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You can’t take a selfie in England without a bloody castle photobombing you

May 7th, 2019

Paris knows how to do a White Russian 😋

May 5th, 2019

A hallway in the chateau we’re staying in for the next couple of days

May 4th, 2019

What I Read in April 2019 📚

I read two books in April:

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Dune by Frank Herbert ⭐⭐⭐⭐

You can also follow what I’m reading on Goodreads.

Reading

May 1st, 2019

We made it to Paris

May 1st, 2019

Just had my first Impossible Burger at the Gott’s in SFO and I have to say that it was really good! If I didn’t know, I wouldn’t have guessed that it wasn’t a “real” burger.

April 30th, 2019

The main changes from my last home screen are replacing Micro.blog with Icro, Reminders with Memento, Castro with Overcast, and the addition of Audible

3 Home Screen

April 20th, 2019

One day we saw a school of golden rays from the boat and I was disappointed that we weren’t in the water at the time. Then the next day while snorkeling this happened 😳

April 8th, 2019

Before going to the Galápagos we hoped we’d get the chance to swim with sea lions. We ended up swimming with them so often that this is just a small amount of the highlights

April 6th, 2019

Penguins may look slow and clumsy on land, but they sure can fly underwater

April 1st, 2019

What I Read in March 2019 📚

I read three books in March:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Artemis by Andy Weir ⭐⭐
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

You can also follow what I’m reading on Goodreads.

Reading

April 1st, 2019

I’ve swum with sea turtles before in Hawaii, but never the sheer numbers that we saw in the Galápagos

March 30th, 2019

“Which style is better for user experience?…Research shows…solid icons were generally faster to recognize than outline icons, but with a few exceptions.” https://uxmovement.com/

March 29th, 2019

Seeing marine iguanas on land was cool, but getting to swim with them was something else

March 27th, 2019

I have so much video from the Galápagos that I decided to group by animal. First up: sharks! The whitetip reef sharks were only about five feet long, but the largest hammerhead shark was estimated by the guide to be 10-12 feet long.

March 23rd, 2019