The Continuing BattleWagon Chronicles
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Friday, November 1, 2024
Process After Stagnation
There are so many gears turning. Where to start: mentally, things are good. I'm creating ways to keep me sharp, keep me challenged. Spiritually, things are incredible. I'm not exactly sure what I'm believing in these days, but I do believe that's good enough to keep me relatively kind. Emotionally, I'm a kid. I like to think I'm evolved and enlightened, but let's be real, I hold on to stupid shit for too long, and it's difficult. Physically, my knees are better than they were 6 months ago after UPS tried to destroy me. I'm off nicotine patches and not smoking cigarettes. I haven't smoked weed in over a week. And, I woke up this morning angry, not in a bad way, but in a motivated way. It's time. It's time to accomplish all the dreams.
Monday, October 14, 2024
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
A New Hope
I don't know if this is the fourth episode, but I'm at a new property with the worker from Atmos Energy who is cooking up the gas. This house is gonna take some significant work, but I'm in it to win it. Imma do me. Watch me do me. And you just do you, lil homie.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Anticipating Homecoming
This is almost 22 years ago as I post this.
I loved the inconvenience that life up there forces you to have. I loved the time it gave me with my thoughts and my friends, and I miss having to take ferries to the airport.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Everything is Wet in Ketchikan
https://youtu.be/B90O42-EYhY?si=bCP8ueMPCDLCDeQX
The month of October is usually the worst month in Southeast Alaska from my experience. That's the month we got FEET of rain and it all came in sideways. It wasn't fun to go out, but it was always incredibly fun to stay in. I did enjoy the weight of the air in my lungs, though. The musty comfort all around was palpable, like a blanket of air.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Eldorado Canyon
Eldorado Canyon!
I created this video in the late-2000s. I was climbing with my friend and mentor Ryan, who I still consider a good friend to this day. Eldorado Canyon is a magic place if you have any interest or experience in rock climbing, it's probably the second most important single place in North America behind Yosemite and thus, Mecca. Check it out when you can, and bring a helmet.
Sunday, August 4, 2024
The Whirlwind
It's been a crazy summer. We've gone on hikes, to national parks, movies, parties, BBQs, road trips, back road trips, side road trips, and all sorts of crazy things. It's been a Duesey, for sure.
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