There is a fox that has been mostly living at our cabin property for a couple of years now. This year she had pups and they sure are cute to see scamper around.

Tyler and I are going to do a Minnebar session this year — Elixir: Creating An Ai Agent For Our Clash Royale Clan. This will be a lot of fun to share with everyone and tell some of the POAP KINGS and Elixir story.

My first meaningful print with the new Bambu P2S is a Gridfinity setup for my office desk. The grid is down and now I’m populating with various bins. There are so many options and the Bambu P2S prints things effortlessly. This may be showing up in more drawers soon.

Open desk drawer lined with a black Gridfinity grid insert holding several gray and yellow organizer bins filled with pushpins, paper clips, and keys.

We saw Project Hail Mary today and it was every bit as good as everyone that has seen it has told me. I read the Martian and loved that book but had no idea about this book until it hit the theater. Just a great movie with incredible characters. Definitely one to go to the theater for!

Movie poster for Project Hail Mary showing a man floating upside down in a spacecraft hatch, releasing March 20 2026

Dock is in!

Workers in waders install an aluminum dock on a lake beside a Porta-Dock service barge on a cloudy spring day.

Good final CIO Panel at MnTech Connect with Teddy Bekele (Land O’Lakes), Sutha Sivasubramaniam (Optum), Jennifer Czaplewski (Target), and Mike Bollinger (Livefront) and a special appearance from Senator Amy Klobuchar via video.

We got most of the TeamSPS folks at MnTech Connect together for a group photo.

Group of eleven TeamSPS colleagues smiling in front of an mntech Minnesota Technology Association step-and-repeat banner at an event venue.

Great live demos at The Agentic Workflow: A Live Demo of Autonomous Execution Across the SDLC from TeamSPS at MnTech Connect.

Great session on AI transformation from Matthew Green of Accenture at MnTech Connect today.

Older man in gray blazer speaking at a wooden podium on stage at MnTech Connect with a glowing green node network backdrop.

Great session on Shipping a Customer-Facing Al Agent: Lessons from Moving Fast Without Breaking Trust with Valentin Kornukh this morning. Shared learnings we have from creating SPS MAX!

Conference session with a speaker at a podium presenting a MAX Chat software demo on a large screen to about 30 attendees seated at round tables.