Does everyone else get this reflective and introspective around birthday time? Just me? Cool cool cool. This birthday felt big for me. I never imagined my life past 27. Not in an alarming way, I just love a tragic story. October also marks another year since moving back to Austin. My heart is being stretched so wide every day that I’m away from San Diego. But of course I feel the same about Austin when I’m there now. Ugh. I wish I could put you all in my pocket and take you o

I'm a simple man. All I wanted for this little vacation was an opportunity to puzzle without being attacked by my new freeloader. I had the house to myself one morning so I put Hacks on the big screen and got to work. Historically, 1000 piece puzzles can take me around 7 hours so that was the amount of time I budgeted. I had my timer going while I was puzzling, but paused it when I took a few short breaks. I tried to pause every 30 minutes to drink a glass of water and stretc

My parents gave me a powershot for my 11th birthday, which birthed little ken, my inner child that has forever loved blogging. I have been on snapchat since its origin, which is a terrifying statement to my fully developed brain. As digital sharing became more socially standard and my life experiences became more vast, my digital archives grew. I effectively have daily content from my life for over a decade, spread over 3 Gmail accounts. I lived with 3 roommates for the past