“If you ask me where I'm going
I can't tell you 'cause I don't know.
But in my mind I see The Valley
You should see the way it glows!”
-Charley Crockett
Comparison is the thief of joy, and jealousy is poison. There’s a reason envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
When I see someone more successful than me, I don’t ask, “Why do they have that?”
I ask, “How did they get there, and what can I learn from them?”
Envy keeps people bitter. Curiosity makes people better. Study success. Replicate what works don’t do what doesn’t.
Our dishwasher stopped working, and the property management company tried to pin it on us and charge us for the repair.
We pushed back, cited the relevant California tenant laws, and suddenly the story changed. First it was, “You broke it.” Then it was, “The tenant handbook says…” When we pointed out that a tenant handbook doesn’t override California law, and that we were willing to go to court, they quickly offered to waive the charge “to preserve the relationship.”
The lesson: always fight back. Know your rights, read the law, and don’t let people bully you. If someone tries to take advantage of you, don’t let them. Push back, challenge them, and force them to earn every inch.
Predators look for easy targets. Don’t be one.
🙏 Please pray for me.
On my last set of hex bar deadlifts at 345 lbs, I believe I strained or pulled my left oblique. I felt and heard a pop during the lift. 🏋️♂️
I’ve been absolutely crushing it in the gym lately and making great progress, so this is pretty frustrating. 💪😕 I love training and the last thing I want is to take time off.
Right now, certain movements are painful, and it hurts when I cough. I’m praying it’s nothing serious and that I’ll be back at it soon.
I would appreciate your prayers for healing, wisdom, and a speedy recovery. ❤️🩹🙏✝️💪
“Morris Kimbarow was absolutely in a Saving Private Ryan situation based on everything I could ascertain. Where he was killed in Aachen Germany was some of the most desperate, brutal fighting of the war in which Nazi Germany was in its death throes and doing everything to repel the Allies.
Morris wasn’t just ‘in’ World War II, he fought in some of the most brutal battles. And from the beach in France to Germany, he probably walked, hiked, fought and occasionally got to ride in a big truck or on the side of a tank. He put some miles in. He was wearing wool clothing, big leather boots, a heavy pack, and a 10 lb rifle. He was 19.”
— Taylor Kimbarow(my brother)
Backrooms started as a 4chan post in 2019 and evolved into a massive internet horror myth before Kane Parsons turned it into a viral YouTube series as a teenager. I saw Backrooms this weekend with my wife, my brother, and some friends at a luxury theater in North County San Diego.
It’s cool to see a low-budget film made for just $10 million become such a phenomenon, with 20-year-old Kane Parsons becoming A24’s youngest director, the movie reaching #1 at the box office, and delivering the studio’s highest-grossing opening weekend. But I’ll be honest:
I have EXTREMELY MIXED Views about the movie itself.
#Backrooms
San Diego County cannot keep its streets safe, protect its neighborhoods, house its veterans, treat its mentally ill, or maintain its roads. A county failing at those basic duties has no business spending $13.4 million to shield illegal immigrants from deportation.
This is government betrayal in plain sight: citizens pushed to the back of the line, taxpayers treated like an ATM, and public safety sacrificed on the altar of ideology. the San Diego Board of Supervisors is not merely wasting money. It is making a choice about who comes first, and that choice is clear. They are putting illegal immigrants ahead of San Diego families, ahead of law-abiding residents, ahead of veterans, ahead of deputies, and ahead of the basic safety of the community they were elected to serve.
It is not the duty of a lawful government to adjudicate every global grievance that crosses its border. Its first obligation is to preserve the peace, order, safety, and welfare of its own citizens. By abandoning that duty in favor of political theater, the San Diego Board of Supervisors is not merely failing. It is choosing failure.