Earlier this year when I had committed to working on the Lounge Project, I had ordered new chairs for the space. I wanted two simple chairs that fit the space, fit the decor, and reclined. The order was placed in mid-January and they finally arrived in late March.

At the end of last year, I worked on the ‘Network is Slow’ Project which culminated in several changes to the home networking. What did not change was the WiFi mesh system I was using. I had four of the first-generation Google WiFi access points spread around the house. In the past six months, I have started noticing a general degradation in the quality of the WiFi speed. This would frequently happen once per day where the only fix was a reboot of the base system. I suspect that the quality of the updates has gone down since Google laid off tens of thousands of employees, but that’s likely baseless speculation.

We had a quick trip up to Detroit for the weekend. I was able to spend the afternoon looking around downtown. I am blown away with the architecture and extravagance of the grand buildings.

It had been about five years since we vacationed in Mexico. We found a resort we like in Puerto Vallarta, all-inclusive and right on the beach. We have not been back as there have been some changes in the custody schedules, many pets to take care of, and pandemics. The time was right to book a trip and by late February any Midwesterner is ready for a healthy dose of warmth.

I know how coveted the Pappy bourbons are, but did not fully understand or appreciate the story behind the whiskey. This was a book full of heart and tied together the author’s own life with that of the Van Winkle family. This book made for a great vacation read.

This was exactly what I expected from her novels. Did a lovely job tying together people, places, and events from her prior two novels, Station Eleven and Glass Hotel. The futuristic bit had me cautious, but never once felt like the main theme.

I have spent the last few weeks sorting through some work nonsense. As humans do, my mind tries to map out every possible scenario, focusing on the bad ones, and repeat until I am reduced to a useless pile of human. The best way to combat this is to just write it all out. Pen and paper. It has to be on paper. Don’t type this. Your brain needs that experience of turning thoughts into words into motor skills to get it down. Once you do that, the odds are good you’ll turn that off. It will be resolved in the sense that it’s on paper. This should free you up to take action.

I enjoyed Klosterman’s book on the 90’s and this was definitely more in the same style. An interesting book about what we think we know and how our predictions of the future are complete nonsense. This one took some dedication to get through. It felt like a great theme without a conclusion.

Friday evening the teen came home from work and complained their tire seemed low. Since it was late, I said I would check it in the morning. Sure enough, the tire was completely flat. Since I was going to be out of town the next week, it made sense to get this repaired that day. An unplanned project was underway. It is far easier to take a tire in for a repair than the whole car in on a spare that has to be installed. That is to say if the car even has a spare. So many newer cars come without a spare.