Well, today I got my cardio in. Yesterday, I promised marley I would work from home, so I could then walk to the school and pick her up and bring her scooter 🛴. Luna stayed with me today, so it was a joint adventure. Luna was in her bicycle/stroller combo thingy.

I figured it was going to be an easy walk. Well, I forgot, that I would be pushing an almost 40 pounds (18.14 kg) child all the way there, and all the way back.

Oh, and a pit stop to the park

1.82 miles (2.93 km) later, we’ve made home, and tonight I’ll have salmon poke (from Albertsons) and beer.

Drafts

NEWS: 10 Years of Drafts. That’s right, Drafts launched on this day 10 years ago. And we are celebrating with a special offer for new Drafts Pro users! Get your first year for only $4.99 (75% off)! Details

Wow! I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since the app launched according to my purchase history, I started using Drafts on April 11, 2013. That’s about 9 years, something like that? And still to this day, it lives on my dock. It feels wrong not having it there.

I have watched the app evolve ever since to the point I feel like I don’t even know how to use it 😅. And that not a bad thing. This is more to say that the app it’s so capable, that it can be as simple as you want, or as complicated as you may want. The sky is the limit when it comes to how much you can do with this beautiful and simple note-taking app (and that’s a simplification).

Congrats Greg

Today was my turn to drop off  Marley at school

Make sure she had "breakfast", check

Make sure she goes potty and brushed her teeth, check

Make sure she had her medicine, check

Make sure she had snacks, check

Make sure she has her water bottle, check

Make sure she's got her iPad, check

Make sure Gaby has a snack, check

Make sure to grab Gaby's lunch, ......... 404 🥴

SO GOOD!

I have been playing Horizon Forbidden West on the PlayStation 5 since its release back in mid-February. I have been enjoying the heck out of it, it is a fantastic game, with amazing graphics and an amazing story. However, for whatever reason, I seem to have lost interest.

Perhaps I am saying this because I haven't touched the game in over a week and for different reasons. Maybe if I pick it up again tonight I'll be hooked regain but at the same time, all I want to do is to play games on the Nintendo Switch.

For example, over the weekend, I was playing the heck out of Street of Rage 4 on the Switch.  This is without a doubt my favorite beat 'em up game, hands down. The game was firstly released digitally, later physically, and I always wanted a physical copy of it. 

For my Birthday, Annie got me the Streets of Rage 4 - Anniversary Edition for the Switch, which includes the  Mr. X Nightmare DLC. I really hadn't played the game since the DLC came out.

This DLC, besides adding three more characters to your roster, it adds a new mode, Survival. It is pretty much a series of simulations in which you progress until you die. You don't get extra lives or anything other than food, which replenishes some of your health, and other items like weapons and such. Also, at the end of each level of the simulation, you'll get to choose between two types of "power-ups", more damage, fancy weapons, etcetera. Think of it as a roguelike run. As you progress on your run, you get to unlock more moves for the character that can later be used in any of the game's modes, Arcade, Story, and even in Survival mode itself.

Now, I am back at playing the game, this is a game I can play at any time while even playing other games, it's like a palate cleanser, a candy. 

And yes, I want to unlock all the moves now, like Pokemon.

That being said, a game I am very much looking forward to this week is CHRONO CROSS: THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION. It is already loaded, just can't play it yet...

Twitter will appoint Elon Musk to its board of directors - The Verge

Twitter is appointing Tesla CEO Elon Musk to its board of directors, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk will serve as a class II director until 2024.  

I can not stop wondering what this could mean for the future of the platform and Twitter as a company. These are interesting times for sure. Can you imagine if he were to  – eventually – own 14.9% of it, rather than just 9.2%?

Stay tuned...   

I am no expert, nor have I done any research on the matter. But, I have always been told, when you buy new shoes, like, running, basketball, etc, you've got to break them in before you'd seriously use them. Like you wear them for work or daily commute before you go out on a long run or something like that.

Well, on Thursday, I got new running shoes for my birthday. And instead of "breaking them in", I just went for a 3-mile hike...

I am not sure that would have been the "proper" way to go about it. My feet were hurting a lot, after the hike. However, I am not sure if it was due to the new shoes or just the fact that I haven't done hiking or long-distance running in a long long time, or a combination of both.

And it’s a wrap.

For the past few years, yes I look forward to my birthday, I like gifts and spending time with my family, but they have been, in a way, uneventful.

On March 31st, 2022, I have turned 39-years-old. This is the last of my 30’s. Next year, I’ll be 40 (dun-dun-duuuuun!).

Next year you all better call Don Gabz!

Back to the 39’s. On this time around, a really good friend of ours, and our wedding’s maid of honor came to visit, with her 11yo girl. Her birthday was on the 29th, so it was a way to see each other —after 4 to 5 years — and celebrate our birthdays.

It was a great few days, also, in a way — besides fun — exhausting. Again, we had fun, and of course, a lot of indulgences, way too many in some ways lol.

We enjoyed our time together, and so did the girls. Now, they are gone and it’s time for us to recalibrate and return to normalcy.

Until next time, cheers!

Lu and Mar are always playing these little free-games on the iPad. The ones that are always interrupted by ads for other games, and it’s annoying, mostly to them. They have to wait for the add to be over, or, if they don’t realize it’s an ad, they’ll go down a rabbit hole of adds and installing more games in the process.

This weekend, an elven-year-old, showed me the best trick ever to avoid the adds, so simple, and stupid and yet, it never occurred to me before. To put the iPad in airplane mode 😕