Month: April 2025

April 30, 2025

Greg Thomas

The longevity of Cords

I think I replace more cords over the course of a year then anything else. I can buy them anywhere but sometimes they aren’t “the good ones”, and they don’t last as long. The fall apart easily and stop charging after a few months. Why? No one knows, it’s like the lost sock in your dryer, they just go away, never to be heard from again. And then you forget the right the adapter, or maybe it doesn’t line up and of course everyone has a different device so now we are trying to figure out who has what and

April 29, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Long Drive

Long drives (trips not golf)  are about one thing only – can you go the distance? Can you maintain your focus over 5 hours? Can you keep your cool when things go wrong after 10 hours? Can you keep the team on point after 17 hours? Can you take a break when the finish line is close, but not everyone is at their best? Can you, yourself, keep pushing forward, eyes wide open, not kept alive by caffeine and candy? That’s what you get from doing a Long Drive – you figure out what you can do.

April 28, 2025

Greg Thomas

The GPS Got it Wrong

I had my first experience a while back with my GPS saying one thing and the roads saying the other. In this case, the picture on the GPS displayed a highway sign that said “left is south, right is north” on the road ahead – “left is north, right is south”. I would have loved to taken a picture of this juxtaposition but at that point in the road, I had cars behind me during rush hour. Everything that we think is perfect, no matter how many trials it has been through, can get it wrong. We followed the GPS,

April 27, 2025

Greg Thomas

I miss our Old Van

They don’t make any vans anymore. We have all these modular vehicles that try to be a van while at the same time trying not to be a van. But when you have young kids, a van was the best vehicle you could have – you never had to worry about how many kids you could hold and how much of their stuff you could take – the answer was always the same – all of it. Anything and everything could last. When we upgraded from one van to the other I distinctly remember the car salesman coming back in

April 26, 2025

Greg Thomas

Roll with It

Weather Events happen. Work Events happen. Family Events happen. All types of events that are outside of your control happen and can shift your day on a dime, changing everything you thought your day was going to be about into something else. You can rail against it all, or figure out a way to roll with it. You can’t change a downpour all day when you have planned a picnic (but you can have the picnic inside). You can’t change the project you’ve been on for much that has been scuttled and now you’re onto something else. You can’t change

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