Being middle age is having an extra ticket to the thing and no one responds to the invite.

Finished reading: Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery 📚

I swear, I feel like Shrek next to my wife sometimes. 🧌

This tariff stuff has got to be investigated and exposed as the biggest financial markets scam in history.

I’ve noticed people spark up conversations with me a lot more often now when I wear my Detroit Lions hat. It’s become a good ice breaker since Dan Campbell took over. Sort of like a cheat code when you’re socially awkward with a severe case of RBF. #DetroitLions

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day is “apparatchik”

Time to dig out my Zf.

Stylish Nikon Zf Gets its First Major Firmware Update | PetaPixel

Bumble For Friends is one of the stranger corners of the internet. Evidently men and women can’t be friends, so instead we’re going to make the socially desperate straights swipe through what is essentially a PG version of Grindr to meet each other.

Detached housing is subsidized housing.

Why Cities Like Kansas City Are Heading Toward Financial Trouble — And How To Fix It.

FEMA has eliminated the BRIC program. For those of us working to address intractable infrastructure and climate challenges, this is a serious setback.

Trump administration ends key grant program that helps communities prepare for disasters | AP News

Dyeing Easter eggs 🐇 💐

Dropped the kids off with a Girl Scout troop at the parks district last night. They were raising money by watching people’s kids so parents could have a date night. We went to Westgate Bourbon Bar and Taphouse, followed by Goodwill. Kids had fun, too.

Soccer is back. Beautiful day for it, too.

I’ve always wondered about the people who live above the Vista Ridge tunnels, staring out at the highway every day, listening to nonstop highway noises, and people laying on their horns as they pass through.

Beautiful day. I went out on the balcony at PSU Union during a break and loved how happy these kids were to be outside on their field trip downtown.

Nature and climate. Otherwise, I’m over it.

Why do people stay in Portland? For many, it’s all about nature

Flashback Friday (October 9, 2001). #TGIF

Death Cab for Cutie - Why You’d Want to Live Here

S&P down 12% since Feb 18.

I’ve had four friends, family and acquaintances ask me about the Italian citizenship recognition process in the last month. The current state of affairs is making people extremely uncomfortable. It’s been tough to have to tell them that they no longer qualify given the Italian decree on Friday. 🇮🇹

These flowering trees outside my office window 🌺 #pnw

Currently reading: Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery 📚

Worth a listen once they put up today’s episode of On Point.

Next episode | On Point

‘The federal workforce feels tormented’: Federal employees on the consequences of losing their jobs