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Today’s guest post comes from one of my favorite churning friends, the truly inimitable smugdog. He is spot on with this post, and this is something i wish I learned much sooner. Thanks for the post smug! You just booked an ANA First Class suite for the cost of a tank of gas or two,…

This post was originally part of yesterday’s post, but it was getting a little long so I split it into two pieces. You’ll have to hang in with me with the scuba metaphors, but I’m still riding the high of how good the diving was in Palau last month.  Yesterday, I talked about finding the…

Churners and MSers are a generally shrewd group of optimizers, within reason. There’s not enough hours in the day to run every possible play you can think of, especially if you work a 9-5.  There aren’t enough hours in the day for keeping up with the torrent of churning information that comes out every day,…

Pictured: A good enough meal for butterboy – only he would invoke Rockwell on a churning blog A special thanks to CU-whisperer, new father and all around hilarious dude butterboy for today’s post. For the TDCers reading this, don’t forget to go roast him today on his AMA with Kai. I recently welcomed a daughter…

The eponymous song from today’s post was an unavoidable part of 00s indie rock for the better part of a decade – from Gossip Girl to Criminal Minds, from One Tree Hill to How I Met Your Mother, from Kid Cudi samples to Madden 18 (?!?), it was everywhere.  The topic of today’s post was…

Thanks for hanging in there with me while I was on vacation. Taking it (somewhat) easy on the MS front for a couple of weeks is funny in 2026 because it’s enough time for a phoenix play to come back… and effectively die again.  This is a spiritual successor to this post, and it leans…