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Yesterday went to see Almost Monday which is one of my favorite current rock bands. Indie dance rock is my favorite genre of music and they're basically the epitome of that type of music. The show was really fun but it was also definitely a case where I like the music a lot more than the live show. Not that there was anything wrong with the show, but in a world where Mika exists it's just hard to compete with that!
But broken people, only wanna dance, lost, and so many others are just so damn catchy!!
Today was the last day of early voting in Texas and based on the polls and early voting tea leaves Talarico has a shot to actually break 30 years of Republicans winning in Texas. Nate Silver has him up by 3 and the Senate with a 78% chance of Dems winning control, but that also means a 1/5 chance of it not happening. The governor race is a lot closer, but Gina has a shot as well. We'll see what happens, but anything to put a check on our utterly insane and nonsensical president would be a win.
Saw You Can See Everything last weekend and really liked it. I'm a big fan of Nathan Fielder, and The Rehearsal Season 2 was absolutely mindblowing. As I learned the hard way, it's pretty amazing how the human mind can shape your someone's own reality, and that comes across a lot in that movie.
Also went to Mexico City two weeks ago and it was amazing as always. Still one of my all time favorite cities in the world. The Alebrije parade was amazing!
Asia trip was amazing, finally did Cedar Point, Haute and Freddy are awesome, and got a lot of fun things planned for the rest of the year but hopefully will do more updates soon!
An update! And it's only been 9 months instead of 2 years!
World Cup started today and watched both the Mexico/South Africa game and the South Korea/Czechia game. It's a great life that I've been to 3/4 of those countries and the games were great too. Got a fun birthday party planned for tomorrow to watch the US game against Paraguay and the World Cup is always one of my favorite sporting events to watch.
And the NBA Finals have been fantastic too, with last nights game being an all time classic with the greatest comeback in Finals history. Even though I live in Austin I don't really have any affinity to the Spurs (probably due to being a Mavs fan growing up) so I kind of want the Knicks to win? But it's pretty great because I have a preference but I don't really care who actually wins so I just get to enjoy a great game. And lat's nights 29 point comeback was an amazing game!
And went to Blues on the Green for the first time since Covid since they kept having it while we were out of town but this year it actually worked out! I love the summer!
Olivia has a new album and single out tonight as well so that's been fun, and two of my all time favorite artists - Tove Lo and Stromae - have a new song out tonight as well so that's been amazing!
Went to Let's Go Fest last weekend which was super fun and got to see Matt and Kim who had their first show in almost 3 years and were as amazing as ever. Plus AJR, Fits and the Tantrums, Natasha Bedingfield, Lovejoy, Judah and the Lion, and some up and coming bands. It was such a fantastic lineup which is why used the points to go, and Baltimore is actually pretty great? Great mornings too!
Got a lot planned this summer with more trips to Dallas to maybe see England play in the World Cup, a massive trip to Asia in July, and a bunch more trips in the 2nd half of the year. Life's good and maybe the next update won't be so long either.
Figured it's time for another update after almost 3 years.
Life is really great all in all. A lot's still the same as the last update but just more years down the road. Zepbound is a freaking miracle drug, got to do an incredible amount of travel all over the world the last few years, and still have a fantastic wife and kids who are now in high school and absolutely thriving. It's a good life.
But somehow Trump got re-elected so it all kind of puts on a damper on things in general. Hopefully things will be better by the next update.
Andor, Poker Face, and The Rehearsal have been favorites since the last update. And wow, I just realized that I didn't even play guitar when I last made a post but now I'm fairly "okay" at it? Turns out picking up a musical instrument for the first time in your life at the age of 40 is a really great idea! I totally get why people always talk about how there's a relationship between math (which I always loved) and music and learning music theory has been so much fun as a hobby. I wonder where I'll be next time I do an update.
I kind of can't believe I've only done 4 updates in the last 7 years. Kind of wild how that happens as you get older and life changes.
Been a while!
I wouldn't have thought that the year I finally caught (an extremely mild case) Covid would be one of the best years of my life, but that's how things have turned out. Things are mostly back to normal by this point and so did a whole lot of travel and concerts and also finally did our in-person wedding celebration! Bought my first house last year too and that whole process was the second worst experience of my life besides my divorce from a Borderline! The last few years have definitely taught me not take things for granted because you never know when the next thing is going to just upend everything.
A Trump is no longer president! We never did have a nuclear war so he cleared my extremely low bar.
By far the worst part of being an adult is figuring out and shopping for insurance.
I love Wordle.
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