I really do love all the ways that Donald Trump continues to prove that he’s a giant bitch

98% of my home automation works flawlessly, but when wifey touches the rare edge cases and they still work… goddangit, it feels good man.

Straight up feel like I got beat up at golf tonight. Those 40mph gusts were gnarly, man.

Yo-ski woe-ski.
Peace-ski wee-ski.
What'cha want a dewski?

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Ah, home sweet home after a nice trip to Arizona. Our uber driver just backed into our mailbox and there’s a giant puddle of water under our fridge. Cool.

I somehow totally missed that today was Saint Patrick’s Day. Anyway, I scored 2 goals in hockey last night. I’m heading to Arizona tomorrow and was on a podcast today. Microblogging.

Is there some kind of heart filling up emoji like the old NES games? Cause that’s how I am feeling tonight.

Just raw dogged a walk without a phone or headphones.

Getting together with old college buddies is bad for your health.

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MarkWayne is a wild name.

White Negronis just taste like malört.

Last night in hockey, I got 2 buzzer beater shots off at the end of each half. On goal. Just in time. Both blocked, hahah. Still felt good. And we won anyway.

Scored a goal against the best goalie in the league tonight. Upper left corner, off the post. Felt good, man.

Just had a handful of the coolest and most creative dudes in Des Moines over to sip whiskey and talk shit. That was special.

The game and commercials were mostly boring, the halftime show was dece, and the side commentary was completely embarrassing.

Hell yeah, Seattle.

I wish you all could’ve seen the way I just kicked my shorts off my leg, all the way across the room and right into my open shorts drawer.

Perfection.

On a south side dive bar crawl and someone played the insane clown posse on the jukebox. I am so happy.

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Last night’s Colbert and Jon Stewart monologues were nailed…

Minus Jordan Klepper’s bit, they articulated everything that I’ve been feeling about the Alex Pretti murder and our administration’s response.

Absolutely worth a watch.
These are dark times.

Played my first game of hockey in a month last night.

Skated hard, got a couple assists, steals, scored a goal, and took a puck to the shoulder.

Starting today sore and drained af. 🫠🪫

My 2025.

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This administration is a fucking joke. Anyone who supported these people, whatever you saw in them… I hope you can now shun these fucked, corrupt pieces of shit.

If you can’t, you are also a fucking joke.

Just to recap today’s all company meeting at Rocket…

- Steve Aoki opened
- We talked about progress + vision
- Watched inspiring videos about our impact
- Got a sneak peek of our next marketing campaigns
- Changed a woman’s life
- Most of us cried
- Eminem closed
- Got merch

… pretty wild meeting

We have an all company meeting today and Steve Aoki is opening for it.

I work for a ridiculous company, hahah.

I started taking a vitamin d supplement a little over a month ago and cannot believe the difference it’s made in my life.

Seasonal depression: gone.
Motivation: high af… like it used to be.

Feels great to feel normal. I just needed a lil D.

Do you say, “bear down” when they win or when they lose?

Boarding the flight just when the bears come back and go into overtime… this has been a fun season.

Sure do love seeing tariff surcharges added to my orders. #maga