The closest I’ll get to going to UMich law.

Been to some great lakes lately. Specifically, Huron, Michigan, and Superior.

In honor of July 4th, looks like my office is revolting against tyranny:

Big Ball’s in Cowtown.

I’ve reached the age where—if I want to read a book by a pool—I have to take both reading and sun glasses.

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Singing a solo or giving a CLE?

Respect for the chaotic energy of the car across from me whose inspection/registration expired in 2022.

“Man, the grocery store is playing some real bangers today,” he said just before he tripped and fell into a giant puddle of middle age.

Another beautiful Spring day where I walk outside and wonder: Is it lightly raining or are birds peeing on my head?

Thinking about renaming people I don’t want to talk to as “Spam Risk” in my phone.

TFW you hit your move goal on trips back and forth to the buffet line.

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Trying to hit my move goal with trips to and from the buffet.

Time for a traditional three Cadbury Egg Easter morning omelette.

If I didn’t watch Artemis I, am I going to be totally lost watching Artemis II?

My dog every time I ask her to stop barking at squirrels in the back yard.

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Based on the spam texts I keep getting there are apparently roving gangs of roofers and tree trimmers every week that just wander my neighborhood looking for problems to solve. You’d think by now they’d have fixed it all. 🤔

You think AI invented hallucinated cases? I’ve had lawyers telling me about nonexistent cases for years.

Sometimes in litigation you find yourself opposite what I call the YOLO lawyer:

I’d like to take it easy I’d like to play it cool But girl I wanna move faster Than the new Texas MSJ rule. #lawyervalentines

You’re the perfect partner You mean the world me Our love’s more unbelievable Than a brief from chatGPT. #lawyervalentines

I’ve been working on a helpful taxonomy to describe the types of briefs I see in cases. Here’s a 🧵 1. The Olympian brief. You see it maybe once every few years. Peak form and performance. Lean, disciplined, top of its game. May involve performance enhancing drugs.

Somehow in January I did twice as much as I expected yet only accomplished half of what I’d planned.

The weather is forecasting “Thundersleet,” which sounds like the greatest German metal band that should have existed.

Weekend plans:

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“Oh pho,” I said as I spilled soup on myself at lunch today.

I started to write today’s date as January 57th, but it turns out it’s only the 12th.

This week’s @texapplawpod.bsky.social features Justice David Gunn from Texas’s First COA talking about things he’s learned on the next about what works and doesn’t work with the appellate system. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

7 days into January, people have not only circled back; they’ve also squared, triangles, rhombused, and just generally polygonned up the whole month already.

Just saw an opossum walking down the neighborhood sidewalk like it owned the place. Which I’m taking as an omen that in 2026 anything is possumble.

Instead of New Year’s resolutions I’m setting an over/under for how long it takes me to stop putting 2025 for the year. Currently I’m at 4.5 weeks.