Its dark and cold and raining like stink. Has been all day. Got very wet at football practice, despite my attempts at layering. When I went to buy the trainer’s tape we use on the players’ various ankle and wrist injuries, I found the money in my wallet was soaking wet, just like the rest of me. Luckily a significant percentage of Canadian paper currency is plastic. No permanent damage. Playoff game tomorrow night. Hopefully the rain will cease by then. We are banged up, but

Here’s an article with some advice I wish I had when I was younger. It feels at times these perspectives are so ingrained that even being aware of them doesn’t matter much. But this is a fascinating explanation of the evolutionary imperatives behind our need for approval from others, even from people we barely know. In a nutshell, it used to make sense, but now it doesn’t. A liberating thought. No need to feed the woolly mammoth anymore. https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming-

I wrote this two weeks ago. Somehow I f#$@ ed it up. So here it is. We have been working hard in the hot sun with the senior football team at the high school I teach at. We have had seven practices this week. One more tomorrow and then its the long weekend. Three full days off. They need it and so do I. We have a great group of coaches and the kids we have are making progress. Not enough of them came out for the team, but that’s a problem all youth sports are having. The soci