Malcolm Gladwell is giving a keynote at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium.

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My wife is going to get to see him.

I’m jealous.

Last night I went to bed about 7:30pm. Tonight I was asleep by 8:30pm.

Hug your furnace. Mine didn’t work for 48 hours.

Built a Leprechaun Trap with my nephew this past weekend. It has a path of golden arrows leading into the trip wire. Then the Leprechaun will fall into the tall section and be trapped there because of the bars on the top. There is fake gold inside to keep him busy.

[caption width=“3000”]This is not a trap. [/caption]

[caption width=“1667”]Fake gold awaits.[/caption]

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Watching a 6 year old experience forgetting to save the game and replaying Cerulean City’s gym in Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee.

Isn’t this a rite of passage for gamers?

I wrote about starting my first podcast with two friends.

Social Media.

Woke up this morning to some fuzzy friends in the back yard. They stayed all day. I went out to talk to them about rent if they’re going to live here now. 

My Dell T20 tower server has arrived from eBay today. Now I just need time to set it up, move drives from my NAS into it, setup some VMs as a home learning lab and explain to my wife why there is another computer in my office. 

Whether I stop the puck or it goes in, I do the same thing afterward. I squirt the water bottle and I follow one drop all the way down to the ice. It’s just a little ritual to keep me focused. We’re just here, trying to stop the next puck, you know. 

Fun story about teamwork, friendship, focus and Mario Kart. 

During dinner, I looked up and see this on the wall. 

I may have had dinner in The Good Place. 

Optimistic flowers. 

Couldn’t figure out what this was for. I do feel ISB needs our support but I don’t recall giving them money. 

(It’s for the US Botanical Gardens.)

We made it!

My favorite hockey players were born in the 1990s!
I don't know how to feel about this.

My wife made Spaghetti Squash Lasagna Boat from Pinch of Yum tonight and they were incredible. 

The ricotta gave the squash a gooey cheesy core and the ground turkey was seasoned to perfection. I wanted to sail away with her in that boat and die happy. 

New toy has arrived. Spent tonight rearranging the “smart” part of my home. 

Finished Russian Doll on Netflix and was delighted in how they took repeating everyday and gave it rules and made it interesting and fresh.

Excited for another season. 

This is how I will describe the Crackdown series to people unfamiliar with it.

I do the things that I’m designed to do: Punch dudes, shoot dudes, squash dudes, explode dudes, run dudes over in my car, throw dudes off high ledges. Each time an enemy dies, he renders up pretty, colorful bubbles that flutter pleasingly toward me. These are upgrade points that level up my various skills. So I become better at punching, shooting, and squashing at a rate that is comparable to the increasing menace of my opponents.

Test of publishing from WordPress to Instagram.

Installed accordian lights above the bed tonight. There has never been enough light for reading well. No longer!

Bedroom smoke detector decided 3:40 am was a good time to alert me it needed a new battery. 

Of course, I don’t have a spare so the next room over has no alarm for the night. Morning?

It’s 4am and I almost got 2 hours of sleep before this. 

Happy Birthday to me!

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Made this pork ramen tonight. Super easy and so flavorful. Highly recommend!