One Campfire, Four Days, No Repeated Meals: Our Cascading Camping Menu Thursday, September 17 through Sunday, September 20, 2026 For this camping trip, we wanted to do something different. Not just plan four days of meals. Not pack four completely separate grocery lists. And definitely not eat the same leftovers over and over again. The goal is to build a cascading camp menu : cook ingredients once, then let those ingredients change jobs as the weekend progresses. Thursday starts with a big Dutch oven of chili. Friday turns some of that chili into loaded baked potatoes. Our late-summer tomatoes move from chili to breakfast sandwiches to grilled tomatoes to Saturday's pasta sauce. Zucchini stays completely out of the chili and instead becomes grilled vegetables, chocolate zucchini bread, and portable race-day food. Then Saturday changes everything. Kellie's kids join us, and Nate is preparing for an Ironman on Sunday. Saturday dinner...

Campfire Weekend Shopping List Thursday Sept. 17 – Sunday Sept. 20, 2026 2 people Thursday/Friday • 4 adults Saturday/Sunday Shopping Progress: 0 / 0 items MEAT & PROTEIN 1 lb ground beef or ground chuck — Thursday chili 2–2½ lbs boneless chicken breasts — Saturday carb-load dinner 2 lbs 80/20 ground beef — Sunday smashburgers 2 lbs bacon — Friday breakfast, Saturday brunch, Sunday sandwiches 1 lb breakfast sausage — Saturday brunch, optional 18 eggs — breakfasts + mobile food FRESH PRODUCE 12–15 large ripe tomatoes — chili, melts, brunch, pasta sauce, bagels Cherry tomatoes — optional snack/mobile food 4 medium zucchini — bread, grilled side, pasta vegetables 4 bell peppers 4 medium onions 2 bulbs garlic 2 bunches green onions 2 lemons Fresh basil — Saturday pasta sauce Fresh parsley — garlic bread Lettuce — Sunday burgers Jalapeños or pickle...

Deep Dive AI • Personal Retirement Roadmap Our Retirement Plan Is Not One Strategy Repeated for 30 Years The right move changes with work, healthcare, Medicare, taxes, market conditions and the moment a two-person plan must support one. Jason & Kellie Five strategic eras Updated September 2026 1. Build 2. Healthcare 3. Medicare 4. RMDs 5. Survivor Annual check It started with a simple discovery: a meaningful piece of retirement money was sitting in cash when we thought of it as part of a portfolio that was supposed to be growing. That deserved attention. Money sitting in cash does not magically produce the long-term return we have been using in our projections. But the more Kellie and I worked through that one decision, the clearer something larger became. The cash was not the story. It was maintenance on the machine. The real story is that our retirement plan cannot be one rule repeated...

The scanner may become dramatically smarter. The patient will still need a human being standing beside it. From the MRI Room What Will an MRI Technologist’s Job Look Like in 2036? I have spent enough years around MRI scanners to know that the hardest part of the job has never been finding the Start button. Ten years from now, the machines may handle far more of the routine work themselves. That does not make the technologist less important. It changes where the important work happens. Deep Dive September 2026 MRI • Workflow • Patient Safety • The Future of Imaging Over the last several days I have been looking at my own MRI workflow in a different way. Not because I expect a machine to suddenly walk into the department and take over my job, but because once you start removing unnecessary clicks, duplicated work, searching, remembering, rechecking, and document...