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Morning on the water

January 1, 2015 by Dave Knadler

kayaking thomas creek florida

Today we took the kayaks out to Thomas Creek, which is as a good a way as any to start out a new year. Our friends Ryan and Jackie joined us for an easy paddle on glassy water, a four-mile round-trip under cloudy skies. Temperature was a little under 60 — a pleasant coolness […]

Filed Under: Me, new year's, Other Stuff

The walkin’ man

November 13, 2014 by Dave Knadler

According to my Fitbit dashboard, I’ve walked a little over 2,800 miles since acquiring the device in May 2013. That’s pretty close to 6 million steps. If I’d set out on foot to visit my daughter in Seattle, right about now I’d be striding along somewhere past Ellensburg, Wash. (And dreading Snoqualmie Pass, no […]

Filed Under: Fitness, Me, Other Stuff

It was only us

July 30, 2014 by Dave Knadler

uptown market jacksonville

When the wife and I go out to dinner, there are two conditions I hope to avoid: (a) Not being able to find parking, and (b) being the only customer in the place. Last night it was the latter. We went to the Uptown Market, partly because we really like the food and service […]

Filed Under: american life, Other Stuff, Springfield

Jury duty redux

July 7, 2014 by Dave Knadler

district court jury box

Once again, I was summoned for jury duty. Once again, I was dismissed after spending half a day at court, shivering in the hyperactive AC. I’m beginning to think lawyers mistake my naturally shifty look for a vengeful nature. Maybe it’s just as well. You only get paid $40 a day. And after the […]

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One lab rat to another

July 1, 2014 by Dave Knadler

standard cat meme

Who among us has not spent 15 minutes perusing Facebook without at some point concluding that life could be better? Show of hands. Now we know why. It’s not that life sucks, per se; it’s just that the geniuses at Facebook were messing with us. They wanted to know if small variations in the […]

Filed Under: american life, Facebook, Other Stuff

A little history lesson

April 13, 2014 by Dave Knadler

diaries of a young man

You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say: Today I will clean out the garage. (Apologies to Charles Portis.) So I spent most of Friday ineffectually moving stuff around in an attempt to organize it. The garage did look tidier for a time, mostly because most of the crap […]

Filed Under: Me, Other Stuff, Writing

Mind if I vape?

March 5, 2014 by Dave Knadler

vaping in the workplace

The word “vape” has been around at least a decade, but I predict it will become one of the most overused words of 2014, and one of the most overdone activities. When I saw Julia Louis-Dreyfus puffing away on an e-cig at the Golden Globes, I realized that old-fashioned cigarettes are on the way […]

Filed Under: american life, Movies, Other Stuff

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