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Complicated🎶
Sustainable🌱
Nuthin’😐
THE DAILY UPDATE
Three Things I Am Grateful For Today:
- Warm socks.
- Night animals doing their thing … owls hooting, coyotes howling, etc.
- Corn Flakes.
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The song in my head when I woke up today: Complicated, by Avril Lavigne
- Oct. 5: Slide, by Goo Goo Dolls
- Oct 4: Evil Angel, by Breaking Benjamin
- Oct. 3: Right Here, by Staind
- Oct. 2: So Far Away, by Staind
- Oct. 1: I Will Follow You Into The Dark, by Death Cab For Cutie
Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: I like you the way you are/When we’re driving in your car/And you’re talking to me, one on one
Sunday Tunes: I listened to some of The Adventure Zone podcast while dinkin’ around on a Sunday.
Something I’m looking forward to today: A Chiefs Monday Night Football game and the Yankees/Royals Game 2 being played at the same time.
Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: Going to the Yankees-Royals playoff game on Wednesday!!!!!!
Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: Helping my mother-in-law by getting her computer functioning well again.
What I’m writing: Yesterday’s Two Crappy Pages involved some rewrite work and this thing.
What I’ve written: Catapulting into Sustainability Consulting: Asia Lustig (MSES ’22) was five years old when she drew a picture of a catapult flinging garbage into space and mailed it to the White House. She asked the president why he hadn’t yet implemented a better waste management system like the one shown in her …. (CLICK THE LINK!)
It’s one of those Monday morning. I got nuthin’. Time to get to work.
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