Enabling with Automation
I just sent Weekly Thing 291 / Ireland 🇮🇪 as a special issue all about Ireland. This issue didn’t follow my usual structure so I did all the assembly by hand. It took me about 2 hours just to get the sections, links, headers, images, and outline together. Then I could start the actual writing!
It was illuminating to show how important my automation is to successfully sending my newsletter each week. Everything I did in those two hours is done with automation and takes just a few seconds each week. Without that capability It would at least double the time it takes me to send each Weekly Thing.
Gonna be a hot day today — agenda is chilling in the pool and celebrating my sisters birthday! 😎🎉☀️
I realized tonight that with fiber at our cabin the very old Apple TVs I have are limited by their Ethernet ports — can’t exceed 100 Mbps!
Ordered two new Apple TVs to put in next weekend. 🎉
Today I Learned: Culver’s has a thing called a Pup Cup that is a free treat for your dog.
Drinkin' Hat
My cousin Josh performing this original song “Drinkin’ Hat” that his brother Gabe started and they “worked out” together. It even has a callout to our Grandpa and Grandma. Love it. 🎶
League Cup: Necaxa v United
Tonight’s League Cup game with Club Necaxa at Minnesota United FC was a wild time. It started with a hotly contested foul by Necaxa in the box that resulted in a United penalty kick giving them an early 1 - 0 lead. There were players surrounding the VAR scene as the ref was reviwing the call and Necaxa came out very chippy after the call. There was a lot of physicality on both sides and when Necaxa got a breakaway a foul on the Bacharach for the United sent them down a man with a red card 🟥 for the remaining 69 minutes of play!
The man of the match was Dayne St. Clair who had a dozen saves in the second half and somehow with incredible pressure the United kept Necaxa scoreless and took the win.
Truly an incredible night of soccer enjoyed with my friends Jim and Tom! ⚽️
Foo Fighters at Target Field
I’ve been looking forward to seeing the Foo Fighters at Target Field for months now. I got tickets the first day of the pre-sale. This was even a bit more special because Mazie has become a bit of a fan of the Foo’s and wanted to come as well. What a treat it was to sing (scream?) along to “My Hero” with her at the show.
- All My Life
- No Son of Mine (with snippets of “Paranoid” by Black Sabbath and “Enter Sandman” by Metallica)
- Rescued
- The Pretender
- Walk
- Times Like These
- Generator
- La Dee Da
- Breakout
- Snippets while introducing the band: Eruption / Thunderstruck / Sabotage / Keyboard Solo / Blitzkrieg Bop / March of the Pigs
- My Hero (dedicated to Hüsker Dü)
- The Sky Is a Neighborhood
- Learn to Fly
- Arlandria
- These Days
- Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin cover) (partial; acoustic; Dave on guitar, Rami on accordion)
- Skin and Bones (acoustic, Dave on guitar; Rami on accordion)
- Under You (Dave solo acoustic)
- Nothing at All (with “Blackbird” snippet)
- This Is a Call
- Show Me How (with Violet Grohl)
- Monkey Wrench
- Aurora (dedicated to Taylor Hawkins)
- Best of You
Encore:
- The Teacher
- Everlong
The Pretenders opening up for the Foo Fighters at Target Field. 🎶
Walking Canoe Bay's Gardens
The gardens at Canoe Bay were a highlight of our stay there. I tried to capture it a bit with this 7 minute video walk around the path.
The gardens at Canoe Bay were filled with incredible flowers.
Tammy and I toasting our 22nd Anniversary! 🥂💍🥰
Tammy and I had a fun time seeing Twisters at the Stardust Drive-In Theater in Chetek, WI!
We like to check out drive-in movie theaters when we travel. Tammy found the Stardust Drive-In and we wanted to see Twisters so off we went. This place was packed full of people. There were probably 50 people waiting at the concession stand. So many pickups with air mattresses in the back!
Incredible Halibut main course at Canoe Bay.
At Canoe Bay there are very friendly deer all over the property. They run around and seem to have a delightful time frolicking in the woods. They wont let you get too close but they also don’t run away when you approach.
50th Street is closed at France Ave this summer and it is fun to see the area embracing a temporary pedestrian mall! I’ve suggested in the past this area should be permanently car free so it is a fun experiment.
