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The Double Bump

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For my generation, a car was freedom to explore the world. To this generation, they already have that with their phone. - Brianna Wu Every week on the way to church we grab some coffee to power up. When Mini-Chaos and then Micro-Chaos got added to the mix, that mean that Mrs.Chaos jumped out of the car and I waited patiently for her. Before the days of mobile-ordering, this might mean 10m of waiting and having two little ones strapped into their car seats often translated into 10m of children crying. Yep. It was awesome. One thing in that magical parking lot seemed to solve this problem: the double bump. For whatever reason, in the parking lot, there is one place where there are two speed bumps right next to each other and taking the boys over the "double-bump" almost always translated crying into laughter. Years later, and it's like a carnival ride. "Mom is going to go grab coffee." "OOHHHHHH!!!! Can we doe the DOUBLE BUMP!?!?" Yes, yes we can. I ...

One of Each, Please

I look at it like Monopoly money. It doesn’t mean much to you until you don’t have any. - Ant Pruitt It’s wonderful iPhone season again and you can feel it in the air. I make the joke leading up every year, “I have to buy one of each thing Apple releases to keep my fanboy card. If I don’t, Apple will rescind it.” I enjoy when some people ask if I’m serious. Yet this year, I am buying one of each! There were only two things, so it’s not so bad. The iPhone Xs Max. It was someone last year Mrs.Chaos was trying to work with RAW photos that I realized the most powerful computers in our home were our iPhoneX devices. Followed by my iPad Pro... and then well after that comes our MacBooks. That is crazy to me, but also, my iPhone is far-and-away the most common computer that I use more than any other for person use. I’m excited to get back to the Plus/Max form factor - I really enjoyed the last one. I’m looking at trying to find a mini-keyboard for this bad boy. My history with the watch h...