• Sunrise over the meadow.

    Sunrise in the clouds
    May 17,2025
  • 55 degree with a cool breeze and a low cloud deck is my idea of a nice Saturday morning.

    May 17,2025
  • It’s a daily challenge to stay focused at my desk with children streaming through my office. But it is cute how Veronica hovers around. She filters in and out through the day, bringing with her different activities to enjoy on the floor or on my couch

    May 15,2025
  • Knives

    Benchmade 940

    S30V Steel | Green G10 with Purple Accents | Axis Lock | Made in 🇺🇸

    Benchmade 940 in hands of a little girl

    The 940 is considered to be quintessential Benchmade, so I added it early in my collection. This version, of which there are many, was the REI exclusive. It’s not my favorite knife because of the long blade, but there’s nothing really wrong with it. The tradeoff for the long blade is the thin handle profile, which makes it easier to carry. It’s a good knife, but it’s not where I’d tell people to start.

    Purchased in 2020 | ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
    May 15,2025
  • Exploiting The Vulnerable: Scammers Tricked This Elderly Woman Into Buying The Cleveland Browns - Clickhole

    After Beverly told family members she now held a majority ownership stake in the Cleveland Browns, they immediately realized Beverly had been the victim of a fraud scheme and attempted to contact the scammers, but it was too late: The number had been disconnected and $30,000 had been drained from Beverly’s bank account to pay for a historically junk NFL team that may as well be worth pennies.

    Oof, you hate to read stories like this. Hang in there, Beverly!

    May 15,2025
  • Internet infrastructure work in the neighborhood is slowing me down today. Just got back from a four mile walk and a fresh shave. Time to lock it in.

    🏃🏻🪒👨🏻‍💻

    May 14,2025
  • I have 67 podcasts in my queue. It’s hard to manage and is likely over 50 hours of listening time.

    Today feels like a good day to declare podcast bankruptcy.

    May 14,2025
  • We interrupt this school day for some brief railway engineering.

    LEGO train in front of fireplace
    May 14,2025
  • ChetCast

    Episode 274: Butterfly Exhibit

    I belatedly catch up with Veronica about her recent adventure.

    🦋

    May 14,2025
  • Mastery at work.

    Little kid hands on a piano
    May 13,2025
  • Jake Tapper Uncovers Startling Evidence That Biden’s Decline Was Covered Up By Jake Tapper - Babylon Bee

    The bombshell report was detailed in a new book by Jake Tapper. It chronicles years of egregious cover-ups and collusion between the White House and a cooperative and corrupt press, including several newly leaked conversations between aides about putting Biden in a wheelchair for his second term. At the center of the scandal, it appears, is someone named Jake Tapper.

    May 13,2025
  • Catholic Husband

    Domestic Things - Catholic Husband

    Making beds, preparing breakfast, do these unassuming tasks sound familiar? They are ones that we undertake every day; small, ordinary things that evidence the rote nature of our routines. It’s these boring domestic things that we discount and society considers nothing. But it is in these small act that we find God, and our calling. We find our very purpose, to do small things with great love as Mother Teresa reminds us.

    May 12,2025
  • Sad: AOC Unable To Obtain Real ID Because She Died On Jan 6 And Is A Ghost - Babylon Bee

    “It’s not fair that only ‘living people' are eligible to obtain these Real IDs, while people like me and millions of other Democratic voters are barred from getting them due to the simple fact that we’re dead. Prejudice is alive and well in America, even though I am not.”

    May 7,2025
  • The Bee Explains: How A Conclave Works - Babylon Bee

    How are the votes cast?

    Each Cardinal places their red hat on the head of their pope of choice. Once the stack of hats on someone’s head reaches the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, that man is declared Pope.

    May 7,2025
  • Trump Promises To Negotiate Peace In India As Soon As They Take Him Off Hold - Babylon Bee

    “They assure me my call is very important to them,” said Trump, still waiting. “That guy who placed me on hold, was it Kevin? It didn’t sound like a ‘Kevin’, to be honest. I told him it concerned nuclear war, and then he said he would need to talk to his manager and asked if I could hold. I like this music, I really do, very good beat. But it’s really a long hold, and I don’t think Kevin is going to be getting a good survey at the end of this phone call, I’ll tell you that.”

    May 7,2025
  • Canopy is awake with lots of birdsong at first light.

    Trees at the first light of day
    May 7,2025
  • Millions of Student-Loan Borrowers to Face Collections - WSJ

    The collections process was standard before the pandemic pause. Still, its return is likely to be a strain for borrowers who reoriented their budgets around not paying their loans during the lengthy reprieve.

    Your government at work; giving false hope and setting the wrong expectations.

    May 5,2025
  • Not Fooling Anyone: This Hippopotamus Is Clearly On Ozempic - Clickhole

    The caption on the photo of the newly trimmed and toned hippo claims, “Frisky loves her watermelons and playing in the pond,” but we’re not buying it. There’s no way that a diet of watermelons and an exercise regimen of playing in a pond resulted in nearly 1,000 pounds of fat loss.

    May 1,2025
  • With No Pope to Oversee Them, Cardinals Stay Up All Night Playing Goldeneye And Building Pillow Forts - Babylon Bee

    But at some point during the funeral proceedings, it dawned on one of the cardinals from Africa that they could really stretch this whole conclave business out as long as possible and get in some great “bro time.”

    April 29,2025
  • Actually Grilled Cheese

    Plate of grilled cheese sandwiches
    April 29,2025
  • Gretchen Whitmer Sneaks Into White House Again - Babylon Bee

    My people told me I had a meeting, and in comes this person wearing a set of curtains. Like a black ghost. That’s what she looked like. But she wasn’t scary, she was actually very nice. A nice black ghost, whoever she was.

    April 28,2025
  • Parenting Experts Share Tips For Talking To Kids About Being Heir To Throne Of Small European Kingdom - The Onion

    Discovering their royal birthright as a small European nation’s sovereign can be a rocky period in a child’s life, so it’s important that parents remind them that it’s perfectly normal to be surrounded by a scheming coterie of backstabbing advisors vying for their favor.

    April 28,2025
  • Catholic Husband

    In the Quiet Hours - Catholic Husband

    There are many days when I use those two hours for more sleep. Every so often, that’s the correct choice; rest is a key ingredient for health. But most days, the right choice is to get up early, get outside, and orient my day towards the things that really matter.

    April 28,2025
  • Goodnight, Sweet Prince: It’s Time To Move The Software Installer To The Trash - Clickhole

    The moment your software successfully downloads is a joyous one, of course, but tinged with sadness, too. For though it means you may finally use your application as you wish, you must first part ways with the one who led you here.

    April 27,2025
  • We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

    Marcus Aurelius

    April 27,2025