Tried a new cocktail at The Dakota tonight — Back to Black. King County Coffee Whiskey, Irish Cream, Cold Press, and Smoked Whip. Was very good but you need to like coffee. https://www.dakotacooks.com https://www.kingscountydistillery.com/collections/flagship-whiskeys/products/coffee-whiskey

The New Standards were at The Dakota tonight for their regular Preener’s Eve Show! We are fans of the band and of this show specifically. Tonight seemed even a bit better than they always are. Such a wonderful evening. 🎶 https://www.thenewstandards.com https://www.dakotacooks.com https://www.dakotacooks.com/event/the-new-standards-preeners-eve-show-dec30-2024-01/

Micro.blog Collection Creator Shortcut https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/12/30/microblog-collection-creator-shortcut.html

I’m very excited to welcome David O’Hara @davoh to micro.blog. David shares great images, essays, and thoughts and I’m hopeful he will find micro.blog a great platform to host all of that. One of the Christmas Blogs! 🎁 https://micro.blog/davoh https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/12/08/i-love-to.html

Tammy and I took Lucky for a walk to celebrate her 5th Birthday!

I just got the first version of a Micro.blog Collection Creator shortcut working. It allows you to paste in the contents of an existing post, or any text with a list of urls on your site, and it will add all referenced uploads to a collection you choose. Will share after cleaning up!

One of the most impressive Christmas miracles is that LEGO sets miraculously are never missing pieces. 🤔

Tyler completed his Great Deku Tree LEGO from The Legend of Zelda. He enjoyed the build. It has two different looks to pick from — he picked the Breath of the Wild one. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/great-deku-tree-2-in-1-77092

A year of blogging for $12? I love this! 🤩

"Several people have already correctly guessed that Micro.one will be a ridiculously low $1/month. I hope this helps it reach more people. It will also be a perfect gift subscription to give to friends and family.

Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/2024/12/28/several-people-have-already-correctly.html https://micro.one/ https://www.manton.org/2024/12/28/several-people-have-already-correctly.html

Mazie completed her Christmas LEGO of Macaw Parrots this morning. They are designed to be hung on the wall and look great! https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-fauna-collection-macaw-parrots-31211

Completed my Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi LEGO this morning. This was a very fun build and the movement is really fun! The surprise one is Yoshi shooting a fireball out of his mouth. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/super-mario-world-mario-yoshi-71438

I’ve been enjoying the Snow Fall plug-in by @manton on my website and it has me thinking that it would be really fun to have a web version of Simon Støvring’s Festivitas. A string of lights along the top of the browser with various configuration options would be cool. https://github.com/microdotblog/plugin-snowfall https://micro.blog/manton https://simonbs.dev https://www.festivitas.app

I created a hierarchal view of my blog pages so that I could try to organize this better. This shows why I wish the Pages section of micro.blog was a bit more sophisticated. I took the outline and then gave it to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend a better way to structure it.

I make a recurring donation to Wikipedia but I figured I would make an extra donation right now. Wikipedia is one of the true wonders of the web and I’m very happy to support it. https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742

My friend Patrick Rhone @patrickrhone chooses a word for each year and he just shared that “better” is his word for 2025. I like this a lot. I think I’m going to pursue better in 2025 too. https://micro.blog/patrickrhone https://www.patrickrhone.net/my-word-for-2025-better/

A sauna session is naturally meditative since nearly all distractions simply cannot take the heat. They must be left outside. It is just you, your breath, and the heat. 🔥

Through bag 4 of Super Mario World™: Mario & Yoshi LEGO. Movement is very smooth and base is stable. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/super-mario-world-mario-yoshi-71438

Getting started on my Christmas LEGO Super Mario World™: Mario & Yoshi. Looks like a fun build! https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/super-mario-world-mario-yoshi-71438

Nice winter afternoon for the Magic Pines Sit & Soak. This is my new happy place. 🔥💧

Mazie and I had a nice walk around the cabin loop. I forgot my hat and she was nice enough to borrow me hers. 🌈🤩