A little cooler this morning but was still dripping like a saturated sponge after a 4-mile run. But now a little breakfast, a cup of coffee in my hand, and time to get started at work. Short week this week, too! I’ll take it.
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Bullet Points for a (very warm) Monday Morning
Hey, it’s Monday.
- Spent Sunday afternoon supporting my wife’s cast iron business at a local farmers market. 90F felt like 99F when we set up. Oof.
- Living life on the wild side Monday morning by upgrading my Debian install on my Emby server PC.
- Sunday morning Books & Donuts at church is fun and sometimes surprising; Senior Warden on our Vestry has taken up Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot books at my recommendation.
- Farmers Market yesterday was a dud; shoppers were as put off by the heat as the vendors were. Good dry run for us though, I guess.
- Just signed up for my second race of the summer. Have a 5k coming up on July 4th; added a 10k on Labor Day weekend.
- Having lost a bunch of weight and now getting active this year there’s a renewed sense of physicality that I love - feeling your body tired, sore, healing - feels more alive somehow.
- Planning to attend a conference in Vegas in August for work. That’ll be my first time in Nevada, leaving me with 3 states left unvisited: Vermont, Wyoming, and Hawaii.
- Middle kid is in Hawaii right now. Jealous.
- One of these years I wanna do a road trip across the Nebraska sandhills and get to Wyoming. Have extended family that run a candy shop in Casper. That’s worth a visit.
- And just like that my Debian upgrade is done. Quick and easy and came back up perfectly.
Stay safe and stay cool, friends.
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