Jamie Thingelstad

Robin decided that a nest would be great on top of our irrigation controller. Hmm… trying to leave this be until the eggs hatch. 😬

Sauna fired up for a morning sweat.

First smash burgers of 2025! 🍔

Getting the pool ready for summer!

It was awesome to see @davoh for a delicious coffee at Five Watt today! The conversation covered much ground and could have continued on if not for a lack of time. 🤝

I’ve never had an Apple TV require this Recovery Mode. It seems to be working fine to fix it.

This is a bit goofy but I like goofy. 😊

1. Received email — there is an Internet Phone Book? 🤔
2. Used site lookup search to see if I’m in it. ✅
3. Ordered a copy of Internet Phone Book. 🛒

The initial run of 500 copies sold out in less than 24 hours.

I am glad we can support Zero Line on their next convoy of aid to Ukraine and their continued work to support the people of Ukraine. 🇺🇦

We capped off Mother’s Day with a trip to Enigma Adventures in Maple Grove to do their Pirates of the Spanish Main room. This room was the top recommendation of the folks that run Copper Cat Escape Games and it held up to the recommendation. The room has a wonderful mix of puzzles and multiple “reveals” that were very fun surprises. The pacing of the puzzles and challenges was good. With just the four of us we were challenged to keep the pace fast and sadly we didn’t get there in the 60 minute deadline, but we did finish just a minute or two past that.

We had previously done Istanbul Gambit at Enigma’s other location and they should get very high marks on how well these rooms are executed. They are very good, imaginative, and the mechanics are top notch. We gave Pirates a ★★★★★ rating for sure. It is also nice that they don’t make you sign waivers. They could do better with the overall ambiance and it feels like colocating with Whirly Ball isn’t pulling in visitors.

Highly recommend giving this room a go — we had a great time! Room 69!

We went to a live recording of The Object podcast at the MIA today. Dessa was the special guest discussing Salvador Dalí and the surrealists. She is always engaging and entertaining.

Happy Mother’s Day to the “heart of our family” and most amazing of Mom’s.

Moms are awesome — especially mine. Happy Mother’s Day! 💛

Upgraded one of my bikes with these awesome large Crank Brothers Stamps. Old pedals were too small.

Plant shopping at the Heart to Care Tanzania plant sale! If you are in the Twin Cities and want plants you can support a good cause at the same time. 🇹🇿

Manu recently added an RSS feed of new sites to Blogroll. I popped it into Feedbin to discover new blogs. I explored a few and was delighted at the diversity of sites these bloggers have. If there is an opposite of scrolling an algorithmic feed it is this. Let’s bring surfing the web back. 🏄

Thanks to the recent fix on micro.blog allowing blogs over 5G to export I got my first backup in 2 years and 4 months! My total backup is now 11.58 GB, and it seems in the last couple years I averaged 187.5 MB of additions a month. ☺️

We saw Secret Mall Apartment at the Zeitgeist Zinema in Duluth. Wild story.