Some solid sticker game going on here… If you don’t have any you should pick some up from @HemisphericViews and CoffeePot Games πŸ˜‰

My son stayed up watching the NCAA tournament first four games last night and before he went to bed said his bracket was already busted πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ… Not sure how that can be but I have an idea of what he is going to be doing till 11am today 🀣

Global early morning meetings are sometimes frustrating because you wake up early thinking you have a 6:30 am meeting only to find out the organizer decided to move it to later in the day…πŸ₯± Time for more coffee β˜•

10 Simple Truths

10 Simple Truths: curated by @Naval

  1. If the news are fake imagine history
  2. Human life is gradually turning from a struggle against suffering into a struggle against pleasure.
  3. If you don’t want to have a boss, you better be capable in the wild.
  4. Hard choices, easy life.
    Easy choices, hard life.
  5. Not wanting something is as good as having it.
  6. To remove the sting of insult, stop valuing compliments.
  7. Meditation is good for nothing. That’s why you do it.
  8. The unexamined parts of yourself are running around in the world masquerading as the things you think you hate.
  9. “Only the individual transcends.” - Steven Maxwell
  10. In the end you have to accept that either everything is magical or nothing is.
  11. The things that we understand, create Silence.
    The Things that we do not, create Emotion.

I thought this was a well curated list and good things to keep in mind.

Right in the middle of a work discussion about some stuff that should be quick enough to get resolved by chatting instead of email or a phone call I get this…. Come on Microsoft Teams!

The backyard rink season has finally come to an end… Can’t wait till next year πŸ’

Sometimes I believe I am a small cat 🐈 😸

My t-shirt game is looking strong today… I will for sure turn the camera on for meetings and give @HemisphericViews a little publicity 🀣

Early morning for this crew with a 5:15 wake up call to get all the costumes and make up on. Great work @aprilgottwalker as my part was only really driving and drinking coffee πŸ₯±πŸ’€πŸ˜©πŸ‘―β€β™‚οΈβ˜•

Teaching and Learning - 5am Joel

Part of teaching, is learning.
And part of learning, is teaching.

Reminded again why I got rid of my Fitbit!

Last night I was looking for a place I ran in Germany when I was there on a work trip in 2015. I then realized when I stopped using my Fitbit in 2019 I didn’t import that far back to my Garmin as I wasn’t using Strava then either.

As I logged back into Fitbit for the first time in a long time I was hit in the face again with how terrible their activity log and reporting is. Not to mention if you want your GPS data back and not a crummy CVS output of steps good luck!

Unforentually, my realization that I did not import my data from 2014-2016 into Strava or Garmin sent me down a rabbit hole of manual tasks by finding all my old runs in Fitbit to download. I am happy to say that task is done and I can thankfully (hopefully) never log into Fitbit again 😁.

Got this book late yesterday and can’t wait to dive into it. I have chatted with one of the authors, Brendan Leonard from Semi-Rad briefly over the past couple of years and I would hands down recommend all of his books and work. If you haven’t already check out his stuff or this book.

Took a couple wrong turns that led me on a lot longer run than planned today. At one of the dead ends was this sign that I don’t think I believe. Seems to have been here for a while… πŸ€”πŸƒ

πŸ“· Photoblogging: Day 30 - Privacy

Peering back into my “office” area that I have been working from for the past year

πŸ“· Photoblogging: Day 29 - Light

After a snowy yesterday the sun was looking extra bright this morning

Was hopeful that the dishwasher was going to be fixed today. The repairman diagnosed it wrong and got the wrong part. The actual part he needs has to be ordered and shipped. So now we wait again…

πŸ“· Photoblogging: Day 28 - Up

Good words to live by

πŸ“· Photoblogging: Day 27 - Pompasetting

Always dress to impress with sass 🀣

πŸ“· Photoblogging: Day 26 - Favorite

One of my favorite paths to run on

πŸ“· Photoblogging: Day 25 - Code