Journaling, photos, letters home, and other little mementos to remember me by.
To put it bluntly: I’ve let this blog languish for the last couple of years. While topics had narrowed down to be almost exclusively about #homebrewing since about 2015 or so, my time in Washington and COVID and a few other things derailed just about everything for me. Writing for this thing was definitely not […]
I love you, Jess. (This post retroactively posted to be roughly the time we said our vows.)
Part year-in-review, part brag sheet, part best things and stuff, part tap-the-microphone “is this thing on?” life support post for this, my much-neglected blog. It’s been a few years since the last time I did one of these, and several of those were pretty hard years — but now seemed like the perfect time to […]
Went and spectated a new-to-me thing that was incredibly fun. Ever hear of cyclocross? It’s a kind of bicycle racing that includes all sorts of variable terrain and obstacles and is just generally pretty intense. I’d never heard of it before a few months ago when a long-time friend (and avid cyclist) pitched a long […]
No burying the lede here: we knew that moving cross-country would be hard, but the pandemic threw a wrinkle into the mix that resulted in the worst social isolation we ever experienced and it was simply too much to bear. Once we were free of any obligations keeping us on the West Coast, it just […]
Precisely why we decided to move back to Vermont from Washington is a story best reserved for a separate and more thoughtful blog post 1 but needless to say: I felt compelled to capture a few notes about my cross-country drive while the details were still (relatively) fresh in my mind. Slight callback to the […]
Just commemorating the moment. Dose â„– 1 of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine went into my arm at 10:26am this morning.
Our original plan was never to stay. We came for Amy’s graduate school, with every expectation that we would be gone in four or five years so she could chase a post-doc and then a tenure-track role after that. But that’s not how things shook out, and all the subsequent decisions — large and small […]
I got a little braggy about this on Twitter earlier this year… 1 Our little solar project is doing pretty well. 4376.89 kW/h total yield. Thank you, @suncommon pic.twitter.com/ewezOB8LDj — Rob Friesel (@founddrama) June 6, 2015 It’s probably worth pointing out that, in this image, I had miscalculated the kWh values. A quirk of R […]