Updated December 31, 2025
Living in a little house on Vancouver Island with my dog “DOS” 🏡🐕
Reading Books 📚
Currently, slowly reading or re-reading:

Four Thousand Weeks
by Oliver Burkeman
Available on Amazon
Available on Kobo

Clear Thinking
by Shane Parrish
Available on Amazon
Available on Kobo

The Forever Dog
by Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker
Available on Amazon
Available on Kobo

Stolen Focus
by Johann Hari
Available on Amazon
Available on Kobo
Playing with (old) Technology⌚

- Learning about automatic watch movements and how to calibrate them:
- I’ve had a watch for over 10 years that I still love, but it was losing time.
- Rather than purchase a new automatic watch, I decided I should learn how to repair one.
- I purchased a basic watch repair kit and a timegrapher to improve the accuracy of my favorite watch.

- Feeling good enough to push my heart rate more, and a water rower was what I settled on for the task:
- Went with an Ergatta as the “gamification” holds my attention.
- Doing this in combination with “rucking” when walking DOS.
- Went with an Ergatta as the “gamification” holds my attention.

- Repairing and upgrading Jeep things:
- After looking at the price of new vehicles, I decided to spend some money on specialty tools and do some repairs myself.
- Taking my time on these things can be like meditating.
- After looking at the price of new vehicles, I decided to spend some money on specialty tools and do some repairs myself.
Cooking more whole foods for my dog 🐶🥕

- Reading The Forever Dog has me making more conscious decisions about what I feed my pup.
- His diet was always primarily salmon, natures logic kibble, and bone broth, but I have started batch making more veggies and legumes for him too.
- I was surprised that he loves green beans, and isn’t a huge fan of boiled eggs.
- Yams and carrots are usually winners too.
Sauna and Cold Plunge ♨️❄️


A full build list of this project is available here
- I will be experimenting making a new sauna stove, one that uses a BioLite FirePit+ as the “core” of the stove.
- I am curious if this will decrease the amount of smoke produced, and give a more consistent heat output.



