This is from one of the more successful sessions, between the two.
Hugo ended up caving, and was grooming Penny. I think we’re all still waiting to see if there is reciprocation or not. So far, it’s just been one direction.
You know how, in musicals… things swell to a point where the characters have no choice, are so overcome with the moment that they break out into song? That’s pretty much what is happening for bunnies, except that they just leap up into the air.
It’s a joyous thing to see, because it’s a direct indicator that the bunny rabbit happy, excited, perhaps both. It’s an expression of joy, and not something they do unless they’re really having a good time.
YouTuber Dami Lee discusses a theory from Huni Choi, about how the the pyramids were constructed. As a paraphrase, the theory essentially states that the pyramids were not built… but rather un-built.
I heard a lot of rumbling from Hazel’s area. I was upstairs at the time, and when I came down the stairs… this is what I saw:
My talk from the last 20×2 Chicago is up. Me, along with 19 others, were all tasked with answering the same question: “What Do You Know?” The only catch is, we each had to answer in 2 minutes or less.
The goal is to steal a jewel from the museum. To do so, you need to move the locks off the top of a jewel, relocating them onto other locks… and to move the jewel onto a pedestal in the middle of the board.
The catch: each player gets to use just one tiny hand. The crew gets 90 seconds to complete the task, without bumping any of the lasers.
But Stacey proposed something new – going out to Topgolf. We did the math, and this excursion ended up being cheaper than an escape room (and for 2 hours, instead of just 1).
I’ll be honest – I wasn’t exactly sold on this, as I don’t really play golf. And I wasn’t sure how much fun it would be. But I was wrong! We had a blast!
Krish Ashok is the author of Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking, and also does a lot of YouTube content (see his main channel, as well as his collection of Shorts). This was an interesting comparison between two new devices/appliances. Applicable in this day and age, when AI and tooling is rapidly changing day…
We opened up some gifts that Katie and Tim sent along, for Hugo and Hazel. A bit of an early Christmas, for the two of them. The gifts from Katie/Time are always a hit (Hugo has a small blanket thing that he got last year, that he still absolutely loves). A small little holiday preview…
While we had several deer grazing, there was one of them that spotted me through the window. And kept a close eye on me, the entire rest of the time.
Big day, last day. Tomorrow is when the flooring guys arrive, and by the morning we need to have everything off the first and second floors.
So that means – everything is shoved into the basement. Or kitchen. Or bathroom. Or the small space between our walk-in closet and the bathroom, which we’ve colloquially referred to as “Harry Potter”.
We were pretty busy all night, with a constant stream of kids. This was one of the few moments where I stopped to take out my camera, and record one of the interactions.
A big travel day for us, leaving Speyside and trekking to Edinburgh for our last city and stay, before heading home.
Travel day! We left Portree, packed all our things in the car, and are headed to Speyside.
A really cool thing about Torabhaig – they made it a point to hire locals to work at the distillery. And more than that, also made it a point to hire folks who may not have been directly involved in the whisky industry.
Of particular interest, they have a Journeyman’s Series: a program where they set aside one month each year for their distillers to have free reign of the distillery, to work on their own custom recipes.