Got a new PR this morning in Kendall Toole’s 30-min Metal Ride. 🀘 405 kJ, +3 kJ over prior. Redlined the entire last half of the ride. #FitByFifty

Tyler and I are playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons together and we are using ACNH Exchange to get good prices for Turnips. I’m using it as an opportunity to introduce him to spreadsheets and basic financial concepts. πŸ˜ŠπŸ’°

I wonder how many Neural Engines the iPhone will need before it can properly adjust exposure for snow scenes. πŸ˜–

Won afternoon game of Trekking the National Parks. Me 47, Tyler 42, Mazie 36, and Tammy 33.

Birds

We returned from a walk and there was a massive congregation of birds in the pine trees.

Fun #TeamSPS project for a Friday afternoon. Enlisting the kids to help with decorating. ☝️

Lucky went out during lunch and got herself into a good bunch of mud! πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

I did a 10-min full body stretching program on Peloton tonight. My flexibility is very lacking. Ouch. #FitByFifty

With a team in Kyiv I’ve been keeping an eye on COVID-19 cases in Ukraine. Infection rates have been growing steadily since mid-summer.

Just updated my list of newsletters I subscribe to with some recent additions and changes. We need more ways to discover newsletters so this is my ”newsletter-roll”.

My boat motor won’t run and its been a saga. The shop is coming to fix it, or tow it, later this week. In the meantime, snowy boat. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈβ„οΈπŸš€

First significant snowfall for Twin Cities. This should all melt and let us get back to raking. πŸ‚β„οΈ

Trying tagging people whose articles I am commenting and sharing in the Weekly Thing. Example on LinkedIn and Twitter for issue 161. Will be watching to see if this is appreciated or seen as tag spam, and if it results in additional awareness.

Cashed in a chip with the kids and got them to watch Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace. They have resisted Star Wars but this one was their favorite over episode IV. There is still hope. 🍿

Made a 3 1/2 lb tenderloin special dinner tonight. Cubed the tip and fried with olive oil and garlic. Put the rest in Sous Vides for 3 hours and a finish sear in Big Green Egg. Scalloped Potatoes and homemade Peanut Butter Pie for desert. 🀀πŸ”₯

October in Cross Lake, MN. Bikes collecting snow. ❄️

41% of voters already completed voting seems high for the middle of October. I wish this had a comparison to previous years.

As of Oct 15, 68 percent of Edina residents have applied for an absentee ballot and of this total, 60 percent have returned their ballot or, 41 percent of registered voters. - Edina Friday Report for Oct 16, 2020

Lake Superior selfie. 😊

First time visiting Black Beach today, just outside of Silver Bay.

Technically we did hike some of the Superior Hiking Trail today. πŸ₯ΎπŸ—Ί