2020
Tyler and I have been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons and we roped Tammy and Mazie in with us. Today all four of us played at the same time and we got an Animal Crossing family photo around the fire! Left to right: Tyler, Tammy, me, Mazie. 📸
I upgraded two iMacs and a MacBook Air to macOS Big Sur. One of the iMacs was not happy after upgrade but booting into rescue mode and reinstalling Big Sur fixed whatever was ailing it. My initial impression is positive. I like the UI changes and the updates to core applications. Performance seems a little slower but gets faster after apps have been used a couple times. Might be some data migrations happening in the background? Bringing Widgets and Control Center to macOS seems like a win. I have a lot fewer menu bar icons.
Charts via The COVID Tracking Project.
Record growth in COVID-19 spread. Hospitals are full. So far deaths have not increased as much because the amazing medical profession has learned a lot in the field. However, when hospitals are full will we lose that benefit?
Delicious Barbera d’Asti. 🍷
Covid-19 new cases by day setting records.
Growth Summit 2021
Today #TeamSPS joined together around the world for Growth Summit 2021! We had a great event, with the show being broadcast live from the Minneapolis Convention Center. We had a ton of precautions to keep things as safe as possible with the pandemic.
The event was fabulous, and the team was engaged with online activities that were paired up with the sessions. Truly a great online experience.
We had a thought provoking keynote from Greg Bell on the power of a simple question, What is Going Well?
I loved some of the behind the scenes stuff. I’d like to play around with all this gear.
Had to get made up for the big event.
What a great day #TeamSPS! It is going to be a great 2021!
Link Blog Relaunched
I got my Link Blog up and running again. It is still plenty rough around the edges. This gives the links that I share in the Weekly Thing a permanent home on the web.
As an experiment I’ve also put the Commento commenting system on it to see if that is interesting.
I also created Index pages for sites so you can see all links I’ve save for a site. See this Index for the EFF website as an example.
On my to do list is Annum pages that show statistics for each year.
Lucky. 🍀
Just tried Buildzi for the first time. This is a great, fast family game. You can give the younger ones a head start too. A lot of family fun.
I am very proud that we have elected our first ever Woman Vice-President, Kamala Harris. I learned a bit as well from her wearing a “Suffrage White” suit, and connecting back to the 100 year anniversary of the 19th Ammendment. 👏
I love our outdoor patio space at night. A warm November day bonus with no bugs! The Yellow Table is a recent addition. I hung the yellow Herrnhuter today. We should add some blue to make the Swedish connection. 🇸🇪
Election +4 days.
S’mores! 🔥
Incredibly nice weather today. We got to do a November family bike ride!
Coronavirus Nov. 4, 2020 via New York Times
"Learn to play the violin"
I love this Drucker quote that my coach shared with me.
Drucker, who believed that the most effective managers look across a range of disciplines and draw on all of the humanities and sciences, would have loved Martin’s analysis. Indeed, it is said that a young person once asked Drucker how to excel as a manager. “Learn to play the violin,” he replied.
Emphasis mine. I found this reference to it. The appreciation and desire to understand a broad range of topics, to bring more context to everything else, is something I feel strongly about.
Tried the Pear Brandy from Dampfwerk Distilling tonight. Very good. Thanks to Lee Zukor for introducing me to this local distillery. 🥃
Time for a cocktail. Old Fashioned 🥃🍊🍒
If you are wondering about the Maple Syrup, I use that instead of Simple Syrup. Tammy suggested it and I really enjoy the flavor it brings to the drink. Obviously only real Maple Syrup.
2:03pm on the day after the 2020 Election.
5:49am on the day after the 2020 Election.
