Today’s Annie’s birthday 🥳, I won’t tell her age though 😜. It was a good day, ish. We went out for donas 🍩

photo by Annie

Later in the afternoon, we went to see dinosaurs, dinosaurs !!! I don’t have pictures because it was a drive through “expedition” and my phone was running the YouTube video describing the tour. Also, Luna, missed about 60% of the tour because she was scared 😅

Sorry.

Then took Annie to one of her favourite stores, Ulta, and the Coop, for some birras 😉.

Now we close the day with some Vietnamese food. Brought to us by Grubhub 😅. No pictures, though. I messed up the address, and we had to go down two houses to get our food, and we devoured it.

And drinking, probably one of the best beers ever.

Hop Lion by Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery

Style: IPA — American

ABV: 6.7

Rating: A+

Also, according to Marley, we are not old because we are not wrinkly 😂

This week, it’s Annie’s birthday, in fact, tomorrow May 21st. We both have today and tomorrow off and trying to do fun things. It just for her, also for the kiddos. This week was also Marley’s pre-school graduation.

As part of the many activities, Marley had a school event were they gathered at a local playground to have a last play together with her class and teachers.

Marley and Luna had a blast.

After an hour or so of playing it was time to wash the car. Believe it not, both Luna and Marley enjoy this 😅. Marley wanted to go to “the car wash with the beautiful colors”, she’s talking about al the soaps. And so we went.

Then we had lunch, a small nap then we took Annie to a local brewery, Western Collective, where she was meeting with 3 of her friends as part of her birthday shenanigans.

Once she was done with that, the girls and I picked her up and went out for supper. And we went to Annie’s — and also mine — favorite restaurant in town. To which we haven’t been in over a year, perhaps two — Casa Blanca. It is a Cuban restaurant, and Cuban cuisine is very similar to Puerto Rican cuisine, so we love this place. Luna has never been here before and Marley was probably too little to remember. It’s so good!

Masitas de puerco fritas con maduros y moros con cristianos

bistec palomilla encebollado, yuca y moros con cristianos

Marquitas

Lots of food, fun and….

I may have gotten a thing. 😎

One thing that I have always struggled with, and I am pretty sure I am not alone here, is managing my “Read-later” and Bookmarks. Lately, I have tried apps like Goodlinks, Raindrop.io, and even Micro.blog’s built-in Bookmarks.

I love GoodLinks, it is a nice-looking app and very easy to use, and it was a pink icon. My problem is, it is iOS only, and most of my browsing happens on my work computer. Raindrop.io is great and I can use their Chrome extension to easily add links and such. But the app itself it’s meh! I rarely find myself opening it to read anything later or reference something, I don’t know why.

Micro.blog’s Bookmarks, well, I only use it within Mb, I add things as I browse my timeline for later read, it works great in that regard but I never att things from outside of Mb.

All that being said, in the past the one app that had always worked for me and that I actually would open every now and then, had been Instapaper. Not sure if it’s because it was the best option at the time and it’s like muscle memory to have it and use it. Or if it’s its design and the simplicity I find in it.

Either way, I will experiment with the app again, yes the app is also iOS/macOS/iPadOS only but they have a nice website that just like Feedbin’s, it is a delight to use, I think.