A little bit of peril is good for you.

Whoa. At what point does a person think to themselves, “Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the problem.”?

It what you do with what you’ve got that counts.

Somehow I think my baby years were probably less embarrassing than my teenage years.

“Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.”

No better way to commiserate with your drowning constituents than with a family trip to Schlitterbahn.

I remember reading that. It was pretty funny. Jihad is easy. Running a country is not. Who would have thought.

Scheduling bill payments through my banks online bill pay. I will pay bills with a credit card when I absolutely have to. I don’t use ACH autodraft at all if I can avoid it. Online bill pay is usually free, it helps centralize all my bill payments, and if there’s a problem I just call the bank instead of having to mess with the vendor.

It also helps make sure I don’t forget to pay a bill, which my ADHD brain would do all the time otherwise.

“Drinking water backwards.” And no, I’m not talking about an enema.

Say you have the hiccups.

Get half a glass of water. Bend over at your waist like you’re about to pick something up off the floor. While bent over, rest the glass against your upper lip and drink the water.

Poof Hiccups gone instantly. I know it sounds insane but it works.

I was today years old when I learned that many people don’t have an inner monologue. The human body is so fascinating.

Oddly enough, if I don’t take my ADHD meds, I tend to talk to myself out loud a lot because my inner monologue gets kind of “muffled” in the “noise” and I rely on it very heavily to think through.

Arkansas at #3. I am not remotely shocked. People here drive like complete morons who are oblivious to everyone else on the road. Just on your average trip to Bentonville – which is about 8 miles from me – you’re almost guaranteed to see half a dozen cars blow through a red light. I’ve had more close calls than I can count.

It is even dumber and more malicious than it sounds.

It’s like the Republican Party got taken over by incompetent James Bond villains. However, despite what’s portrayed in Live and Let Die, alligators don’t normally prey on humans.

I imagine being a high school teacher sometimes feels like being Margaret Dumont in a Marx Brothers movie.

I have a rule that “Nothing will be automated that cannot be manually overridden.”

Well, actually it’s my wife’s rule but it’s a good rule nonetheless. As a result, there’s a big panel full of relays in the basement that is the “last mile” for anything climate control or security related.

There have been a few times when it’s been handy. Like when the exhaust fan isn’t working and I don’t want to debug the ESP32 controller today so I just flip it over to “Manual”.

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Teenagers sometimes have to get blisters a few times before learning that it’s wiser to do the smart thing even if it wasn’t your idea.

Then again, I know a few adults like that too.

Highly location dependent. We have useable cell service in our house but Internet over 5G is slow.

Corporate America over here committing piracy en masse.

In my neighborhood you get a choice between coax or nothing.