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2023-03-26:

2023-03-24: Today.

2023-03-22:

2023-03-20: This is sorta so so: mobile.twitter.com/BEASTMODE… But then you get to: …

2023-03-14: I’m close to the “build my own site generator in Ruby” stage of my blog. Probably inspired by barf. …

2023-03-13: The Last of Us on HBO was outstanding. Now to re-play the game or move straight to The Last of Us 2, …

2023-03-12: TLOU #okay

2023-03-10: I like to print articles from time to time in order to read them on paper. I wish macOS’s …

2023-03-08: I was today years old old when I realized Lumbergh is also Kent Davison (Veep).

2023-03-08: I had totally forgotten about the game Hard Hat Mack. Every few years one of those games I played …

2023-03-05: My phone is randomly restarting throughout the day, variably saying my phone has a normal amount of …

2023-03-04: Let’s see what everyone is going on about.

2023-03-04: Very interesting and has me thinking. Thinking. https://craigmod.com/essays/memberships_year_four/

2023-03-01: A little more about what we’re trying to accomplish with Good Enough: …

2023-03-01: It’s fun to send out a newsletter and find that people are getting Gmail suspicious link …

2023-02-28: I’m a Mac person. Anyone doing most of their PC gaming via GeForce Now? Share your setups! 🕹️ …

2023-02-27: We bought a Mazda CX-5. Its actual-button touch screen controls make every other car touch screen …

2023-02-27: Over the years I’ve always kept my mobile browser tabs to about 100. Every few months I’d go through …

2023-02-24: Sadly I can not unsubscribe. It’s nice to constantly be bombarded with examples in the world …

2023-02-24: What a weird way to announce the elimination of a free tier. If I’m gonna pay someone for …

2023-02-23:

2023-02-22: Just watched Marcel the Shell. One daughter is still emotional after the movie, which we finished 20 …

2023-02-22: I love that the MN DNR has a climate journal back into history. There’s a legacy journal as …

2023-02-21: How weird am I? I own Pisces Iscariot, but not Siamese Dream. 🎵

2023-02-21: And what is love in the end? Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness …

2023-02-20: Dang:

2023-02-18: I’ve been told I’m old school when it comes to internet politeness. What do you think - cool to …

2023-02-18:

2023-02-17: Yes, /now pages clearly need a /then analog.

2023-02-17: I just came to the epiphany that my personal /now page updates could also be a personal newsletter …

2023-02-15: I’ve never really used a library for authentication or authorization in Rails. Thinking this …

2023-02-15: Was about to order a book last night, but then I searched my email and found I had ordered it a year …

2023-02-14: The Last of Us episode 5 was sure a gut punch.

2023-02-13: Not an inspiring set of phone number pointers from our log-processing service. (And, no, when I …

2023-02-12: Someone on our team posted Album Whale across 5 or 6 subreddits Friday and suddenly we have a bunch …

2023-02-11: Drumlines.

2023-02-09: Wow, Scott’s Cheap Flights picked up the going.com domain? Wonder what that cost? …

2023-02-08: This advice from my past self just “cost” me 60-90 minutes. Find Bugs Once and the Joy …

2023-02-07: [T]here is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write …

2023-02-06: This Hogwarts Legacy review is 9 out of 10, but it sure reads like a 7 or 8 review. Think I’ll …

2023-02-06: I just assume all resources that claim to teach the basics of marketing will be bad. Like they …

2023-02-03: I have some photo scans from the 1960s, most of which have severely degraded coloring. Some washed …

2023-01-31: Over 300 tabs open on my phone. I now have a goal to remove 5 per day (close and note them down …

2023-01-30: If we want to put @goodenough on Mastodon, what instance is a good fit? I’m thinking companies …

2023-01-30: I’ve been reading the short stories that Robin Sloan has available on the Internet. Two that …

2023-01-30: Fresh computer install means that I’ve found some new software to smooth out my daily. …

2023-01-29: Spent an hour trying to Google “I want to point a subdomain at a simple photo ‘streaming’ and/or …

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2023-01-29: A good little rundown of software engineering things that are learned from experience. 💻

2023-01-27: The person who signed up for Amazon with my secondary email address has finally figured out they …

2023-01-27: Are there any “small business”y competitors to the Google app suite? We’d like to …

2023-01-26: Pleasantly surprised to see that Hiatus Kaiyote are coming to perform in the area in April. In the …

2023-01-25: Pretty excited about the latest Album Whale update: list formatting options. Since we’re …

2023-01-24: Where do you keep your electronic documents? I like to have a copy (scan/download) of all the …

2023-01-23: Finished reading: The Night In Question: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Tobias Wolff 📚 A …

2023-01-22: This is my all day. IYKYK.

2023-01-21: Gettin’ into things. 🎵

2023-01-19: Just turned on auto deploy for our @goodenough apps. Feels uncomfortable, but going to live in that …

2023-01-17: See, this is why Bandcamp is nice. We’ve always loved their embed styling as compared to the …

2023-01-16: Mexican meatballs tonight were a hit. This is pre “rolling around in sauce.”

2023-01-14: Anyone here work with a small team and not use the Google Suite for collaboration? What do you use …

2023-01-13: Hmm, what if we ( @goodenough ) decided to make a 2023 version of StumbleUpon?

2023-01-13: Knowing how bad some picture books are, I think something like this could take off: AI storybook …

2023-01-12: My first Enzoni - highly recommended. And I made killer pizza tonight. Win-win!

2023-01-12: Realizing that I can’t turn on Apple end-to-end encryption because we maintain a lot of older …

2023-01-11: Every day I’m winning!

2023-01-10: Excited that we’ve been able to add Bandcamp support to Album Whale. For you Micro.blog folks, …

2023-01-10: Surprising my 15-months-ago self, I got some books out of storage.

2023-01-10: I have acquired a mild Fortnite addiction thanks to my kids. Good thing is we’re having fun playing …

2023-01-05: My good friend, Nate, has started a newsletter about theology and R-rated movies. He plans on …

2023-01-04: I grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota, yet I just heard the phrase “All boots, no cattle” for the …

2023-01-03: Finished reading: Sourdough by Robin Sloan. Didn’t enjoy this as much as Mr. Penumbra’s. …

2023-01-02: Why Not Mars (Idle Words) - an interesting takedown of the manned Mars mission.

2023-01-01: Happy New Year to those who celebrate.

2022-12-31: Heading to friends for our first normal NYE in a few years. Taking a break from cocktail mixing for …

2022-12-30: Last year’s unexecuted ideas mean I have two expiring domains that I’m going to have …

2022-12-30: Perhaps Teabag Style walking will be the 2023 health fad?

2022-12-29: What happens happens. And then we are gone. Author withheld because spoilers.

2022-12-27: Let’s all sign up. Let’s all blog! Bring Back Blogging.

2022-12-27: Speaking of logging in all the time, I have two different Apple TVs that daily are asking me to …

2022-12-26: Whenever I need to visit a web service I feel like I spend 25% of my time authenticating and …

2022-12-26: Finished reading Project Hail Mary: A Novel yesterday. The first half was a bit slow for me to work …

2022-12-23: An aggressive day of Klask.

2022-12-21: At least we’ll always have “Plaid, Inc. Privacy Litigation Settlement Administrator has …

2022-12-21: The little guys win again: “Equifax Breach Settlement Fund has sent you $5.21 USD.”

2022-12-21: Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. – Carrie Fisher I …

2022-12-19: I am done littering Fosstdon with my non-FOSS posts. Find me @bjhess@social.lol now!

2022-12-19: I know we bag on the Apple Music app a lot, but, man, has Calendar never been fully cooked. The …

2022-12-15: omg.lol account procured. Now to determine if I’m going to move my Fosstodon/Mastodon account over …

2022-12-15: I’ve had a standing desk that’s only been standing + stool-leaning for a decade. I think …

2022-12-14: I see omg.lol prices are going up next year? I should probably jump in and support the weird web.

2022-12-14: It’s nice to have a designer friend to help you out. Though we do have to tighten this up.

2022-12-14: Rails TIL. In Rails 7 you need to render with a status code in order for Flash.now to appear. …

2022-12-14: Just spent five minutes experimenting with adding things to Todoist via Apple Watch & Siri. Just …

2022-12-12: Things are happening…

2022-12-12: Starting the week with more RSS feed hacking. Let’s see if progress is made.

2022-12-10: A couple web form things I’ve never seen before.

2022-12-09: Reading the first 2/3s of Robin Sloan’s Year of New Avenues has me excited! Getting the word …

2022-12-09:

2022-12-08: Using render.com, we don’t get much in the way of log retention or searchability. Any service …

2022-12-07: Had an intresting conversation with a friend today, which included his statement that the WALL-E …

2022-12-06: Just pushed my All Time Favorites list out to Album Whale. This is a small portion of the eventual …

2022-12-06: Countdown to Red Hot Chili Peppers (and The Strokes) pre-order. I should really think of a budget …

2022-12-05: Read No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox 📚 Two MJF bios in one year seems like a bit much. I …

2022-12-04: I feel like every time there is a day I try to stay tech free, some random event puts me back on the …

2022-12-03: Not that I know soccer, but… It looked hopeful at times, but US just doesn’t have the passing …

2022-12-01: So I have this idea. What if there were a service that combined your consumed things into one feed. …

2022-11-30: Lots of lists have come through the past couple of days on Album Whale. Big thanks to the Micro.blog …

2022-11-28: Album Whale is open for signup! We’re just getting started and discovery features are on the …

2022-11-27: Also read Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein 📚

2022-11-27: Read Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 📚 The right book, exactly. At exactly …

2022-11-20: Launching Album Whale this week. As it will launch with very few features, I think I’ll use a new …

2022-11-19: Doing some video processing (I take them off of iCloud and put them on my NAS for easy family Plex …

2022-11-13: DMB, been awhile.

2022-11-12: A few days until this little creation becomes useful to my community again: www.owatonnaparking.com

2022-11-11: What do you think happens when you click on this in macOS’s Apple Music?

2022-11-10: Last mild day for the fall, so I went for a walk.

2022-11-10: I turned on Apple Photos shared library to share photos with my wife. I’m always nervous, so I have …

2022-11-10: I’m thinking of getting a MacBook Pro when the next cycle is unleashed. 2023? Main reason is …

2022-11-06: If you’re consistent, I guess this’ll happen to everyone who plays daily. Wordle 505 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

2022-11-03: I need to fire up an email sending service for an app I’m building. Mailgun is probably more …

2022-11-03: Amazon Prime says: More ad-free music, increasing from 2 million to over 100 million songs in …

2022-10-29: I turned on importing my Letterboxd posts into micro.blog, but I think its just a bit too loud. I …

2022-10-29: Gold Rush.

2022-10-29: Kentucky Maid.

2022-10-28: SIX night.

2022-10-28: Black Adam, 2022 - ★★★ Do I have to rate these things? I dunno. Don't love rating things! I tend to like The Rock. Lots of …

2022-10-27: No No: A Dockumentary, 2014 - ★★★★ I've always been a big baseball fan, so this interested me more than most. The LSD no hitter was …

2022-10-27: Bibimbap night!

2022-10-26: Last Word

2022-10-25: Passing on my concert love to my middlest and her good friend. 🎵

2022-10-25: Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, 2016 - ★★★★ This was an interesting watch for me. I've heard my parents and aunt talk about Debbie Reynolds a …

2022-10-25: Hocus Pocus 2, 2022 - ★½ I read a review about this movie that compared this and the original to a Disney …

2022-10-24: Gonna try to turn on the letterboxd-micro.blog connection now. Sorry in advance for any mistakes I …

2022-10-22: Last night. Rachel Eckroth with my honey. 🎵

2022-10-20: It’s been well over 18 months and I don’t think I’ll ever figure out this vehicle’s battery …

2022-10-20: Based on tonight’s online liquor order, this will be my first ever winter of cocktails. (Like …

2022-10-19: Did you know Flea has studied jazz trumpet performance?

2022-10-17: I feel bad, but I had no idea that They Might Be Giants’ “Istanbul (Not …

2022-10-16: It was Detroit style night. I like it too much.

2022-10-15: TMBG

2022-10-15: Last minute date with myself.

2022-10-13: My view most days and why I invest in home audio. With winter coming I only grow more thankful. The …

2022-10-13: So if I add a new feed to micro.blog as “Add posts to Micro.blog timeline”, will it only …

2022-10-12: Read: Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang 📚 This was really …

2022-10-07: Related to my post about the pretty album thing we’re working on, I share with you Shfl. …

2022-10-06: Related to my previous posts about album search, we’re getting somewhere. Certainly more to …

2022-10-06: Related to finishing Four Thousand Weeks, I’m pretty excited that my my Kindle highlights came …

2022-10-06: Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚 Yeah, that was good. Though I never …

2022-10-05: Just now realizing that Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” predates The Phantom of the Opera. …

2022-10-05: I picked up a Baronfig Confidant notebook for my nightly journal. I’m not as impressed with it …

2022-10-04: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets.

2022-10-04: Finished reading: LaserWriter II: A Novel by Tamara Shopsin 📚 It was fine. It was quick.

2022-09-30: Listened to The Rumor, a podcast about an old rumor related to a postponed game during Cal …

2022-09-30: Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor 📚 Loved the Bobiverse series at the outset, and was still …

2022-09-29: If you are an iPhone user and want to try the Bluetooth earbud game, but don’t want to shell out for …

2022-09-28: There needs to be a central API for album/music search. One that provides album details, art, and …

2022-09-28: 🎵 Blue Heron Suite by Sarah Jarosz A beautiful recording. It feels like the band is sitting in the …

2022-09-26: Trying to decide if I want to ask some friends if any of them want to spend one arm and one leg to …

2022-09-26: This week has me thinking hard about habits. Habit is the most powerful thing in the world in how it …

2022-09-23: I have not really sat and listened to many Bruce Springsteen albums. Winding down this Friday …

2022-09-21: Oleta Adams first received international acclaim for her work with Tears for Fears, lending needed …

2022-09-20: I wonder why macOS replaced the nice photo quick preview with this tiny version?

2022-09-19: Socks rocked off.

2022-09-19: A package from overseas.

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2022-09-15: If I’m listening to an album that I’m discovering for the first time, is it interesting …

2022-09-13: Two of my daughters wanted to get into vinyl. I love it! However, I have successfully steered them …

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2022-09-10: Heading to a Shins concert tonight. Excited! 🎵

2022-09-10: I am working on upgrading my home stereo. Oh the rabbit holes I am going down. 🎵

2022-09-07: Shop towels.

2022-09-06: Saw some art today.

2022-08-30: Did you know there is an MST3K text adventure game released in 1996? Though I don’t think it …

2022-08-29: Just drafted my newsletter to send out on Wednesday. It always has some writing that is not part of …

2022-08-28: Finished reading: The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3) by N. K. Jemisin 📚 Now I’m reading …

2022-08-27: Watched Licorice Pizza tonight. I had no clue Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son was the male lead, but I …

2022-08-26: Saw Bullet Train and had a good time. Go and enjoy it! I also just realized you could run a whole …

2022-08-26: Art: Pickle. [T]he pickle remained stuck to the ceiling, using only ketchup remnants and …

2022-08-24: And she’s off!

2022-08-23: I encourage you all to build strong relationships with your children. Though I will warn you that …

2022-08-23: None of the trailers for The Rings of Power have given me any hope…until this one. Maybe?

2022-08-22: This response to “Quiet Quitting” is delicious. Bosses want to be religious leaders …

2022-08-20: Confession: I’m a life-long Minnesotan and a rock & roll fan, but I’ve never really …

2022-08-17: Took our daughter to a famous clinic today to (thankfully) find out she didn’t need a (minor) …

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2022-08-16: Found myself in a strange place tonight.

2022-08-15: The Decemberists. 🎵

2022-08-15: I like to look at set lists leading up to a concert, usually making a playlist to listen to …

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2022-08-09: USA folks, the new IRA Bill seems to have some benefits to the homeowner. Particularly in the world …

2022-08-08: Heh. Ran into old school Book-A-Minute and Movie-A-Minute. Reminds me of a project I tried way back …

2022-08-06: The Greatest Salesman in the World is not a book about sales, but about habit formation. I believe …

2022-08-05: Did I ever share Rediscovering the Small Web here? If not, why not? Probably one of the micro.blog …

2022-08-04: I’ve spent a lot of time in my life learning about saving, finance, and investing. That …

2022-08-02: I downloaded Arc right before vacation, which was probably a bad idea. It couldn’t import my …

2022-07-30: A concert.

2022-07-29: Netflix download management for travel with four family members using four devices is…broken. My …

2022-07-27: The final hiking day of our trip was Bryce Canyon. Gorgeous. Went down Wall Street and over to …

2022-07-26: Grand Canyon north rim today. I had no idea how beautifully forested this area was. Breathtaking at …

2022-07-25: Today was a shorter day. Not as hot temperature-wise, but seems like they brought in some humidity? …

2022-07-23: Subway in Zion was an absolute butt-kicker. On the hike for over 10 hours, but totally worth it even …

2022-07-22: Zion with a little bit of The Narrows.

2022-07-21: Sand dunes and sand caves.

2022-07-20: A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore ahahahaha 🔗

2022-07-19: Heading to southern Utah tomorrow for lots of hiking and views. I might decide to post lots of …

2022-07-18: I feel like my Netflix downloads are always set to expire mid-trip. Seems like there should be a …

2022-07-14: Sculpture, what does it mean?

2022-07-13: A good night. 🎵

2022-07-11: Good Enough is taking a summer break, but we squeezed out one last newsletter for all of our …

2022-07-09: Paradox of choice over here as I try to plan our southern Utah itinerary. Heading out for 9 days …

2022-07-07:

2022-07-07: Camp Cucamonga, a TV movie from 1990, is not available for streaming anywhere and my wife is not …

2022-07-05: Our roof was replaced last week while we were gone on a marching band trip. The roofers did not do …

2022-07-04: It was a trip with challenges, but the kids had a blast and they got experiences like this. Success!

2022-07-03:

2022-07-02: Wet theme park conditions on this very trying “vacation” as a chaperone.

2022-06-29: This is not a vacation.

2022-06-24: Our silliest Good Enough newsletter yet. It doesn’t feel like a day to be silly, but maybe that’s …

2022-06-24: I think Observations on 6 years of journaling might have helped me to crack the code of this thing I …

2022-06-23: Oliver Burkeman’s latest newsletter includes this bit. I’m happy to read someone …

2022-06-21: News flash: Aaron Copland is pretty good. 🎵

2022-06-21: Finished up The Revenge of Analog by David Sax, featuring @patrickrhone and @rohdesign. Good eats!📚

2022-06-20: Related to that prior post, take a look at this video/audio toybox, Xorberax Visualizer. How fun is …

2022-06-20: Sometimes these folks get to be a little much, but it is true that Poolsuite FM is an inspiration …

2022-06-16: It’s marching band season.

2022-06-15: Some good spam asking for blog links: I stumbled upon your article here micro.bjhess.com/page/3/. …

2022-06-15: 🎵 Hard (2022) by Tove Styrke Pop that brings you back. Gated drums on the intro track make you think …

2022-06-12: Taking a break as the oldest wraps up her college orientation.

2022-06-10: Friday. Jack White. 🎵

2022-06-07: 🍿 Wrath of Man (2021) It was pretty good…Guy Ritchie without the Guy Ritchie. Not sure why …

2022-06-07: Victor Wooten is amazing and this is amazing. I should have taken about five pages of notes on this …

2022-06-06: Did they fix the Apple Music app? #wwdc

2022-06-06: Woke up today to doevery.day having an order of magnitude more sign ups than it has had before. …

2022-06-06: Listening to vinyl again for the first time in a while. Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5 is good for …

2022-06-02: Let the summer of margaritas commence.

2022-06-02: Finished reading: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 📚

2022-05-31: I just had a nighttime video call with a friend. Typically with evening hangs, especially virtual, I …

2022-05-29: I surprised myself and wrote one oblique sort of thing about how I’m feeling in this America …

2022-05-27: We just wrapped up A Good Enough Newsletter and it will go out this afternoon. This time there will …

2022-05-22: 🎶 There’s a new release of Max Richter’s take on Vivaldi. (I talked about this …

2022-05-22: Is there a Twitter client that allows you to cut Twitter’s feature set to the following? …

2022-05-21: Holding court at the bedroom window.

2022-05-21: Walked around the graduation party setup this morning. Then went back into my quarantine. This is …

2022-05-20: Now I’ve been banned from lobste.rs for the reason that I’m supposedly a duplicate user …

2022-05-20: I feel like I’m approaching one of those moments where I have to strip everything away, make it all …

2022-05-19: I watched The Phantom Thread tonight in my quarantine room. Now I need a film studies class to …

2022-05-18: 🔗 These remixes by The Reflex are amazing.

2022-05-18: 🔗 Some lovely light reading while sitting in bed with COVID: About Those Kill-Switched Ukranian …

2022-05-18: Wow, the original WWW logo was spectacular.

2022-05-18: After 2 years of our house being COVID-free, today is the day. I’m the winner of the COVID …

2022-05-13: First time I’ve played it and… Framed #63. 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf I’ve never seen the movie in …

2022-05-12: Coming soon the makers of doevery.day bring you A Good Enough Newsletter. To support these wacky web …

2022-05-11: I’ve got all the posts I care to transition transitioned to the new HTML+CSS version of my …

2022-05-10: Shawn shared this with me today. It’s amazing.

2022-05-10: 🔗 In a recent newsletter I wrote about how I gave up on the book Ducks, Newburyport, so I really …

2022-05-09: So now that I’ve moved my main blog off of Micro.blog, my theory is that I will feel more …

2022-05-06: I’ve decided to bring my main site & blog back in-house. bjhess.com is not using a …

2022-05-01: Fortunate to take my two brass-playing kids to see Canadian Brass this afternoon. Such virtuosos! …

2022-04-27: doevery.day now has a cheering feature for log entries. Cheer on your friends. Be cheered by your …

2022-04-27: 🔗 Earth Reviews

2022-04-27: 🔗 A Hidden Art Form You’ll Flip For

2022-04-23: Did you know in 2005 a song called “My Humps” sat at number 3 on the Hot 100 for 6 weeks?

2022-04-22: Magic for your locks that no longer seem to be working with your key.

2022-04-22: 🍿 The Batman (2022) I went into this expecting a super hero movie. By the end I realized it was more …

2022-04-21: The Minnesota Timberwolves made me feel very Minnesotan tonight. Oof.

2022-04-18: I’m very thankful to @jean for bringing doevery.day to the @theweeklyreview podcast. It was …

2022-04-15: I think my least favorite response to reporting a bug to a company is “Here, look at our …

2022-04-14: 🔗 The Former Netflix DVD Library Is a Lost Treasure We’ll Never See Again This does make me sad. …

2022-04-11: First fire of the year.

2022-04-09: Prepping for a music boosters benefit concert tonight. Music!

2022-04-07: 🔗 Practically Paperless with Obsidian For those that followed along with my Obsidian questions last …

2022-04-05: 🔗 This art was made by a computer This is just absurdly mindblowing. I want to try it, but …

2022-04-04: If you are a person who has a thousand ideas and directions you want to go, how have you managed to …

2022-04-03:

2022-04-01: Sanibel Island

2022-03-30:

2022-03-30: Yesterday evening.

2022-03-29: The ice cream is choice, as is the passive aggression. This sign went well with the “Don’t tilt …

2022-03-27: 📺 W/ Bob & David (2015) I’m a huge Mr. Show fan, so of course I watched this. Maybe it was …

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2022-03-25: Starting vacation off with some mini golf.

2022-03-21: So my friend Shawn and I have put together a website to help us stay motivated to do the daily thing …

2022-03-21: From Dobby Gibson’s “Ode to the Future”, published in Little Glass Planet: so …

2022-03-20: 📺 Sweet Tooth (2021) As a Jeff Lemire fan who has never read his Sweet Tooth comics (I know), this …

2022-03-17: 🎵 Nine Lives (2022) by Kendra Morris Been a long time since Morris released an album and I’m …

2022-03-17: Who remembers Userscripts? Here’s a mirror of the old site. I wanted to add a shortcut to the …

2022-03-16: I am trying Obsidian, but want it to work without having to dive deep into the details. Is that …

2022-03-15: 📺 The Afterparty (2022) Kind of a fun modern take on Clue.

2022-03-14: 🍿 Philomena (2013) What an outstanding film! Judi Dench is superb and Steve Coogan provides a great …

2022-03-14: 📚 God of Nothingness (2021) by Mark Wunderlich & Against Heaven (2022) by Kemi Alabi I quite …

2022-03-12: 🦹 Criminal: The Last of the Innocent (2011) This is volume 6 in the Criminal series by Ed Brubaker …

2022-03-11: 📺 Ted Lasso, season 2 (2021) We watch television shows pretty slowly. Season 2 dug deep into some …

2022-03-10: There’s homemade falafel under all of that green.

2022-03-09: Sheet pan pancakes last night.

2022-03-09: My Current VS Code Shortcuts

2022-03-08: 🔗 Say yes and never do it I love this message. I think it can go further. In my head is a reasonable …

2022-03-05: 🍿 The Paper Tigers (2020) For our monthly movie, a friend and I were mutually in a …

2022-03-02: 🎵 Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, the Four Seasons (2014) Vivaldi had never been my thing. Then …

2022-02-28: 🍿 Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) I’m on the “mostly enjoyed Bo Burnham’s Inside” …

2022-02-26: 📚 Head On (2019) by John Scalzi I appreciate the things Scalzi is accomplishing in this universe. …

2022-02-25: 🎵 Candid (2020) by Whitney A lovely cover album for a Friday afternoon. Candid by Whitney

2022-02-24: 🦹 Ascender (2021) Ascender is a fascinating series with beautiful watercolor art. I liked its …

2022-02-24: Does anyone else have an iCal (macOS) that is completely buggy? For years mine has: given me …

2022-02-23: 🍿 Spectre (2015) The Daniel Craig Bond movies are always good. Maybe it was lack of sleep or …

2022-02-23: The story of Mark Wunderlich’s poem Cuthbert rolls along so well. I didn’t realize until …

2022-02-22: For the fourth webapp I’m setting up in 2022, I’m trying Elixir and Phoenix rather than my …

2022-02-20: 🍿 Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) Pretty decent little family movie. It had a few interesting ideas …

2022-02-20: 🍿 Last Night in Soho (2021) I love me some Edgar Wright, but I’m still not sure what I think …

2022-02-18: Do you have a thing you need to do every day? Writing, drawing, lifting heavy things or some other …

2022-02-18: 🎵 An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021) by Silk Sonic Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, and Silk Sonic – seems …

2022-02-18: 📚 Fish: a tap essay (2012) by Robin Sloan What an interesting experiment. It has some things to say.

2022-02-16: 🎵 What Kinda Music (2020) by Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes Was listening to this on repeat today.

2022-02-16: 📚 The Obelisk Gate (2016) by N. K. Jemisin I read this with audio. It’s a book two that found …

2022-02-15: 🎵 I Don’t Live Here Anymore (2021) by The War on Drugs

2022-02-14: 🍿 Letters to Juliet (2010) I wouldn’t use movie art to describe this movie, but it still …

2022-02-14: 🦹 The Immortal Hulk This has been a wild ride. A horror comic with many surprises. Volume 8 found me …

2022-02-12: I have a series of photos I want to share online. I want the page to basically just be the picture, …

2022-02-11: 🎵 The Dream (2022) by alt-J It’s finally out. Let’s see how it sounds… The Dream by …

2022-02-11: The poetry books I’m currently reading have quite the titles. Will see if these bring out my angst …

2022-02-10: With my return to daily coding, my wrists and left pinky are hurting while using my Apple keyboard. …

2022-02-10: 🦹 Eternals (2006) Neil Gaiman lends his considerable talents to revisit Eternals. The book felt like …

2022-02-09: I’m coding more again and starting to get pained using my magic keyboard. Though I wish for a …

2022-02-09: 📚 The Dream of Reason (2018) by Jenny George Lots of poems about animals. I didn’t jive with …

2022-02-08: Recipes. Seriously. Tonight I picked up the knife for a “preparation 5 minutes” recipe. …

2022-02-07: I’m starting to build up a list of my favorite albums as well as tracking those albums that I …

2022-02-07: 📚 Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox (2003) I may be 20 years late, but this is a good celebrity memoir. …

2022-02-05: 🍿 The Maze Runner (2014) This one really did depart quite a bit from the book. Partly I think that …

2022-02-05: Learning to sharpen chisels today.

2022-02-03: 📚 Prognosis by Jim Moore (2021) Now this is what I meant when I wrote about mixing with my mind by …

2022-02-02: Genius.

2022-02-02: 🎵 Obviously by Lake Street Dive (2021) I’ve listened to this 4 or 5 times in the past week. It …

2022-01-30: 🦹 Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon (2013) This through volume four is roughly the basis for the Marvel …

2022-01-30: 📚 The Maze Runner (2010) I’ve tried to read along with each of the kids on at least one book …

2022-01-28: 🍽️ Spicy Thai Basil Chicken (Pad Krapow Gai) This is my favorite Thai restaurant order and Chef John …

2022-01-28: 🍿 Dolemite Is My Name (2019) It took a bit for me to get into the movie, but by the end I was quite …

2022-01-27: I’ve decided to run a edited newsletter montly. It will collate many of the posts here at the …

2022-01-27: 🍿 Red Notice (2021) Nothing ground breaking here, but a few laughs never hurt anyone.

2022-01-26: Whelp, the money shoe has dropped (RE: G Suite legacy free edition), which probably makes it so …

2022-01-25: 🍽️ Orecchiette with Sausage and Broccoli Could kind of eat this all night. Hope you like sausage! …

2022-01-24: 🎵 Brothertiger Plays Tears For Fears’ Songs From The Big Chair (2017) A friend turned me on to …

2022-01-24: From Jenny George’s collection The Dream of Reason (I could find no place to link to, so this …

2022-01-23: 🍽️ Black Bean and Roasted Salsa Soup Another out-of-the-park vegetarian option. Soup season!

2022-01-22: 🍽️ Street Cart Chicken & Yellow Rice I’ve made this twice now, and it is the real deal. I …

2022-01-22: 🍿 Dune (2021) This is the second time I’ve seen the movie now and I think I like it. It is …

2022-01-21: Living by what yet get, life by what you give. – Winston Churchill

2022-01-20: 🔗 Unsolicited Advice to Minnesota Children by Neil Hilborn I shouldn’t quote the whole thing …

2022-01-20: 🍿 Bolt (2008) My youngest had never seen this one, so we watched it tonight while the other kids …

2022-01-19: 📚 Where the Deer and the Antelope Play (2021) I like how Nick Offerman writes. It inspires me to be …

2022-01-19: Hello, Rails, old friend.

2022-01-18: 🔗 An app can be a home-cooked meal I am the programming equivalent of a home cook. What an …

2022-01-18: 📚 Dune (1965) I never read Dune as a kid. I tried to read Dune just out of college, but it …

2022-01-17: 🥘 Dilly Bean Stew with Cabbage and Frizzled Onions So much flavor, so few ingredients! Also, …

2022-01-17: Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. – Jonas Salk

2022-01-17: 📚 Homie (2020) Did not hit me as hard as Don’t Call Us Dead. As with all Danez Smith, watching …

2022-01-15: 🍿 Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

2022-01-15: 🍿 The Bird and the Whale (2018) Quite a pretty short movie, animated from thousands of paintings.

2022-01-15: I know that Micro.blog is designed not to have any private “things,” but it strikes me …

2022-01-14: God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. – Kurt Vonnegut

2022-01-14: 🍿 Men in Black 3 (2012) Watching all of these with the kids only to discover that I hadn’t …

2022-01-14: Micro.blogging I have decided to give Micro.blog an honest try in 2022. This means I am moving my blogging presence …

2022-01-13: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

2022-01-12: Postcolonial Love Poem – I didn’t particularly understand anything I was reading. However, there was …

2022-01-11: Has anyone out there given clay.earth a try? Thoughts? I tend to just keep an ongoing log of notes …

2022-01-10: I’m back and I’m backfilling some things here on micro.blog. I tried bringing in my main …

2022-01-07: 🍿 Encanto (2021) That moment when you realize these two are the same people. Love it! 🍿

2022-01-06: 🍿 The Power of the Dog (2021) An impressive piece of filmmaking. The visuals, mood, music, and …

2021-12-09:

2021-12-04: Lasagna night. It was good, but the goodness did not match the effort on this one.

2021-12-03: Za:30 #pizzanight

2021-12-02: Shop projects

2021-11-27: No regrets

2021-11-25: Je né comprends rien

2021-11-21: Projects of great use!

2021-11-18: Omuraisu - my favorite use of leftover rice. I’m not a ketchup and eggs person, but …

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2021-11-14: owatonnaparking.com

2021-11-12: Chicken fesenjan with saffron rice. #richandsilky

2021-10-30: Pizza night tonight was in the Buffalo style. (Thin, cheese and sauce to the edges, 1lb of cheese …

2021-10-25: Not great.

2021-10-23: #Dune #KyleMacLachlan

2021-10-21: Is this heaven?

2021-10-19: Made a fence rail thingy

2021-10-15: Before: After:

2021-10-15: Lawn mower repair.

2021-10-14: #johnny

2021-10-13: Getting the dust bunnies out. 💻

2021-10-08: #waiting

2021-07-30: It’™s been a long time We shouldn’t have left you Without a dope beat to step to 🎵

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2021-07-21: #closed on our new home!

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2021-07-17: #pilgrimage

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2020-11-27:

2020-11-16: This were pretty good.

2020-11-11: Oh, Jesse.

2020-11-09: Jesse just got back from the grocery store. Wonder what’s for dinner?

2020-08-05: A fun UX primer in LEGO. www.designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO…

2020-07-26: The farm.

2020-07-20: Kid found a computer in the closet.

2020-07-19: An interesting, though sad, story about the COVID hit to Kenyan tourism and conservancies.

2020-07-18: A friend turned me on to Allen Stone. Seems a positive, bluesy voice who is worth digging into a …

2020-07-14: Reading.

2020-07-13: Looking to Canada.

2020-07-12: We’re hiking in the north woods of Minnesota. Lake Agnes here.

2020-07-01: My blog archives ≤ 2021 are found at my homepage.

2020-06-14: Green shoots.

2020-05-27: Happy 20th Anniversary to the best partner I could ever ask for. Let’s get cake! 💓💓💓

2020-05-25: Pandemic, make-it-work router table. #homehomehome

2020-05-05: The girls’ band trip was wisely postponed this summer. Thankfully neither of them are seniors …

2020-05-02: I bet kids will be running around each other’s yards again soon, masked up playing robbers and …

2020-04-25: za:30

2020-04-19: My daughter, Ava, has been making coloring pages to pass the quarantime. Maybe you or one of your …

2020-04-17: Naively we visited germ factories.

2020-04-15: We went on pilgrimages.

2020-04-14: Y’™all remember weddings?

2020-04-13: Goonies never say die.

2020-04-12: I assume bacteria will eventually break down any tiny shards of glass from this fermentation mishap?

2020-04-10: My dad and I went down to Kansas City for some, what we hoped to be, warm April baseball. Mother …

2020-04-09: We had just gotten married and strangely decided to catch a sunrise. I remember we rented a Grand Am …

2020-04-08: Oh the lakes we have seen.

2020-04-07: In our younger days we would visit large cities. Sometimes we’d have family there to show us …

2020-04-06: One time long ago we even tried to camp. I don’t know if I’d choose that over …

2020-04-05: Badlands ‘99. Back when we used to drive around from place to place.

2020-04-04: About 20 years ago we went on a trip. That was nice. I enjoyed that.

2020-04-03: It paid off keeping a too-large container of yeast in the fridge for a couple years.

2020-04-03: That sinking feeling when…

2020-03-30: These tandoori barbecue chips for Aldi are really good, but methinks they take themselves a bit too …

2020-03-27: Visited the school.

2020-03-26: A friend texted me last weekend mentioning his temptation to go to his home office and do some more …

2020-01-27: Cleaning out some old folders in the filing cabinet.

2019-12-19: Before: And after:

2019-11-25: Happy birthday, Jesse! I wrote all the mushy, personal stuff in the card I gave you. I think this is …

2019-11-21: Did you know cranberry sauce is really easy…and really tasty?

2019-10-28: Mondays.

2019-09-30: Other side of the sunset at soccer. Sadly the game was called shortly after this due to lightning.

2019-09-29: Trash can.

2019-09-21: Humid fall soccer.

2019-09-14: Fish.

2019-08-30: Jesse’s taking me to a concert for which I bought tickets for a year ago for my birthday. She …

2019-08-20: Let’s do this.

2019-08-08: Meaningful baseball on August is a gift, but this is about the most exciting thing we’ve seen so …

2019-07-26: Yep.

2019-07-26: avie_h is into this selfie thing.

2019-07-24:

2019-07-08:

2019-06-22: `Tis the season.

2019-03-29: Not really ready to be done with vacation.

2019-03-28:

2019-03-23: Going the Distance.

2019-03-23: Tsunami? Ain’t No Thing.

2019-03-23: Tom Haverford in Small Clutch of Bamboo