As we’re starting to settle into our Endless Weekend, we’ve come to realize that we went through 3 phases in our adult lives together: “I own my own refrigerator!” About a year after we got married, we bought a house. Yes, the house has several rooms, but what struck me more than anything was not … Continue reading Ph(r)ases of Adult Life (of three kinds)
We tend to think about things we are grateful for around Thanksgiving time. Mostly it’s the small things that seem to surface, small but important. In this post, we’re emphasizing the heroes that have essentially given away their inventions to humanity as a gift, knowing what monumental positive impact they can have on us. Here … Continue reading Thanksgiving Edition: Top 5 Inventors who gifted their inventions to humanity
How do you survive long haul flights (for those of us that aren’t benefiting from first/business class service :))? Over too many 12+ hour flights, we created a survival kit for those long flights. What qualifies as a long haul flight? Anything over 6ish hours. If it’s less than 6ish hours, we power through it. … Continue reading Long Haul Flights Survival Tips
Could we be experiencing the honeymoon period of retirement? The Honeymoon Period is an actual thing, it’s a period of time at the beginning of… something (it doesn’t have to be a marriage) where one tends to experience the something through rose colored glasses. Problems don’t seem to exist during this period, and if they … Continue reading The Honeymoon Period of Retirement
“Aim high”, “reach for the sky”, “the sky’s the limit”, “free as a bird”: we have so many expressions that express our fascination with the sky, with flying. So many sayings that mirror the same sentiment, like: And with that sentiment in our hearts, we went to see the air show featuring (we hoped), the … Continue reading Do you aim high? Blue Angels Air Show
We openly admit: we didn’t buy a single pumpkin this year. Instead of twisting and turning a knife to carve those pumpkins we never purchased, we’re going to honor Halloween with a different type of twists, by listing THE BEST MOVIES WITH THE BEST TWISTS. What qualifies a movie to be a best-movie-with-a-best-twist? It should … Continue reading Halloween Movie Homage: Top 10 twisted movies (Top 10 Movies with the Best Plot Twists)
How good was this factory tour? Good enough not only to give us a glimpse into the future, but also an opportunity to wax philosophical about the future: Will our future be one where we take orders from machines, feeding them and removing what … needs removal according to commands from the machines themselves? Or … Continue reading We have seen a glimpse of the future! (And so can you, on a free factory tour)
