Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland just opened a new exhibit in my birthday this week.
Ties of our Common Kindred was such a lovely exhibit with so many artists.
We enjoyed it on Sunday in the rain. No photos allowed inside so I took some of the walking trail and grounds as the snow finally began to melt.
This tree is so beautiful. I have to stop and enjoy it every time we visit.
My lovely wife descending into the pavilions.
Caught Mr. Fox in a daylight visit yesterday.
The squirrels are eating well. With the additional 6-10” of snow and ice they are able to leap up and over the baffles. I’m not fighting them. They earned it. The snow will melt one day and they’ll be back to being baffled.
This Blue Jay is so big it wraps around. My older gamers will get it.
I remember this story because of my Dad. He walked out of the house and found his young son digging a random hole on the property. No plan, poorly equipped, but enthusiastically digging. He stood there asking questions, not judging. Supporting the dream.
Just letting me gleefully dig.
He taught me that no one knows where inspiration comes from — only that it’s fragile, invaluable, and fleeting. – Rands: I’m Going to Dig a Hole
That last line stuck with me. Inspiration is fragile, invaluable and fleeting.
Tron Ares is Hackers with more RGB.
Taskmaster New Year’s Double Treat was so much fun! And an announcement of the next series? #blessed
YES!
If you don’t belt out “GREASY BLACK PEEL” during the Grinch, is it even Christmas?
I hope you had some dark-eyed juncos, mourning doves or carolina wrens visit you this morning. They’ve all beautiful against the snow.
I love how the doves just look like they never know where they’re going. Just waddling to and fro on their pink feet.
Why was Brady Anderson (Oriole baseball player) on Sabrina the Yeenaged Witch?
There must be a back story here…
On my fourth (fifth?) attempt I got the Automatic Ripoing Machine setup and working in docker in a virtual machine.
Now it’s hungrily chewing through my dvds and preparing them for a service of locally hosted streaming.
We made one of our favorite, easy dinners tonight. Easy Sheet Pan Chicken Recipe with Chickpeas, Cumin and Turmeric
One thing I’ve added is to drain and roll the chick peas around on the sheet pan with paper towels to remove the skins and dry them out. This helps to make them crispier when they cook.
It turned out perfectly tonight. One of the few times my finished dish resembled the recipe photo.
Marinating and prepping.
Ready for the oven.
Delicious Perfection!
We had a neighbor’s tree top blow down in a recent wind storm. It’s an old locust tree and started to rot and get hollow near the top.
It’s been sitting across our neighbor’s fences for a week while I found a tree place to take care of it.
Today, it was chopped up and turned into a fine mulch. Not sure what the neighbors are going to do with their respective chain link fences but that’s not my problem to solve.
I made it. 365 day reading streak.
I don’t know how far I’ll go or if I’ll let it lapse now that I’ve made it. But it feels good to have accomplished.
I spent the evening junk journaling with my wife while we listened to a playlist of “90s one hit wonders.”
I’m not sure it could be a one hit wonder list if a band appears more than once. Looking at you, Local H.
I find junk journaling therapeutic and peaceful. A no rules creative exercise.
At my wits end with my neighbor’s aggressive dogs jumping up on the fence they built and barking at us anytime we:
Today was finally “pick up all the walnuts covering my yard” day. With a small setback as the little trash can broke and sent walnuts rolling.
I have spent the last few weeks laying the groundwork for a Data Lake in AWS. It’s been exhausting and leaned heavily on AI because when your small company is ALL IN on AI, you get AI tools instead of humans.
So you use what you have to get the job done. Now we get to the exciting phase of “does any of this actually work in the real, production world?” I am anxious about the entire thing, while my leadership team is ready to pop corks and celebrate.
It’s certainly given me a greater understand of where AI can assist in technical projects and where it absolutely falls on its face. And it does, fall on its face early and often.
My Apple Watch SE decided that this weekend’s swim was a perfect time to cease being water-resistant. My partner’s watch came out of the pool ticking away. Ready to pull the trigger on a 2nd-Gen SE, but thought it was worth seeing what’s announced today.
Going to see Nine Inch Nails tonight in Baltimore.
Last night, my wife grabbed a shirt for bed and it was from the 2006 With Teeth Tour..
It later hit me, it’s been nearly 20 years since I saw that show. In honor of that memory, I’m reliving the show: www.youtube.com/watch
I have binged through this entire series today. What an incredible ride we went on together. What a unique and terrifying ordeal. Absolutely loved this.
Happy to be home. Watching Aliens hug the faces of people. I mean look at how appreciative the humans are, their chests are just bursting! #alienearth
What it’s like when a former NHL star plays in beer league hockey - The Washington Post
“We have a team [group] chat but I didn’t tell anybody,” Laurencik said. “It was kind of a surprise, because we have a roster of like 20 people but if you send a message that Kuznetsov is playing tonight, I think we would have like 20-plus people on the bench. I was like, ‘Whoever is going to show up will have a little surprise.’
I love everything about this story. How many beer leaguers show up to a local professional on their team for the night?
Really enjoying this series. It’s a beautiful story about adult friendship. We are all just trying to get through this life and finding our way with the people in our lives.