Weeknotes 2025—11

This week was filled to the brim, and consistently ran over in a flow state. Every area of life required extraordinary attention and intention. My days were full, I went to bed tired, and slept well. Except on Tuesday. I slept only four hours on Tuesday as difficult situations loomed in my psyche.

Emily went to NYC on a girls trip. This gave me the gift of solo dadding. We kept in touch over our cell phones, making use of our unlimited data. When embracing a weekend of solo parenting, I keep trying to make the joke of “tapping into my unlimited dada” as a play on words to talk about my secret reserves of dad energy that becomes available like adrenaline. But the joke never works, it never lands with an audience, and people look at me like I’m an idiot. Folks just don’t care about roaming charges or unlimited data plans anymore. I should have been a father earlier in life.

I continued my streak of ice cold showering and sauna’ing every day. 44 days and counting. Feels good to have a habit that forces me to be off screens and completely unreachable for 30 minutes a day.

I was able to share meals with a couple friends while the kids were in school. The kids and I made sourdough discard pancakes from scratch while they were out of school. All the meals and the company that came with them were incredible.