April 2025 Check-In
Whelp, we're now 1/3 of the way through the year, with the fascist asshole running the country into the ground, I'm surprised it's going as fast as it has been.

The Economist's cover is apt.
Running Distance Increasing
As I've mentioned, one of the things I want to do is run longer distances. This past month, the distance of my average run was almost 5 miles (it had been hanging out between 3-3.5 miles). I was able to hit 9 miles on one run. My only blocker lately has been the weather. The spring rain has not made running particularly appealing.
Enjoying Our Front Porch
The weather has been nice enough temperature to be able to enjoy our front porch. I took advantage plenty, sitting outside with a glass of whiskey writing and/or reading is a great way to unwind in the evenings.
Digging Back Into Blazor
Over the last year or two I worked in Blazor both at home and for work. I have a side project I've been slacking off on that I dug back out. I think I'm gonna continue to delve into it and see if I can't increase my knowledge of the platform, particularly the WASM side of things as I've primarily worked with Blazor Server.
Monthly Round-Up
🏃🏼♂️ Fitness
- Running: 10 runs - 50.58 miles
- Walking: 28 walks - 35.04 miles
- Lifting: 2 sessions - 40,557 lbs.
📚 Reading
- Finished Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen
- Finished Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie
- Finished Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler
- Finished Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Finished Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich
- Finished Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful by David Enrich
- Finished The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
- Finished Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
- Finished Farenheit 182: A Memoir by Mark Hoppus & Dan Ozzi
- Started Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox
- Started More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
✍🏻 Writing
Reading Logs
Week Notes
Blogging
- Wrote about tanking in sports
- Wrote about hockey shootouts
- Wrote about sports fandom
- Wrote about how hard it is to finish a novel
🎮 Gaming
- Continued WoW: Classic
📺 TV
- Continued Elsbeth
- Continued Good Eats
- Continued Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Started Season 2 of The Last of Us
- Started Andor
- Started Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America