Matt's Journal

  • Wordpile

    “Every man looks upon his wood pile with a sort of affection.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/199908-every-man-looks-upon-his-wood-pile-with-a-sort 22jan20. Well. Dang. I had a nice few paragraphs here a minute ago, on why I enjoy…


  • Olives

    We’d moved to our Land Park house. I wanted to volunteer, to get involved in the area as I’d been in the old midtown place. The Land Park Volunteer Corps…


  • Gearing up

    I am gearing up to write some hike logs. There is no shortage of material to write about. We have taken many hikes over the last year, especially with Laura…


  • Ms Van Winkle, I presume?

    I found myself sailing back in time and space, and then my feet hit the ground and I stared at a neat cottage in front of my face. Dutch Colonial,…


  • New Jersey 2021

    California seems the perfect place for a walk. This is chauvinism. Everyplace is good for a walk. That includes New Jersey. Jersey gets a bad rap from its ugly industrial…


  • Doing the Census

    Took a job. As a Census Enumerator. I count heads in households. Big houses. Small apartments. To all, an interloper, an interruption in their day. Some welcome me, others reject…


  • 16jul2020

    You don’t know what you don’t know. On our coffee walk, Greg mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect where people overestimate their competence. I looked it up and it seems the studies…


  • Walking in a Pandemic – 26mar20

    26mar20 I took a 2.3 mi walk to Franklin Blvd and back. On the way, I heard the sound of leaf blowers outside the door.. This is unchanged since the…


  • Will’s Reed Organ Rebuild

    Will has a knack for handiwork that I lack. When I have spare time I write, or read. When he has spare time he works on things with his hands.…


  • 15jun20

    I stopped by the large Federal office building near church after livestreaming the mass to get a National Parks pass from the BLM – I’m 62 now. The guards said…


  • 8jun2020

    A nice morning. Up early – before 6am. Breakfast. To church to operate the video setup. Dropped in to say hi to Laura, then to Emigh Hardware to get a…


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