7th Grade State Champions 🏀⛹️🏆
Wow! All four games over the weekend were down to the wire last second buzzer beater games! The point differential in total was 8 (2,2,3,1 in that order). Proud of their team for not giving up as most of the games we came back from 8-10 points down but they played tough and didn’t give up. I am pretty sure all of us adults aged a bit more after those games.
My wife and I couldn’t attend the final 2 games on Sunday as we were at a Dance Competition for our two girls. A big thanks to to Papa Walker (my Dad) for being our in-person cheer squad while we watched via livestream from the girls’ dance competition. (Apologies to the dancers on stage as our group let out an audible cheer at the buzzer beating victory!!! 🙉)
7th Grade Tier 4 State Champions!
The baller himself, well done son!
Papa Walker and Brecken
He shoots!
Thankful for technology that allowed me to not be in the same place but still follow along
What a great way to end the season and it is sad that the season has now come to an end. It has been fun watching these boys play together. They had a very successful season (28-12) despite all the sicknesses, and injuries. As I was the official / unofficial stat keeper here are some interesting facts.
- 1st Place in 3 tournaments
- 2nd Place in 2 tournaments
- 3rd Place in 1 tournaments
- 40% shooting percentage vs opponents 35%
- One tournament they only had 5 kids to play (no subs) and only lost one game
- Out of the 40 games only two kids were at all of them (one being my son)
Frustrating moment of a Monday… All of these Speedtests are connected to the same modem however, the first and last is the new device provided by our ISP and the second is what I have used for the past year and have had no issues until now. Such a big discrepancy and that device should be able to hold the same speeds 🤔… Maybe time to upgrade the whole thing 😁
I might be watching to much Severance trying to catch up but I really did a double take this morning 😳😆
Brisk one out there again today. Looking forward to the warm weather next week. Glad I got this one done in time to attend the Micro.Camp kickoff 👍
Beautiful yet cold day out due to the wind. The temps said 15°F but feels like 0°… Maybe when I was running into the wind but it sure was sunny which makes all the difference 😎
Quick footwork at times today trying to avoid ice patches made for more of workout both physically and mentally than it should have been.
However it was beautiful out there and much warmer than I thought.
Ended up going longer than planned only to find out I didn’t really bring enough water… Rookie mistake 🤦♂️
Spent the morning working off my iPad Pro emailing, connecting with my team, and editing a Word doc. In addition, I had my trusty new iPad Mini to jot down notes and verify things in the doc. Great portable combination right now as I am no where near my desk and enjoying the sunny kitchen.
Disappointed the plows hadn’t come by at first but then I got an escort about a mile in. Unfortunately he was going to slow so I had to take to the streets again 😆🏃🏻♂️
It happened 🤦♂️… I didn’t want to like it but I think with the 20 min in so far I might be sold on it. I have two people to blame and I might hold a grudge 😁
Too little too late Wild.. However, it is always fun to goto a live game.
At this point is was to make it 2-4
Got it put back together with only a handful of screws left 😆
Just kidding and all is well it boots up and everything is working great 👍
Wish me luck I think I was thinking I am more technical than I really am 😬
Yep, trying to replace a MacBook Pro battery 🤦♂️
🎬 Family movie night… American Underdog - Really good movie but it could be a little clouded judgement as I remember the story and also went to UNI 🤷♂️😁
Apple Watch ⌚️ - Strange Stop or Results
I have been collecting this data and been reading articles for some time about the discrepancies in my Apple Watch 6 vs my Garmin fēnix 5x. However, I have not finished all of that yet and felt compelled to post this quickly as I ran across a very puzzling issue today that I am not even really sure where to start but this is how it went.
On my run today I started both watches at the same time as always waiting for the Apple Watch to do it’s 3 second countdown and then I hit start on my Garmin. Today was colder out so I had a jacket over both watches so to that point I only looked once at both watches to see how the time was as I knew I needed to make a loop (or thought I did) because I wasn’t going to hit the mileage I was shooting for. However, the Apple Watch was back at the main screen and not in the Workout screen. This is only irritating as I had to type in my pin to get into the watch. I thought for sure then it must have stopped timing but this had also happened earlier in the week and once I clicked back into the Workout app I could see the time was still ticking away. I did the same thing today and glanced that it was still running but didn’t look close enough to know what the time said or anything.
Fast forward 1 more mile and I was at the end of my run and I stopped my Garmin first and then went to my wrist and stopped the Apple Watch as I always do. However, looking at the activity summaries I noticed the Apple Watch said I only ran a fraction of the time and distance I knew I was at.
Now I have had some discrepancies before now but never such a big one
Knowing that didn’t seem right I dug into the details of the Apple Watch the GPS shows me stopping this half way through the run 🤔. I would say oh it must have just shut off but I know with 1 mile to go I looked at it and the time was ticking away so if anything where was that portion of time.
I gotta have the details…
Now as a person running with two watches I get I am a little strange but this was even more boggling than the research I have been looking into on just GPS accuracy for each watch. So I looked at some more of the details and found a couple interesting points.
Garmin fēnix 5x
Apple Watch 6
You can see that both the Garmin and Apple Watch have the same start and stop times so I was correct at seeing the time clicking away when I had to re-enter my pin with 1 mile to go. However, that only goes to being more odd as the Apple Watch says the total time was 21:18 (head scratcher I know). Also, it says it didn’t have enough data for my Heart Rate. Something wasn’t working right the whole time because I would think even for a 2.5 mile run that would give it enough and I wear the watch pretty snug so it isn’t like it bounces around when I run. I guess Apple didn’t think I my ”effort” was enough to be recorded for at least the last 3.7 miles but really the whole thing for HR perspective.
Hopefully, I will get to finishing my post around the GPS accuracy at some point but it probably won’t be any silver bullet as shockingly there is a lot of information but maybe only a couple good explanations. Until then I will hold off my true thoughts on both I will keep wearing them 😆. ⌚️ ⌚️
It’s Friday so it made sense to head out around lunch on a grey skies kind of day. I am intrigued by this bridge but not 100% sure why.
However, today an interesting issue with my Apple Watch, more to come…
Getting Organized 🗃
I am not completely there yet but it seems a lot of my other projects as of lately have revolved around this idea of organizing things…
This probably started back in early January when I went down the rabbit hole of getting all my old DVDs on a computer to use with Plex as a way to free up some shelf space in the basement. I don’t remember the last time we have used any of those DVDs except a very small handful we take along in the RV. However, since putting them all on the computer, I think we have watched 10 movies off there so far. The next step in this process was getting a better handle on our Picture organization too, it aligned nicely with the first project because we had to get more HD space and in that purchase, we got a new computer so everything needed to be transferred from the old drive. With the new computer, the nice advantage is I have been able to remotely log into it and it is fast enough that I could look through old stuff and organize other things to fit with the process we use now. In fact, our picture process has even changed since I first had thought about it so maybe I will expand on that at another time.
Online organization, this I have written about before but I have really abandoned using my old blog / Instagram / Twitter and have doubled down on Mico.blog. I am happy with this change as I like everything in one place but I do find at times I might be over clutter the M.b timeline when I do some multiple posts from a weekend adventure. I like to toss a photo up to capture moments which is why a while back I mostly only used Instagram. I am still using it today but now I only use the app to follow some friends of mine that don’t really post anywhere else.
The next endeavor might take me a little longer to get done but I want to find the right tool or process to help me get more organized or stay organized. The issue is that I have realized a lack of organization in my life over the last year but probably has been a little longer than that. I hate to admit it, maybe it is an easy excuse but I think it has something to do with working from home and without having that separation and maybe a dedicated office space for non-work tasks, stuff has been blended together and I have not found a good way to reconcile all of it. There is also a lot of other things that have changed in my process over this time as well. I moved away from Evernote, which kept everything, to OneNote for some information and Day One for others. Additionally, once I completely ditched all my Android devices for iOS in 2021 (wow big purchase year), I then moved a little bit from OneNote into using more Apple Notes. So my storage of things is pretty fragmented right now as well and I think that is causing me panic as I don’t have a great system at this time.
More to come…
Todays early morning meeting is brought to you by Coffee ☕️… Well maybe a pot of coffee not just a single cup
Did some exploring today today while running round the Prairie and decided to follow a long forgotten ”path” of what was once the trail.
