Here's my diary from March 6th, 2025, and it was a busy day. Full schedule. I got up first thing in the morning, which is really the only option, you either get up or you don't, and the schedule was packed today. It started off the way it usually does, getting the kids up and ready for school. Then I had to stop and think, what did I actually do this morning? Oh, right, my teeth cleaning. I got my teeth cleaned at 9:30 with the same hygienist I had a few months ago, had a nice conversation with her, and it was awesome. My teeth look beautiful. They're basically the same as they were 25 years ago. I saw the dentist, got my teeth cleaned, and I was out of the office in less than an hour, which is great.
A full morning of filming
I wasn't sure I'd have time to do much else this morning, like film videos and get ready, but I did. I filmed a nice crypto video today that hit just right in the algorithm again, with some clickbait like "crypto has changed forever." It's a little sad that this stuff works, but it does. So I got that out and got a couple of other videos uploaded.
Then I had a paid sponsored video scheduled at 1 p.m. I tried to play the game a little beforehand, it's a crypto game on ICP, so I checked out the game, did all my OpenChat stuff, and thought about whether I wanted to submit DAO proposals or not. I decided I had enough to do, so no. I recorded the interview with a guy from the team. We had an hour to talk and recorded a nice 45-minute video. I spent the first 15 minutes warming up and figuring out what we were going to talk about, then recorded for 45 minutes. I uploaded that one later, because at 2 p.m. I was going straight to pick up both my kids and my niece from school.
The smooth ride home
They were so cooperative and played without fighting, which is really nice. My son and my daughter sometimes go at it. One time I pulled off the road right after I got off the interstate and had to physically separate them because they were pulling each other's hair and punching each other. So I really appreciate a smooth ride home from school. It helps to have my daughter up in the front seat with me, too. My niece is in the same grade as my son, so they get along pretty well now. They used to fight and make each other cry all the time, so it's so nice that they all get along better.
They came home and played hide and seek. I had the idea to get my son and my niece into the laundry hamper, which is an awesome hiding spot, one of the ones that closes. My daughter was counting, and I said, "Come on, guys, I'll show you a super secret cool spot." So I got them both into the hamper. My daughter checked the rest of the house, then opened the laundry hamper and they popped up like whack-a-moles. That was pretty cool.
Then my niece's mom came to pick her up, and Laura was getting ready to go out with her friends for an after-wedding dinner celebration. So there was a lot of getting all the kids situated. I washed tons of dishes as usual. Maybe one day for a video background I'll put up a picture of my kitchen sink full of dishes, because I wash a lot of dishes. But I also don't want to pay someone else to come wash my dishes. I could film more videos and pay somebody else 20 bucks an hour to wash my dishes, or go out to eat, or order some food, but I just wash my own dishes. It's a good boost for humility to wash the dishes.
Running the kids down the street
I ran the kids down the street today. Madeline wanted to run down the street, and my son wanted to run down the alley. My daughter's nine, so I respect that she wants a little independence, but I also want a little more accountability, in case some creeper in a van pulls up or something. So I gave her a walkie talkie. I was only about a hundred yards away from her in the alley. She ran down the street to her grandparents' house, Laura's parents' house, and I went down the alley with my son on our walkie talkies. It was fun. I got them dropped off there, and I'm grateful my mother-in-law was going to take Madeline to piano while my father-in-law hung out with Jack at the house.
This set me up to play tennis for the first time at the tennis camp at 6 p.m. at the Racquet Club. I usually drive even though it's a half mile, but today I just walked, and I planned to run a mile on the way home, especially since I didn't get to do any yoga or anything else. I figured tennis plus a one-mile run and a little walk should be a nice amount of exercise for the day. It was a little cold, but I'm not putting on long sleeves and long pants to play tennis and get sweaty. I'd rather be a little cold. So I walked the half mile there, grabbed my tennis bag, and called my sponsor on the way, and we had a nice call.
Two courts, two coaches
I got there and there were two courts with two coaches. One coach is a former professional tennis player, and from what I've heard he has a private, invite-only clinic. The way he recruits for it is that during the coaching clinics he watches how the guys are playing and picks out the best of them to invite to his private clinic afterward. Some of the guys use the coaching that's included with Racquet Club membership as a kind of warm-up clinic. So that coach had nine guys on one court with him.
Then there was a girl coach, and me plus three of the other guys who aren't so serious about tennis, not caring much about impressing the other coach or getting invited to his camp, all played on the court with her. The four of us were just cutting up and laughing and hitting one crappy shot after another. Occasionally somebody played some decent tennis for a minute, and then right back to crappy shots. We were all laughing and having a good time.
The ball of light
Then something really cool happened. We were in the middle of our games and the coach said, "What's that?" We all turned around and there was this thing that looked like a ball of light. This was broad daylight, around 6:30 p.m., still light out. There was a ball of light with a cloud around it, moving across the sky. I thought, what the heck is that? It didn't look like a meteor, because a meteor would have a tail, a cloud of stuff behind it, and this had no tail. It looked like it was going somewhere, kind of like a plane or a helicopter, but it had a cloud around it, a cloud you could partly see through, so you could see the ball of light or metal in the middle. The sun might have been reflecting off it. It was just a ball with a cloud around it. It was the weirdest thing.
I've seen a couple of balls of light at night, which I intentionally made happen, those were by myself when I was walking the dog at like 10 at night, and those were like orbs or ships that I intentionally contacted. But this was different. This was straight up a UFO, in the middle of a cloud, just going across the sky. The cloud eventually dissipated, but the object in the middle continued to look the same and kept going across the sky at the same speed. Then it started heading toward where the trees would block our view, so we went back to playing tennis. But all of us just stood there and watched it for a full minute. We were like, what is that? That's not a plane or a helicopter with a cloud around it. That's some weird stuff up there in the sky, and it was really cool.
I said, "I think that might have been a UFO or some kind of flying craft like that." But nobody wanted to talk about it more. Everybody just wanted to get back to tennis. For me, that was the third object like that I've seen, which feels remarkable because I'd never seen one growing up, even though I lived on air bases and my mom was in the military. I was on and around a lot of air bases and saw plenty of planes and military craft flying, but that's now three things I've seen that I'd put in the category of unidentified, not anything that flies normally in the sky. That really made my day.
The run home and a tennis throwback
After tennis, I ran home, which was kind of awkward with my little tennis bag slung over my shoulder. I dropped the bag off, then ran to Laura's parents' house, which ended up being 0.98 miles. So I did this awkward little bit more of a run right in front of their house to round it out. I got my one-mile run in nine minutes, thirty seconds, even though it didn't feel very good. My leg was a little stiff, it was cold, Florida cold, so I was chilly.
Then I picked up the kids, put them to bed, and watched some more Andre Agassi versus Pete Sampras matches. This one was from 1990, so we threw it back to when Agassi had his long hair and was 20 years old. While Laura was out, I got another couple of videos uploaded, took my bath, came home, and went to bed. If you enjoy these kinds of behind-the-scenes days, I share a lot more about how I work and live in my YouTube Coaching playlist. Another great day, and I'm happy to log it down for my autobiography.