The ice is meltin’ and the trees are burnin’ Future Shock — Sims It’s a bit hard to believe that song was released in 2011. Those were written before the 2016 El Niño and resultant record Antarctic ice minimum. Before record wildfires in Australia and Canada. Before terms like “Atmospheric River” and “Wet Bulb” became broadly… Continue reading Future Shock
Author: Will
Enjoying Life
Jocks Suck
Glory Days is one of the saddest songs ever. The sadness of this song is embodied by the character Al Bundy in the sitcom Married with Children that was popular in the late ’80s and into the mid ’90s. He once scored four touchdowns in a single football game. From there, he became a shoe… Continue reading Jocks Suck
Undisciplined
I’ll fuck you like a French Whore some army private So there I was, a newly minted sergeant in the U.S. military. I was transitioning from my hell job in Ft. Campbell KY to my new hell job at Camp Humphries, Korea. Along the way, I would attend an eight-week course to add some skills.… Continue reading Undisciplined
Hubris Bites
Cate and I moved to Mexico in 2014. I had been before and we had made a trip together previously. By that point I had well over 10 years of experience living and traveling in foreign countries, but this was the first time that I was going to live in a country that had so… Continue reading Hubris Bites
Lifestyle Arbitrage
I was living in Jackson, Wyoming when I went through my divorce. This was 2005 or thereabouts. My wife at the time was keen to concentrate on her career and I was quite disenfranchised with mine. We moved there in 2003 after I simply walked away from the best paying job I thought I would… Continue reading Lifestyle Arbitrage