Jamie Thingelstad

Nov 15, 2020 ∞

We had a nice 4.4 mile hike around Pike Island at Fort Snelling State Park today. This is 15 mins from our house but we had never been here! We will definitely be back, maybe with snow shoes next time.

GPS route map of a 4.4 mile loop hike around Pike Island at Fort Snelling State Park shown on aerial satellite imagery Park bench beside bare winter trees overlooking a snow-dusted riverbank with a bridge visible in the distance Narrow dirt trail along a snowy riverbank lined with dry golden grasses and bare trees, a bridge visible in the distance Family of four bundled in winter jackets and hats posing for a selfie outdoors with a fluffy white dog in front

Nov 14, 2020 ∞

Family movie night with Call of the Wild. We all enjoyed it. We also tend to love dog movies. 🍿

Movie poster for The Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford releasing February 21 based on the legendary novel

Nov 14, 2020 ∞

Family time with Monopoly: Yellowstone edition.

Monopoly Yellowstone National Park Collector Edition board game in progress on a wood table with colorful bills and cards scattered around it.

Nov 14, 2020 ∞

We volunteered at Feed My Starving Children today for the first time since the pandemic. They have modified the process to make it a safe as possible. We set a new post-Covid record of 133 boxes packed. Enough to feed 79 kids for a year!

Four volunteers wearing hairnets and face masks pose for a selfie inside the Feed My Starving Children facility.

Nov 14, 2020 ∞

Tyler and I have been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons and we roped Tammy and Mazie in with us. Today all four of us played at the same time and we got an Animal Crossing family photo around the fire! Left to right: Tyler, Tammy, me, Mazie. 📸

Four Animal Crossing villager avatars smiling outdoors, two sitting on log benches and two riding a wooden log cart, with pine trees and flowers behind them.

Nov 13, 2020 ∞

I upgraded two iMacs and a MacBook Air to macOS Big Sur. One of the iMacs was not happy after upgrade but booting into rescue mode and reinstalling Big Sur fixed whatever was ailing it. My initial impression is positive. I like the UI changes and the updates to core applications. Performance seems a little slower but gets faster after apps have been used a couple times. Might be some data migrations happening in the background? Bringing Widgets and Control Center to macOS seems like a win. I have a lot fewer menu bar icons.

Nov 13, 2020 ∞

Charts via The COVID Tracking Project.

Record growth in COVID-19 spread. Hospitals are full. So far deaths have not increased as much because the amazing medical profession has learned a lot in the field. However, when hospitals are full will we lose that benefit?

Bar and line chart showing US daily COVID-19 cases spiking to over 160000 in November 2020, far exceeding prior summer peaks.

Bar chart showing US COVID-19 hospitalizations Mar to Nov 13 2020 with three waves peaking near 60000 and a record surge past 68000 in November.

Bar and line chart of US daily COVID-19 deaths from March 1 to November 13 2020 showing a peak near 2100 in April then rising again toward 1000 in November.

Nov 12, 2020 ∞

Delicious Barbera d’Asti. 🍷

Glass of red wine beside an open bottle of Ratti Battaglione Barbera d'Asti 2018, with a cork and corkscrew on a white marble surface.

Nov 10, 2020 ∞

Covid-19 new cases by day setting records.

Line chart of daily US Covid-19 cases from March to November 2020 showing a surge past 100,000 cases, far exceeding prior peaks in April and July.

Nov 10, 2020 ∞

Growth Summit 2021

Today #TeamSPS joined together around the world for Growth Summit 2021! We had a great event, with the show being broadcast live from the Minneapolis Convention Center. We had a ton of precautions to keep things as safe as possible with the pandemic.

The event was fabulous, and the team was engaged with online activities that were paired up with the sessions. Truly a great online experience.

Large conference hall with sparse socially distanced audience watching a Customer Centric Experience presentation on a wide stage screen

We had a thought provoking keynote from Greg Bell on the power of a simple question, What is Going Well?

Man smiling on a large projection screen at a convention center stage, with a camera operator and seated audience member in the foreground.

I loved some of the behind the scenes stuff. I’d like to play around with all this gear.

Production crew working at multiple laptops and monitors in a darkened backstage area with cables and rack-mounted broadcast equipment.

Large truss rack filled with cables and AV equipment on a convention center stage bathed in blue light, empty seating visible behind

Had to get made up for the big event.

Masked makeup artist applies cosmetics to a seated person in a dressing room while a man in background gives a thumbs up

Darkened backstage room with two people watching a live broadcast on a wall-mounted screen showing a speaker on a colorful stage set

What a great day #TeamSPS! It is going to be a great 2021!