Today we went to the beach and found some sand crabs in the sand. When the water goes back towards the ocean, you can see little bubbles in the sand that indicate where a sand crab is. If you dig fast enough and deep enough, you can catch a little sand crab. One thing we …
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Loose shoelaces
I went for a run the other day and as I started out, my right shoe felt loose, so I stopped and tightened the laces. Then, as soon as I continued, my left shoelace felt too loose in comparison, so I stopped and tightened those laces too. The left laces seemed perfectly fine before I …
Notice the normal goodness
A few days ago, I had a really painful canker sore that made me want to avoid eating and chew in awkward ways to try to avoid having food and liquid touch the sore. I noticed it immediately when it appeared in my mouth because it was painful. Then it healed. I’m not sure when. …
Full of oatmeal
I don’t always eat breakfast and so whenever I do eat breakfast, I usually eat a smaller lunch because I’m still full from breakfast. My lunches are not always as healthy as oatmeal, so if I’m trying to be healthy, then I’ll eat oatmeal for breakfast and less unhealthy stuff for lunch. Fill up on …
Go for it
I’m always amazed at the waves people catch when I think that they are too far away from where the wave will break or I think that the wave won’t even break. They paddle for it, they catch it, and I’m just sitting there, about 5 feet from where they started. Go for the wave …
Surf bad waves
When conditions are poor for surfing, the waves aren’t as much fun to surf. But the acts of waiting for a wave, paddling for one, and catching one, are all very similar to when the conditions are good. You can learn just as much about surfing in general in bad conditions as you can in …
If you have all the information, you should be winning
This past weekend, I played poker and was in a hand where I made a flush and thought I was ahead in the hand until another spade came and then I thought the other player might have made a higher flush. He bet and I decided to call his bet and see what he had. …
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You don’t know until you try it
Yesterday, I had to twist my 4-year-old son’s arm to get out of the house and bike around but once we were biking around, he was gleefully shouting, “This is so much fun! Next time, I’m just going to say, ‘Yes!’” Next time just say Yes.
Do you know what you have?
I watched a video of poker pro Daniel Negreanu playing a hand where he made an initial bet and said, “Sure, I don’t know what I have yet, let’s see a flop.” In Texas hold ‘em, each player is dealt 2 hole cards and then the flop comes, which is 3 more communal cards, and …
Stand on the shoulders of giants, but make your own way
Last night, I smoked some salmon for the first time. I read a lot of articles and recipes and was struck by the common threads in the instructions. Brown sugar, kosher salt, maple syrup. Skin side down. I was happy to follow the tried and true methods. But I was also struck by the divergence …
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