This post is going to be short one but I wanted to bring your attention to a YouTube channel that I really enjoy run by Chevee Dodd. He runs a show called The Daily Shed which is "a YouTube series with new videos, Monday thru Friday. This is a sort of talk show… not a vlog… and in it, I discuss topics suggested by the community and then we all have fun in the comments." Each video is normally between five and ten minutes long and could be about anything. He talks about things going on in his life, shares other YouTube content to check out, shares wood working projects he's doing, talks about board games and that industry, and a whole lot of other topics.
Chevee's openness to share personal stories is what really drew me in over the past few months. I used to check a video out here and there when I saw a topic that was interesting but now it's something I look forward to every weeknight. I've even gone back and watched nearly all of the episodes he's posted. So if you're looking for new content in any of the areas I mentioned above, please consider checking out his channel. Here is a recent video from the show that I enjoyed:
“Simplicity brings more happiness than complexity.” The theme for 2025 is slowing down. In last year's post I mentioned that as I am nearing 40 years of life, chasing multiple goals just isn't what I'm interested in doing. To combat that, I focused on things I enjoyed and had some success in each of the three goals I set. However, this year I'm only going to have a single resolution and unlike some previous years, this single resolution will not have multiple goals within it. So in 2025, I will . . . Read Simplify Magazine . Simplify Magazine is from the mind of Joshua Baker, the man behind Becoming Minimalist . I've read a couple of his books and continue to watch many of his YouTube videos, all of which are about...becoming minimalist. From the website, Simplify Magazine "is a quarterly, digital publication that pulls together experts in various fields to address some of the most pressing needs of the modern family." Essentially each issue is a colle...
I don't want you to think that I stopped caring. Loss is an incredibly hard thing for all of us, but I especially struggle accepting the end of anything. When we think of loss, our minds immediately go to death because that's loss in its most permanent form but the end of anything can cause similar feelings. It could be the end of some sort of relationship (family, friend, work, romantic, etc.) or even a form of media like a television show or podcast. Obviously the latter examples aren't nearly as serious because they are designed to end, but one could argue that so are nearly all relationships. We have this idea that once we know somebody and have any sort of connection to them beyond waving at a neighbor whose name you don't know, that there's an obligation to keep that relationship going forever. It's not realistic for this to be true for a long list of reasons. When the thing that brings two people together ends in some fashion, it's natural for that b...
Recently I logged my 100th play of the card game Sea Salt & Paper , making it the 12th 16th (edit: previous blog post listed additional games) tabletop game that has reached the century mark. That got me wondering how many people have played even a single game 100 times. Then I thought, what if I had 100 plays of 100 games? In board games there is a stat called the H-Index, which is a measure of how many games you have played as many times as there are games in that group. For example, an H-Index of 5 means you have played 5 games at least 5 times. So I've decided to take on a long term project to try and achieve an H-Index of 100. To give you some understanding of just how lofty this goal is, I've been actively participating in the hobby for close to twenty years and my H-Index is just under 30. It's hard to say exactly what the number is because I've only been logging games for a couple of years. Thankfully most of my online plays were saved on BGA so I hav...
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