Tammy published her first blog post in over 11 years! π€©
Short video of the demonstration chocolate line at Lindt Home of Chocolate.
Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 1
Weather: Warm & Sunny
- DL162 land In Amsterdam (10:26a)
- Sit on tarmac for 55 minutes waiting for gate to be available
- Clear passport control
- DL9568 to Zurich
- Landed in Zurich (2:06p)
- Checked in at Motel One Zurich
- Tuk Tuk Fondue Tour
- Walk around old city
- Sleep early, everyonr tired
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Cappuccino to hold off the jet lag, Leica to grab sights walking around Zurich.

It was cool to see UBS prominently marketing their Bitcoin offerings in Zurich airport.

Hello π from Amsterdam π³π± for about an hour. Heading on the KLM Cityhopper to Zurich π¨π.


Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 0
Weather: Very nice warm day.
- Lyft to MSP. Super nice driver.
- Cheeseburgers at Shake Shack. πππ Mazie got a quesadilla somewhere else.
- DL162 to Amsterdam departing at 7:50pm.
- Change to Central European Time, ahead 7 hours.
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Starting our summer vacation. Boarding flight to Zurich with a stop in Amsterdam. βοΈ

Up late setting up Tammyβs new Apple Watch Series 8 before we leave for vacation.

The #TeamSPS Coffee Guild met today and Rob Rutscher brought in his Decent Espresso machine along with the Niche Zero grinder and served up delicious coffee for folks today. Brought a lot of joy. βοΈ


I’m not particularly enthusiastic about Bluesky but I do have it setup and have micro.blog syndicating my posts. I do like how Bluesky supports using your domain as your profile name and was happy to set that up. You can find @jamie.thingelstad.com and @weekly.thingelstad.com.
Needed two more sets of hiking poles for our trip to Switzerland. Tyler and I went to REI and after consulting with the hiker in the store decided on LEKI sticks. I got the Makalu Cork Lite and he got the Lhasa.

Bubbles.

Look up.

These three pork butts spent 18 hours in the Sous Vides at 165 Β°F and are finishing with 2 hours on the Big Green Egg at 220 Β°F. ππ₯

Tammy and I by the pool.

What if Facebooks only goal with Threads is to damage Twitter.
In this context, Twitter looks like Fitbit and Threads like Apple Health.
Full platforms versus a feature.
My neighbors dock is not in good shape.

I love that my cousin Quinn has a blog, a micro.blog no less, and I can now see great stories from him online. π