-
June 3,2024
Four-ship for Mass.
-
Catholic Husband
June 3,2024Heavenly Delights - Catholic Husband
In the revised translation of the Mass, one of my favorite concluding prayers starts with, “Having consumed these heavenly delights…” It evokes the Jewish people in the desert, looking out of their tents to see manna waiting to feed them; bread from Heaven come to save us, having all sweetness within it.
➕
-
Reading
June 2,2024
Currently reading: Millionaire Mission by Brian Preston 📚
-
Reading
Book Review: Going Infinite 📚
May 31,2024The story of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX captured global headlines for 18 months, and as a lover of financial news, I followed the stories pretty regularly. I assumed that because of this, I’d enjoy the Michael Lewis book that dove into the story.
I was wrong.
SBF is pretty much a selfish jerk. I’m glad this book is over.
Would I recommend: NO
ISBN: 978-1324105817
-
May 30,2024
The big day is here.
-
May 28,2024
In order to unlock the cabinet containing the second Target worker, the first Target worker opens a suitcase handcuffed to their wrist, which contains a 30-digit code that they verify with the second employee inside the cabinet. Once verified, the employees enter the code into dual keypad locks installed on both sides of the door and hit enter simultaneously, thereby unlocking the cabinet. The customer and the second Target employee then head to the deodorant aisle and retrieve the deodorant.
-
Catholic Husband
May 27,2024A Blast of Trumpets - Catholic Husband
But when you are at Mass, and the entrance procession is welcomed with a trumpet blast, your mind is immediately pulled to Psalm 47 or St. John’s descriptions in Revelation. It becomes so easy to imagine the triumph of Jesus Christ mounting His throne to the fulsome blasts of trumpets.
➕
-
May 26,2024
Is Your Company’s 401(k) Match Unfair? - WSJ
Nearly half of the $200 billion companies contribute to workers’ 401(k)s goes to the top 20% of earners, research by Vanguard Group found. The lowest-earning workers get 6% of the money.
Interesting concept of fairness. A group of adults are given an opportunity, a subset take it and others, for their own reasons, choose not to. And somehow that’s unfair?
-
Reading
Book Review: Artemis Fowl 📚
May 26,2024Artemis Fowl is a book series that Alison read as a child, although I never did. Benedict got the first one for his birthday and has devoured them all. He begged me to read them, too, and many of his references come from the book.
I finally made it through the first book in the series. It was a quick read, and I instantly saw why he so enjoys the series. A genius 12-year old boy uses his wit and technology to outsmart mythical creatures.
As a grown man, it wasn’t for me, but I’m glad that I now have a new basis for communicating with him, and context for many of his comments.
ISBN: 978-1368036986
-
May 23,2024
Philosopher 2, attorney 0.
-
May 20,2024
Gruenberg plans to stay until successor is confirmed, avoiding scenario that would leave a Republican as acting chairman
Accountability* (but only when politically convenient)
-
Catholic Husband
May 20,2024Breathing Room - Catholic Husband
While true that impulse shopping feels good, so does a lack of chaos. I aspire to a boring, predictable financial life where the system mostly runs on autopilot. I want a financial life that allows me breathing room to make decisions, where I can add in new priorities without wrecking the essentials. I want to make decisions about what I’m going to impulse on at the beginning of the month, and then be ready to make that leap.
➕
-
May 13,2024
Monday morning, when I eat breakfast: ☀️
Monday morning, when I open my email: 🌪️
-
May 13,2024
Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed. - WSJ
Erica Pittman, a 45-year-old business banker in Raleigh, N.C., said she and her husband opted to have only one child because of demands on their time, including caring for her mother, who died last year after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Their 8-year-old son is able to participate in theater workshops, soccer and summer camps because the couple, with a combined income of about $225,000 a year, has more time and money.
“I feel like a better mom,” Pittman said. “I feel like I can go to work—because I have a fairly demanding job—but I can also make time to volunteer at his school, be the chaperone for the field trip and do those kinds of things, because I only have one to coordinate with my schedule.”
What’s a word stronger than “pathetic?”
-
Catholic Husband
May 13,2024We are not robots and none of us are on a perfect hockey stick growth trajectory. Long-term goals require long-term commitment, but missing a month or two or six on saving towards a 30-year goal is not going to make you miss the goal. It’s a small time window on a large horizon.
➕
-
Reading
May 12,2024
Finished reading: Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis 📚
-
May 12,2024
Clean house, still raining outside, and curled up on the couch in my office with a book. Good Sunday. 📖
-
May 12,2024
Lofi beats for a rainy Sunday morning. ☔️
-
Catholic Husband
May 6,2024Every job has its lessons to teach us, and connections to make, which carry us forward to our next endeavor. Whatever it is that you’re doing today, especially if it’s not the work you wish to do for the rest of your life, do it well.
➕
-
May 5,2024
At a barbershop for the first time in more than 4 years.
💈
-
May 4,2024
A Tale of Three Universities - WSJ Opinion
The University of Florida took a different approach. In a statement Monday evening, the school said protesters who engaged in prohibited activities would face a trespassing order and an “interim” suspension from the university. “This is not complicated,” a spokesman said. “The University of Florida is not a daycare, and we do not treat protesters like children—they knew the rules, they broke the rules, and they’ll face the consequences.”
-
May 4,2024
At publishing time, Trump had reportedly asked if he could go ahead and pre-pay for all the sick burns he planned to unleash next week.
-
Catholic Husband
April 29,2024Custom Parenting - Catholic Husband
Many young adults today shun parenting and its many burdens and challenges. Indeed, parenting is the hardest commitment that any of us can make, on par with marriage. It’s a life-long commitment, to will the good of the other, to build an authentic relationship, and to give them your full heart and attention.
➕
-
April 27,2024
The global tech giant’s venture into virtual reality was met with lukewarm public interest, leaving Cook to escape this world and use the company’s invention to enter an alternate universe in which the goggles had set sales records and altered the course of human beings' day-to-day lives.
-
April 23,2024
America Honors Earth Day By Recycling Used Presidential Candidates - Babylon Bee
“Most old presidential candidates get tossed in the trash can to be sent to a landfill to slowly decompose until they’re forgotten and irrelevant. It’s time for a new way,” said environmental scientist Dr. Wayne Flerd. “We couldn’t be happier to see not one, but two former candidates being given new life despite being way past their expiration dates.”