Eclectic Living
I am a fortunate individual. I have enjoyed a lot of freedom in my adult life, and now, at 46 years old, I'm blessed to be financially independent. Getting here has been a mixture of privilege, fortune, good decisions, and hard work (probably in about that order). Now, if you're willing to stick around for the... Continue Reading →
"You don't know me - I'm a good guy," I rebutted somewhat angrily. "Yeah, I can see that by your truck," the man with the immaculate teeth said sarcastically. I had an idea years ago to start a website called WouldaCoulda. It would've been a social media website wherein people posted stories about incidents in... Continue Reading →
I recently went on a weekend golf trip to Arizona with a good group of guys. One might imagine that, in general, the demographic of guys who go on weekend golf trips would tend toward a bro-ish, self-absorbed, perpetual adolescence mindset. I hope that generalization's not true, and for our group, it wasn't. Still, I... Continue Reading →
Ah, it has been a long time since I've had occasion to write a post. I'm still plugging away on the fun but time-consuming 125-year-old house remodel - almost done with the interior, and it's rented beginning in March. We're already well into 2016, yet I feel like the year has barely begun. There are so many... Continue Reading →
The last time I wrote a post, I was getting ready to embark on an 11-day trip to Scotland to film a movie with my brother and a friend. As it turns out, shooting a feature-length film in 11 days in a foreign land is challenging. But it was also an incredible experience, which I'll document... Continue Reading →
As an eclectic, I wear many hats. So I've found it useful to keep track of how much time I put into my many projects in a spreadsheet. Some of these projects make me money and some don't. It's nice to have an idea of whether I might be devoting too much time, or not... Continue Reading →
2014 was the year of self-tracking for me. I created a mood tracking spreadsheet (download it for free), to which I also added my data from MyFitnessPal. Now the results are in, and what they reveal will shock you (not so much). The primary purpose of building my mood tracking contraption was to see which variables in my life... Continue Reading →
For eclectics, the new year is generally an uplifting time. It's an excuse to take stock of one's life and reset the switch. Eclectics revel in change and new things, so a whole new year holds a lot of promise and potential energy. Many of us use the new year to resolve to make certain things better... Continue Reading →
Robert Lustig has been espousing the view for years that sugar is the new cocaine. I've only done cocaine once, and I can safely say that it had a little bit more of an effect on me than sugar does. But the cumulative effects of all the sugar inundating our society are no doubt more... Continue Reading →
Back in the heady summer of 2002, I spent many late nights and early mornings chasing World Cup soccer games around Boulder County - the Cup was in South Korea and Japan that year. I found games at beerless bars and at various friends' houses. I joined a gaggle of bleary-eyed soccer fans at a bar in south Boulder... Continue Reading →
Poppa's Cottage 