On my way to Automattic’s annual Grand Meetup.
We made it home from our trip yesterday, but I didn’t include this picture of how we navigated thru the Atlanta airport.
Way way way better than pushing a stroller thru the airport 🙂
We left the hotel at 5:15am and started our journey towards Atlanta. Melody was able to get our flight changed to be a day earlier, but we had to drive to the airport.
The journey should take about 6.5 hours, but with all of the evacuees heading out at the same time, we got there in 11.5 hours. We ended up taking alternative routes the whole way there so we didn’t get stuck in gridlocked traffic.
We also stopped four times for gas/bathrooms.
And the kids slept great once we got in. Buddy boy really likes the boy doll Grandma got him.
We are on vacation in Daytona Beach and the hotel staff is preparing for hurricane Irma by playing sand bags everywhere.
We will be leaving tomorrow before they evacuate the entire resort.
Learning to play putt putt golf with nerf balls is much harder than expected.
This little girl loved her first movie in the theater: Cars 3.
Waiting to go to the beach with Grandpa.
A sample run of both the car seats in their bags. Too bad I have to unpack them so the kids can ride in them to the airport, then pack them back up before flying.
To get ready for our trip to Florida, I had to install a lighting kit for the travel trailer to get our luggage to the airport.
Took more time to take the car apart than it did to install the cable.
You use a hammer when changing the oil, right?
The weirdest thing I did today was sell at blender on Craigslist at my daughter’s swimming lessons.
I even had to plug it in in front of other parents to demo that it worked 😂
I’ve been working with our little chunky man to learn how to sit.
Today, he sat long enough to snap a photo!
When our car hits another milestone, I like to take a picture, so I can estimate approximately miles we drive.
Here’s the latest miles:
I woke up to an email from Delta letting me know they upgraded the first leg of my journey home to first class.
I’m pretending that they think I’m extra special and will get upgraded on every flight from now on. 😂
Glad I packed this lacrosse ball with me to relieve the tightness in my calf muscle.
Woke up in the middle of the night with a huge cramp; probably from the dozen hours of standing at the conference.
I got to travel to Anaheim to work at the Podcast Movement booth and I have to admit, it’s a pretty sweet booth.
At this Marriott hotel, you pick which floor you are going to and it tells you what elevator to get it.
Seems really efficient to me.
I used this ancient welder’s mask my dad gave me to take glimpses of the sun.
It isn’t the super high rated version, so I don’t think I burned my retina 😎
I barely use social media, but I’m hearing all kinds of things about this upcoming eclipse on Monday.
- Overheard someone at church say that their school is taking a calamity day on Monday due to the eclipse
- Our babysitter mentioned using a cereal box to make the viewing lens
- Someone in Dayton bought all of the eclipse glasses from Kroger stores and is selling them out of random parking lots around the city
- I’ve read an article about how people regret looking directly at the sun at one of the eclipses in the 1970s and now I’m paranoid that when I see a fuzzy spot in my eye I’ve somehow sunburnt my eye
- My wife is telling me that my plan of using a welding helmet is not safe enough to look directly at the sun
- What takes the cake is that my Nest Thermostat wanted to know if I wanted to participate in Eclipse Rush Hour to save energy
Maybe it will be cloudy on Monday and all this hype will be for naught.
Little man is ready for the beach. Only a couple more weeks.
❤️ that smile
No bun? No problem, simply put the cheese in between two patties.
I’ve been working this month on a few CrossFit goals and I’m making good progress on handstand pushups.
Push Ups – been working on these sporadically. Probably could get 30 straight (in one set only)
Handstand push ups – I got six unbroken today, which is well on my way to my goal of 10 straight
Handstand walk – blah. This one is hard. I have a hard time committing to the handstand and usually fall back on my feet.
Muscle Ups – I did a ring MU with a four pound medicine ball between my feet, so I’m definitely getting stronger. Tomorrow’s WOD had 5-4-3-2-1 of muscle ups and I’m going to try to go unbroken.
#goals
This shirt is so true about my dad.
Got to hang out with some of my buddies from high school and their families (and just happened to be 15 years after graduating high school).
Growing up we all lived within a mile of each other (in the country this is close 🙂).
Here we are with all our kids.
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We’ve had zucchini for days and here’s all the strawberries I can grow.
Sister was nice enough to hold the umbrella to keep them both dry, which conveniently made it impossible to push 😜
We went to the children’s museum in Indianapolis and had fun.
Going away for two nights this weekend.
Here is all my things packed nicely into my Tortuga backpack.
And here is the back of our car. I’ll be glad when ours kids are old enough to not have to take a bed, food, some toys, a stroller, and a potty.
I’ve been following the hundred push-ups challenge, in attempts it be able to do more of them.
So far, I’m halfway thru week 4 and doing well!
I have gotten pretty decent at most CrossFit moves, but I’m focusing on four in particular in August to get better.
- Push Ups. This is one of the easiest to work on and I always feel dead after about 20 in a WOD. I’d like to be able to get 50 straight by the end of the month
- Handstand Push Ups. Goal: 10 unbroken kipping
- Handstand walk. I’m pretty terrible at this now. Would love to be able to walk 20 feet by the end of the month
- Muscle ups. 10 unbroken bar muscle ups. My current best is 4, so bit of a work to do
My plan is to stay after class a bit each day to work on a skill.
Each month I have a reminder to write down a summary of what happened during the month, and each month, I snooze it until next month. But not today 🙂
Lots went on in July. Here’s some of the highlights.
- First full* month back to work after paternity leave. *I didn’t actually work the full month and had plenty of days off.
- I grew some gigantic zucchini
- Ate donuts and travelled to Nashville for the weekend
- Started checking my email less, and when I do check it, plow thru all the messages
- Started working on my Spanish with the Memrise app
- Hosted a block party at our house to meet some of the neighbors we’ve never talked to in the seven years we’ve lived at our house
- Celebrated 10 years of marriage
- Competed in my first ever CrossFit competiton and was sore for a good 5 days
- Started to up my programming skills by using Apple’s Swift Playgrounds. It’s almost like a game and super fun
- Our son turned 4 months, began rolling and nearly has two bottom teeth
Books
In July I read two fiction books and parts of several non-fiction books. I completed:
- Camino Island by John Grisham
- No Middle Name: short stories about Jack Reacher by Lee Child
I’m still working thru Tim Ferris’ Tools of the Titans and Deep Work by Cal Newport. Let’s see if I can finish these up by the end of the month.
Found with workout that will be great for traveling.
*Complete each exercise 25 and repeat circuit 4 times for 1000 reps:
- Mountain Climbers
- Body Squats
- Push-Ups
- Burpees
- Left Side Lunges
- Right Side Lunges
- V-Ups
- Body Weight Dips
- Jumping Jacks
- Plank Shoulder Taps
Mr. K hasn’t quite got the hang of selfies. We need to work on his on-demand smiles. 
Could be a fun weekend project for an upcoming WordCamp talk.
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Little man had his four month well check and he’s doing well. And at 18 lbs and 27 inches, that’s 98% and 95% for his age.
And as always, he was a happy baby tonight.
I put slices of watermelon in our dehydrator for about 18 hours at 135 degrees and now have watermelon chewy candy 🙂
I tried out Apple’s Swift Playgrounds app on my iPad today and I’m surprised at how fun it is.
It’s a bit sluggish on my iPad Mini 2, but still worth playing.
I’m now learning how to write functions to make the little creature move, collect gems and toggle switches.
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