I have about 130 posts with embedded “tweets” on my blog. If those folks delete their account I delete my embed of those. It seems like every couple days I get errors because the original tweet has been deleted, and the account is gone. The steady stream of folks off of X continues. https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/11/16/how-im-handling.html

Mazie returns home tonight from 4 weeks in Costa Rica at CIEE Monteverde in the mountains then fun trip to Manuel Antonio on the beach. She’s had an amazing time from the sound of it. Her biggest adventure ever. I’m also happy to have her back home for a bit before heading back to college. 🇨🇷 https://www.ciee.org/go-abroad/college-study-abroad/locations/costa-rica/monteverde https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g309274-Manuel_Antonio_Quepos_Province_of_Puntarenas-Vacations.html

We watched Inception tonight. Tammy and I are both sure we saw it when it was released but didn’t remember much of anything. Tyler thought it was a really good movie. 🍿

School cancelled for tomorrow due to extreme cold. Tyler was ecstatic to hear the news. Forecast is for -15 °F at 8am tomorrow and the cold snap breaks around noon. 🥶

The Weekly Thing was supposed to be back this last weekend but I decided to extend the winter break one more week. Expect the first issue of 2025 next weekend! https://weekly.thingelstad.com

Chicago Coin’s Basketball Champ. 🏀🕹️ https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/01/20/chicago-coins-basketball-champ.html

We completed “The Museum” at Puzzleworks today in 58m 48s. There is a whole genre of escape rooms that are creepy and this was our first that was even a little in that genre. We had a great time solving it with our nephew Levi. 👻 https://www.puzzleworksmn.com

Deep Woods Cabin Escape Room https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/01/19/deep-woods-cabin-escape-room.html

I have multiple UniFi G4 Instant cameras mounted outside and this cold snap is the coldest they have experienced. Well below the -4° F specification. So far they are holding in there. https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-cameras-nvrs/products/uvc-g4-ins

At the Chocolate Ox for January ice cream. Melting? Go outside! -9 °F. https://www.thechocolateox.com

Lots of R-rated socks at Zaiser’s in Nisswa. 🙈🙉🙊 https://business.nisswa.com/list/member/zaiser-s-351

Benefit of it being -11 °F? Easy to flash freeze a Rafferty’s Veggie Supreme pizza to bring home for Tammy’s sister. https://www.raffertyspizza.com

I set up a Guestbook for my site copying @jimmitchell who saw it at @alexwolfe site. Thanks to Guestbooks by meadow! The CSS is default. Maybe @mtt will want to Tiny Theme it? 🤩 https://www.thingelstad.com/guestbook/ https://micro.blog/jimmitchell https://micro.blog/alexwolfe https://guestbooks.meadow.cafe https://meadow.cafe https://micro.blog/mtt

I could not care less about Tik Tok, and would consider it an upgrade to the Internet for it to be removed from the US, and frankly everywhere else. The fact people care so much is proof of its intentional addictive design.

What you do when you’re Up North and it feels like -24 °F.

Grand View Lodge on a very cold -7 °F (feels like -22 °F) night. https://www.grandviewlodge.com

We had a great time solving Granny’s Recipe Rescue at Copper Cat Escape in 48m 18s! We had five “rookie” misses that we caused us to “face palm”. 🤦 We are coming back tomorrow to do another room! https://www.coppercatescape.com

I suspect the reason Apple Intelligence mail categories are only supported on the iPhone is at least in part because of the difficulty with synchronizing that state across multiple devices. Feels similar to People identification in Photos at first, but Apple can’t control the backend on email.

I’ve used Sanebox for a decade to defer emails, but now I’m trying Fastmail and I’m realizing how nice it is to be able to individually specify a defer time per email instead of just having two or three options as folders. Downside is I can only defer in the Fastmail clients. https://www.sanebox.com/ https://www.fastmail.com/

After much debating I finally decided to get a new laptop and ordered a MacBook Pro with M4 Pro and configured nicely. This thing is going to be fast! Will be especially nice for photography. 😎