Field Notes | Birds and Trees of North America Don’t mind me, just sobbing at this video of the life’s work of Max Brasher and his beautiful bird paintings (and effort to make his work public and create a museum).

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

If I never, ever see “Allow Paste” again on my iPhone it will be too soon. It’s making me miss my Pixel 4a. My light, smaller device without annoying nannying of my usage of it.

I went back to iPhone for the Watch/Mac ecosystem. But I grow weary.

This absolutely wild ride from McDonalds to an incredible artist and designer left me in tears and in awe. Incredible talk by @cabel@panic.com

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“I am not a mad enough max.”

I overheard this in a video my wife was watching. It was someone’s response to surviving the apocalypse.

It lines up with my philosophy of “Drive towards the blast. Don’t wait for the fallout.”

Growing near Mount Weather during the Cold War the humor is dark.

A little kiss in the sun.

With all the “more ads coming to streaming services” I’ve never felt better about my ongoing quest to buy and rip DVDs and Blu-Rays from my local thrift stores into Plex.

$2-$5 discs are very affordable and I’ve for the hard drive space so I don’t need to load the disc every time.

Fall is here. I walked outside to a car covered in leaves.

Finally starting the upgrade for the NAS from 10TB -> 14TB drives I bought on sale months ago. It’s a well-documented process from QNAP. How can I expand the Storage Pool/Static Volume by replacing the disks with larger capacity drives? | QNAP But it still makes me nervous to pull drives.

I’d like to take a Spotify playlist and find the songs on that list outside of Spotify since that’s all I really listen to.

Is there any tool or app I can use to take that list of songs and find them elsewhere where I could buy DRM free versions to own?

I’d like to pay the artists for their music.

Sausage and Tortellini Soup Recipe

I made this soup for dinner and it’s just as good as I remember.

A hummingbird perched on a branch nearby as I worked outside today. It’s the first time I had seen one near our house.

A few minutes later the neighbors pet bird went wild and I looked over to seer a fox trot through my back yard.

Working outside has been a great decision for wildlife.

I found the originalal pig in a thrift store. It’s a cookie jar and the pig lifts up from the bath tub made. The smaller pigs are salt and pepper shakers.

There do not appear to be anymore of these bathing pigs in the set. But they’re so ridiculous. I love them.

I don’t know where this portal leads but I’d love to find out.

Sometimes you take a photo because you see it in your mind without color.

We found Elvis.

As I’ve gotten older and settled into adulthood, I’ve come to realize that it’s perfectly fine to say, “I don’t know” when faced with a problem. For the longest time, I’ve felt this pressure, self-imposed perhaps, to figure everything out on my own. But the truth is, no one has all the answers, and that’s okay.

Take today, for example. I went to Jiffy Lube to get an oil change and have my back windshield wiper replaced. It was lightly raining so when I used it, I noticed it was not touching the back window.

When I stopped, I looked at it and tried to adjust it. But it just wasn’t touching the window to wipe it. The old me would have stubbornly tried to solve it myself, convinced that I should be able to fix it.

Surely if I just keep trying. Or look up a video or some advice online I could solve it.

Instead, I went back and told them what was going on. One of the guys took a look and said the one they installed appeared to be slightly too long. So he popped it off and put another one on. It worked perfectly.

I need to remember it’s ok to ask for help. I don’t need to fix everything on my own. Especially when the fix is as simple as replace the part that has an issue.

You’re welcome to hang out there little buddy. But you might be real unhappy about it soon.

I’m not sure exactly what’s going on it in here. Why is the snowman holding the arms and head of another? Where is the body?

Setup. Email. Rules.

If you’re not filtering email you’re hurting yourself and your team. Why are there thousands of unread emails in your inbox?

Filter them. Sort them.

You do not need to see every message. You’re not really seeing nor action on them. Put them into cold storage then delete later.

Have you looked at the moon. I missed the full moon by one day. But it’s so bright and beautiful tonight.

My wife requested I find a copy of the Taylor Swift Reputation Tour and Eras Tour if possible.

I went looking with money in hand. I found both on the Internet Archive and they now live in my Plex server so she can watch on demand without fear of it vanishing one day.

Wife: you don’t have to take a picture of every one you see. Me: yes I do! It’s my scavenger hunt for fiscal irresponsibility.

Our Billy Bookcaseses (three tall ones with extension) to the right and a Vihals sideboard.

Replacing old metal racks for art supplies and thrifting side gig.

For my next trick, placing rectangular Billy bookcases into a house that is anythingg but rectangular.

A majestic double rainbow from earlier today.