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  • Catholic Husband

    Mother - Catholic Husband

    Mary sees herself as mother to each of us, in a real and concrete way. This is not a room mom or a house mom, a relationship in a communal form; this is direct and personal connection to each of us.

    ➕

    February 23,2026
  • Reinventing The Dining Experience: This Cafe Modeled Their Payment System After Healthcare Billing So Chefs, Waiters, And Dishwashers Can Invoice You Separately For Completely Random Amounts Weeks To Months Later - Clickhole

    Cut to four months later, and you’ll receive another invoice from the line cook for services including cooking chicken (“Protein Thermal Processing Treatment – $6.22”) and chopping lettuce (“Vegetative Component Structural Reduction – $3.34), and so on and so forth, until the restaurant’s wait and kitchen staff have all individually charged you for every distinct action they undertook during your dining experience

    February 23,2026
  • Reading

    Currently reading: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 📚

    February 23,2026
  • Toddler Review: This Book Has A Mind-Blowing Twist That You’ll Never See Coming. It Will Change You Forever. - Babylon Bee

    I was instead presented with the manic fear of a familiar character spiraling out of control.

    February 22,2026
  • While all the runners in the stadium take part in the race, the award goes to one man. In that case, run so as to win! Athletes deny themselves all sorts of things. They do this to win a crown of leaves that withers, but we a crown that is imperishable.

    1 Cor 9:24-25

    February 22,2026
  • Reading

    Finished reading: Cold Zero by Brad Thor 📚

    February 21,2026
  • Unsettling: Your Amazon Package Came Too Fast - Clickhole

    Someone worked through the night to make sure you had shampoo at your front door by the break of dawn. Yes, you—you, who definitely could have just gone to the store for it, but instead had everyone running around like this was a rapid-fire organ delivery for a lifesaving transplant.

    February 21,2026
  • Furious Trump Imposes 1000% Tariff On Supreme Court - Babylon Bee

    “If you want your tariff rate to be zero, you have to let me use tariffs,” Trump reportedly told Chief Justice John Roberts in a heated exchange.

    February 20,2026
  • I guess today was the real Liberation Day after all.

    February 20,2026
  • Lucy approaches the iMac after practicing her poem. Benedict and Veronica join her.

    Did you finish your poem?

    Lucy: “Yes."

    What is the title and the author?

    Lucy: “The Snail by William Cowper."

    Benedict: “By William Caterpillar."

    He wrote it so long ago, he’s now William Butterfly.

    February 18,2026
  • Trump Orders Drone Strike On Venezuelan Olympic Cross-Country Skier - Babylon Bee

    “What an explosive finish for Claveau-Laviolette,” she added. “Wow!”

    February 18,2026
  • Morning blend.

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    Coffee blending
    February 17,2026
  • Catholic Husband

    Always Giving - Catholic Husband

    This is ordered disorder. Life is difficult and not as it was designed, but the challenges that we face and overcome do prepare us for our eventual return to Eden. The daily work of mending our every flaw is only possible with the time, space, and circumstances that life gives us.

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    February 16,2026
  • ChetCast

    Episode 279: Lucy’s First Reconciliation

    We’re back from Lucy’s big day! We catch up about her experience and thoughts on the sacrament.

    February 14,2026
  • Big day.

    ❤️

    Heart over an eye
    February 14,2026
  • I love a good heated steering wheel.

    February 13,2026
  • Turning Point USA Announces Alternative Puerto Rico - The Onion

    “Finally, Americans will be able to enjoy a family-friendly tropical paradise that actually celebrates traditional values,” said Turning Point CEO Erika Kirk, adding that the island would be known as “Port Rick,” a mistranslation of “Puerto Rico”

    February 12,2026
  • Bible Authors Admit They Were Paid $7K For Every Reference To Israel - Babylon Bee

    Hey, if the money is available, just take it. I was writing a ton about Israel anyway, for free, so why not make a little extra coin on the side? And people pretend like I’m the one who benefited from the arrangement the most, but I only had one book. You should have seen how much cash Moses came away with from the Pentateuch. ‘Israel this' and ‘Israel that.' He was the O.G. moneymaker with that deal.

    February 12,2026
  • Fraud Suspicions Arise As Somali Team Wins 734th Gold Medal At Winter Olympics - Babylon Bee

    “Their culture just encourages overperformance at traditional Somalian activities… like snowboarding.”

    February 12,2026
  • Apple’s “new” version of iWork is such a departure.

    Ads and upselling within the app is not something I really expect from them.

    Creator Studio doesn’t make sense to pay $130 a year when I only use Pages & Numbers.

    February 12,2026
  • Reading

    Currently reading: Cold Zero by Brad Thor 📚

    February 11,2026
  • Reading

    Discipline is Destiny 📚

    It’s a slow start to the year, and I did not pick the right book to start, but that’s okay. Discipline is Destiny is a philosophy book that tries to bring the wisdom of the ancients to the modern mind. That means it’s not really my style, but the substance was excellent.

    What started as a slog picked up mid-book, and I am now finished and satisfied with the time I spent reading it. The through line is that we have the opportunity to master ourselves, to the extent we are willing to do so. Though discipline is hard, and feels restrictive, it paradoxically frees us to be fully alive in a way that a lack of discipline boxes us into mediocrity.

    The text is good, the philosophy is sound, and I had the discipline to finish the book.

    ISBN: 978-0593191699

    February 11,2026
  • Kindergarten daughter requested her picture with the Nex Playground, but insisted that it have its “eyepatch on.”

    Nex Playground on mantle
    February 11,2026
  • After Relationship Between Parent And Child Irreparably Broken, Math Homework Is Done - Babylon Bee

    According to Jennifer Fromm, her husband and child just finished the 4.5 hour one-on-one ordeal of reducing fractions, a marathon challenge which has now destroyed any hope they might have had of a positive relationship with one another.

    February 10,2026
  • Swimming lessons for the kids and I’m poolside wrangling my email.

    Tools make it possible.

    👨🏻‍💻

    February 10,2026
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