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@patrickrhone Such a massive loss, not just to the music world, but to us all. Her Imagination Library program has given away over 300 million books to young readers. Amazing.

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@drose The Pacific Northwest! I got a job with Boeing earlier this year with the agreement we’d move out to the Seattle area after the youngest graduates.

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@chrishubbs.com Heh I’m not sure. I mean, I’m excited for her senior year. She’s worked very hard and it’s paying off. But life is sure gonna change.

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@drose It’s going to be a busy year for us - we will be moving halfway across the country after she graduates in May - but I don’t want to speed through it and miss the experience. Every day has its own joy.

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Last first day of school for us here as the youngest starts her senior year of high school. Where does the time go?

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@joshuapsteele We have one. My wife made the choice on what to get, so I don’t have any background on its relative value vs other brands, but I’ve used it on occasion and it’s very nice.

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@leemc.bsky.social I dunno… we include it in the creed every week at my Episcopal church.

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With the kid back at college my home office gets moved back up out of the basement. I had kinda forgotten how nice it is to have sun coming in the windows while I’m working.

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2026 Reads: The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen 📚

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@chrishubbs.com I did end up reading books 2 and 3. They were solid. Not my favorite fantasy series ever, but worth the time to read it.

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@bencollins.bsky.social This is the Ken Ham (Answers In Genesis) response. Ham’s follow-up is that God was there, and God told us about it in the Bible, so we should believe what the Bible says about it. (which of course he says means humans and dinosaurs were co-habitants)

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@jocelynl.bsky.social Agree it could be both. Your intial post just suggested that 1 wk w/o power wouldn’t happen in a majority white town, and I was pointing out that it already has. If there is a significant racial corellation to the recovery effort, that’s not good.

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@misty.granades.com Good god, yes

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@samthielman.com If somebody were gonna plan a sneak attack on us, they would just need to schedule it for about two days after the next GTA release date…

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@jocelynl.bsky.social Sometimes a derecho like that just destroys so much infrastructure it takes time to rebuild. In 2020, we in (very white) Cedar Rapids, IA were without power for almost 2 weeks after a similar storm knocked out everything. It might be climate change, too, not just racism.

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@jeremymdoan.info She’s having a bit of a busy summer… guess she wanted to get all the work in before having a baby?

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@amerpie Raising that young man right.

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2026 Reads: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 📚

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Beautiful writing. Horrific story. Astonishing book.

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@adamprocter My one visit to India was certainly an experience. Here’s hoping you have smooth travel and a great time.

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Today we drive 2 hours to Des Moines for the youngest daughter to get senior pics at the Iowa state capitol. Then 2 more hours on to Nebraska to move the middle kid back to college. Middle kid is basically moving out for good this year. My heart is not ready for this.

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It’s always a good day to support a Ben Shive Kickstarter campaign.

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www.kickstarter.com/projects/…

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The Cubs with a nice W against the Nationals and the Brewers get swept by the Padres… suddenly the Cubs are only 3 games back in the NL Central with a lot of baseball left to be played. Should be a fun last 6 weeks of the season!

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#MLB #Cubs

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@zo-e.xyz I’m gonna guess “tripping”

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@chrishubbs.com

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OK, that’s kinda cool: just saw that I got my first patent issued! It’s obscure, unlikely to be used for anything substantive, and belongs to a previous employer, so I probably won’t even get the plaque for it. But it’s my idea, with my name on it. Neat.

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@joshuapsteele @patrickrhone Went for a run before sunrise on Monday and was completely saturated about 2 miles in. So gross. Today I will go run at the gym instead.

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@alissawilkinson.bsky.social Excellent

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@alissawilkinson.bsky.social I wanna make a dad joke like “schadenfood”, where you are taking joy in your own misfortune as it relates to what you ate.

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A good chuckle at church this morning as a sweet older lady from the vestry stumbled over the church picnic announcement and said the vestry would be providing the meat and the condoms.

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(Why is “condiments” such a difficult word, anyway?)

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⚓️

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2026 Reads: Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virginia Woolf 📚

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2026 Reads: In the Beginning was the Spirit Science, Religion, and Indigenous Spirituality by Diarmuid Ó Murchú 📚

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Well, that was a hand-waving mess. Bleh.

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So apparently last night was a good Caleb Thielbar night, and tonight he’s trying to give up the game again. Wish the #Cubs could just have him pitch on his good nights. #MLB

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@mwerickson Read it a few years ago. Wonderful book!

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@jbonewald.bsky.social Love it! I just finished up two new cross stitch designs. Time to get started again!

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@ReaderJohn I dunno, man. The Democratic party has been largely ineffective for most of my lifetime, and I’m almost 50. Why do I want their smoke-filled rooms to perpetuate that? DSA’s at least willing to name real problems and stand up and fight.

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2026 Reads: Homebound - A Novel by Portia Elan 📚

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Amazing how much the temperature affects my running. It’s been rough the last couple weeks, but today we had rain and the temps stayed in the 60s. Got out after work and ran 8 miles at a 9 min/mi pace, and felt good doing it. Needed that.

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Wanted something to liven up my podcast queue. Realized there are feeds full of old time radio shows from the ‘30s and ‘40s. I used to listen to reruns on AM radio late night when I was a kid. Looking forward to revisiting them.

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Two hours later, in tears at the end of Glen Hansard’s funeral. Not so much for Glen, but for seeing that community. What do you do in mourning and loss? Get together, pray, and everybody brings their instrument to sing and make music. Powerful.

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Watching the stream of Glen Hansard’s funeral being held at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. Somehow hearing the reading from Revelation in an Irish accent just hits different. Phew.

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glenhansard.com

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2026 Reads: The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed 📚

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@chrishubbs.com Just to clarify: she’s entitled to her opinion, but it’s become a big distraction. She knows it’s divisive and she’s playing it up. If the coach and her teammates can’t get her under control, management needs to. This team has potential for a good playoff run and needs to focus on the game.

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@chrishubbs.com Yep. She’s entitled to her opinion, but it’s become a big distraction and she’s continuing to fuel it. If the coach and her teammates can’t convince her to get it under control, management needs to.

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At the local blues festival tonight, observing that for middle aged men who want to give off a certain artsy vibe, the headwear of choice is a fedora, usually paired with a bowling shirt.

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I’m… uncertain about the wisdom of this trend.

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Some Cedar Rapids Gazette readers gonna be disappointed when they turn the page.

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2026 Reads: Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema A Spiritual Journey by Jeffrey Overstreet 📚

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Wonderful book.

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While it has by no means rained the whole day, when it has rained it has really dumped. We’re up to almost 5 inches since about 3 AM.

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#iawx

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RIP Glen Hansard, dead in a motorcycle crash at age 56. Once will be in my heart forever.

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stereogum.com/2506606/g…

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To simply be that part of the world already changed by Christ: chrishubbs.com

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Just got back from seeing The Odyssey. Nolan knows how to make an epic. Loved Hathaway. Damon and Holland were fine. Leguizamo was unexpected and perfect. Found myself left just a little cold to the whole thing by the end.

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