Bask in the glow

Olympics Opening Ceremony Time!

Watching it live on the US East Coast. Will be rebroadcast at 7:30pm tonight as well.

#Olympics

Rugby is an aggressive game of keep away. 🏉 #Olympics

Olympics!!!

Time to watch everything!

I’ve been having fun watching the athletes on TikTok roaming Paris and sharing their lives with us.

More athletes need to put their country / event n their bios so I can find them and cheer them on.

Watching Rugby now. Fiji is FAST! 🏃💨

Sorting through 25,000+ photos. Trying to determine their actual creation dates using ChatGPT to help me write bash scripts to sort them and tag them properly.

Down to about 700 photos left.

Feels good getting these into one place. Next step is to remove duplicates using Digikam for Linux.

I took a little nap this afternoon and when I woke up me up, my wife looks over at me and says “in the maybe 30 minutes you were asleep, Biden has stepped down.”

So that’s happened. Now do we get to see Kamala savage Trump in a debate?

#VoteBlue

Sitting on my couch with my wife watching Noah Kahan play Fenway Park. 🎸🎹🎻

Days like this I don’t miss working in IT at the user support level. But there’s also a shared camaraderie that comes from replacing the same file over, and over and over and over again and getting people back to work that’s satisfying as it is mind-numbing. #Crowdstrike

Had a marvelous time in Amsterdam. Taylor Swift puts on an incredible night of theater. The Van Gogh museum was excellent!

Then I came home to a cold and tweaked my back which kicked up my sciatica. Everything in balance I suppose.

I told my wife I felt like a tottering old man. She said I think it’s doddering. Like daughter with a d. So I looked it up and she’s right.

Doddering is for old me. Tottering is for structures like a teeter totter.

Want to make a scene look futuristic? Add dirigibles. Want to make a scene look European? Add light rail.

#Amsterdam

An ornate red brick building with turrets stands behind a street intersection with tram lines and a blue tram.

Flew all night. Starting the day off right. Even if 9am feels like 3 am. #Amsterdam

Two waffles on a yellow table, one topped with white cream and chocolate, the other with caramel, accompanied by wooden utensils.

A waffle topped with whipped cream and syrup, with a wooden spoon, rests on a yellow table, suggesting a casual outdoor eating setting.

Trees cast long shadows on a sunlit grassy park with a clear, partly cloudy sky and a person walking in the distance.

We had a good day thrifting yesterday in Frederick, MD. The tulip tea pit and cows on a couch pot came home with us. The rest remain for others seekers of whimsy.

A ceramic teapot shaped like a perched bird amidst various household items on a table at a thrift shop.

A hand holding a decorative teapot with figurines, of a bow holding a teddy bear as the spout and a woman wearing a dress with its ribbons as the handle in a thrift store.

A white teapot with a decorative tulip-shaped handle and a small hummingbird figure sits on a thrift store shelf.

Ceramic cow figurines knitting together on a shelf among various decorative items, including a pig in a bath tub, gum ball machine and a pink glass basket.

A blue, rectangular sign with the text “If you don’t want a sarcastic answer, then don’t ask me a stupid question” rests on a shelf, amidst various objects.

Star Trek is my favorite world to live in.

I’m sad to see Discovery come to an end. I will miss this crew.

Sitting at lunch with my wife swapping tales of our work days. She’s running therapy groups for memory care and dementia. I’m trying to coerce a chat bot to follow directions.

We are both having one sided conversations with someone/thing prone to making things up.

Enjoy some evening birdsong from Maryland.

Birds: American Robin, Gray Catbird, Northern Cardinal, Chimney Swift

I’m starting to go through my massive collection of photos from the past 20 years from various exports. Picasa. iPhoto. Google Photos. I’m using digikam to remove duplicates and couldn’t open the trash folder to empty it.
Found the folder on the operating system.

28,429 items totaling 29.2 GB
Oh.

Screenshot of a folder showing 28,429 items totaling 29.2 GB of duplicate photos.

My sister-in-law law has invited us over to sing karaoke with her and her son and it’s hilarious.

They have a battery powered microphone and they cast Spotify do the TV and use the lyrics it provides (as needed).

It’s hilarious and so much fun. Highly recommended.

Mowing the lawn, completed
Plopped down to rest
As the first rain drop landed

Returned from vacation directly into the waiting arms of news a friend I’ve played Destiny with for nearly a decade had a heart attack and died this afternoon.

RIP Jackly13 / Nick

Take your incredible RNG into the next life.

“A Picasso next to the bathroom. That’s worthy of a picture!”

— My wife at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

A framed painting by Picasso is displayed on a museum wall between two closed restroom doors. The door on the right is labeled "WOMEN." The painting features a person with a hat and colorful background.

Why are three guys roaming around downtown Philadelphia with a bass and snare drums like their own marking band?

Who knows. Cities are wild.

14 years. 💍

Two hands with wedding rings rest on a denim-clad leg. The left hand has a simple metal band, while the right hand features a square-cut diamond ring with a matching band. The right hand has manicured nails with French tips.

Breakfast by the lake. Finding space to breathe this week.

Breakfast plates with croissants, yogurt, bananas, sausages, and jam on a weathered wooden table. Blue chairs surround the table. In the background, a deck with planters, chairs, and a view of a lake and trees under a blue sky.

Cleanse

I’ve had the urge recently to do a major cleanse, dump, or revamp of what I own, what I read, and how I interact with my devices. As I sit here folding clothes on my bed, I’m contemplating whether to empty my drawers and start fresh with the clothing I’ve worn in the last 10 days or two weeks. It’s a mix of work pants, shorts, pajamas, and various shirts. Some items need to be thrown away or don’t fit anymore. It’s time for a big purge to make room for things I actually want to wear.

Similar thoughts extend to my digital life. Today, I reorganized my apps to make them more accessible, realizing it was inefficient to dig through folders. I wish my phone could automatically sort apps based on usage, making it easier to find what I need. It’s frustrating that I have to work to access my own usage data, which I’m sure is being used elsewhere for profit.

These changes reflect a broader shift in how I perceive my identity, both personally and professionally. I’m questioning why I hold onto old habits and belongings that no longer serve me, hindering my growth. This introspection extends to newsletters, tasks, and commitments that accumulate, creating a sense of backlog and unease.

Now, I’m at a crossroads, deciding whether to make incremental or radical changes to align my life with my evolving identity and priorities. I seek catharsis and clarity amidst the chaos of accumulated possessions and commitments that no longer resonate with who I am or who I aim to become.