∞

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

Cardboard number 1 cut from a shipping box, resting on a white kitchen counter beside scraps of cardboard.
∞

Lucky went out during lunch and got herself into a good bunch of mud! 🤦‍♂️

White fluffy dog with muddy paws and face being wiped clean with a green towel near a sliding glass door.
∞

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.

Map of Ukraine showing oblasts regions color-coded by COVID-19 infection rates with Crimea shown separately in gray.
∞

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. 🤦‍♂️❄️🚤

Snow-covered pontoon boat docked on a foggy lake in winter, surrounded by bare trees and a snow-covered yard.
∞

First significant snowfall for Twin Cities. This should all melt and let us get back to raking. 🍂❄️

Snow-covered suburban yard with large bare trees, a winding driveway, and a gray house visible through falling snow.Snow-covered backyard patio with four chairs and a round fire pit, raised garden bed, and wood fence behind, during active snowfall.

∞

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. 🍿

Movie poster for Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace featuring characters and the tagline Every Saga Has A Beginning
∞

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. 🤤🔥

Two beef tenderloin steaks searing on a cast iron grate inside a Big Green Egg kamado grill with glowing charcoal belowSliced beef tenderloin cooked medium-rare arranged on a festive blue platter with a pile of seared garlic beef cubes in the corner