Graffiti in Warsaw.
TeamSPS, Eastern Europe, with Warsaw team and many Kyiv team members visiting.
Love this portable pour over package from Mad Heads, a Kyiv-based coffee company. The package folds out to rest on the rim of the mug and make delicious pour over. The first step to making “perfect cup” — stay mad. 🤣☕️🇺🇦
Jet lag assistance.
Mindspace Skyliner. 📍
Great view of business district from our #TeamSPS location in Warsaw, Poland! 🇵🇱
City Hopper KL1317 heading to Warsaw, Poland. 🇵🇱
I find these robot vacuum cleaners that roam the MSP airport kind of adorable. 🤖
Flight delayed and one of the last six flights to depart MSP tonight. Airport is otherwise empty. We may end up being the last flight of the night! Gate agents have been working like crazy getting connections fixed. ✈️
Finished 3.95 mile walk in 71 minutes (17.97 min/mile). Loop around Lake Harriet. Such a splendid spring morning.
At today’s Minnesota Card Show I built my Alakazam and Perrserker collections. Tyler loves collecting and it is a fun thing to do together.
When I played D&D I was always a Wizard hence the connection with Alakazam.
My lineage is very Nordic, hence Perrserker, a Viking Pokémon.
Finland the happiest country for the seventh year running.
Yet some argue that the real reason is that the Finns sweat out their negative thoughts. Finland has roughly 3.5m saunas, more than one per two Finns.
I enjoy sauna and it is notable that it is extremely meditative, which we know has benefits, and notably you phones and mobile devices don’t even work in them. Coincidence or part of the benefit? 🤔
Tammy and I saw The Ballad of Wallis Island tonight at Edina 4. The movie was delightful. Tim Key was particularly good in a very restrained way. Great story.
“Blogging is small-p political again, today. It’s come back round. It’s a statement to put your words in a place where they are not subject to someone else’s algorithm telling you what success looks like; when you blog, your words are not a vote for the values of someone else’s platform.” — Matt Webb, Interview for People and Blogs, as quoted by Simon Willison.
Florence with Barry Hess
One of the ways that a blog can be a gift is to give others the option to go on journeys with you to locations far away. In 2023 our family took a trip to Switzerland & Italy, and we spent four wonderful days in Florence (day 14, 15, 16, and 17). It was a great (if not hot!) time.
Since we had been there just two years ago it piqued my interest when I saw fellow blogger Barry Hess was going there with his family to visit their daughter that is there for school. And what a gift Barry gave to himself and us with these wonderful daily recaps of their trip. It was fun to remember our own trip, and to see what they explored over a longer stay in Florence.
Here is each of his posts by day with great overviews and photos.
- Florence: Arrivo (Mar 27)
- Florence: Rimpinzati di Cibo (Mar 28)
- Florence: Arti e Musica (Mar 29)
- Florence: Arti II e Calcio (Mar 30)
- Florence: Giornata Libera (Mar 31)
- Florence: Davide, Le Chiese e i Dottori (Apr 1)
- Florence: Sonno e Regalità (Apr 2)
- Florence: A Cortona (Apr 3)
- Cortona: Riposo (Apr 4)
- Cortona: Esplorare (Apr 5)
- Cortona: A Florence (Apr 6)
- Florence: Finale (Apr 7)
Reading along made me want to go back. 🇮🇹
