I’m leaving for my first trip out of the area since 2019 tomorrow. How many clothes do I need? What should I entertain myself with? How does travel even work anymore?!

Taking the Amtrak for the first time (in years) to NYC for a long weekend. Going to MOMA, Guggenheim and Botanical Gardens.

Rather than aiming for balance, we should aim for harmony. All the areas of our life are like voices in a choir. We need to make sure as they sound together they harmonize. Sounding in harmony takes work, but when you get it right it’s a beautiful thing.Source: Principles for Smarter Work - Adam Tervort - Thoughts on Work / Life Balance

I love this.

Search Party is an incredible ride. Just finished our multi-day binge of all four Seasons of show which is (in order) a Mystery, Legal Drama, Psychological Drama.

Superb.

📺 Search Party on HBO

It’s… Hard to describe. It’s a wild ride of a show. My wife heard about it from the My Favorite Murder podcast.

I hope Stitcher never sends Roman Mars the jingle. Listening to him sing the jingle at the end of 99% Invisible is like waiting for the end credit scene after a movie.

I hope Stitcher never sends Roman Mars the jingle. Listening to him sing the jingle at the end of 99% Invisible is like waiting for the end credit scene after a movie.

🍿 Love Death + Robots

I may have accidentally watched all of the new episodes in Netflix and greatly enjoyed them all. I love the short scifi story format.

🍿 Halfway through Anon on Netflix as well. I like Clive Owen. And am enjoying the premise.

📚 Finished Lee Child’s Tripwire.

And right on time Running Blind (by Lee Child) has shown up from the library.

Introducing the Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet – Colin Devroe

Posting to Micro.blog using the bookmarklet to post to Micro.blog to share there’s a bookmarklet to post to Micro.blog

Pretty slick! I love a good bookmarklet. Well done @cdevroe!

Chrome intermittently deciding not to handle Zoom Webinar links has made for a fun day.

Northern Flicker 📷 🐦 I’ve seen different woodpeckers in my yard before. This is the first time I’ve seen (and was able to capture) this one. Beautiful birds that love our huge black walnut tree.

📺 Milo the Goat is the true hero of Shadow and Bone.

An Ode to the People in My Workout Video www.vulture.com/2021/04/a…

So good I read this entire post aloud to my wife.

An Ode to the People in My Workout Video www.vulture.com/2021/04/a…

So good I read this entire post aloud to my wife.

An Ode to the People in My Workout Video www.vulture.com/2021/04/a…

So good I read this entire post aloud to my wife.

Highlight of my day, a gold finch visited my bird bath.

Reached the point in my product launch I need to translate nerd to human.

Walked through Brookside Gardens this afternoon. It never disappoints.

I was reminded this morning that much of technical support work is to continue trying something until it works. I rebooted already. Try it again. Now it works.

My wife’s phone started booting in a loop this morning. I held the power button down until it restarted and then it loaded properly.

I joked about it needing the hands of a seasoned technical support technician. Likely, it just needed another reboot. More forceful than the last.

I greatly enjoy sending pictures like this to my sister-in-law who’s husband has to leave the house and look for deer.

I just look out into the back yard and the herd is there.

NHL.TV Subscription ✓ ExpressVPN subscription ✓

Watching the Washingtron Capitals while living near Washington: Far more convuluted and expensive than you’d like to think.

Exhausting holding these meetings with my team of Selves.

The doves were out in force today.

Artist Christine Sun Kim Rewrites Closed Captions | Pop-Up Magazine

I watch almost everything with captions on these days and have been pleased to see the expansion of [music] to [depressing electronic music] but there’s so far to go. Watching this video, I could feel the moods of the each scene based on the captions.

How am I only just now learning you can boot a Raspberry Pi 3b+ from USB? I thought it was only the Pi 4.

I was getting frustrated at the micro SD cards having issues on the pi I’m running pihole and testing a VPN install, but now I can run it from something more substantial.