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The office has been watching the Big Bear eagle nest cam on the open space TV since before the chicks hatched. The juveniles are now about to fledge. Whenever one of them tests their wings, the whole office pauses to see if this the time that one leaves the nest. 🦅

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I finally found the cable to my Garmin Instinct watch. It’s been so long, I’ve forgotten how to operate the darned thing. I hope the battery isn’t toast by sitting uncharged for so long…

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📷 I had an English Literature teacher my senior year of high school named King Wisdom (no joke!) who’s class you could pass by bringing him Rolos (also, no joke). Personally, I did not bring him Rolos, but I do think of what a character he was whenever I partake of them myself.

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📷 A stroll along the river–or what we call a river in SoCal anyway–at lunch, deep in thought. I almost didn’t come back.

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Thankfully, we’ve recovered from my hasty settings change day before yesterday.

Every now and then I forget my own rule to the rest of the team: Test in a sandbox, test it again as a user, then test once more as a different user before promoting it.

I caused myself way too much stress with this one…

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While trying to catch up some lost time from the day, I thought I could enable a seemingly innocuous environment setting without testing it properly in a sandbox first.

What do you think happened?

You’re right! Shit broke and I can’t roll it back.

Yay me!

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Waiting for Sequoia updates to complete on the Intel work laptop. 2 hours and counting so far…

If it were Apple silicon, I’d be back working already. 😑

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My wife and I had a fantastic lazy weekend in Palm Springs with no agendas or timelines other than laying by the pool and dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. Our time is over now and it’s back to the real world…

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📷 Early morning coffee with a view.

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A beautiful early morning view from the balcony of our hotel room.
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