Time for some honesty
Iām probably going to sign off of this platform soon. I come here for a few of you, so you may get a DM from me about whether you are elsewhere on this internet. But, meh. Iām worn.
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Time for some honesty
Iām probably going to sign off of this platform soon. I come here for a few of you, so you may get a DM from me about whether you are elsewhere on this internet. But, meh. Iām worn.

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Tell us a little bit about what you love about Richmond. And give us your top 3 bourbons.
Richmond, what can I say, Iāve been there since 1997 minus a little move to Charleston.Ā Richmond is beautiful, Richmond is a real city that has many layers to it.Ā I can eat at some of the best restaurants in the country and drink in some of the shittiest dive bars you ever seen. The many different areas all have charms that are unknown to outsiders. I can go on for hours.
Come and visit, Iāll show you.Ā Unless youāve spent time in jail
Top three bourbons
1.Pappy
2. Knob Creek
3. JTS Brown
I know heās long gone from this platform and that City, but when I talk about why I love Richmond, see above.
Being a dad, a father, is the pinnacle of being.
He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark upon it. He has its mark upon him. Both marks are, for better or worse, indelible.
- Frederick Buechner
Friends and family of the Arlington man killed as he tried to stop a sexual assault plan to celebrate his life this weekend, remembering him as a kind, generous and "decidedly decent" person. Arlington police say 54-year-old Patricio Salazar attempted to intervene when he saw another man, 27-year
You donāt hear a lot about heroes these days, but Patricio Salazar was a hero.
Memory Eternal.
Peek-a-boo.
Unsuccessful first day out, but not a bust.Ā Saw two bucks and a doe.Ā Clean miss on one of the bucks, and the other was wily enough to approach twice and get my scent before jumping ship. Bastard.
Until next week.

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Decent grouping.
Academic discourse is increasingly under threat from activist professors.
For the same reason you should be able to read that this guyās model was pure shit, you should be able to read the guyās paper explaining his model.Ā
If you disagree with that, go fuck yourself.
What does a compound bow have to do with being a parent?Ā
Good question.
My dad hunts primarily with a bow. It extends his deer hunting season significantlyĀ A few weeks ago when I visited PA, I asked to try it out.Ā Ho.Lee.Shit. So much fun. When you have a dialed in bow, that sucker will make you feel like a small god at 20 yards. My first shot with a bow, ever, was a bulls eye into the practice foam block. I nearly took my Dadās right eye out right after that, but thatās not the point.
I was hooked. Fun, I can shoot it in my backyard, and extend my hunting season?Ā Yup.
So my dad got me the one above as an early Christmas present. I appreciated that.
So what does that have to do with being a parent?
I will tell you.
One of the main reasons I wanted to extend my season this year is that our second daughter is due right before Christmas. Which is the biggest blessing and gift I could get in any year. So excited. My baby girl.
But.
It means, come mid-December, my hunt season is over. And thatās fine. Appropriate even.
So the bow gives me some more time in the woods so I can be an undistracted daddy when the little lady arrives.
Win, win.
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Clay shooting again.Ā Did waaaaay better this year.Ā Even if I was using a borrowed gun.Ā So much damn fun.

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I have somehow become enamored of the idea of a sleeping porch. Because letās face it, Summer, in the South, Is about #sleepingporches
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Decision Time
I threw my name in the hat. Iād be lying if I didnāt admit part of it was just decision fatigue. I am so drained from thinking on it.
But it fits. And for now, itās just a conversation.
I spoke with a lobbyist at a large Richmond law firm today. Friend of a friend. Seemed to confirm this is a good segue to Richmond in a few years. I felt better about that.Ā Iāll be talking with another prominent lobbyist from Richmond this week too. Call it independent confirmation. Call it setting myself up for a few years from now.
We.Shall.See.
Through a bit of self-sabotage, I didnāt get it.Ā I was conflicted about this from the start, and I bet you could tell. So I intentionally encouraged a second person to apply. He did. He got it. He will be good at it, and I know this is a big salary upgrade for him and his family, so Iām glad.
Iād be lying if I didnāt say I wasnāt somewhat disappointed. Perhaps a bit peeved that the committee originally made a big deal out of getting me to apply, then going with someone else. But thatās just foolish of me - I set it up that way, so duh, and I didnāt want this job, just what it might lead to. Then again, like anyone else, Iād prefer to reject than be rejected.
Ah well. Cāest la vie.
Maxwell Perkins: Or, edit your life.Ā
When youāre lucky enough to get old, you become an adept editor. What works, what doesnāt work, itās clear at my age.Ā āStuffā, routines, and people - who is inside the moat of friendship, affection, and protection - and who doesnāt make the cut.Ā
Some things and people you hold nearer and dearer. One of myĀ āpeopleā is in town tomorrow and I may write about her then.Ā Ā
āThingsā include old furniture, a handful of books, andĀ my Ā ritual of fresh cut flowers every week. Itās my inoculationĀ against a society that on occasion seems to have lost both its manners and its collective mind. This simple act of civility pleases the heck out of me.Ā
When the maid identifies my body thirty years hence she will no doubt have these three things to say about me:Ā
1. He still owes me for last month. 2. He looked better with contacts, those P-3ā²s really aged him. 3.The quirky bastard had pretty decent taste.Ā
4. He left his collection of LPs to Nelson.
and that bottle of Blantonās to @ukcatlawyer
Fathers
āWhen a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born too, of course, but at least for her itās a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to whatās happening. She becomes whatās happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of the plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark upon it. He has its mark upon him. Both marks are, for better or worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if theyāre smart. Assuming the old man doesnāt run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if heās smart he wonāt put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe thatās why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but itās the risk he must take if theyāre ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves.ā
Frederick Buechner
Decision Time
I threw my name in the hat. Iād be lying if I didnāt admit part of it was just decision fatigue. I am so drained from thinking on it.
But it fits. And for now, itās just a conversation.
I spoke with a lobbyist at a large Richmond law firm today. Friend of a friend. Seemed to confirm this is a good segue to Richmond in a few years. I felt better about that.Ā Iāll be talking with another prominent lobbyist from Richmond this week too. Call it independent confirmation. Call it setting myself up for a few years from now.
We.Shall.See.

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Crisis of Conscience
By all accounts, I have my dream job at 30. I get to do land use and zoning law in my chosen locales, and I work with people I love. Ā Legitimately. In fact, I work with one of my closest friends, and my mentor is a leader in the field and one of the best men Iāve known. They trust me enough that they pushed me through as a junior shareholder late last year. Iāve never been at a firm where everyone is as close as we are here. And Iāve worked at enough places to know. On top of that, my job afforded me the ability to buy a dream home for my family in a great place to live.
But like it or not, Iāve always wanted to be a lobbyist, especially in Richmond. For various reasons, it just wonāt pan out at my firm. The other day, though, I got an offer for a position that would let me continue to work in land use and do some lobbying in Richmond. Iād be the Executive Director for an organization where I currently sit on the Board of Directors. Iād be the face of a name-brand organization in the region, and it would likely put me in a position five years from now to actually live and work in Richmond with a lobby outfit.
Or maybe not. Who knows. And itās an immediate pay cut for the foreseeable future.
Objectively, I should say no. There are no guarantees in life, but I know roughly the trajectory for me at my firm.
The thing that keeps nagging me is, what if this is an opportunity missed? You never know, one way or the other.
C'est la vie, right?
Still undecided. Iāve concluded that our decision comes down to how much I value my current job and working with friends vs. living in Richmond someday, which weād prefer.
I spoke with a bunch of people I trust from our Board, and I think I know as much as Iām going to know about where this position could go. I spoke with a lobbyist who sits on the Board, other land use attorneys, the current executive director, you name it.Ā It really does sound like, done correctly, this could land us in Richmond in the relatively near future. And Iāve been reviewing the organizations Iād appear before as ED. This really is in my bailiwick as a policy guy and an advocate. They might even be able to match my current salary.
But I also spoke with my friend and my boss. Thatās how much we trust each other.Ā As it turns out, they are my id and my ego. My friend (who is in his 50s by the by - are you surprised?) is my ego - thinks itās worth a shot if we want to eventually live in Richmond.Ā My boss is my id. He independently said all of the things that have been nagging me about staying at the firm.Ā [Side story - we had to take personality tests for a firm retreat, and my boss and I scored within the margin of error on our general personalities.] So I trust I am hearing the echos of my own though process in them.
One other thing that has nagged me lately. My boss is like a third grandfather, and Iāve lost my other two to time. Heās in his 70s, and Iām concerned this would be goodbye for us in a big way. Not sure I am emotionally ready for that. Of course, you canāt live your life for someone else, but he took me on when no one else would. And we are generally two peas in a pod. Loyalty like that shouldnāt be so readily discarded.
So here we are.
I would love to live in Richmond. Itās my favorite place, and we love its pace and the people. We have family there. Iād love to work on Capitol Square. Want to know how boring I am? Iāve been watching committee meeting videos from the General Assembly to watch the process. [Side story: I did this in law school too with zoning hearings.Ā I am a hoot to be around.] And Iāve been watching what interviews I can find with Virginia lobbyists. They talk about the job and the reasons they took it in the same way I romanticize it in my head. But Iād leave everything I love about the firm, and really, Iād be leaving friends to do this.
On the other hand, I really do have the job I dreamed of having in law school. I worked hard for it, but I got extremely lucky to work with these folks. They are my friends and perhaps closer than that in some instances. They give me work opportunities that let me test my skills. And we invest together in real estate opportunities that weād never do independently. I really have no where to go but up at the firm. But weād be here in NoVa. Not a bad place to be, but it will wear on you with the traffic and the people.
Cāest la vie, indeed.
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