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I am still really sad about the potential breakup of the Turnpike Troubadours.
On the plus side, it has given me an excuse to listen to their entire catalog on repeat since last week (like I needed one). Five albums and not a single bad song.
Just like Daddy.
My little pirate.
His and Hers
We took the kids to Disney World this week. I always thought it would be cool, but would be one of those things that didn’t live up to the hype. I was wrong, it lived up to all the hype.
Made a little trip out to the Cape last night to watch the SpaceX Dragon capsule launch. This was my attempt at a long exposure photo.
When working on a side project in my spare time, I have to take risks that I would not normally consider. Today’s example is eating a biscuit on the same desk as my MacBook Pro with a butterfly keyboard.
We officially have two kids that can walk.
I need some help with app names.
I’m working on 2 apps, a strength training / weight lifting app and a food tracking app for iPhone and Apple Watch.
I prefer the names fit together, but that’s not a requirement. Only requirement is they be available without subtitles.
Ideas?
I love that scientists can disagree about what the data are telling them but still be excited to work together to figure out what the right answer is (even if it means being wrong). Mike Brown’s post about a Planet Nine alternative hypothesis is a great example of this.
This article about embracing process by Issac Smith is so good.
I got rid of my second monitor at work because open space and photos of my family are better to look at than email and Twitter.
I regret this gift.
One small step.
Look, no hands!
“Do you want vegetable stir fry or stir fry with ground beef in it?”
- the dumbest question my wife has ever asked me.
I think he liked the cake.
My “favorite” gift that Caleb got at his birthday party today was a Baby Shark puzzle they plays the song every time he puts a piece in.
The couple that got it for us are about to have another baby, so I have a year and some change to plot my revenge.
One year old.
Last sleep before one.
My physical therapist just told me that I am not allowed to sleep on my stomach anymore and now I am wondering if I will ever sleep again.
I used to like green beans. Then we switched from canned to fresh, and I realized that all I was really liking before was salt.
Wearing this dog out isn’t easy, but I think that run did it.
Solo.
It is pretty cool that Github is now offering unlimited private repositories for free accounts. Saving $7/month is not huge, but it’s not nothing.
Xcode’s view for Asset Catalogs is horrible when you get into large amounts of data. I am currently dragging in data files about 30 at a time and am getting 30 seconds of beachballs with each drag.
The cost of not sleeping the night before.
Explorer.
🙊🙈 Carissa isn’t much better than Ollie is.
I bought the remastered Spyro games because I thought they would be a good into to video games for Ollie. The 3D controls ended up being a bit much for him.
So I bought the Crash games, which also ended up being too hard.
On the plus side, I can now play Spyro and Crash 😁
Njet!
4WD
Snow didn’t get here until evening, but that didn’t stop Ollie from building his first snowman ☃️.
I hate what the ice does to the trees, but I love how it looks.
Steam.
Hot chocolate on a cold night.
Finally got around to reading The Athletic’s write-up on Kenny Stills. He is the perfect example of an athlete giving back to and being a part of the community. I’m proud that he is a Sooner.
Fun at the Science Museum on the last day off of school.
I love watching toddlers run because they never move their arms.
Homemade jalapeño relish is the key to the perfect burger. Can’t wait for this tonight. 🤤🍔
This is my computer. There are bugs in my computer.
Sometimes I forget how much they pick up from me.
Tuckered out after a fun day of playing with dad.
The 4K version of 2001: A Space Odyssey is finally out. Best part, if you already bought it on iTunes you get the 4K upgrade for free!
The best way to get an appreciation for new technology is to go back and use the old stuff for a bit. I am switching back to my Series 3 watch for about a week while my new one (hopefully) gets replaced. I do not like it.
Plane tickets to Disney World for next year are purchased 💸
I am taking my oldest to see the new Spider Man movie tonight. I’m not sure which of us is more excited.
Apple needs to do a better job with Apple Watch repair/replacement. The battery on mine has not been bad since the day I got it (constantly struggles to get through a day), but my only option is to mail it to them and hope that the problem is bad enough that they replace it.
Ugh. After two weeks of pain from a pinched nerve and tendonitis, I had just managed to get myself pain free for a few days. Until I popped my bad knee in the last minute of a workout 😣
My favorite Christmas gifts that I buy every year are definitely the ones for my dog. This year, he gets a soft frisbee and a tug-of-war rope.
I watched Die Hard for the first time tonight. It was everything I hoped it would be. Easily a top three Christmas movie.
I accidentally spent some money 😬
TFW you solve a performance problem you have been working on for two weeks 10 minutes before a meeting that lasts the rest of the day.
I cannot wait to watch OKC roll into Oakland the day before Thanksgiving on a 12 game winning streak.
New theory for why Apple did not update the iMac last week: they are saving it for early next year when it gets moved to ARM along with the iMac Pro and the Mac Pro.
A new version of RadarScope for Apple TV is out today. It has the Inspector Tool (Pro only), better radar selection from the map, and some bug fixes.
On a scale from “Totally Fine” to “Worst Parent Ever”, where does snagging some Halloween candy when your kid isn’t looking fall?
Apple missed an opportunity on the new iPad Pro to move the USB-C port to the edge of the case. Having it in the center is not good in laptop mode.
I don’t know why I am so excited to try that new Series 4 EKG feature. The only real thing that can come out of it is that it tells me I have a heart issue.
The only bad part of a 9 AM Apple event is that I don’t have the entire morning to sit around reading predictions for said event.
I regret this Activity Challenge so much.
The absolute worst part of parenting is having a sick kid and not being able to make them feel better 😢
Today was a “the kids are growing up too fast” day. Both kids moved up to the next class at daycare and I had to drop the mattress on Caleb’s crib to the lowest setting.
Got to celebrate my baby sister tying the knot today! 💍
The tagline for Apple’s iPad event is “There’s more in the making”. Everyone is making the connection to Photoshop coming to the iPad, but I think that there could be more to it. This would be the perfect event to surprise some people and announce or release Xcode for the iPad.
The latest episode of 99% Invisible is all about the OKC land run and features Sam Anderson, the author of the Boom Town. I can’t wait to listen to this one.
RadarScope is the Top Paid app on the Apple TV! Have not cracked the Top Grossing charts yet.
Who at Apple do I have to bribe to get Weather listed as a top level category on the Apple TV App Store?
My Totally-Real-And-Not-Influenced-At-All-By-Being-A-Thunder-Fan Predictions for the 2018/19 NBA Season:
MVP: PG ROY: Diallo DPOY: Dre 6MOY: Schröder COY: 2Patt
WCF: OKC over GSW ESF: IND over BOS
Finals: OKC over IND Finals MVP: Why Not?
Big Day™
Game Day. 1/82. Thunder Up! ⚡️🏀
💯💯💯
PSA: Solo comes to iTunes tonight so you have something to watch while you stay up until 2 am to buy your iPhone and Apple Watch.
The longer I procrastinate buying a nice standalone camera, the less I need to.
Working with 3D graphics all day makes my head hurt.
TFW you have what you know is a bad idea, but you have to spend the afternoon working on it to prove it to yourself because it would be awesome if it worked.
Also, I am not happy with the engineer 30 years ago that made accessing the window motor way more difficult than it had to be.
It took a lot more that just banging on the inside of the door with a hammer this time, but the Bronco has a working power window again. This time it should stay that way. 🔧⚙️
My boys.
Ollie and I watching the OU game in style!
Game day! #boomer
Ollie: Why did you do that?
Me: Because I’m the boss.
Ollie: No, Michael is the boss.
Y’all, I have ruined my kid.
I am pumped to be able to show people what I have been working on this summer. This is one of the coolest projects we have ever done. Getting close!
Gave Ollie a blueberry muffin and cake back to find this.
The Bronco’s window quit working again and this time hammering it didn’t fix it.
So today’s todo list consists of buying a new motor for it and checking the forecast for rain.
Obligatory “I Voted” sticker.
For the rest of the night it will be me, a glass of whisky, and 15 Safari tabs about the interpretation of 2001.
2001 in IMAX. Pumped.
I would not be happy with Netflix killing iTunes billing. I use it to easily turn my subscription on and off depending on what we are currently watching.
That being said, I would happily trade iTunes billing for TV App support.
Today was the best food day I have had in years. Had a great homemade breakfast with friends in the morning and Brazilian steakhouse with family in the evening. Can’t beat that.
Cleaned off half of my desk to make room for my next project.
My wife has been saying she wanted some new couch pillows. Ask and you shall receive.
Every few months, the driver’s side window on my truck stops working. So far, the fix has been to bang on the inside of the door with a hammer. It is easily my favorite truck repair.
While it wasn’t nearly as good as the original, Cars 2 is a much better movie than its reputation indicates.
Any night that starts with buying 25 jalapeños has to be good.
I have been reading the Morning Brew newsletter the last few weeks. It is a good overview of the previous days news without having to get into the weeds.
I really want to like Shortcuts, but all I can think about is how much simpler this action would be if I could just write some Swift code for it.
Maybe Shortcuts needs to Run Playground action added to it.
Ollie has been learning about animals at school and has been asking us to take him to the zoo for weeks now. Finally was able to make it out today! 🦁🐯🙈🐘
Starting my last year in my twenties!
Is anyone able to control audio via Siri on watchOS 5? It stopped working in beta 4 for me (and is still not working on beta 5).
The number of devices that I have to update when a new beta comes out is getting ridiculous.
Today feels like a good day for Apple to ship beta 2 of Shortcuts. It has been three weeks since the initial beta.
The latest episode of Lore is all about Mackinaw Island, one of my favorite places in Michigan to visit.
New desk decorations.
Controlling audio from third party workout apps in watchOS 5 is 👌
I had the perfect dad-stereotype moment earlier this evening; I was replacing a light fixture while I was grilling while I was drinking a beer.
Is this an unreasonable amount of screen space for two people?
To celebrate #NationalMoonDay, here is Apple’s macOS Moon Wallpaper with a Death Star in place of the Moon.
Don’t mind me, I’m just over here re-implementing ‘UITableView’ inside a ‘UICollectionViewFlowLayout’.
Multi-line editing in Xcode 10 is my favorite Xcode feature since Swift.
I sure wish my truck had an AC right about now.
On Sunday, I switched up my workout routine and started running. Today, I had already shaved 45 seconds off my mile pace. I’m aiming for 7ish minutes. About 90 seconds to go!
None of this changes any of my feelings about running though. It is, and always will be, stupid.
I don’t think you are supposed to have two of these?
While the world is going crazy around us, watching my three year old tell his little brother “you are my buckaroo and my friend” makes my heart happy.
I think something is a little wrong here.
Weird. Apple just updated the MacBook Pro, but my 2017 model does not feel old and busted. Why can’t this happen with iOS devices?
I guess a bunch of people want to buy that new MacBook Pro.
I’m starting to think that there is a going to be a pretty big market for fitness apps that don’t send any of your data to their servers so they can be assured that stuff like this doesn’t happen.
Ollie: Where is God at? Me: He is everywhere! Ollie: He’s in my tummy?
Hard to beat an accidental Sunday afternoon nap on the couch with my three year old.
Cried for almost two hours, but finally fell asleep. Do I dare try to move?
Hi there Shortcuts 👋
Based on reports that Smart TVs are tracking everything that we are watching, I think that it is time for Apple to start building an actual TV set with tvOS built right in.
Players going to Golden State is the weakest move in sports.
I think (or at least hope) we found our OKC house! Now to get the ball rolling on the horrible process of buying and selling a house 😬
It is amazing how much KD’s decision is coloring my expectations for PG13.
Everything is pointing to him staying in OKC, but all I can think about it how much it looked like KD was sticking around too.
“Siri, where’s my binky?”
How To Eat A Sub as told by a three year old.
Always a good day when Cody Canada drops a new album.
These color photos of World War I that Kottke linked to are incredible.
It turns out that today was not a great day for a 30 minute walk.
Big day for the birthday boy.
Just got excited when I realized I needed to make a Lowe’s trip because it meant driving the Bronco across town.
Daddy’s little fisherman.
Took Ollie to his first movie today. He had a great time watching Incredibles 2.
The latest 99% Invisible is all about those horrible 90s NBA uniforms. They indirectly helped OKC get the Thunder.
I guess KTLX runs on Verizon.
I know that it is popular to say that Swift is not as good as Obj-C for writing apps, but I just wrote a feature in Swift that I had written before in Obj-C before and it only took 20% the amount of code and it is more type safe. Seems pretty good to me 🤷♂️
The more I hear and think about Shortcuts, the more excited I get. @viticci did a great job of explaining everything that Apple announced about them.
I am about to try to tackle CloudKit syncing for an app. I have zero idea what I am doing 🙃
I would like to publicly thank whoever at Apple included GLES_SILENCE_DEPRECATION so that I did not have to stare at 200 deprecation warnings all summer.
I am almost as excited for our traditional Apple Event Taco Truck Run™ as I am about the actual WWDC Keynote. Almost.
People seem to be way more cynical of Microsoft buying GitHub than I am. I use GitHub pretty heavily and I am not really worried about this at all. If anything, maybe GitHub’s app will get better now.
While I’m sad to miss WWDC, I sure can’t complain about doing this instead.
If there is going to be a WWDC spoiler, at least it is for macOS and not one of the exciting platforms 👹
Even though each step is pretty straightforward, the process of starting on a complex UICollectionView is always a bit daunting and intimidating.
Good news: Ollie is moving up in daycare classes and we get to save a little bit of money.
Bad news: We now have a week and a half to get him potty trained after months of being unsuccessful 😬.
How to Lose The Positive Effects of a Walk in 23 Flavors
Me: Do you like church? Ollie: Yeah, I do! Me. I do too. What do you like about it? Ollie: Donuts!
Not exactly what I was going for.
The HomePod makes an excellent backyard speaker.
I am a big fan of cross-genre covers, so I am here all day for Casey Donahew’s red dirt cover of Matchbox 20’s 3 AM.
Stuff like this is what makes me like Micro.blog more than Twitter. Reading about @manton’s API plans and @becky’s idea of a Micro.blog app have me itching to try to develop for the platform.
But why not?
Is office Bluetooth saturation a thing?
I hate it when I am able to fix a bug without having a clear understanding of why the bug was happening. It makes the fix feel fragile.
Finally watched Get Out. Wow.
TIL the Apple TV remote has multi-touch.
She gets me.
Getting bit by a tick that makes me allergic to red meat would be a nightmare scenario for me.
All of the talk of the Thunder trading Westbrook is so dumb. They would lose their fan base (including me) if they traded the guy who chose to stick with us when KD left.
I may be throwing good money after bad, but it looks like the Bronco is going to live again with a three year full powertrain warranty.
Something something sunk cost fallacy.
Ben Thompson nailed his analysis on the difference between the two driving philosophies for tech companies: Platforms expand your ability to do things and aggregators do them for you.
Apple is a platform and Google is an aggregator. Both are needed.
I went overboard and purchased four dot app domain names today. Workshelf.app and Stickerbook.app are live now, but you will have to wait for the other two.
The new Google Duplex feature that they showed off for their Assistant looks like it is from the future. I am holding off Siri judgement until WWDC, but Apple has a ton of ground to make up and I don’t have much confidence that they can actually pull it off.
Well it looks like the Bronco’s engine is shot. So it is either $3500 or a new car.
Ollie is having a little trouble saying his T’s and is using the F sound for them instead. So a “tree” is a “free” and a “train” is a “frain”.
I will leave it up to the reader to figure out what a “truck” is. Hint: the r is not emphasized nearly enough.
Every once and awhile I accidentally go a few weeks without listening to the Turnpike Troubadours and every time I come back to them I am reminded how incredible their music is. So so good.
This is becoming too common a sight.
Star Wars tickets acquired! 2D IMAX at 9:30a on the 25th.
It really feels like spring outside. Driving my unreliable(ish) 30 year old truck a couple of hundred miles to try to see a tornado is a completely reasonable thing to do, right? Right?!
Carissa: Do you want water or milk? Ollie: I want your coffee.
This is definitely my kid.
I used my Beats Pro headphones on my iMac this morning for first time since getting my AirPods. I love how they sound, but the cord is really annoying. Apple’s W-chip enabled over-ear headphones cannot come soon enough.
I’m not sure I helped myself.
That will do.
Happy “Ross gets a new iMac at work” Day everyone!
I love it when xkcd covers meteorology.
Can someone please make a Bible app that works in multitasking mode on the iPad? I really don’t want to try to write an app to just get one feature.
If the “new native” GitHub client is not for you and you want something that is actually native, I recommend Tower.
It is really weird to watch the Spurs play without Pop on the sideline. Even thought it wouldn’t mean much next to losing his wife, I sure hope that the Spurs are able to pull off a win tonight for him.
I think I fit every case in XKCD’s Evangelism comic.
Someone talk me out of staying up to watch Golden State disappoint me by coming back to beat the Spurs. 🏀
Ollie picked up a rock from our garden and threw it across the yard (not knowing he was doing anything wrong). I walked over and told him that he isn’t allowed to throw rocks.
I then picked up the rock…
…and tossed it back into our garden.
🤦♂️
Tax season is the one time every year that I’m glad my side apps don’t actually make me any money.
I’m going to hit my Move goal just by pacing around the living room during this game and fist pumping with every score and stop.
It is playoff time in Oklahoma! Thunder Up!
We got a doggy door put in yesterday.
Good news: Indy loves it and uses it just like he is supposed to. Bad news: So does my son.
🤷♂️
Daddy is over here working hard for these smiles.
Watched the first episode of Lost in Space. So far, so good.
I think that it is time to turn off the internet for the night.
First big local storm day this spring.
The backseat of a Bronco was not built to hold two car seats (or one, if we are being honest).
In other news, Carissa is back to work today and Caleb is at his first days of day care.
On my One Sixteen.
The Montague episode of Atlanta is probably the single weirdest episode of TV I have ever watched.
I wish that they had picked a name other than Solo for this movie. I want Lando to have as big a part (or bigger) than Han Solo, but the name suggests that he just plays side kick.
What a statement win by OKC. Beat the best team in the NBA on the road and kept us in the running for home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs. #thunderup 🏀</p>
And the sequel.
A story of regret in two pictures.
Had a great date night with Carissa (plus a bunch of friends from church) at the OKC Starlight Supper last night. It was our third year in a row to go and easily our favorite one yet!
Freeze warnings in April are dumb.
The latest episode of Connected has a great discussion about the future of Apple’s OS strategy in light of the Marzipan and ARM Mac rumors. I am completely on board with putting appleOS 1.0 on all of my Apple hardware in a few years.
I made a mistake and re-downloaded the Zillow app 😬
Amazon’s stock is taking a hit as a result of Trump’s rhetoric, but if I were an Amazon investor, I wouldn’t worry. Jeff Bezos is very, very smart. Donald Trump is not.
The latest episode of 99% Invisible is all about the U.S. military’s attempts at weather modification throughout the 20th century. I had no idea that our weather modification programs were as big as they were.
I look forward to the last day I have to write any OpenGL code.
After driving back and forth between Norman and OKC six times over the weekend, I am pretty ready to move up there.
Hard to beat an Easter afternoon cuddled up with Indy on the couch with Zac Brown Band playing in the background.
Got my perfect month and monthly challenge for the third month in a row!
Considering how Kylo Ren treated his dad, I’m not thrilled about how okay Caleb was about wearing this mask.
I am ready for Oklahoma to make national news for a good story. Today is not that day. Hopefully the government will listen to the teachers quickly.
I’m pretty sure this is the earliest in the day I have ever completed my Stand ring.
I love that Saddleback Leather posts stuff like this on Good Friday. It is a small thing, but it makes me feel better about the large amounts of money I want to spend on their products.
The worst part about updating Swift versions is not the syntax changes. It is having to change valid code that is all of the sudden “too complex to be solved in a reasonable time”.
One of my favorite touches in iOS 11.3 is what happens when you tap the Artist/Album button on the Music’s Now Playing screen. Before it would just take you to the album for the song. Now, it gives the option for the artist, album, or playlist (if you are playing from one).
I have a hard time seeing AR in education being nearly as big as Apple is trying to make it out to be. Seems like they are just trying to show off something that Chromebooks can’t do.
We had a great time out in Virginia, but it sure is good to be back home.
I am sitting on a plane surrounded by screaming babies. Extremely greateful that they are not mine.
Hit 100 straight days of working out (and 100 straight days of closing all my Activity rings).
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Had some fun exploring the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum today!
Made it to the hotel. Both kids cooperated, so the day of travel wasn’t too bad. We got a ton of symphony stares though.
Flying ✈️
Ollie got to be the pilot 😁✈️
The family and I are flying out to Virginia today to watch a good friend get married. I’m excited to be out there, but I can’t say I’m excited to be on a plane with two kid under three.
The Huntsville National Weather Service Office got a report of a 5.25 inch hailstone 😳
Here is the radar reflectivity from around the time of the hailstone.
Any Wordpress experts have any idea how to get emoji to show up in the native system font instead of being converted to images?
I decided to add a run to my normal strength workout today because the weather is so perfect. I immediately regretted it. Running is stupid and I hate it 👎 🏃🏽
I can’t wait to watch this documentary about Mr. Rogers. My son loves Daniel Tiger, so I hope he enjoys seeing where it all started.
Entering the draft is absolutely the right choice for Trea Young. I hope the disappointing second half of the season does not affect his draft position too much. He will be fun to watch next year. 🏀</p>
Tools like Slack and HipChat are supposed to save you from email but instead I just set up email forwarding to save me from Slack and HipChat. Progress?
Looks like storm season has arrived.
Tim Carmody’s post on Kottke.org on how Haiti became so poor is both illuminating and heartbreaking.
From a Johnathan Kats Twitter thread mentioned in the link:
Racists have needed Haiti to be poor since it was founded. They pushed for its poverty. They have celebrated its poverty. They have tried to profit from its poverty. They wanted it to be a shithole. And they still do.
What a win for OKC. Beat the best team in the East that was carrying an 11 game win streak on the road. The Thunder are finally playing at the level they were when Andre went down. Peaking at the right time! 🏀
Finished off my single dad weekend by getting both kids up and to church. We were five minutes late and I forgot to fix Ollie’s hair, but we made it.
But now Momma is back home and all is right with the world.
My HomePod randomly played Numb/Encore by Linkin Park/Jay Z and now I am sad about Chester all over again.
Single Dad Weekend Update: it took two and a half hours, but both boys are asleep. Next up, the third boy – me.
My wife is having a weekend away with some friends, so it is just me and the kids at home for the next couple of days. She made sure we were prepared before she left.
I love that @shawnblanc is documenting the work he is putting into his new (to him) Jeep Wrangler. I would love to do something like this with my Bronco, but I don’t see myself being able to put any real work into it until it is no longer my daily driver.
I am excited to see what Apple comes out with at this education event in Chicago.
This may be a long shot, but I hope that the new Books app has better support for comics. I would love to ditch ComiXology.
Also, AirPower and new AirPods please?
In light of Stephen Hawking passing, Forbes did a story coving other scientists with disabilities. It features David Moran, a consulting meteorologists for WDT with Cerabal Palsy. It is worth a read.
He said he was going to catch me.
Someone talk me out of signing up for the WWDC 2018 lottery with my personal development account (i.e. the one where I have to pay for everything).
Neat ice kit.
I’m kinda embarrassed about all the hoops I jumped through to get the International Woman’s Day Challenge badge. Notice the time of that first workout.
Jon Favreau is making a live action Star Wars series! Since long form series are a way better medium for story telling than movies are, I can’t wait for this.
Got my baby back yesterday. Turns out replacing a rear differential is way cheaper than buying a new car. I was (thankfully) wrong about it being the transmission. I forgot how much I love driving it.
A big benefit of working on a college campus is that I pulled into the office and saw a school bus from my hometown parked in the parking lot and I got to catch up with my old high school football coach.
The Crazy Ones.
I’m pretty sad that Star Wars Rebels is over, but it had a pretty great finale. I can’t wait to see what that team comes up with next.
I have spend my working day just deleting old code.
It was wonderful.
Out.
I’m stuck.
He has been “fixing” his hair for 15 minutes.
He told me that he wants to be a hero.
You’ve Got A Friend In Me.
When he saw me at my desk this morning, he went to grab his iPad and a chair so he could “work” too. As a bonus, he even opened up RadarScope.
I used to want to get a bunch of HomeKit devices so I could control everything in my house by saying “Hey Siri” until I realized I could already do it by saying “Hey Ollie” instead 😝
When you get your son a coloring book but you kinda want to just keep it instead (I did give it to him).
I just got an email from my son’s church daycare about an active shooter training they are holding. Tell me about how unrestricted access to guns is okay again please?
Books.
Swinging.
Long day.
This is the first game against Golden State that I am going in to thinking that OKC is going to win, so naturally we will probably lose. 🏀
BB-8.
Date night to see Black Panther.
One of the best benefits of working from home on a snow day is having Ollie come into my office and tell me “I went potty in the potty and now I can have gummy bears”.
Snow day.
Toys.
Amazon Prime has every episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood! I know what Ollie is going to start watching tomorrow!
Furrbrother cuddles.
Hunny Bunny Biscuit Co.
Must be a surprising dream.
When you lose your Apple Pencil cap…
Carissa and I are starting The Good Place tonight. I feel like there is no way it can live up to the high expectations that everyone on the internet has set for it.
YETI.
Date night.
Today is a good day to listen to the canonical Valentine’s Day song.
I spend about 90% of my time developing for the Apple Watch just waiting for the app to transfer to the device. Half the time I forgot what I was testing by the time it gets there.
Looks like it is time to say goodbye to the Bronco. The transmission went out this morning. Time to get something a little more suitable for the family. The Bronco will go into storage until I can scrape enough money together to get it working as a fun secondary truck.
HomePod.
Brotherly cuddles. Can you tell which one was faking sleep?
The Groom.
Contemplative.
I finished reading Deep Work by Cal Newport today. I have been meaning to read it for awhile now. It was not an easy read (and implementing its ideas will be even harder), but I loved it.
The Handmaid’s Tale is next (I want to read the book before I watch the show).
📚
I have been fighting with my tools all day. So far, the tools have a significant lead.
30 minutes to go. Don’t let me down, Sam. 🏀
Best case for OKC now is that Cleveland is awesome after all these trades. Keep LeBron there so he won’t go to LA and take PG with him. 🏀
Looks like the Lakers are clearing cap space to make room to try to make a run at PG and LeBron this summer. Weird that it was Cleveland that helped them do it. 🏀
I need 2:00 to hurry up and get here so I can stop compulsively checking if the Thunder made a move before the trade deadline.
With Apple seemingly backing off their recent Emoji crackdown, I’m considering re-submitting my EmojiBook sticker app that I wrote over a weekend last summer just to see what happens.
Since it would almost surely still be rejected, it probably isn’t worth the effort.
Pour over.
Potty training materials.
Gabe Weatherhead could not have been more right about the 10 steps to take before buying a new Mac. It sure looks like someone just bought an iMac Pro.
I am cheating today and using this one that Carissa just sent me. Little man holding his head up!
LEGO.
Lore.
Note to self: don’t tickle a toddler who is potty training and wearing normal underwear. Especially when he is on top of you.
I could not decide which team I wanted to lose the Super Bowl more, but I ended up deciding on the Patriots.
Go Eagles!
Chebache.
New rope.
Back at work for the first time since Caleb was born. I’m pretty thankful to work somewhere that let me take three weeks off after he was born.
Cuddles with Daddy after his first bath.
Slowly turning my office into a viable workout room. First step was a rubber mat.
New house decorations.
It was great to be back in church today.
Show Up Every Day.
I finally finished watching Deep Space Nine tonight. It was easily my favorite Star Trek series yet. Just two more seasons of Voyager, four of Enterprise, and one movie and I will be done with the whole series.
Ollie made some fish tacos tonight.
I’ll see myself out.
I must be getting old.
I just opened my Mac to do some coding on Reposit and decided that I did not want to use any of the shiny new betas that came out yesterday.
Little fingers.
Photoshoot.
Big brother is a big helper.
Coasters.
I was saving this one for a special occasion – I think that successfully getting through our first full day as a family of four qualifies.
Caleb Mitchell Kimes • 1/11/18 • 7lbs 14oz • 20.5” He took the long way home, but he made it.
My boys.
Gifts from my sister’s Iraqi tour.
Caleb was moved to a normal crib and they have him off of everything except antibiotics (those stop tomorrow).
Carissa and I will stay overnight with him in the hospital tomorrow night and then he will get to come home Saturday afternoon.
Caleb made more good progress today.
- He is being fed with just a bottle now (instead of a tube). If he continues to do well with the bottle, they will take his feeding tube off tomorrow.
- His jaundice levels are way down. If they go down just a little more tonight, they will take him off phototherapy tomorrow morning.
- His breathing and oxygen levels are still good.
- All of the precautionary tests they ran game back negative. He has one more tonight, but there is not indication that we should be worried about it.
- They will take him off antibiotics on Friday.
If everything stays good and he keeps eating well, he could come home as soon as Friday or Saturday.
Such a good Momma. Giving Caleb his first bottle.
When your brother is sick and it keeps you from seeing Mommy and Daddy, sometimes you get to bend the rules and lie down in the coffee table at 10:30 🤷♂️
Hard to beat a celebratory lunch date to Midway on a cold day.
Big news! Caleb’s doctor just took him off of the oxygen! He is breathing room air now.
Assuming his breathing continues as it should, all that is left is getting his jaundice levels down and easing him into eating more food.
I hope this means that we are on the home stretch.
Caleb is only making small progressions, but he is progressing.
His respiratory rate is still spiking sometime, but his breathing is doing much better. I can tell just by looking at him that breathing is coming easier to him. His entire body was shaking with every breath before, but he looks pretty much normal most of the time now.
THEY have lowered his oxygen more to 35%. The lowest it can go to is 21%, so we are getting close.
We are still waiting on the results of a couple more tests, but we should have them soon.
Under the lights.
We are back home today and Ollie could not be happier about it. It was bittersweet for Carissa and I because we are still anxious for our newest member to get to come home with us.
Mama got to hold Caleb for about 30 minutes tonight. First time she has been able to hold him since right after he was born. 😍
Little man isn’t do as well today, but he is doing well enough to wake up and say hi to Mommy and Daddy.
The NICU is not where we had hoped to end up today, but Caleb is already starting to breathe a little better. We are hopeful he can get out of there in a day or two.
In a slightly unexpected turn of events, we are going to have a baby today! 😁
New Self.
Jay Jay hooked me up with a gift at the baby shower last weekend.
Can you tell that Ollie had company tonight?
We are making RadarScope for Windows 10.
It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.
In all seriousness, I think this is the best looking version of RadarScope yet.
I really enjoyed the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery. It is starting to feel more like real Star Trek, but with a little more edge to it.
Plus it has the best intro of any show I have ever seen. The French horn playing the opening notes to the original series theme gives me goosebumps in the same way the opening to a Star Wars movie does.
Couch cuddles.
He wanted to me to play Battlefront (or as he calls is, Space Ships), so he grabbed my controller (upside-down of course) and got it all ready for me.
Ollie “helped” me with my workout by climbing on top of my shoulders when it was time for pushups.
On the plus side, I know how Luke felt when he had to carry Yoda around everywhere on Dagobah.
Cool fresh shows.
Just pitched Carissa on the idea of saving to buy the next iMac Pro. She didn’t say no. Even if I had the money ready to go, I’m not sure I would actually buy it. I could change my mind and go with a non-Pro iMac and have a few thousand leftover.
Regardless, I am excited.
I finished up some design changes to my site last night. My goal was to make shorter posts like this fit in more naturally with the regular and linked posts.
Now that I have my site at a place I am happy with, I can switch my focus to getting some work on Reposit done.
Cool view of the “bomb cyclone” transitioning from rain to snow in RadarScope.
Helping Daddy make coffee.
It appears that a tornado has gone through Ollie’s train yard.
I finally read Dan Moren’s debut novel The Caledonian Gambit. Without giving anything away, it is a science fiction book that takes place a few hundred years in the future after humanity has spread to a few solar systems that are connected via wormholes.
I highly recommend it and hope to see a sequel soon.
Siri is trolling me hard tonight. No matter what song I ask for, she just plays Crank That by Soulja Boy. I would prefer Rickrolling to this.
Last egg nog of the season.
Distracting myself from the OU loss by sketching out some design ideas for my site that I want to try out.
Little man making New Years cookies!
I am a pretty big Siri defender, but this is inexcusable.
I just finished The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime. It was the best season of a show I have seen in a long time – maybe ever.
They are nothing alike, but I thought a lot of Better Call Saul while watching it. Both of them have a confidence about them that others don’t.
I’m working on a utility app that allows one tap publishing of Markdown or TextBundle files to Jekyll blogs hosted on Github Pages from iOS. I can’t think of a name for it that isn’t horrible or taken.
Any ideas?
Winning name gets a free lifetime subscription for Workshelf 😃
I am starting to get a little nervous about all this talk of Baker Mayfield being sick. It would really suck to get this far and lose because our best player wasn’t 100%.
We still have a few days before the game, so I really hope he gets better. Luckily, he did practice today.
Watching Thunder basketball has been a lot more fun recently. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this team ends up being the 3rd team in the West. 4 games behind San Antonio is achievable.
I’m taking Carissa to see The Last Jedi tonight. It will be my first viewing since opening weekend. I’m excited about seeing it again now that it has settled in my mind a bit.