My friend Patrick Rhone @patrickrhone chooses a word for each year and he just shared that “better” is his word for 2025. I like this a lot. I think I’m going to pursue better in 2025 too.
A sauna session is naturally meditative since nearly all distractions simply cannot take the heat. They must be left outside. It is just you, your breath, and the heat. 🔥
Through bag 4 of Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi LEGO. Movement is very smooth and base is stable.
Getting started on my Christmas LEGO Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi. Looks like a fun build!
Tyler has a good start on his Christmas LEGO of the Great Deku Tree from The Legend of Zelda!
Nice winter afternoon for the Magic Pines Sit & Soak. This is my new happy place. 🔥💧
Mazie and I had a nice walk around the cabin loop. I forgot my hat and she was nice enough to borrow me hers. 🌈🤩
We played Escape the Room: Secret of Dr. Gravely’s Retreat tonight and had a lot of fun solving the various puzzles. We successfully escaped with 7 minutes remaining on the 120 minute timer! Fun time! 🔓
Tammy likes Christmas Gnomes so I decided to get her one that is near life size.
Santa brought me a lefse shirt! This is a serious Minnesota level up! 🎄🎁🎅
Santa brought me an ornament to go with the hot tub! 🎄🎅
On a movie roll this Christmas with Family Switch tonight. Fairly goofy movie but fun for the family.
Tammy and I must have been good this year! Merry Christmas Eve!🎄🎁🤩
If you’d like to “listen along” with our family our Christmas Things playlist on Apple Music is the vibe that we like. Many classics with some more niche add ins. 🎄🎶
Starting Christmas Eve with an amazing cup of Dreamy Melon from the ever amazing Pair Cupworks.
Dreamy Melon! – We’ve sold some pretty great coffees this year, but this one is probably the top. Clean, crisp sucrose sweetness, and fragrant melon flavor – this marvelous flavor is a result of meticulous processing including constant monitoring, temperature control, and finely tuned fermentation.
A truly delightful cup. Very subtle flavor tones. Smooth with very little bite. Would agree on the clean, crisp taste. One of the best coffees I’ve ever had. ☕️
If you set out to make a modern version of Die Hard you would end up with exactly Carry-On. It is a fast paced action movie set in an airport on Christmas Eve and the good guys win in the end. I thought Jason Bateman was great in it. 🍿
I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to make a POAP — created Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs to send to the five people that got a year of micro.blog under their Christmas tree this year! 🎄🎁
We all went to Mufasa: The Lion King tonight at Edina 4. I’ve always enjoyed the Lion King movies and this was a great one as well. 🍿
I spent some time this morning doing analysis of our electricity usage. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy XcelEnergy makes it to retrieve your historical data at frequencies as low as every 15 minutes! Related — we use a lot of electricity… ⚡️
Tyler and I decided to redeem the Pokemon 2014 #69 M Charizard EX card that we bought via Collector Crypt. Collector Crypt stores the graded card securely and you hold the NFT as proof of ownership. We burned the NFT and withdrew the card. It arrived today and is great!
