I’m grateful for Walmart Grocery Pickup.

Picked up a HomePod today. I’m delighted!

On the road again

The pictures from Panmunjom are charming, historic, and humanizing. Try not to forget that Kim assassinated his brother with VX nerve agent in an international airport 14 months ago, and murdered a US citizen 10 months ago.

Nice vacation

Benedict was very excited when our airplane arrived at the gate yesterday. Southwest is a great airline that treats its customers like people.

Saw a motorcyclist driving 80 on the Interstate with no helmet or pads. Not much room for margin, eh?

I’m excited to celebrate my birthday by releasing ChetCast, a microcast about my life as a stay-at-home dad! I first started podcasting 11 years ago in my college dorm room. It was just me back then, but now I’m lucky to have three children to join me on the show.

I’m hosting my show using Micro.blog and recording it with the Wavelength app. Special thanks to Aaron Parecki for the music. This has been a great community to be involved with and it’s been truly fun seeing Manton continue to iterate.

In case you’re wondering, the thing that I’m perhaps best known for among my friends and family is my love of sprinkles. I’ve labored diligently, with great success, to pass on this love to my children. When choosing podcast artwork that represents me, my family, and my new show, no other object could more completely summarize this project.

My last podcast made it to 50 or so episodes. I hope to make 1,000 episodes of ChetCast, documenting the adventures my children and I share.

Releasing the first episode of my new microcast tomorrow. My Benedict is a guest, but he calls it a “bobcast.”

Six months into using single stream recycling in our household, and we’re diverting about 50% of our solid waste. Wish our facility would expand to accept more things.

After a conversion experience, one is tempted to set aside, downplay, or reject one’s past. In Thomas Merton’s biography The Seven Storey Mountain, the former dissolute student turned Trappist monk largely characterizes his former life as bad, and his life in the monastery as good. Of the “old” Thomas Merton, he said ruefully, ‘I can’t get rid of him.’ In time Merton would realize how misguided a quest that is: there is no post-conversion person and pre-conversion person. There is one person in a variety of times, the past informing and forming the present. God is at work at all times.

The tiny one fell asleep in my arms. These are the days.

I was really excited to see Maton release a new theme on Micro.blog last night. I was even more excited when I saw the name, Marfa.

For those of you who don’t know, Marfa is a very small town in West Texas. It’s situated in rugged and mostly untouched terrain. For whatever reason, it’s become a haven for art, leading to its rise in prominence.

Coming from the Soaring community, Marfa is well known for another reason. Marfa is a National Landmark of Soaring, a place that glider pilots from across the country travel to fly in its unique and favorable environment. The airport has hosted the US National Soaring contests as well as the 1970 World Soaring Championships. A documentary called “The Sun Ship Game” was even filmed based on the pilots in that 1970 competition.

In 2005, I earned my private pilot license at the airport in Marfa. It will always be a special place for me.