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  • day 21: colors

    → 6:04 PM, Feb 21
  • Day 15: reflection

    I have a lack of inspiration today so I am cheating my way with one from the “archives”

    → 4:45 PM, Feb 15
  • The Ghost 🥷🏼

    → 6:29 PM, Feb 13
  • 🌙

    → 6:54 PM, Feb 8
  • Day 3: comfort

    circa 2019

    → 8:18 PM, Feb 3
  • Today’s featured photo

    The Ale days

    → 7:10 AM, Jan 15
  • Jack Frost was here…

    → 10:01 AM, Dec 29
  • 📷 Beer vs Beard

    → 2:12 PM, Dec 2
  • ⚪️⚫️🐮

    → 8:31 PM, Nov 27
  • Christmas 🎄 prep

    → 9:07 PM, Nov 26
  • Random 🌱 🔪

    → 8:21 PM, Nov 24
  • The dynamic duo, mL

    → 6:28 PM, Nov 23
  • 🐮

    → 12:23 AM, Nov 22
  • 🌶 ‘s

    → 7:25 AM, Sep 9
  • Love

    #mbaug

    → 7:42 AM, Aug 31
  • flakes

    → 1:43 PM, Aug 29
  • “Let your light shine” — overcome

    → 6:05 AM, Aug 27
  • Relentless

    synonym of continuous 🚲

    → 6:56 AM, Aug 26
  • I see hope

    → 6:19 AM, Aug 25
  • Frosty

    #mbaug

    → 6:12 PM, Aug 24
  • Graceful 😅😅🍺 #mbaug

    → 12:27 PM, Aug 23
  • change

    Boise, Idaho

    → 6:01 AM, Aug 20
  • How are you?

    How are you? A very common question with – under ideal circumstances – a simple answer. And yet. Why is that I have a hard time answering it sometimes? How are you doing? The usual response would be, “I am doing well” or “I’m good”.

    Very often when I am asked this question, I go down this rabbit hole of questions in my head. Should I just say, “I am doing well, thanks for asking”, you know the normal BS? Shall I say “I am okay”? It’s like this simple question makes me double guess everything in my life up until the moment I am asked. Like what doing well or good really entails? Is it been alive and kickin’? Or is it having a job, especially in the pandemic? Is it not having the COVIDs? Having all your bills paid up, having three beers in the fridge, or having a Gigantamax Charizard in your Pokédex? So many unnecessary questions about what should be a simple answer.

    Now this is me opening up a little bit. Many times, when I get asked my head goes to a place of insecurities and darkness. Years ago, when I was working at a company that shall remain nameless, I often was comparing my life to others. Thus, oftentimes I found myself frustrated, very unhappy and maybe even depressed because I wasn’t meeting “the standards”. Standards that I definitely got in my own head, I think.

    Again, nowadays, I don’t think about those things anymore or at least not as much as I used to but it lingers. I guess this is why, to me, answering this question is hard at times. Am I doing good because I may or may not be good financially? Am I doing good because of my job title? The car I have, the size of the house I have, etc, etc.

    Or just well because I have blessings?

    So, let me count my blessings.

    1. I have a wife that loves me (more like she puts up with me lol)
    2. I have two beautiful and healthy daughters.
    3. I have a job that pays for my Micro.blog hosting.
    4. I have three beers and a camera (Ha! Three beers and a Camera, sounds like a good podcast 🍺 📷 🎙 ).
    5. I don’t have a Gigantmax Charizard yet but I will have it soon 😜
    6. And beta 5 just came out!

    I am sure I have more blessings but those are the top 6 at the moment. I think I am doing well enough.

    That being said, if you’re reading this, I hope you’re doing good. Or as my friend Justin would say, fabulous 😘

    → 2:04 PM, Aug 18
  • Today’s featured photo

    Freak Alley, Boise ID, October 2019

    I’m sure there’s a Grid in the background there, by the wall, probably made out of bricks 🧱 😉

    Hashtag: mbaug

    → 5:23 AM, Aug 18
  • Today’s featured photo

    Marley, 2017

    cuddling birthday cakes 🎂

    → 3:53 PM, Aug 17
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