Whee, a 6-mile run to start the morning. I’m gonna be feeling that later.

Taking a vacation day on a Friday: a very pleasant choice. Slept in, went for a run, street tacos from a food truck for lunch with the family, now sitting on the back patio with a book. Wonderful.

2025 Reads: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

Somehow I’ve never read this one before… a classic for a reason. Wow.

Got a little Beelink PC to set up as a media server to offload my aging Synology. Left Windows 11 on it. Haven’t had a Windows PC in the house for a while. 24 hours in I’m in Windows Update hell trying to troubleshoot an error that’s maxing CPU. Should’ve just installed Linux.

Second Tuesday night of the month… it’s library board meeting time! An hour a month commitment to be one of the half-dozen voices get to help direct and protect our local public library? One of the most valuable hours of my month.

Have hit the point where I have enough different things going at work that I’m gonna need to start using a task tracker again.

If it’s just one big project with sub-tasks I can manage that in my head just fine. But 3 or 4 separate projects? Write ’em down.

Wife and daughter are packing up to fly out to DC tomorrow for National History Day national competition. Middle kid and I are gonna hold down the fort for a week.

Last day of school for our last remaining high school kid!

Hard to believe we only have two years left before she graduates. If plans hold we’re queued up for a graduation each of the next 3 years: oldest from college next year, youngest from HS 2027, middle kid from college in 2028! 🤞

Chilling on the patio tonight. Can’t beat it.

A book “the not yet god” by ilia Delio and a glass of whiskey sitting on a glass-top patio table

Update: neighbor had indeed had his phone on the charger. Turns out his breaker had popped and he hadn’t noticed. Reset the breaker and hopefully he’s good to go.