Several times a week, I turn to my wife, dumbfounded at the words that have come out of my children’s mouths. Incredible just how much they pick up on by listening. There’s a lesson in there.

Another beautiful day in this great Nation!

Time for the semi-annual deep cleaning and waxing of the cars. I love this day, and how smooth the cars feel afterward!

My bad boy approach to hijacking my own footer is costing me a lot of time in troubleshooting.

When I look at the current specimens of our national currency, I’m disappointed. The United States Dollar is a global reserve currency, and its design is disjointed. Looking at the difference between the various notes, there’s a hodgepodge of design features and colors. It borders on a national embarrassment.

The Treasury redesigns notes on a regular basis for currency protection and to counter fraud, but it currently has no plans to redesign the $1 note or the $2 note. As a result, we have a fragmented design and little prospect of that changing. Even the notes that it does redesign seem to lack a unified vision for what the US Dollar should look like.

I wouldn’t like to see anything as busy as the British pound, but something more measured like the Euro. I’d like to see a unified design that’s clean, balanced, proportional, minimal, and symmetric. Perhaps common elements arranged on a grid that could be easily substituted between note designs. The denomination goes in the same place, the base color is the same with accent colors differing by denomination, and so forth.

Many today will proclaim that cash is dead, or will be soon, but I disagree. Cash is anonymous, fast, safe, and universally accepted. Cash represents about 15% of all transactions in the United States and around a third of all payments globally.

Cash is here to stay, so let’s make it beautiful.

How did I go so long without using emoji in Things? It gives such clarity to my projects!

Fresh starts in YNAB are excellent. Very well thought-out feature.

My backyard is lovely

The greatest temptation in design is to add too much. Add just enough, and not a single object more.

Honestly, what the hell is the Toyota design team thinking?

First Mass with three kids. Two sets of grandparents helped. No backup on Thursday, though!

No, sorry, I'm not on Facebook.

Happy to be celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Catholic Husband blog!

I regret that my hearing is so good that I can hear extremely high pitched noises.

Nothing quite turns your day around like 45 minutes at the gym

I still think it’s weird that I need an appointment at my barber shop.

Just saw a Cadillac delivering Dominos. Tough times.

Last day before it changes all over again.

Panera stops serving breakfast at 11am on Sundays. You know that ain’t right!

While washing the wheels of our car, my 4yo offered to give me a “car wash.” I turned around to find him pointing the hose at me and attempting to turn on the nozzle.

Watching my Apple TV with my AirPods after the kids are in bed just might be the single greatest technological advance in a generation.

I can think of very few scenarios where a blank page with “Coming Soon!” is the appropriate design choice. Good rule of thumb: if there’s no content on a page, don’t publish.

When it comes to cheddar, the sharper, the better!

Ethan Hunt is a poor man’s James Bond.

Well, it's February 20th. Suppose it's time to turn on the A/C.