Finished reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr today. It’s a fantastic and unique story that I would recommend to almost anyone.

Took the day off to go ice skating with my son for his 6th birthday. We had the entire rink to ourselves.

I’ve been a recent convert to the Kindle + Libby setup for reading. Disappointed I didn’t dive into that ages ago. The Kindle Oasis (got it for a steal) makes all the difference for me.

I’ve still got a few things left to tweak (dark mode for example), but I’m happy with my new micro.blog theme. Clean and simple.

I’m still struggling to find the ideal read-it-later/consumption service. Instapaper hasn’t evolved, Pocket isn’t my thing. Matter is OK. Readwise’s Reader (beta) is strong but is trying to do too much (like Feedbin, Inoreader). Any suggestions?

Having quite the productive day. Knocked out a good bit of day job stuff, redesigned my blog, and booked a small Christmas family getaway.

I’m currently reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr and loving it. His Pulitzer winning book, All the Light We Cannot See, is one of my favorites from the past 10 years. So far it seems CCL may be better. 📚

A Day in the Life. Around 10am in Lafayette, Louisiana.

I took the plunge and invested in a new AppleWatch Ultra. I’m a big guy, so I appreciate the extra size. Having said that, it looks just fine on almost anyone (my more petite wife included). I’m a big fan of the default (Ultra-exclusive) watch face as well. I went with both the Ocean band and Alpine Loop, but the Ocean one has been my favorite so far.

My lil guy loves some baseball.

I’m a big fan of the new Omega x Swatch watches, but it looks like I’ll have a long wait before I can grab one (or ten).

It’s nice to have baseball things happening again. My oldest (5) became obsessed with it last season, and I promised him we’d go to a game or two early this season. For a while, that looked to be in jeopardy. Luckily, our plans are good to go.

Well, at least we still have baseball here.

I was able to snag an Okluma DC0 today. A particularly mind-bending purchase if you’re not familiar with the industry, but a profitable one if you understand the market/uses.

Wife and kids grabbed me a new Bugout for Valentine’s Day this year.

The dishwasher goes out and suddenly the whole robot apocalypse thing sounds like a promising future.

My son (5) really got into baseball last season. He’s been begging to go see the Braves in person this year. They’re supposed to play in Arlington (6 hours drive) early this coming season, but I’m having to hold off on reservations/tickets because of the lockout. Hopefully this all gets straightened out soon or I’m going to have one really disappointed kid. ⚾️

Ordered a new D4V2 dual channel today. If you know, you know. If you don’t, you should.

We recently traveled to Waco, TX for a quick family trip.

I was an early adopter of micro.blog, but I left it after a while. I think it’s time I get back into this.