Once again I have learned that, in Europe, it almost always pays to wait for a human for long-distance train ticket plans.
I just got a cheaper, faster, nonstop reservation for a journey I thought was going to take at least one change and an …
Reading
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
- Select length of plan (e.g., 90 days, 1 year) or daily reading time (15 minutes/day)
- Select what to read (whole Bible, OT, NT, Gospels) …
- May 1–3: SAT
- May 5–8: DTW/DFW
- May 11–16: DTW (again)
- May 25–June 1: VIE
My brain is so attuned to feeds on my phone that sometimes I literally forget that I own libraries of digital books (sadly split between Kindle/Apple because of sales+silos; my kingdom for… Del.icio.us?!?!).
I may need a no-feed cleanse to remember …
VerseNotes Bible Reading Plan Generator
Just published this weekend’s project, an automatic Bible reading plan generator for VerseNotes.
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Why I keep dropping notes into Obsidian: I just referred to sermon notes from 2019 for the article I’m writing.
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Verse Clock: Scripture for Every Minute
A fun toy I built over the weekend: Verse Clock.
A reader asked whether you could use my table of chapters, verses, and words to come up with a verse for every minute of the day (e.g., John 3:16 for 3:16pm), so I spent a few hours coding it up and …
Meera and I both did this hike today, though not together: she did morning and I did afternoon. The first 2.5 miles were brutal both times (1,250 feet gain, an average 9.5% grade).
I am proud of us.
My travel schedule for May is absurd.
Days at home: 11 of 31.
Remind me never to do this again.
Afternoon snow hike at Echo Lake.
29-minute pace in the snow feels pretty good.
fiction
Fiction: Fatigue
My sister, aptly blogging at @QuilledSister, writes short stories on her blog. Read her stories; they’re wonderful. Every so often one of them lodges in my imagination and sends me wandering down a side path of my own. This is one of those …
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When you haven’t been to Japan since January and you don’t care that Southlake sushi can’t possibly be any good…
books
_A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1)_ by Becky Chambers
Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1) by Becky Chambers.
This is the first book on my #TheologyOfRobotics reading list, which is expanding rapidly. A great fiction exploration of planetary stewardship and the …
New travel record, I think: my flight from DTW-DFW started boarding before I got on the rental car shuttle, and I am currently on the jetway.
Previous record was SAT, where the flight technically started boarding before I got on the parking shuttle, …
The Denver airport invites me to return again to San Antonio (I declined).
I wonder if other travelers see that sign and wish they could change their flights the way I do when I pass gates for other cities.
Today’s hike: Lookout Mountain Trail outside of Golden. A beautiful first half, super weak second half. Still worth it.
Arrived at Breckenridge Brewery just in time to see the Derby run.
It’s our first time here, and it’s a glorious madhouse of kids and dogs and beer.
Visited a brewery last night that I’d never heard of—Free Roam in downtown Boerne. It’s amazing what happens when you treat your “home” city as a destination. There’s probably something to that…
Feels weird to be starting a journey by flying… home?
We moved to Colorado for the summer for the hiking. Today was just a long walk, but here’s to lots and lots of these in the next three months…
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Fiction: Mislaid
_My sister, aptly blogging at @QuilledSister, writes short stories on her blog. Read her stories; they’re wonderful. Every so often one of them lodges in my imagination and sends me wandering down a side path of my own. This is one of those …
books
Finished reading: On the Hippie Trail by Rick Steves
An exuberant diary, apparently lost for four decades, of Rick Steves and his friend Gene traveling overland from Istanbul to Katmandu. This trail is likely impossible today, but the journey was …
books
Finished reading: Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
A series of interesting insights about building the life you want through small experiments. I particularly appreciated the concrete suggestions: make a pact, join a community, learn in …
Coffee and yogurt on our first morning in our new place in Denver. It’s a bit chilly outside, which is glorious.
Via Reddit: this absurd story of a German fighter pilot in WWII guiding a heavily damaged Allied B-17 bomber to safety.
Read to the end for a wonderful capper.
Stopped for dinner at the Toppled Turtle in Dumas, Texas, which is halfway between Amarillo and nowhere.
The brewery is attached to a great pizza place though, so we had an excellent stop.
(Also, the local cats alternately sit on the bar and beg for …
We’ve been back “home” in San Antonio for two weeks.
It’s been amazing to hang out with our friends, most of whom we haven’t seen since before Christmas. But being here has been weirdly disruptive to our routine, because we knew we’d be leaving again …