Mazie completed her Christmas LEGO of Macaw Parrots this morning. They are designed to be hung on the wall and look great!
Completed my Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi LEGO this morning. This was a very fun build and the movement is really fun! The surprise movement is Yoshi shooting a fireball out of his mouth.
I’ve been enjoying the Snow Fall plug-in by @manton on my website and it has me thinking that it would be really fun to have a web version of Simon Støvring’s Festivitas. A string of lights along the top of the browser with various configuration options would be cool.
I created a hierarchal view of my blog pages so that I could try to organize this better. This shows why I wish the Pages section of micro.blog was a bit more sophisticated. I took the outline and then gave it to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend a better way to structure it.
I make a recurring donation to Wikipedia but I figured I would make an extra donation right now. Wikipedia is one of the true wonders of the web and I’m very happy to support it.
My friend Patrick Rhone @patrickrhone chooses a word for each year and he just shared that “better” is his word for 2025. I like this a lot. I think I’m going to pursue better in 2025 too.
A sauna session is naturally meditative since nearly all distractions simply cannot take the heat. They must be left outside. It is just you, your breath, and the heat. 🔥
Through bag 4 of Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi LEGO. Movement is very smooth and base is stable.
Getting started on my Christmas LEGO Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi. Looks like a fun build!
Tyler has a good start on his Christmas LEGO of the Great Deku Tree from The Legend of Zelda!
Nice winter afternoon for the Magic Pines Sit & Soak. This is my new happy place. 🔥💧
Mazie and I had a nice walk around the cabin loop. I forgot my hat and she was nice enough to borrow me hers. 🌈🤩
We played Escape the Room: Secret of Dr. Gravely’s Retreat tonight and had a lot of fun solving the various puzzles. We successfully escaped with 7 minutes remaining on the 120 minute timer! Fun time! 🔓
Tammy likes Christmas Gnomes so I decided to get her one that is near life size.
Santa brought me a lefse shirt! This is a serious Minnesota level up! 🎄🎁🎅
Santa brought me an ornament to go with the hot tub! 🎄🎅
On a movie roll this Christmas with Family Switch tonight. Fairly goofy movie but fun for the family.
Tammy and I must have been good this year! Merry Christmas Eve!🎄🎁🤩
If you’d like to “listen along” with our family our Christmas Things playlist on Apple Music is the vibe that we like. Many classics with some more niche add ins. 🎄🎶
Starting Christmas Eve with an amazing cup of Dreamy Melon from the ever amazing Pair Cupworks.
Dreamy Melon! – We’ve sold some pretty great coffees this year, but this one is probably the top. Clean, crisp sucrose sweetness, and fragrant melon flavor – this marvelous flavor is a result of meticulous processing including constant monitoring, temperature control, and finely tuned fermentation.
A truly delightful cup. Very subtle flavor tones. Smooth with very little bite. Would agree on the clean, crisp taste. One of the best coffees I’ve ever had. ☕️
