Big four oh - closing in on a year of updates

Do I move away from each quarterly update starting on the 1st of the calendar year to a fiscal year?

Watched horse racing with Holben - very fun to see him

Saw a motorcycle on fire - big

Brutal day cutting grass from the lack of cutting grass - I think my trimmer was on Percs but not in a Perc Rogers kinda way - in a "you tryin' to take me home" tweaking kinda way

Diced up yards this week

Met most of Ms. Campbell's family, starting with cards at her vacation house where grandma and I kicked her and her brothers' butt in euchre

I suspect Ms. Campbell's father was in a frat after I was hazed - starting with being barked at when I walked in by her brother and was referred to as Vincent, it ended with Ms. Campbell and her mother rushing me out the door to end the barrage of her father's "fun" questions

I think we let Wyatt off easy by only calling him "Wade"

Went to the lake with Ms Campbell to see her Grammy and Pappy, ride jetskis + wakeboard, fun coffees, all without a sunburn the next day #NoSunscreen #Sleeves

Definitely made Grandma Mary proud as I was the clear winner in Rummikub at the lake

Vegas moving out might not be a bad thing - at first you think you might miss them, but when they move out they leave you their slackline and fan vent that makes your room way cooler, and it doesn't seem so bad anymore

Maybe I will miss them - should I follow them down to SC? ←Foreshadowing

Been on my podcast grind and reading fell to the wayside - Should I change that? But I am enjoying the podcasts

Went to Easton with Skidmark

Fun REI trip: very successful use of funds - followed by a suit fitting: less fun but fitted nonetheless

Why tf do they have the dress clothes so tight? If someone asks me to bench or hop on a slack line, the suit will not allow it

Ran along the Scioto River with Skidmark and walked back shirtless - was probably the most gay I have looked since asking a guy to take a photo of Nick and me for Homie G Out West

Call me Holben on the clock because my vibecoding is back

I have a program that will take all my reports of debt/credit cards and make it clean, useful data I can play with

So many pivot tables to analyze spending and investing can be made so fast

Much too tired for a long run so it was a brutal week for the running - 5 miles this week - will be locking in at Uncle Carl camp next week

Got a flight to spend the next 2 weeks with the Hertwings in Charleston, SC, with fun of seeing Mr. Johnson's graduation, moving Faith into Clemson, and lake fun

Family fun - quick trip for some key lime Aldi Oreos (they are gass) and key lime ice cream cookie sandwich, then the Famroy played Blokus and Chronology

A long time ago in India when the british ruled it they had a cobra problem. The government offered money for dead ones - that resulted in people breeding them just to turn them in dead for $, so when the government then realized and removed the reward money - the breeders then released the now worthless cobras, making the attempt to decrease cobras actually increase them - when an incentive to get to a goal becomes the goal rather than the original goal, you get the Cobra Effect - it seems to be ubiquitous and a key issue in business

The best way to avoid competition and differentiate yourself from competitors is to be authentic. If your competitive advantage is something someone has done before, the best you can be is 2nd if you're trying to be like them - don't be the best, be the only

Sometimes the view at the top of the mountain isn't worth the climb: metaphorically, of course, as I have never found the view not worth the climb on a physical mountain

On paper I should probably be saving less and spending more since it's likely I will be making much more money later, so I will likely not have the time or health to do fire things like ski bum Mt. Hood or couch surf in foreign countries forever, so I should on paper borrow from my richer future self to do more fun things now than later, as a dollar is worth more to a young person than old, because at a point I’ll be so old all I can really do is stay at home, watch Jeopardy, and play cards if I make it there. What is the point of saving money and having millions but not spending it? At that point it's just a scoreboard, or like Chuckie Cheese tickets that never got cashed in: worthless, and it means I left fun on the table - I could have bought experiences before I died with it or gave it to someone else to do that

Encore by Jay Z

Dirt Off Your Shoulder by Jay Z