then.

Mile 8ish at Poo Poo Point. (So named for the sound of the coal train whistles you could once hear from there.)

BB is such a fucking beast. We did 21 miles with 4300’ of climbing. I’m DONE. sat in the bath for an hour and now just couch. She’s like, “I’m gonna go to the store and find something delicious to cook.”

Well. Fuck. At least my run went well.

Heading out for 20 miles and 4k’. Very similar to my upcoming 100k race terrain/profile. Goal is sub 15min/mi, but I’ll take 15:45. Got my shoes labeled.

You know what would make a good YouTube series? A forensic scientist explaining all the trivially easy ways, episode by episode, that Dexter would have been caught.

It is 8:38pm PST on a Friday and I am a 51 year old man with a career and a wife and a dog, and by god if I want to go to bed then that is my right as an American.

When George Michael tells you to wake him up before you go go, you wake him up before you go go.

Easy jog before tomorrow’s long run.

As a Gold Star family member, I’m enraged by the bullshit Trump is spewing this morning. When my cousin was killed in action, Helmand, Afghanistan, 2010? He fought alongside British, Czech, Danish, Estonian, and Dutch troops. I admire and appreciate every nation that stood with us after 9/11.

When someone asserts domination through violence it is not the victim they humiliate. It is themselves.

6.6 miles of easy jogging. With about 500’ of gain.

I have finally reached the point in The Three Kingdoms where there is discernible plot and characterization, rather than rote recounting of battles and alliances. It’s getting very good.

I have been obnoxiously trashing AI (by which I mean: “honestly describing its capability and effects”) in public for several years now.

Finally watched Bugonia. They made… choices. And I feel like they could’ve made a lot of better ones. I get why people liked it, I think? But I found it objectionable and silly in equal measures.

That wonderful life changing news I mentioned a couple weeks ago was put into irrevocable motion today. I am quite happy and have a lot of thinking to do.

Was a bit heavy legged today and had some family business to attend to. But got in a short jog.

5 concerts I’ve seen: 1. Isaac Stern, Mendelssohn’s V CTO 2. Emmanuel Ax, Brahms Pno CTO 1 3. Itzhak Perelman, Brahms V CTO 4. Metallica Acoustic Tour 5. Don Giovanni

I am the lord’s instrument of fire and blood.

AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!!

Great blue heron

Hear me out: a batleth is actually a pizza cutter repurposed as a weapon of war.

Look at the whole photo for the impact - photographer in the lower left.

BB and I went birding at deception pass state park.

Good day bird watching. Eagles, scoters, oystercatchers, herons, cormorants, gulls, mergansers, and buffleheads!

Chris Pine: “Now we’re on fire.” Tiny indie film called Stretch.

Another great paper: 5 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous exercise could prevent 10% of all deaths. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Really minuscule lifestyle changes have massive, dramatic impacts on lifespan and healthspan. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

Very pleased to report my costochondritis is resolving nicely after a week. But man do I not recommend it.

Dartmouth. The Arizona State of the Ivy League.

Excellent reasons to run.

Pretty good run today: 19 miles, 3900’ gain. 15 min/mi. I did not have another 43 miles at this pace in me today. But I’ve god a couple months to get there.