Started the morning to today repairing my phone. The back of the phone on my Surface Duo 2 cracked. While removing a plate so I could add some resin to stable the cracking, I made it worse and caused the whole back to crack. I had to cover the whole panel. It looks okay. I placed a skin over it to cover it up. It works but the only thing I could find was black textured skin. Not ideal but works.

At 10 am I watched the Seahawks lose to Cincinnati. It was close and would have been exciting if they had pulled it off on the last play.

I spent the rest of the day watching tv and taking a nap. I started to help my daughter clean out her room. We started with the old books she had already read. This helped a lot. She is at the age of reading harder books and started to read off a Kindle or just simply gets books from the public library. There is a lot to still clean out, but it helps a bit.

 🌧️ 59°F – 55°F 🙂 | Seattle 

I lost another team member today.  In two weeks, we will be down to 3 skilled team members. We will get a greenhorn at the end of this month. I will train him as soon as possible to get him up to speed. After work I paid the bills and got everything ready for the weekend. I have a bit to do for the garage and need to have all my ducks in a row to get them done quickly and easily. Tomorrow is a solar eclipse. I am hoping that the weather opens and will be able to view it.

Fingers crossed. 

 🌤️ 67°F – 53°F 🥱 | Seattle

A good in general. Beautiful day to be outside. I finished mowing the yard and cleaned out the remaining gutters. I made a decision to stop posting on twitter and keep my journal on my blog.

There are many reasons for leaving the x.com platform. But my main reason is that I am writing my blog with the character restrictions on x.com which intern keeps me from fully talking about what is on my mind.

I’ll still keep my account open but will not be posting unless I am referring to an article I wrote on my blog.

Expect longer written daily blogs.

 ☀️ 64°F – 50°F 🙂 | #Seattle 

I got rid of 2 bikes today that were in the garage for over a year that were for some friends. They didn’t have room but never tried to make room in their storage. So, I told them to pick it up or I will give it to someone that will use them. They were originally mine. I am serious about clearing things out of my house. Tired of it being a large storage unit. My goal for the garage is to use the space to create things. Of even use it to store the car. Crazy, I know.
I have been dedicating more time to clearing things out every week. Moving the declutter staging area from inside the house to the garage. This will bring dramatic change to the area being worked on and move the stuff to the garage where I can easily separate and load it in the car to drop it off at goodwill. I have a lot of empty bins that I can use to sort things out. The change will be good.

 🌧️ 60°F – 50°F 🙂 | #Seattle 

Got to work bright and early. I want to start the week strong and get as much done so I will have time for when I work from home to do exercise during my work hours. Going to see if it improves my day. I will also go outside just to get out of the office.

 ⛅ 67°F – 54°F 🥱 | Seattle 

 Finish the front yard and mostly the back for winter. Today was my son’s first time mowing the lawn. He had a lot of fun doing it. I find it relaxing to do it and will miss doing it for a bit. I cleared the gutter and installed the new lights on the house for the holidays.

 🌤️ 70°F – 56°F 🥱 | Seattle

I went to my daughter’s friend’s birthday party at Defy. It’s a trampoline center where you can jump and run around obstacles courses. We all had fun, met a few new parents in the neighborhood.  Spent the rest of the day outside enjoying the weather. 

 ☀️ 80°F – 56°F 🙂 | Seattle