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Labor Day 2026: College Football, Sunflowers, and Reading

Notre Dame college football season opener, catching-up on reading, and blooming garden sunflowers. - Book: "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky - For readers who still enjoy slowing down long enough to think.

Labor Day 2026 included Notre Dame football, garden sunflowers, and "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky.

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September 7, 2026

About

CounterIt.ch is a minimalist personal publication exploring Markets, Machines, Midwest, and Musings—the recurring themes that shape everyday life and many of the essays found here.

Written by Joe, an Ohio-based Linux user and former Wall Street professional, CounterIt.ch offers observations on technology, business, philosophy, books, motorcycles, gardening, politics, the outdoors, and life in Northeast Ohio. Some entries are practical, others reflective, but all share a common goal: slowing down long enough to think beyond headlines, algorithms, and the constant stream of online noise.

The site was created as a place for longer-form writing and independent thought—an alternative to the limitations of mainstream social media and the fleeting conversations that often define it. Some ideas simply deserve more than a few hundred characters.

Although the writing is rooted in the American Midwest, the ".ch" domain is a nod to Switzerland and its traditions of precision, independence, and simplicity—qualities that also inspire the site's minimalist design and philosophy.

Whether you arrived here looking for insights on markets, technology, Linux, motorcycles, books, or simply thoughtful observations about everyday life, I hope you find something worth reading—and perhaps something worth thinking about long after you've left the page.

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Joe at Mosquito Lake (Sep. 2024)

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