First smash burgers of the year! Delicious. πŸ”

Clouds blowing through quick on a blustery day. Soon the leaves will be popping.

Riding with #TeamSPS Peloton spinners I got a new 30 minute PR (343 kj) this morning! πŸ’₯πŸš΄πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ #FitByFifty

Suggestions for importing Jekyll blog to micro.blog?

Micro.blog community: I need to migrate about 8,000 blog posts from a Jekyll site to micro.blog. Does anyone have suggestions or pointers to existing tools?

At first glance I thought I would write a Python script to recurse the _posts directory and hit micro.blog’s API creating each post. However, I have Jekyll tags in those markdown files that will cause serious challenges. Now I’m thinking I should use Jekyll to publish the site and then use the RSS or even a custom file, perhaps JSONFeed, to then import into micro.blog? Then I can make Jekyll do the hardest work for me.

Anyone done this and can recommend an approach? This seems to be similar to the method Manton Reece used when importing his podcast.

Just realized that other than taking Lucky for walks, I haven’t left the house since Sunday afternoon. 😬

Playing bartender at home. Strawberry Margaritas. 🍸

Family selfie wearing our custom masks with swappable HEPA filters made by my Mom! 😷🧡

Fun working from home upside β€” kids made waffles this morning and delivered a stack to me to enjoy! πŸ§‡

The climbing jntervals in today’s spin class were epic. Whew. #FitByFifty

22,034,000 unemployment claims. The orange highlight is data, not the edge of the image.

β€œBlack gold.” β˜•οΈπŸ€©

Osmo Coding Duo

Osmo was running a sale recently and I decided to fill out our collection. We got the Hot Wheelsβ„’ MindRacers which I didn’t think was going to be that fun, but surprised me by being super fun to play together. I also ordered Coding Duo, in part because we already had Coding Awbie and Coding Jam, so Coding Duo was just another $15 to get two pieces to put it all together. Tyler fired up Coding Duo and has been having a lot of fun with it, and I am very impressed with what a learning experience this is.

Coding Duo uses all of the control pieces of both Coding Awbie and Coding Jam, and introduces the idea of having two characters that you write sequences of code for independently. To play the game, you have to write a distinct sequence of actions for each character, and to make it even more interesting each character has unique capabilities. To complete the levels, Tyler learned a bunch about debugging, getting the programs to interact with each other, and building complex sequences that interact with each other. You can also have two people play together by each writing a program of their own.

It is a very impressive learning environment. I would highly recommend it for any kids that want to explore logic and coding concepts.

What do you do when your new puppy figures out how to jump on the couch? πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

Had a great 30 minute spin class on Peloton this morning. #FitByFifty

As great as yesterday’s weather 🌀 was, that is how not great today’s weather πŸ’¨πŸŒ§ is. Brrr! πŸ₯Ά

We took Lucky on a walk that was just too long for her puppy stamina yesterday so I had to carry her for a while.

Awesome pictures of Lucky (3 months old) that Tammy took yesterday. She’s such a cute puppy!

I liked the privacy and security benefits of having a Pi-Hole at home so much that I decided to put one in the cabin too. Next up cable management. 😁

Warsaw Business's Customer Appreciation Parade

What can a small township in Minnesota do to bring some cheer to people during the Pandemic lockdown? A parade! Minus the throwing candy part of course. Thanks to these Warsaw, MN businesses: Americas Mattress - Dundas, BFB Solutions, Channel Inn, D&L Real Estate, DGC, Doc’s Dock Campground, Simple Strategies, Rick & Mary Tonjum, The Upper East Side, and Witte Bros!

Gorgeous day β€” enjoying some time outside with a fire! πŸ”₯