It's my vlog for February 28th, 2025, my 5,023rd day on YouTube. I start off the day waking up with the kids. Laura wakes them up a little after 7 and takes them to school today. I'm playing tennis. Me and another guy in his 30s are going to get out there and play a couple of guys in their 70s. I manage to have some time to get a little bit of my YouTube stuff done before I go out, and then we're on the tennis court at 8:30.
First, me and the young guy team up and we beat the old guy 6-2 playing doubles. Then we switch. The young guy has beaten me in what I call a championship every time so far, so today I am bound and determined I'm going to whoop him. We go to 6-6, and then I win the tiebreaker. Then we switch partners. They get ahead 5-2 and I'm like, ugh, I'm going to get it. We come back and win four games in a row, and then we win the tiebreaker as well for the first time in forever. I win the championship, and I'm so happy to be out there enjoying tennis and being in the sun.
These guys were born decades ahead of me, and they're out here playing in the heat still, able to keep up and hit nice shots. If anything, the two older guys hit a lot fewer errors. Me and the other young guy hit the majority of the errors today for each team we were on. These guys are inspiring to me because they're still out there, still playing, still able to hang with us. That's what I'm aiming at. I feel it's really important to know where you're going and to be able to aim there, because without a clear vision and a sense of how you're going to get there, you're just kind of wandering lost.
A date with Laura at Green Pagoda
After tennis, I come home and get back into doing my videos. The guy comes over to work on the baseboards around the house as well. Laura and I get him set up, and then we go out on a date. I'm so happy to have a date with Laura at a place we've never been before. We go to Green Pagoda. They have sushi and Thai food, which Laura and I love. She loves the ambiance, she loves how they do the ceiling and the decoration, and she loves the vibe of the place. I'm so happy I found it. She's seen it but hasn't been there before.
I normally eat whole plant vegan to keep this body looking beautiful and in shape and functioning very well. Although I've learned that if the body really wants a little bit of meat, give it. I see today there's a fire dragon roll, which has spicy tuna on top with some fish eggs, and shrimp inside. Oh man, it's so good. I eat the whole dragon roll and I wish I'd gotten a seaweed salad. I could have eaten a second one. I actually come home and have some more of the fried rice Laura made last night.
Filming crypto videos in a new hands-on format
I try my first crypto video doing it in this kind of back, hands-on format. It takes me a while to come up with an idea I want to film, and I'm still grinding on that and researching when Madeline's supposed to have a sleepover with her friend at her friend's house today. But we get a message: can we please take the friend? They've had a family emergency. Can we take the friend and have them sleep over at our house? I'm grateful I have such a flexible schedule. I'm like, sure, because Laura's got a work meeting at three. So I just get in the car, drive over, and pick all the kids up from school.
I get them set up here for the sleepover and get them going to a movie, because when they get home they're all fired up from school. Laura's like, should we go to the movie now or at 7 p.m.? She says they'll go to bed anyway. I'm like, no, go to the 4:20 p.m. movie. They go out to see the new Lion King movie, the one about Scar, something like that, and I get to work on my videos.
I have a nice conversation with the guy doing my baseboards as well. I'm trying to apply the conversation tactics that Vanessa Edwards shared, which I'd listened to on her video during a dog walk the other night. That's why I'm doing this with my back from the camera, so you can really see me. I applied it talking to him. I asked, hey, you got anything exciting going on in your life you're all fired up over? And he shared a story about his in-laws buying a manufacturing plant. It was cool. That's something totally new to me. I've never talked to anybody before who was having that kind of experience. It was really cool to ask those questions and to practice the conversation skills instead of just asking generic ones. This is a guy I know from doing yoga, and I was hoping I could get to know him a bit better as well. It was cool to just hear about his life and get his perspective.
I then finally came up with a couple of video ideas. I did a crypto review on another junk coin, and I had an idea to talk about how the Bybit hack will be really positive for pumping up the ICP price. I did both those videos. It's a great experiment doing this hands-on and talking. I got those videos done. I also got the house ready for the sleepover. I changed the sheets in the bedroom, did laundry, and got the rooms put back together after getting the baseboards done. They were ready by the time the kids were home from the movie, so I was ready to help out and wash all the dishes.
Soccer in the dark and the mind's irrational fears
We took some time to play with the neighbor's kid across the street, playing soccer, even though it was dark. The soccer ball kept going in the road, so Laura and I were there to supervise. My mom comes by walking her dog at the same time, which was great because my daughter's friend from school really wanted to see my mom's huge, 100-plus-pound dog, a Great Dane Labrador mix. I got to hang out with my mom and see the dog, and Madeline's friend got to see the dog also, and they got to play with the neighbors and wear themselves out before bed. It was perfect.
While they were playing soccer, I had some fear come up. There are these trees that kind of died, that they planted to shorten their yard, and they have branches at eye level. I'm picturing kids running around in the dark and getting an eye gouged out or something. And I'm like, no, stop that, mind. I'm not interested in that. That's very unlikely.
I'd been having the same kind of thought earlier when I was about to get the sushi with Laura. My mind was saying the spicy tuna is not cooked all the way, or it's not cooked at all. My mind's like, what if you get food poisoning? And I'm like, look how many times, the thousands and thousands of meals I've had out in my life, and I don't think I've ever once gotten food poisoning that wasn't related to me drinking and pouring huge amounts of alcohol down, or eating way too much. Sure, I got the runs after going to a hibachi restaurant, but I had a huge portion of food. If I'd had half the amount of food, I don't know if that happens.
So sometimes these little fear thoughts your mind puts out there are so irrational, so unlikely. My thought is to say, when my mind goes "what if one of the kids gouges their eyes out," I'm like, that's probably not going to happen. I think the odds of that are pretty close to zero. And if it does happen, we'll go get help. The odds of food poisoning are almost zero too. I think there's always a psychological component. In my experience, two people could eat the exact same food, and the person who's healthy, who's calm, who's digesting and processing life, would not get food poisoning. The other person next to them could eat the exact same food, and if they're emotionally disturbed, or in the middle of an addiction or something, they'll get food poisoning.
I told my boss I had food poisoning in 2006. Yeah, I did throw up the night before, and maybe it was something I ate, but it probably was the 11 drinks I had in five hours between dinner time and bed. It probably was the alcohol, not whatever I ate. And yes, one of the drinks did taste a little funny. But if I'd just had even one drink at dinner, I probably wouldn't have been throwing up at the end of the night. With 11 drinks plus a huge dinner, eating out of town, and throwing up at night, it probably was something I did. It probably wasn't just random food poisoning. I'm grateful today that when the mind throws out thoughts like that, I'm like, that's unlikely, I'm not interested in that, move on to another topic. Give me something else to think about.
Getting the house settled and a take on transparency
I'm so grateful that we got the kids in bed by like nine, and it looks like they're actually going to sleep through the night. I pulled out a bed for Laura, so Laura and I are sleeping in the room with Jack, and Madeline and her friend are sleeping in the master bedroom. We're all set up perfectly. I do the rest of the dishes after everybody else is in bed, and then I take the dog for a walk and call my sponsor, since I forgot to call him yesterday. By now it's like 10 o'clock. I call him and he doesn't answer, so I'll talk to him the next day. I get back a little before 11.
I was listening to Elon Musk and Joe Rogan talking, and it's just shocking to see the amount of waste and the insane stuff that's going on in the government. With these wasteful things, you create an NGO, a non-government organization, and it just gets these huge amounts of money. You can basically pay a little bit of money to lobby somebody to get the government to give this organization a whole bunch of money, and then you can siphon that money off to do whatever you want with. There's almost no accountability or transparency for that going on.
Then you're seeing that reported in other news sources as Elon Musk canceling funding to all these poor people, and people are starving. But if you hear him talk about it, and we all know on some level our government is god-awfully wasteful. If you've dealt with the government, you can see how wasteful it is. I'm grateful for at least an attempt, an investigation, into cleaning this stuff up. I'm really excited and I hope we get a lot more of these secrets out there, like the JFK files, UFO files, and Epstein client files. Why are these things being kept secret? On some level we all know they're being kept secret to protect certain people's reputations, and to realize that many of the politicians you voted for, the superstar celebrities, these people have been involved in some horribly nasty stuff. That should all come out.
I'm a big believer in transparency. I live my life in a way where I take actions I'm comfortable with everybody knowing about. To me, transparency is what will stop a lot of the things you think are bad from happening. If all of us have to be transparent, this is going to be a real nice planet. If you enjoy following along with days like this, you can find more over on my Life playlist. It was a fantastic day today. I appreciate you enjoying the day with me, and I'm looking forward to seeing what Saturday, March 1st, holds.