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Pretty Good Hat

The bright front entry of a coffe shop, with trees slightly shading its large sign, lit by morning sun from the side

I got coffee and breakfast with my sister, at Ogden’s Kaffee Mercantile yesterday morning. It’s a lovely spot in the neighborhood where I grew up.

A situation yesterday prompted me to recall this video, which I return to once in a while when I am low on joy. The rube goldberg machine version of this is probably more famous, but this marching band version of This Too Shall Pass fills a certain critical part of my heart in a way that I can’t really explain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY

A fence post in the foreground of a large meadow of tall grass, with a low ridge and sun setting in the distance

Sunset last night was pretty good. We’ve had dust from the west desert blown in for the last few days, so this clearing evening of fresh, breezy and cool air was welcome.

A screenshot showing a Backblaze error message instructing the user to compare files to their backup

Backblaze entered this “freeze state” a couple of weeks ago and their tools to figure out what to do about it are sort of baffling. I’m supposed to compare my files to my backup state? All of them? How? For an indispensable piece of software, its usability is sometimes so disappointing.

A black dog wearing an e-collar and looking dismayed

Been a long time since the cone came out. But the cone is out because someone can’t leave her sore spot alone.

A man standing on a light blue paddleboard, with water stretching to trees and then a background of peaks with a bit of snow still on them.

I got out yesterday morning with my dad for the first paddleboard session of the year. There’s lots of water in the reservoir, at least for right now. It felt good to be out on the water, in the sun with him again.