ramblings of joe / notes / 2025

The First Rule of Blogging...

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The first rule of blogging is very similar to the first rule of Fight Club — if you ever write about:

  1. Recommitting to regular posting, or
  2. How much easier your new blogging setup makes posting,

…you’re guaranteed to abandon your blog for months. At least, that’s always been my experience 🙃

The last (checks notes – holy $%^#!), year has absolutely flown by. I won’t give you the play-by-play, but it’s been a good/wild ride.

Looking forward, I genuinely love this time of year in Utah. Everything is reaching peak shades of green, and the weather has finally settled into reliable shorts-and-t-shirt territory. Even better, golf and mountain biking season is back, bringing fresh energy into my life after the offseason.1

Without making any promises, I hope when I’m writing another update in May 2026 that this upcoming year will be packed with at least half the fun and interesting experiences as this past year. If so the lack of blog posts will be worth it.


  1. This past winter, I experimented with an indoor golf simulator membership, which turned out to be a perfect escape during the cold, snowy months (and it even helped shave a few strokes off my handicap). ↩︎