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What do you do when you visit the Museum of Modern Art? Well for many it seems that you navigate your way to Van Gogh’s Starry Night and take a picture of it in a fairly unhelpful mass of people.

I wonder, how many gigabytes of photos are taken of Starry Night each day?

Dense crowd of museum visitors photographing Van Goghs Starry Night and two other paintings on a white gallery wall.
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What to do when you want to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge but it’s raining? Go anyway. We were really wet by the time we got to the other side. Shoes squishing with water wet. Was it worth it? Probably. ☔️

Two kids in rain jackets stand on a wet bridge walkway above a Welcome to Brooklyn marking, sharing an orange umbrella.Four people in rain jackets walking across the Brooklyn Bridge on a rainy day, one holding a large orange Hyatt Centric umbrella.Wet wooden pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge on a rainy day, with people holding umbrellas walking toward the Manhattan skyline.Four people in rain jackets pose for a selfie on the Brooklyn Bridge walkway on a rainy day with the Manhattan skyline behind them.Pedestrians with orange and red umbrellas walk the wet wooden promenade of the Brooklyn Bridge on a rainy gray day.Pedestrians with umbrellas and rain jackets walk the wet wooden promenade of the Brooklyn Bridge toward its granite tower

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We took the F Train to Brooklyn and had an awesome brunch with Greg and his family. Greg and I met as freshman roommates at the University of Minnesota and became fast friends. It was the first time we were able to get our entire families together, and first I had seen him since 2018.

Four friends smiling together inside a warmly lit brick-walled restaurant bar, arms around each other.
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I tried several times earlier to participate in the (historic?) Ethereum KZG Ceremony but was never able to get in because so many people were queued up to do it. The demand died down and thingelstad.eth was contributor 91,614 in the ceremony.

Ethereum KZG Ceremony contribution details page showing participant ID cryptographic pubkeys BLS signatures and ECDSA signature for contributor 91614
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Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 1

Cloudy and started raining at night.
16,424 steps.

Go to day 1, 2, 3, or 4.

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Seeing Bono’s “Surrender” at the Beacon Theater tonight was one of the most engaging performances I’ve ever seen. Two hours with Bono sharing stories of U2, his youth, and mixed with powerful and inimate performances of U2 songs. Incredible and magical. ✨

Family of four posing for a rainy night selfie outside the Beacon Theatre marquee advertising Bono Surrender sold out tonight
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It is weird to me that I’ve been to Manhattan hundreds of times over the years, but I’ve never really gone into Central Park at all. We decided to walk from our hotel up and through Central Park to the Beacon Theatre to see Bono and it was so cool to explore a bit of the park.

Sheep Meadow in Central Park, a vast green lawn with scattered visitors and the Midtown Manhattan skyline visible behind the trees.
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Ran into the Incredible Hulk at the LEGO Store on 5th Avenue. This place was great. We wanted to do more stuff than we had time.

Man in a black jacket sitting on a bench next to a life-size LEGO Hulk sculpture inside a LEGO store
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Mazie and Tyler lit prayer candles for my Grandpa Ardell and Grandma Rose at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Two children lighting prayer candles at a rack of votive candles inside a cathedral, one wearing an orange jacket and one a gray St. Olaf College hoodie.
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We were passing St. Patrick’s Cathedral and decided to go in and look around. It is was an amazing place to visit. It left us all a bit awe struck.

St. Patricks Cathedral Gothic stone facade and twin spires rise above Fifth Avenue with two yellow taxis in the foregroundSt. Patrick's Cathedral entrance adorned with sprawling pink rose garlands as visitors climb the front stepsInterior of St. Patricks Cathedral showing long rows of wooden pews leading to a flower-adorned altar beneath soaring Gothic vaulted ceilingsInterior of St. Patrick's Cathedral showing Gothic arches, white floral arrangements, golden altar, and visitors seated in wooden pews.