Mount Snow Weekend Round-Up: A Skiing Story

Sally and I went to Mount Snow over the weekend for what proved to be a fun, somewhat eventful weekend.

Sally and me at Mount Snow Saturday afternoon

Five Things on a Friday: Catching Up Since 2020

I have a LOT to do today, friends. But I need to warm my brain up a little before we get into it, and for that, we turn to Five Things. If you're wondering, our last Five Things on a Friday occured on Friday, September 11, 2020. 

So yeah, it's been a while. I hope you're all doing well in what very much feels like a world gone mad.

I Still Hate You & Never Want to See You Again

To that end, I've signed out of X.com & removed the app from my phone and browser favorites. I don't want to formally close my account because I don't want to facilitate someone pretending to be *me*, but I also refuse to be party to anything that's going on over there in any way.

I just can't with a lot of this stuff. I won't. 

UPDATE: I've also disconnected & deleted Instagram.

Catching Up with Recent Social Media Threads

I set a goal for the New Year to spend less time on social media and more time here. It's not that I don't want folks to be able to catch up with what's going on with me and Sally, it's that social media writ-large feels like a dying a medium. I've only ever been on social media to promote my own writing and/or to see pictures of my friends doing awesomely fun stuff, but even with that, it's a little too easy to just pontificate mindlessly on those sites. 

Which is dumb. I have a site for that, it's here, and it's actually mine.

So anyway, here are some recent social media posts. I'm posting them here, so that you can catch up if you want to. I've presented these in chronological order.

My 2025 Training Journal + Lessons Learned from Triathlon & Swim Training

I designed my simple workout-tracking spreadsheet way back in 2017 to help track triathlon training. I'd overtrained and given myself athletic-induced pnemonia that year, and in the aftermath, I realized that I'd done a ruinously bad job managing the three phases of triathlon training holistically. 

I got exhausted, and then I got sick. That was stupid. 

The problem is that I don't necessarily get sore when I switch sports a lot. So if I'm not careful, my total work load can sneak up on me from week to week. Most of the time when I get sick or injured, I can trace the cause to overwork the previous week or to stringing together too many heavy weeks in a row without a break. That was the case back in 2017, and it damn-near landed me in the hospital.

Highlights from 2024

Happy New Year! I hope this note finds you happy and healthy heading into 2025. 

It feels like a lot happened this past year for Casa Cabeza, to the point that this is now my third attempt to put it all into some kind of context. I finally decided to publish a simple list of highlights. 

Danno & Sally Cabeza

These are presented in no particular order. 

Twenty-Two Years

 I wrote this for my Sally for Christmas.

Casa Cabeza in Review: Top Posts of 2024

Our last two posts will be reversed this year. We usually write something like a Christmas letter in this space this week and then do a Top Posts entry in the days leading up to New Years Eve. I still want to do that, but I need to think a bit about the State of Casa Cabeza before trying to sit down to write about it. We lived through a chaotic end to this year with much, MUCH more chaos seemingly on the horizon. I'm not totally sure how to sum all that up just yet.

With that in mind, we'll do our Top Posts of 2024 this week, and if you're interested, you can look for my State of Casa Cabeza post at some point next week.

Memoir Free Book Promotion for Black Friday

Friends, I decided to run a Free Book Promotion on my memoir for Black Friday. It started earlier in the week and ends on Sunday at midnight PST.

If you decide to read the book, please please please leave a review.

You can get my book using this link right here. Let me hear your thoughts!

My memoir

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 

The Sadness Epidemic

 I hope you're doing okay. A recent piece from the NY Times made me think of you.

Ha! Swaggerjacked by the NY Times! (J/K. This is an obvious take) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/t...

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— Danno E. Cabeza (@dannoecabeza.bsky.social) November 13, 2024 at 8:45 AM

 

Who the Hell Do I Think I Am? (2024 Update)

This is a little explainer: Who the Hell do I think I am?

I first published this when I initially joined the Bluesky social network. A lot has happened since then, so I'm re-upping it with an update as of November 2024.

I finally got some sleep.

As noted in an earlier post, I got control of my fight-or-flight reflex on Thursday afternoon, and that let me at least get some handle on the uncontrollable rage I've felt since the election. I remain deeply concerned for the fate of our country, and I remain personally disappointed in you, dear reader, in a highly individual manner. However, I'm finally starting to get to a place where I myself can at least move forward. 

At this point, that is all I can do.

I’m really surprised…

 … that no one has tried to save my soul in the comments.

I’m not inviting it. I’m just surprised.

These posts aren’t advertised anywhere, so they aren’t getting any traction. However, enough people have seen them that I’ve been expecting some rage or hurt feelings or something.