Our raised garden beds are mostly in. We’ll be preparing the soil and planting shortly. Final step will be placing our Andrew Carson wind sculpture in the middle.
Decided to take in a gorgeous day and work on our porch today. iPad Pro in Sidecar display is nice to have more desktop.
Got A Calendar of Wisdom from Painted Porch. Discovered the book via Ryan Holiday so figured it should be my first purchase from his book store! Will be making this part of my daily reading habit. 📚
Weather recovered for Memorial Day! Sun is out! ☀️🕶
Making breakfast outside is such a blast. And you can make dozens of pancakes in no time at all! Sausage tastes better on the Big Green Egg. 🥞
EUFA Champions League final! ⚽️
Manchester City v Chelsea. Chelsea finishes first half with 1-0 lead. 🤩
Gorgeous evening for a baseball game! ⚾️ Minnesota Twins v Baltimore Orioles. Last place battle between AL Central and AL East.
Rainbow wallet now has web profiles so you can see collectibles with a browser. See my thingelstad.eth collectibles.
Upgraded to iOS 14.6 and after everyone was updated setup Apple Card Family. Worked really well. Very streamlined setup experience. Curious how my daughter will use the card we got her. Financial literacy!
Zoom Feature Suggestion: Connect to my contacts and show telephone callers by name instead of redacted phone number.
Opening the pool for the summer!
Watching FC Bayern München v FC Augsburg, the final game of the Bundesliga season. Hoping to see Robert Lewandowski best Gerd Müller’s single season goal record! Final game for Hansi Flick as he goes on to coach the German National Team. Also final games for David Alaba, Jérôme Boateng and Javi Martínez. 🇩🇪⚽️
My Mother and Kurt went to Uranus, Missouri and brought us back a nice treat from the Uranus General Store.
“The Best Fudge Comes From Uranus.”
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Constellation Fund is hosting Bright Night, a free virtual fundraiser tonight at 6:30pm! 💡 You can join the stream with just an email address. They are spotlighting great causes and great artists! I’m going to be there. 🎟 You free tonight? Join online! 👋
Paul Boswell, creator of the Turing Tumble, just launched Spintronics on Kickstarter. I’m in! Turing Tumble was brilliant, and this looks equally great! I love how he turns digital concepts and logic into something physical to interact with.
Disintegrating Shoes
Thanks to the miracle of vaccines we were able to enjoy some drinks on a patio this evening with our board members for the first time in over a year. I got on some nice slacks, a good shirt, and some dress shoes! 👞
It was great to see folks that I hadn’t seen in-person for so long. As we were mingling and chatting I happened to look down and noticed some black debris on the floor under me. I didn’t know what it was but it didn’t raise any concerns. Some time later I looked down again and I noticed there was more of this debris. Upon closer inspection I realized that the soles of my shoes were disintegrating with every movement! 😳
I was wearing comfortable and high-quality Ecco shoes. As I looked closer I noticed the entire heal was crumbling into pieces! What an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction. I gingerly made my way a few feet so I could chat with some other people. As I was making my way someone asked if my shoes had mud on them. Ugh!
I got myself to the far side of the patio and decided to stake an area out. I managed to stay put for the rest of the evening, with an ever growing pile of debris under my feet. As the night wound down I shared with some folks my shoe catastrophe. It was the source of great laughs! 😂
The shoes went in the garbage as soon as I got home. At least I got a good story out of it.
By the time I got home this is what was left of the soles.
Add this to other wardrobe fiascos like Finding Pants in Manhattan.
Minnesota Twins v Oakland A's
Minnesota Twins v Oakland A’s. Great afternoon for a baseball game! ⚾️ Let’s go Twins!
Three run homer for the Twins!
Kramarczuk’s Polish Sausage with Kraut at Target Field. Nothing better.
Tammy and I getting some baseball and sun! ⚾️☀️
Simmons with two run homer to tie game 6-6! ⚾️
Flooded Forest Kayak Tour
My brother Isaiah and his family were visiting this weekend and we drove to Wabasha for the Flooded Forest Kayak Tour with Broken Paddle Guiding.
Everyone else had nice Solara 135 kayaks and Tyler and I joined up in a Solara 145T Tandem. I enjoyed the kayak. It was one of the most stable kayaks I have been on. There were about 15 people in total on the tour and there were a lot of guides to cover everyone. We took a bike trip a number of years ago with Broken Paddle and we’ve had nothing but amazing experiences with them. If you are looking for a fun day or weekend trip I would strongly recommend them.
There was a large Bald Eagle checking us out as we paddled down the creek.
We also saw a handful of different snakes swimming in the water. That was a bit creepy.
Four Years of the Weekly Thing
Today marks the four year anniversary of the Weekly Thing! Issue 1 was sent May 13, 2017. When I started this project I figured I would do it for a year and then see. Now it is four years later and I’m still enjoying it.
Here are some learnings I would share.
- Having a well defined structure that I flow content “through and in” has been key to making this something I can do over the long haul. If I started each week with a blank document I don’t think it would work well.
- It is surprising how often the hardest thing is writing the little intro bit in the beginning. Sometimes I find myself with traditional writers block. Other times major things in the world have brought a seriousness to the week that needs to be addressed. I didn’t expect this when I started this project.
- Getting a new photo every week is difficult in the winter when the daylight is so short.
- I’ve been able to get to know a lot of readers more than I ever would have any other way. Email is much more personal than blogging or social media.
- The rare times that an issue doesn’t go out on Saturday at 7am CT, I often get pings from people asking what is up? I love that. It’s fun that this has become part of a few peoples Saturday morning routines.
- It is harder to keep up with the email replies I get from people. If you sent me a reply and I didn’t get back in a few days, or at all, I’m sorry. I read it all!
- I love the archive that is created by writing every week. In addition to blogging, this is a very rewarding activity that I plan to keep doing.
- Automate as much as possible. This keeps the busywork down. I’ve got extensive automation to keep everything humming.
And now onto the years ahead!