We are not going to get a sunset tonight. Will try again tomorrow night!
Instagram walls. sigh 😔
View from the door of our Airbnb on Anna Maria Island for the next four days. 🤩🏖️
Peachey's Donuts
We first discovered Peachey’s Donuts at the Minnesota State Fair where we enjoyed the delicious treats — not once, or twice, but three separate occasions. Our family likes donuts! 😁
But Peachey’s “home base” is actually Sarasota, Florida and that is where Spring Break was bringing us this year. Tammy made sure our travel plans aligned so that we could make a stop and have our breakfast on the road. A bonus was that we got to try the pretzel as well — it was incredible!
If you see a Peachey’s truck anywhere near you. Go there!
Florida Spring Break: Day 0
- 6:00pm Joe picks us up to go to MSP.
- Dinner at Settebello Pizzeria in the airport.
- Said “Hi!” to Kim and Tony at airport!
- Boarded DL1119 for Orlando.
- Pilot delayed pushing back to let several people who were very late get on.
- Delayed push back then collides with storm that grounds us for an hour.
- Queue of flights to take off after air traffic control paused take offs.
- Switch to eastern time.
- Arrive in Orlando at 1:10am.
- Get luggage, get rental car.
- Make way to nearby Holiday Inn for one night.
- Get to sleep at 2:30a.
Family selfie at MSP! ✈️
Departing soon for Spring Break in Florida! 🛫
Digging the Challenge Coin that I received from @mtt today. Thank you! Pictured here alongside another challenge coin I got from Elwin Loomis. Someday I’m going to mint my own!
Renewal — IndieWeb Carnival
When I signed up to host this IndieWeb Carnival it was several months in the future and I thought it would be simple to put a theme together and run the carnival. As it approached I started to feel like the theme I had in mind wasn’t a theme but more a topic and wasn’t going to be big enough for a whole carnival. I explored a bunch of avenues for different options and wasn’t finding anything I loved.
I decided to ask the family over dinner. They had no idea what a blog carnival is, but that is fine. Right away Tammy suggested Renewal. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere it is Spring and it has that feeling of renewal. As we rolled it around more I liked it more. It is April, it is Spring, and it is a time of renewal.
The theme of renewal resonated with me because it can apply to so many things. Renewal could happen in a day or a year. It could apply to your relationships, yourself, your digital world, whatever you want. We can point a desire for renewal anywhere we like.
- We can renew the bonds of our most treasured and intimate relationships.
- Connecting more with friends and family renews those relationships.
- Watching the plants come to life after a long winter sparks thought of renewal.
- I think after decades of commercialized and surveilled social networks on the web it is time for a renewed focus on writing, publishing, and people.
Do you have a story of renewal to share? Is there a need for renewal that you see and a way to make that happen? How do you approach renewal?
Everyone and anyone is welcome to participate in this IndieWeb Carnival. Share your stories of renewal and send a webmention to this page and email me to submit your posts. I will share a list of all posts!
I signed up to run a session at Minnebar 19! I’m going to host How to Newsletter: Lessons from 300 issues of the Weekly Thing. I had originally planned do this at Minnebar 17 but had to cancel. I’m looking forward to going deep and broad on how I do all this! Come if you are in Minneapolis!
Got my tickets to Minnebar 19! Tyler and I are both going. I’m planning on doing a session this year as well. More to come!
Finished 1.51 mile walk in 42.1 minutes (27.88 min/mile). Casual walk this evening. Was just too nice out to not go outside. Brought Lucky along and she reminded us how crazy she is around other dogs.🚶♂️
Finished 3.91 mile walk in 77 minutes (19.7 min/mile). 🚶♂️
I’m very happy with these Ukrainian Tryzub Trident pins that I ordered from ShopUA 1000. Made in Ukraine. 🇺🇦
I’m super excited to see Ben Edwards @alttext now on micro.blog! Ben has a done a bunch but in my mind he’s always one of the folks that got minnestar off the ground. He was emailing me over the weekend about blogging stuff — I think you’re gonna like it Ben! Picture from Minnebar 2009. 🙌
Finished 3.89 mile walk in 77.4 minutes (19.9 min/mile). 🚶♂️
I would like to create blog posts from some workouts. It seems like something that Shortcuts should make possible but I’ve not seen anything to make it easier to do. Is anyone familiar with something that does this? I’d like a map and statistics in the posts.
Months ago when I signed up to host the April IndieWeb Carnival I thought it was a great idea and now I’m finding myself atypically anxious about choosing a good topic! 😬
LEGO and Pokémon announced that they are launching a multi-year partnership in 2026. This is going to mint an incredible amount of revenue for both companies. 💰 Consider how many of these sets will be bought and never even opened for collectors. 😲
The LLM functions I’ve built for the Weekly Thing have worked really well. So well in fact that I’m redoing my Shortcuts to move from simple calls to the ChatGPT app to using the OpenAI API directly. This has the added benefit of additional fine tuning including optimized system messages. 👨💻