Not sure why but I find this article very interesting learning about Astoria, Oregon as well as hearing the coined term “The Graveyard of the Pacific” about the Columbia River. The best part is if you don’t want to read the article you can watch the YouTube video instead.
So nice out today I ditched my outer shell jacket for this run. Didn’t have time for a super long one today which would have been nice but at the same point I was feeling tired so probably worked out for the best.
This run felt good today even though at the time I went out the clouds rolled in. I did come across this city water truck “smoothing” out this city ice rink. I always wondered how they resurfaced them.
It was not as cold out as I thought it was going to be which was a good thing as it was 0°F. It was good to get out for a run after a busy hockey tournament weekend.
My daughter got moved to forward for hockey during this tournament weekend and well today she shined. Today she scored 2 goals on the same shift in under a min. 🤩 She is a great defensive player and I love seeing her now flex her skills on forward.
This goal was right after the first one, I just love the grinding it out to make the play.
These girls got it done today with two shutouts paving their path to an extra game at Freezeburgr 🥶.
I felt like I had to make a quick run along the water today. However, more sleep would have been better but after I woke up I could not fall back to sleep so i figured I would be productive. It would be interesting to hit this route sometime in the summer as I am sure it is a nice view then as well.
Got these miles in before a turn in events today that had me driving to Duluth tonight. Glad I added the extra mile today as I was feeling good and in case I don’t get another run in I will be happy with what I have done this week.
Nothing special on this run today just getting some miles and thinking done. However, I happened to pull up the Training Today app and realized I had a 0 so maybe I should have taken a rest day.
Good run to start the week off in between a bunch of meetings. Found another very nice ice rink along my meandering route as well. 🏒
Cold one out running today with temps low single digits in not only actual but feels like. Wanted to get some miles before the car trip to Iowa this afternoon.
I enjoy stumbling upon some amazing rinks when I go for runs. Today did not disappoint as this one in the distance had a scoreboard. I mean what.?!?. Well done 👏
2024 Application Defaults
It is about time as it seems like everyone else is doing a 2024 update to the Dual of the Defaults so I figured I would get it in right under the wire. Again a big shout out to Hemispheric Views and their Episode 097 when this idea was hatched and to Robb who is still keeping track of all of this.
So onto the 2024 list and lets see what has changed (2023 List)…
- ✉️ Mail Client: Apple Mail
- 📨 Mail Server: GoogleSuite & Apple Mail
- 📝 Notes: Apple Notes (plus Obsidian plus GoodNotes for Work) - Change
- ✅ To-Do: Reminders
- 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app
- 📚 Photo Management: Photos.app
- 🗓️ Calendar: Calendar.app
- 🗄️ Cloud file storage: iCloud and Google Drive (still a mess but getting better)
- 📰 RSS: Reeder with FreshRSS
- 📇 Contacts: Contacts.app (Google Backend)
- 🕸️ Browser: Safari (plus Chrome for Work)
- 💬 Chat: iMessage and Discord
- 🔖 Bookmarks: LinkAce - Change (also I blame Robb for this)
- 👓 Read It Later: Not using anything at the moment
- 📜 Word Processing: Google Docs
- 📊 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets (plus Excel for Work)
- 🛝 Presentations: Google Slides
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Alexa Lists 😱
- 🧑🍳 Meal Planning: None - Based on what I buy we cook 🤷♂️
- 💰 Budgeting & Personal Finance: Copilot - Change
- 🗞️ News: Apple News and various sources in RSS
- 🎶 Music: Apple Music
- 🎧 Podcasts: PocketCasts
- 🔐Password Management: iCloud KeyChain (Not a change but found my old KeePass file as it had some things on it I needed for my kids over break. So it is kind of in use right now as I need to migrate that in 2025 to something better.)
So overall I have had 3 changes of which my note taking apps I feel like change all of the time so that is really hard to count. So in other things I think the most sinificant is the other two as my wife and I have settled in on Copilot and have enjoyed using it for basic finance tracking. Also, even though I kind of did it on a whim and figured I would go back to Shaarli I have been enjoying using LinkAce for bookmarking. I think my only issue is every time it says there is an upgrade I forget how to do it. However, now that I think about it, it was the same for Shaarli too.
Figured I would do a short run today to round out the year. Felt good and not too bad outside either.
Tonight hockey game viewing after an early morning is going to be powered by coffee from Treats. The other kids not playing a hockey game got some waffles and I got a coffee.
Short weather today as the temps hovered around 40°F. Felt good running out there but glad I avoided the trails as they for sure would have been muddy as you can see most of the snow has vanished.
Here we are December 27th and it is raining outside. Not a great situation for the ice rink from a usability perspective for the kids over break but it might help the resurfacing as long as it gets below freezing sometime soon.
