Great Lakes Compact states should be on high alert. At his current pace, he’ll be building a pipeline to feed the deserts of the Southwest.

Currently reading: Essentialism by Greg McKeown 📚

I’m rarely vindicated in my e-junk keeping, cable-hoarding ways—but when I am, it only makes it harder to break the habit.

Finished reading: High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup 📚 Surprisingly enjoyable for an 800+ page book on parking. Essential reading for planners and engineers.

“The first revolution is when you change your mind.”

— Gil Scott-Heron. Illustration by Nina Montenegro.

While I haven’t been keeping up with it as much as I’d like, I wrote another piece for my blog titled The Myth of the Corner Store. Greatly appreciate any feedback as I work to improve my writing in this format. #urbanism

My son turned 6 on Sunday and it got me thinking about my own 6th birthday party where all the parents of my friends just dropped off their kindergartners at our house in a seedier part of town and then left. Their parents had never even met my mom. Man, how times have changed!

20 years ago, ‘I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning’ and ‘Digital Ash in a Digital Urn’ by Bright Eyes came out. Feeling older every day.

At a concert at Mississippi Studios in Portland between sets, and honestly, I’m kind of floored. It hit me earlier that the last time I saw Lady Lamb perform here was back in 2019. That was almost six years ago, but with two kids, COVID, and the general whirlwind of life, time has felt like a strange, elastic blur.

It’s as if part of my life paused when I became a parent. Life hasn’t stopped being fun. I make a point of doing things I love and getting out as much as I can, especially now that my kids are no longer babies. But it sure is different these days. What a trip.

Not my photo. Posted on the Gordie Howe Bridge website. Just a lovely bridge, Detroit.

Trying to work up the energy to make it to this Lady Lamb show at Mississippi Studios tonight. Still wiped out and recovering.

Listening to Backyard Lover by Merce Lemon. #mood

I’ve have had two back-to-back, pretty nasty illnesses this month. This caused me to abandon my photo a day project. I thought that it would encourage me to be creative and get out more, but I decided it wasn’t serving me the way that it would and I didn’t like how it was making me feel.

A little over halfway through the nerdiest book I’ve read in years. Of course I love it.

I have cancelled and deleted my omg.lol account.

Grandma Deb coming through with the clutch Lions themed winter gear for kiddo’s 6th birthday!

What a truly terrible day for America and the world.

“Historically, driving has come with very few costs for the driver — in fact, most of it, from road infrastructure to free parking, is actively subsidized by the government.“

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24344732/nyc-congestion-pricing-tracker-data-google-maps

What’s the typical life expectancy of a towel? Just realized I bought these from BBB when I first moved here in 2015.

Can’t sleep. Memory lane.

Claire de Lune by …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

On the enshittification of the Internet from CNN:

First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

You know, I think life is an embarrassing, soul crushing marathon. But then I remember: (gasp) there’s cinnamon toast!

-Bruce McCulloch

13/365 📷

True story, my wife sleeps with this tattered quilt every night because she likes the way it feels. It was her dad’s when he was a kid.

Glad y’all are having a “normal” winter back in Michigan. After the last couple of years, I was starting to think that maybe the climate had changed enough for me to start thinking about move back, but…I’m good. ☔️

12/365 📷

Same, kid. Happy 3rd birthday. Love, dad.