Off the clock

The stuff that doesn't go on a résumé. Disc golf, the pedalboard and the car and the cooker, a decade of running sound, what comes off the smoker, and Florida State.

13 things, so far

Disc golf

PDGA #102078, Ace Club, fifteen years of playing. The club and the courses are on the work side.

PDGA #102078Player
The markIdentity

All disc golf

Rigs

A bass pedalboard, a 2010 WRX STI, and a Kamado Joe. Each one has a config sheet and a log of what I changed and when.

All rigs

Recipes

What comes off the smoker, the fryer, and the oven, written the way I cook it.

All recipes

Sound

Live sound

From sixth grade through college, if there was an empty seat behind a mixer I was trying to fill it. No venue too small, no band too loud.

Read: It's Too Loud

Running sound is mostly listening. Many signals in, one mix out, and the job is deciding what the room needs to hear more of and what it needs less of, then doing that without anyone noticing you did it. I liked the physics of it (frequencies, pressure, coverage) and I liked that the last ten percent was taste: exactly how the snare pops and how much the bass bumps.

Every room had one person who thought it was too loud. I wrote about what I learned from them in It’s Too Loud.

Sports

Florida State, and the rest of the scoreboard

Two degrees, a job, and a lifetime of Saturdays. I grew up a couple of hours from Tallahassee going to baseball games with my dad.

The sports writing

Florida State gave me a bachelor’s, an MBA, and the classroom where I now teach. It also gave me Bobby Bowden and Mike Martin, who coached there for thirty-four and forty years and built better people as a matter of routine.

I have opinions about college football that nobody asked for, mostly about NIL and why the sport feels worse while the ratings go up. Those are in the writing, filed under Sports.

Other

The hobby is hobbies

Not a rotation. They're all going at the same time.

Newest: Pickleball
Longest running: Disc golf, 15 years
Right now: All of them

I still play disc golf every week. I play bass, and I’m in a band. I work on the car. I smoke meat, draw logos, and run sound when somebody needs it. I added pickleball this year. And when the house is quiet I stay up building AI, mobile, and web projects that nobody asked for, some of which end up under work.

None of these replaced another one. They stack. The ones that last are the ones with people attached, which is why the band and the club are still here and some of the others are on a shelf in the garage.