Now page (for September 2025)

(This is a now page. If you have your own site, you could make one too, and be included with other cool people who have a now page)

Updated September 18, 2025, from Glen Ellyn, IL USA
(Wow. It’s been nearly a year-and-a-half since I updated my now page.)

In the past month, I’ve been mostly focused with MLB’s Beat the Streak. (I’ve been keeping a commentary log). I reached a 39-game streak that got me up to second place on the leaderboards. I had dreams of reaching 57 games and winning $5.6 million. To help me get there, I wrote a handful of scripts in the computer language R. It scrapes the MLB data, and does a bunch of analysis. It saved me from having to open a multitude of tabs and cross-reference data. Now I have one screen that auto-populates with all the info I need.

The longer-term plan is to build out the script so I can run it on the past ten years of MLB seasons. One day at a time. I record how my script does every day, and I make fine-tuning to see what works. I plan on running the script around a million times, each with different variables. Eventually, I’ll find the best combination to use.

Family

Make annual family photo albums. Constantly on my list.
Kids started school, so now the house is empty during the day when I work. I always walk the kids to school. This year I’ve started picking up our youngest and walking home.

Penciling

I’m working on a scorecard of the 1984 Ryne Sandberg Game. Technically, it’s done with an iPad stylus.
Been looking up creative comic book layouts (with an eye towards what I can incorporate with scorecards)

Reading

Energon Universe series. I’m catching up with the latest Transformers/G.I.Joe/Void-Rivals series via digital graphic novels from the library.
Folded wisdom : notes from dad on life, love, and growing up
The gamesmaster: almost famous in the geek ’80s

Pondering

How people get silenced. How to be a better listener and try to understand others.
Starting the book of Numbers with the kids. This book in the original Hebrew was called “In the Wilderness”. Pondering… when we don’t follow what someone tells us, we end up aimlessly wandering. We don’t get to where we’re going.
Over the summer, we had to cut down our 104-year old elm. Now I’ve been observing trees in a new way. We’ve been thinking about what tree we’d eventually like to plant to replace the elm.

Health

More vertigo recently. I should drink more water.
Need to eat less sugar.

Home

Painted chipping parts of the exterior. Still have to paint some other spots.
I vacuumed our older car.

Listening

The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62.
You can always see what I’m discovering lately in my annual “Discovered 2025” playlist. In the past four weeks, I added 27 tracks. Lately, it’s been acid jazz, trip hop, and breakbeat.
Made a playlist of “The Power” remixes/covers.
Bible Project is finishing up a series on Redemption.
My cousin started a new radio show at WXAV, “773 Sounds.” Every week, he features local Chicago musicians. This past week was the inaugural show. Start listening now, and you can say you were part of it when it started. (Spotify playlist, info, interviews). Every episode is at Tuesdays at 6pm CDT. You can listen live at wxav.com.