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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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@aaronhuertas.bsky.social Honestly lack of CarPlay support is one of the big things keeping me from considering most EVs for my next car. Though supposedly Apple is working to provide tools for better EV integration, so maybe in upcoming years…

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@drose Wow, a beautiful solve for her. I felt good about mine but going from almost no green to a solve is amazing.

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@dswanson Finished my first pass through it a couple weeks ago… talking about it for a couple weeks at my church’s Adult Forum in September. Solid stuff.

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@chrishubbs.com What a lovely memory. I’ve never seen him in person, but Once is one of my half-dozen favorite movies, and his voice will forever be in my head.

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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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2026 Reads: We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine by Alissa Wilkinson 📚

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@chrishubbs.com She’s on FB and Insta so not totally offline but AFAIK thats basically for family connections and her artwork. The kids seem to be better at regulating the social media stuff than I am, praise be.

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A very happy birthday to our oldest daughter, who isn’t on any of these socials and so won’t see this. Still, 22 years old today, a recent college grad with a new job in her field… an adventurous spirit and a lovely artistic streak to go with it. Couldn’t be prouder. HBD Laura!

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@drose Got lucky today:

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Wordle 1,864 2/6*

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On a whim went with my wife and 17-year-old daughter to see a local community theater production of Newsies. It’s one of the kid’s favorites. It was quite good. There’s just something about musical theater, man… ❤️

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2026 Reads: The Hero of Ages Book Three of Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 📚

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Enjoyed it. Also happy to be done with it and to get on to something else.

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@KyleEssary Nice work! Traveling makes all those habits hard to maintain, and traveling in the States I’m sure even more so.

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The joy of traveling west: completely worn out and ready to sleep and it’s only 7:40p local time. Zzzzz.

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The Fever need some better defense but good grief 45p/10a for Caitlin Clark tonight? 😳 I think maybe her back is feeling better.

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2026 Reads: Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li 📚

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Trying to keep running in a hot July is hard. Started at 5:30 this morning and did 4 miles. It was in the 70s with high humidity and every piece of my clothing was completely saturated with sweat by the end of the run. Drinking extra electrolytes now to get rid of my headache. Phew.

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Interesting to read in conversation with the Pope’s encyclical: Ilia Delio’s response. Following Teillhard, humanity is not a final evolutionary state to be protected but just the first time the evolving universe attained consciousness. AI and technology are just further advances.

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2026 Reads: Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence by Pope Leo XIV 📚

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A little bit of video editing to wrap up my evening. I know just enough about Davinci Resolve to be dangerous.

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@keakealani.bsky.social What in the world?!? My brain hurts just thinking about it.

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Aw, man, Sam Neill.

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I hope he at least got to see Montana.

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@samthielman.com His mom had it in for him that day.

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@chrishubbs.com Yeah when I ran the 10k in June that had a half and full attached, I won my age group by quite a bit. It’s a legit strategy!

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@joshuapsteele It shapes the play, forces players to move up and down the field. VAR is annoying but now that we have the tech to review that seems to be the way of things.

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@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Mine arrives today! Looking forward to it!

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@joshuapsteele That’s a great question that I don’t have a good answer for. I’ve asked myself the same sort of thing when I’ve considered getting a tattoo, but never come up with something meaningful enough I wanted to make it permanent.

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@joshuapsteele This gives me flashbacks to the WWJD bracelets I wore as a kid. 😒 😂

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@ablerism Thanks!

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@isaacgreene I had never read either of those before. Thanks for sharing them! “Love’s austere and lonely offices”… what a turn of phrase, and what a truth.

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@sundogplanets It does when you airlock somebody!

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@samthielman.com I was gonna argue that I wasn’t in your list, and then I realized I a leftie that works for a big defense contractor… 2 out of 3 is close enough I guess.

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@chrishubbs.com Oh this isn’t appellate. We need a similar fix for first level courts, too.

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@aaronjsmith.net Yeah I’m gonna be thinking about it for a long while.

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@aaronjsmith.net I had a really interesting discussion with my therapist recently about my incessant need to self-edit as I talk, and how it might be tied up in my religious roots where expressing truth just right is of utmost importance, as is not disappointing anyone in authority. Oof.

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@ronguest We’re in the same boat with my daughter. She has her top couple choices identified. Just gotta wait for Common App to open and then for early action.

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@drose It was a good day.

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Wordle 1,823 3/6*

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