https://anyrandomtuesday.com/ A weekly ledger of one mind, published quietly on any random Tuesday. en-us https://anyrandomtuesday.com/posts/the-lawn-the-refrigerator-and-the-wall/ https://anyrandomtuesday.com/posts/the-lawn-the-refrigerator-and-the-wall/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT I walk my dog around the block twice a day, and there is a house on the route that I watched empty out. A family lived there—I saw them move in. Then one winter, after a blizzard, the driveway stayed unshoveled. No footprints in or out, no car. By spring the lawn was coming in tall, grass and weeds where somebody used to mow—nature does not wait for an invitation. I could guess at reasons all day. Who knows. What the house said was simpler than any reason: getting a thing and keeping a thing are two different projects, and the second one starts the moment the first one ends. https://anyrandomtuesday.com/posts/any-random-tuesday/ https://anyrandomtuesday.com/posts/any-random-tuesday/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT It's 9:48 on a Tuesday morning in July. It's raining—real rain, thunder-and-lightning rain. My son is off at daycare, and I have the whole day in front of me. And instead of spending it on any of the things I'm supposed to be optimizing, I'm starting this.