The Great Outdoors

A Grand Excursion

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Had a great opportunity today to take some mental-health time with my friend Scott. He and I kayaked 15 miles on the Grand River. We put in at Veteran’s Boat Launch in Grandville and pulled out at Eastmanville Bayou. Basically, almost half-way between Grand Rapids and Lake Michigan.

Perfect day for it. No bugs, nice temps, and not many others on the river. The water was very high and muddy given all the recent rain. Saw lots of turtles and herons. And a snake in a tree.

Fun fact: Around Allendale, we came across the rowing team for Grand Valley State University, so Scott and I padded the entire time (roughly a mile) we were within eyeshot of those student-athletes and their coaches. Not that they especially cared!

All this, in just a hair over five hours.

Personal

A Bit About a Bite

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While catching up with some news websites yesterday, I stumbled across an article that linked to a two-year-old study about sugar. The TL;DR is that added sugar seems to be bad for one’s health — obesity, diabetes, etc. In fact, there seems to be a growing consensus among researchers (and not the sky-is-falling conspiracy-theorist variety) […]

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Religion

Translation Standards and the Quest for Biblical Meaning

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Having been tempted by my friend Patrick, I purchased — it arrived today! — a side-by-side copy of Challoner’s revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible opposite the Clementine Vulgate. It’s a beautiful, hefty volume prepared with obvious care by Baronius Press. I flipped through it and immediately got sidetracked by textual comparisons. Myriad copies of the […]

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Business Development, Personal, Social Media, Marketing & Privacy

From Inbox Zero to Inbox Infinity? Or, Why I Learned to Stop Stressing About My Unread Message Count

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The last three days have been focused, to remarkable degree, on communicating. Mostly catch-up stuff. Monday and Tuesday were spent, 10 hours each day, just responding to accumulated messages. Whilst munching dinner yesterday, I came across an interesting article in The Atlantic by Taylor Lorenz titled “Don’t Reply to Your Emails: The Case for Inbox Infinity” […]

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Personal

An Auspicious Start

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The new year is a mere 2 percent complete but so far, so good: Kicked the new year off right with a 6-mile hike along parts of the North Country Trail and some horse trails, near Yankee Springs Recreational Area. Went well. My brother came, too, which was nice. The hike was sponsored by FBET; […]

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