1. The BBQ Saga
As you know, someone stole our BBQ a few weeks ago.
Last Sunday at church, a lovely human gave us a new.
Currently trying to decide if we chain this one to the wall, install a tracking device, fill it with glitter bombs, rig it with an electric shock device, or surround it by bear traps.
2. Working Holiday
We have some friendly Germans (oxymoron? jokes) staying at our house this week, so we’re off to the southeast English coast on a home exchange.
f you want to help kill Airbnb as much as I do, join the fun and stay for free all over the world.
3. Kicking Screen Addiction
For those who read about my #1 Internet addiction, I’m pleased to report I’m no longer jonesing for Twitter on an hourly or even daily basis.
The trick?
I had to cut all feeds out of my life. (Except for YouTube, strangely.)
Even thirty seconds on Reddit or the Substack feed makes me want to hop back on X.
Say no to drugs, kids!
Speaking of drugs…
4. Maple Protein Latte
I don’t regularly drink tea or coffee or any other form of caffeine because it does nothing for me (DNA-test-confirmed.)
But I like the taste of espresso… when mixed with dairy and sugar.
Obviously, this is a terrible reason to start regularly imbibing coffee.
But I recently concocted a nice little treat:
120ml espresso (is that a lot?)
300ml Nutrino milk
20g maple syrup
=
248 calories, 21 grams of protein, and a giant mug of yum.
5. Calm Focus
Don’t like the mid-caffeine jitters, the post-caffeine crash, or the chronic anxiety from daily caffeination?
Buffer it with L-theanine.
6. Cavity-Reversing Toothpaste
Nanohydroxyapatite.
Game-changing.
Helps reverse cavities, heals micro-cracks, whitens, cleans, remineralizes.
Highly recommended.
7. Circadian Repair
My chronotype: the Wolf.
Night owl.
Ideal: Go to bed at 4AM, get up at noon.
But it’s terrible for you, especially in winter when the sun sets at 4PM.
Then I discovered Calibrate.day.
Now I’m consistently waking up 60–90 minutes earlier than I’ve done for the past few decades, without an alarm.
8. Parking Tickets
On my first day as Prime Minister, I will ban private corporations and public councils from charging for parking.
Two weeks ago in a tiny village in Wales, we got hit with a $94 parking ticket. I took video of the spot to prove there was no sign anywhere in sight.
A sniveling bureaucrat replied with a document outlining the appeal process:
The fact that there is a complicated flowchart for appealing a charge that shouldn’t exist in the first place gives you an idea of how unfathomably corrupt bureaucrats are.
Can you imagine how many people must be involved in a scheme like this?
The answer is 82,000.
That’s right — there are 82,000 people in the U.K. who aren’t building houses, nursing the elderly, stopping crime, or farming land because they are sitting in an office draining worker bank accounts 24/7.
In total, they cost us £7,000,000,000 per year.
Enough to house all 300,000 homeless people in the U.K. three times over.
The real killer is the TIME wasted.
Last year, these vampires slapped the nation with over 20 million fines, costing the country the equivalent of more than 1,000 full-time jobs, or hundreds of entire human lives.
(In case you’re wondering what will happen when we ban paid parking — corporations will go out of business unless they provide free parking. It’s that simple. It forces them to build whatever amount of parking is sufficient to retain customers. They can absolutely pass that cost along to customers via microscopically higher prices, but they no longer get to profit from lending. Interest must be abolished.)
9. Ancient Home Education
Our eldest starts school in the fall.
We’ve enrolled him in a classical homeschool structured around an ancient Greek learning system called the Trivium.
The word trivium itself is Latin, meaning roughly “the place where three roads meet.”
It’s a form of meta-learning that teaches students how to learn, so they can then apply the trivium to any sort of study or subject of interest.
Grammar (Ages 5ish-10ish)
Learning the language of a subject. (IE, for automotive: brakes, gaskets, torque, horsepower, etc)Dialectic (Ages 11ish-13ish)
The science of logical reasoning. Thinking, arguing, and arriving at truth via disputation/Socratic questioning/thesis-antithesis-synthesis.Rhetoric (Ages 14ish-16ish)
Communicating elegantly and persuasively through essays, debate, public speaking, formal disputations, commentaries, etc.
The fine folks who developed the Trivium were geniuses who intuitively understood childhood development:
Young children memorize easily → grammar stage.
Adolescents argue naturally → logic stage.
Older students seek self-expression → rhetoric stage.
Understand it.
Reason about it.
Communicate it.
I wish I’d been schooled in the Trivium!
Our four-year-old’s course of study for the fall includes:
Latin
Theology
History
English
Geography
Science
Art
Maths
It’s daunting for the parents, but our boy is raring to go.
Of course, our goal is not to raise “educated” children.
Our singular goal is to raise kids who love God and people.
So the real task will be centering Christ in every subject.
10. Reading not non-fiction
Historically, I’ve read several dozen books per year — exclusively non-fiction.
Happy to report 2026 was the year I finally cracked into fiction!
It started after I read two of childhood favorites to my four-year-old — Danny Champion of the World and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
Now I’m devouring novels by P. G. Wodehouse (I’m loving his Psmith character), Ian Fleming (followed by the Bond films), Evelyn Waugh (followed by the Decline and Fall mini-series), and Tom Sharpe (follwed by the Porterhouse Blue mini-series.)
Evidently, I only like highly stylized, fast-moving, entertaining, satirical, slightly wicked, masculine, 1930s–1970s British fiction with a strong authorial voice.
Plus Dan Brown.
I’m currently slogging through Dan Brown’s new (and way-too-long) Secret of Secrets.
The good parts are great.
I love the subject matter — non-local consciousness.
Pairs well with the bit of research I’ve been doing on GABA and retrocausality.
But that’s an article for another time… possibly in the past!
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