Eric Walker
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  • Looks like it is going to be a great day outside today 🥶

    → 8:13 AM, Feb 3
  • Maybe I shouldn’t have tried to do two days in a row as I was feeling this run in my legs today. However, the sun was out again and I had some time to kill so I figured it would be good to get out again.

    → 8:39 PM, Feb 2
  • I understand how this happens but it doesn’t make it any less frustrating when I am on a call and you hear the sound letting you know there isn’t much battery left 🪫😖

    → 4:48 PM, Feb 1
  • Easing back into things after 10 days with no activities. Starting February off with a short run to make sure everything is working and besides being more tired than normal all was well.

    → 4:23 PM, Feb 1
  • I have seen this bird around a lot and always refer to him as a Red-Headed Woodpecker… However, I seem to be mistaken upon further identification as it is a Red-bellied Woodpecker 🤷🏻‍♂️

    → 4:30 PM, Jan 28
  • Youngest and I watched Wish Dragon… Pretty good remake of Aladdin geared with some real world funny.

    → 9:15 PM, Jan 27
  • Someone is not happy that I beat her by a slim margin by drawing the right coco tile for the free building at the end 😁

    → 8:55 PM, Jan 27
  • With iOS having a pretty well built in document scanner why not make it easier to access? I understand I can get there from the files app but it would be nice make a workflow with Shortcuts. I am hopeful someone can point out my error but I can not find that action.

    → 3:14 PM, Jan 27
  • I am starting to think this is the the plan from Evernote… Email me daily to subscribe so that I will become frustrated enough to pay for it or I will delete all my legacy content from out there that I am not using anyway. Now that I think about it that is Smart Marketing 😆.

    → 2:00 PM, Jan 27
  • It is days like this I wish I could go outside and do something. Not that I feel bad as I have heard some get this worse but rational side of my brain is telling me that I know better and should not go outside for a run. I will just watch the birds instead. 😁

    → 2:52 PM, Jan 25
  • As I am looking around the house for my AirPod Pro’s before jumping on a meeting, I can’t help but wonder why they don’t have the same technology as the AirTags… Am I missing something here 🤷‍♂️

    → 8:25 AM, Jan 25
  • Thanks to modern technology I was able to sit at home and watch my daughter score for the first time this year… 🏒🎉

    → 8:51 PM, Jan 22
  • Hello darkness, my old friend… I guess it has been a year since we last met but this is not exactly what I had planned for the day 😔

    → 3:14 PM, Jan 22
  • Chalk this up to a first as I had some time in between my son’s late basketball games tonight so I decided to go on a run with no real running cloths (or lights) 😆.

    → 8:40 PM, Jan 21
  • I see your sign and I will take it under advertisement… 😁

    My view to record the game from the track😁

    → 6:35 PM, Jan 21
  • Might have felt a little more sore running today than I thought after yesterday’s spill. However, I stumbled upon this fun pond hockey rink.. Well done 👏🏒

    → 11:42 PM, Jan 20
  • Tired Pup… 🐶

    → 8:05 PM, Jan 19
  • I do like running in a light snow fall and seeing the snow stick to that trees. However, that was quickly changed in my mind when I was reminded the hard way of the ice under this snow I couldn’t see 🤦‍♂️

    → 6:53 PM, Jan 19
  • Not sure if it is just finally starting to click due or what but I think I am getting a better handle on how to document my work stuff in Craft. Maybe more to come on this but I think I need to do some cleanup and see if it sticks.

    → 2:05 PM, Jan 19
  • The temperature is at that fun point of slush in some areas and very slick in others. Ended up with just wet socks and shoes while what felt like skating my miles tonight.

    → 11:03 PM, Jan 18
  • Sometimes when running, I find myself purposely or unintentionally at a dead end or cul-de-sac, I am interested to see the signs they put up. This is from a cul-de-sac and I am not sure why someone would think they could drive or dump here with all the houses around 🤷🏻‍♂️

    → 11:31 PM, Jan 17
  • Digital Documents Everywhere

    About 14 years ago I started what was an ongoing process for the next 4-5 years of removing most of the paper clutter in my life and either moving things to a digital format if I wanted to keep them or I just got rid of it. The first big chunk of that stuff was old financial statements. I remember finding a bank statement I had from the year I was born. I mean really was that something I needed anymore? The short answer was no as it was beyond any amount of time that I would need to look back and in addition, I had long since closed that account too (that is another story of frustration with a local bank charging a poor college kid fees).

    Now that I have moved almost all of my paper goods to digital I have realized that my digital life is kind of a mess. When I first started with a more digital approach I would just scan paper items in and save them on my computer. However, then I found Evernote and started to use that as a big repository of documents as it supported PDFs and was easy enough to organize. However, fast forward to a couple of years ago when I got a Samsung tablet and I then thought with this handwritten support in OneNote I should move everything there. Then I moved on from Android and went all in on iOS devices so it made sense to use a different app I quickly gravitated to the Notes app and I moved things to DayOne for archival purposes as well. However, as luck would have it at my new job I can’t access the Apple Notes app because they block logging into iCloud and I don’t have a Mac either which makes it more difficult. So I was on the hunt again for something that can play nice with all my devices so I have been giving Craft a try.

    Now that we are in a new year, I am trying to figure out the best approach going forward. However, I need to break it down into some categories because as much as I would love to have everything living in one place I just don’t think that makes sense anymore.

    • Kids Stuff - This can be anything from pictures they create at school, papers, newspaper articles about them or their team, vacation stuff they want to remember either written or spoken, and stuff from events (e.g., programs, stats, certificates). For the last 2 years this has been kept in DayOne and I think that is the best place to keep it going forward. I have a Journal for each kid and just drop stuff in there as we go. What makes this even better is that my wife is great at documenting our travels and life by taking pictures and posting them for family and friends on Instagram. I have her account get sucked into DayOne as well so not only can we see pictures and stuff from when our kids were doing something but also the remember this day might show artwork or something else from the kids.
    • Household / Financial Stuff - Broad category here as I am going to toss in receipts, anything for Taxes, and warranties as well. Maybe this category should be broken out but in the past, both of these things have lived together in Evernote, then OneNote, and now some have started to find it’s the way in Notes. This is the one place that has been bumped around all over the place and I am not really sure where to have it live going forward. Now that I have been using Craft more I debate putting it in there as I feel like I could create a Workspace that has just one or the other in there. However, there is the thought that I need to keep less financial stuff lately as almost all the places I use to keep an online history for more years than I need. However, I would still need a place to keep donation receipts and other miscellaneous receipts / statements as well. No real solution for myself right now but this is an area of focus for me.
    • Work Stuff - This is a strange one as I don’t really need most of this stuff long-term but I have been really struggling with where to put work notes / items to follow up on. Quick disclaimer, at my current company we use Windows machines and the Google Suite of apps. Oh, and our computers are really locked down. So where I used to take notes in OneNote for work I then was going to start up with Apple Notes but then had no way to access them at my current job. So I have found myself using Craft. The unfortunate thing here is I can not install the Windows Application but have to do everything in the web app. It is good so I am not complaining but now I have started to use a real notebook again to capture those quick things and quickly draw something out. So I am left with a really fragmented work note-keeping area. The only saving grace here is that I typically don’t need a lot of the stuff for years. It is in the realm of writing something to quickly reference it for about a 1 year period but not after that.

    So not only am I trying to figure out the best way to keep things going forward the bigger part of this that isn’t addressed is what do do with everything else. I havn’t even started on one-off digital pictures, random files (e.g., Word, Excel, Text), and everything else that people accumulate while using computers over their lifetime. I am not sure why but it is harder for me to toss out a random document or digital item vs how quickly I was able to do it with old paper / physical stuff I had. I used to save all my financial statements and file them away in folders on my computer which now just lives on a home server. Again, most of those statements are at places I no longer have accounts or pay statements from places I don’t work anymore (10+ years ago).

    I don’t have a specific solution today but curious what others do as I attempt to get a better process as well as clean up older digital clutter in 2023.

    → 11:40 AM, Jan 17
  • Because we felt like life wasn’t crazy enough and we had tons of downtime… 🤦‍♂️

    We decided to foster another dog, meet Daffy the Aussiedoodle… 🐶

    → 9:32 AM, Jan 17
  • Well what was rain today turned into a snow run tonight with no lights. Sidewalks started to get a little slick but not to bad and I was able to look up and capture this. 🌨️

    → 9:35 PM, Jan 16
  • Well I am not sure what to think with this constant rain all day. I am fairly confident that it is not helping that rink as there is puddles out there… Is it spring already? 🌧️

    → 7:29 PM, Jan 16
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