Explaining parenting to kids
10 year old: Dad why are you so lame?
Me: Well you see, "cool dads" seem cool because they pretend to be younger than they actually are and pretend to be their kids' friends.
10: So cool dads are actually lame and lame dads are actually cool huh?
Me: yeah actually
10: sounds like something a lame dad would say
Mortgages and Inflation
My friends who are trying to buy a home are facing a very competitive market, and in part I think it's people trying to lock in a mortgage in the face of the quickly rising tide in interest rates.
A few months ago you would have gotten a 3% rate, and a $400k loan would cost ~$1700 a month. Today you're lucky to find a 6% rate, and that same loan costs $2400 a month.
And then of course there's the cash buyers who want to use their money before inflation devalues it.
Bike-In returns to Ann Arbor this Friday at 7pm, rolling from the Farmer's Market
If you haven't gone before, it's a slow 7-10 mile roll through the city streets with 50-200 others on bikes. Not a race, it's at a party pace, with music. It rolls at 7pm from the Farmer's Market and ends at Blom Meadworks.
This month's theme is "In Bloom" and you can catch it, same time, same place the last Friday of every month.
Bring your lights and your bell! I'll be there
The EPA designated the shed a superfund site, cleaned it up, and didn't tell the neighbors anything.
This kid assembled a bunch of radioactive materials and got arguably close to assembling a rudimentary breeder reactor.
All of this happened in a shed behind his mom's house, within a half mile of the house my wife lived in at the time. Wild.
It did not end well for him. He died young after struggling with mental illness and substance abuse.
https://www.geotraces.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/HarpersMagazine-1998-11-0059750-1.pdf
airbrushed vans
One of my favorite Facebook Marketplace searches is airbrushed vans.
Sometimes the airbrushing is pretty impressive. Sometimes it's really not, as in this case!
https://www.facebook.com/commerce/products/5205340272817984/
I just cut our vehicle fuel costs by 25% with one weird trick (recharging on DTE's time of day rate)
Thanks @ablyler for the hot tip - the meter was swapped today.
At work: Oncology. In my free time: riding and fixing bikes, taking photos. (Not much free time as a father of two)