Enjoying cigars around the fire with my cousins Josh and Quinn along with Kurt and Dylan.
Made my first visit to Stogies on Grand in St. Paul to get some cigars for tonight. Great selection and a nice walk-in-humidor. They have a lounge where you can stay and smoke if you purchase the cigar there.
In recognition of International Women’s Day continuing my commitment to empowering all women, particularly in technology and leadership. #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion
See IWD 2024, 2021, 2020, 2020 @ SPS, and 2018.
Fun night out seeing Gaelic Storm and The High Kings at the Pantages with my cousin Josh and his wife Dawn. Dinner at The Local before. Full Irish experience. 🇮🇪
Bee Lab at University of Minnesota
When Tammy’s Dad passed away one of the organizations that he supported was the Bee Lab at the University of Minnesota. As a thank you from the Bee Lab Tammy and I were able to visit today, meet Dr. Marla Spivak, and get a tour of the facility.
It was cool to see how Dr. Spivak had designed the lab and to see some of the work they are doing with the incredible variety of bee species in Minnesota and elsewhere.
For more about Dr. Spivak and her work with bees watch her TED Talk on why bees are disappearing and an interview about her research on Propolis and Honey Bees.
Power has been shut off to the entire house now for nearly an hour for the electrical upgrades. Happy to see that the combination of UPS batteries and PoE for infrastructure has left the network and fiber connection online! ⚡️
My friend Jim and I had a great time watching the Timberwolves beat the Trail Blazers tonight! 119 - 114 🏀
Bitcoin near or at new all-time highs today.
Home Electric Upgrade
We’ve had a crew from Advantage Electric at our house for the last couple days and hopefully we’ll be wrapped up tomorrow. A wide variety of improvements. They put a number of the Lutron Caseta switches in today and I’m already realizing how nice it is when all the lighting is in that system. I’m excited about all of these things. ⚡️
- Hang 7 replacement light fixtures.
Replace halogen puck light with LED.- Install recessed electric receptacle for TV.
- Replace 2 under-cabinet halogen lights with LED.
- Replace 4 under-cabinet halogen lights with LED.
- Replace 6 fluorescent lights with LED.
- Replace 3 fluorescent closet lights with LED.
- Replace 2 fluorescent utility lights with LED.
- Remediate 2 dangerous electric receptacles.
- Replace exhaust fan that doesn’t shut off.
- Install 5 electric receptacles with USB C power.
- Modernize electric receptacles on main floor and basement.
- Install Lutron Caseta light switches on main floor and basement.
- Remount electric meter to exterior wall, add emergency disconnect.
- Replace main electric panel, add whole home surge protection.
Dune: Part Two
After multiple delays Dune: Part Two arrived in theaters! Tammy got us all tickets for last night’s sold-out showing at Edina 4. I’m the Dune fan in the family, but since we saw the first one as a family we decided to all go again.
I thought it was breathtaking. It would be difficult for me to pull out one specific area to highlight. The movie was 2h 46m but I never once took note of the time. I was completely there, engaged in this epic story. I read all six books of the Dune series in college and just like that last movie this makes me want to read them all again. The complex world of Dune and all of the interconnections is incredible.
Now, the rest of the family? This will be their last Dune movie. Tammy just doesn’t vibe with this kind of epic sci-fi story. Tyler found it just too long and slow. The violence was much more than Mazie wanted. Overall the Harkonnen’s were super-creepy, dark, and violent for all of us really. I keep thinking that having read the book maybe I experience the movies different than the rest of the family. I also do think feel that Villeneuve’s interpretations of Dune have a lot more violence than the original story, but I would need to re-read the books to see if that is really the case.
Dune: Part Three is in development now. I can’t wait to see it!
