I won 5 SOL from one of my Famous Foxes mission chests this week! πŸ€

Reward screen showing You Received with three prizes: 1062 FOXY, 5 SOL, and 780 FOXY coins on an orange background.

Just bought tickets to see Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska at the Turf Club! I’m a huge fan of Springsteen’s Nebraska and have enjoyed O’Donovan since seeing Crooked Still so many years ago. This will be a great show. 🎢

Concert poster for Aoife O'Donovan Plays Nebraska with The Westerlies at Turf Club St. Paul MN Friday April 14 2023

Semisonic put on a great show filled with new songs and hits from the past. 🎢

Two guitarists performing on a brightly lit stage with pink and white spotlights before a large crowd in a dark venue.

It has been a long time since we’ve been to First Ave.

Crowd of people gathered outside First Avenue music venue at night in winter, snow on the ground, black and white

We watched the final episode of The Middle tonight and everyone thought it was a delightful wrap up of the story and gave the characters a wonderful send off.

Five people sitting together on a plaid sofa with the TV show title The Middle overlaid on the image

Giving the Bear Blog Theme a try. I like the simplicity and speed.

Anti-Social

Social media is a mess.

I’ve lost track of what is social about it. It is a Skinner Box of addiction. The reductionism of a timeline is tiresome. The dopamine inducing likes are there to create some saccharin view of engagement.

I recently noticed that I was falling back into behavior I had broken out of years ago. I was again finding myself checking the Twitter timeline to see what is happening. Then I would feel bad about introducing into my brain all this random crap. The coach part of me knows this isn’t what I should be doing. But the monkey brain loves to see new things, chase them down, and play with the ideas in my head.

The problem is me Twitter, not you. Actually that is wrong. The problem is both of us. The problem is actually the entire social media model. It is an apparatus of addiction built around nothing. There is no there to find. There is no end to reach.

So I unfollowed every account. If you notice I unfollowed you on Twitter, don’t take it personally. It’s me, not you.

Tyler is learning to play chess. β™ŸοΈ

A chess game in progress on a colorful hand-painted board labeled Winter along the near edge, with white and black pieces mid-game.