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Why I Salted My Chocolate Mousse
In my normal life, I eat two meals a day. A sardine and a tuna sandwich for lunch, and Chipotle for dinner. I never snack, because I know that these two meals are enough to keep me full throughout the day. When I travel, though, I go into opportunist mode. I don’t know when my…
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CruiseSheet Progress
With a little encouragement from friends smarter than me, I’ve decided to pour some time into CruiseSheet and try to make it into an awesome cruising resource and a real business. I think that cruises are the best value in travel, bar none, and are seriously underutilized by many people who could easily afford them,…
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Do You Really Want What You Want?
On a regular basis, I’m surprised to find that what I think I want isn’t actually what I want. Last night I found out that there was a caving tour here in Budapest. The pictures looked great, and so I emailed the people that run the tour. They confirmed that they had spots available the…
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Aging Gracefully
The most common reaction to seeing us young folk on the cruise was to compliment us on our performance the previous night. Apparently all young people look the same, and the dance corps was also a young group of people aboard the ship. The second most common reaction was to ask us what in the…
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One Year of Writing In…
I’ve written a blog post every single day for a year exactly now. Actually, there have been two or three days I’ve used the “buffer by one day” clause and had to write two the next day, but still– 365 posts in as many days. The bet was Sebastian’s idea, and I agreed to it…
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Wine or the Bottle
Today a friend showed me a video where an IKEA print was put into a Dutch art gallery. Patrons were asked about the piece in a hilarious and bumbling volley of art-speak. One guy said he’d pay no more than $2.5M for it. My friend asked me if I’d heard about the study where they…
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If You Travel, Switch to T-Mobile
A real love fest went down in the strip mall off the highway in Santa Cruz. We stopped for lunch, at Chipotle of course, and I saw a T-Mobile store. One of my todo items for the following (overloaded) Monday, was to go to T-Mobile and enable wifi calling. But, hey, it’s not often you…
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The Mental Journey of Writing a Book
I remember when I wrote my first book. A friend told me I should do it, he was more financially successful than I was, and so I figured I may as well just do what he said. It was a daunting idea, but I thought that since so many other people had written books, I…
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Big Blocks of Time
Everyone wants to work smarter, not harder. No reason not to do both, really, but smarter seems so much more appealing sometimes because it requires less work. The free lunch at the end of that rainbow isn’t always as tasty as we might imagine, but once in a while there is a fundamental change one…
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Rolling With Punches
I stare at my phone’s clock. My watch isn’t accurate enough for situations like this. Up the street I look for the bus, the one with the happy-looking dog on it. It’s 3:22, and the bus was supposed to be there a minute ago. Normally I wouldn’t expect that sort of on-time performance, but this…
