Doing one of my favorite things today: working from a coffee shop ☕ I’m trying a cozy new spot nearby that I’ve never been to before! Their latte art game is strong and this orange-cardamom flavor is delicious. It reminds me that I have a long way to go with my lattes/art!

me: we’re going to the barber shop so I can get a haircut.

2yo daughter: I DON’T WANT TO GO TO BARBECUE SAUCE GUYS!!! 😭😭😭

I wrote Are you looking in the right places? about a month ago. The phone that inspired that essay has been missing ever since, but today my daughter pulled it out from under the fridge. I guess sometimes to find what we’re looking for, we need to stop looking so much. 🤷‍♂️

I came across this old roommate agreement from college 😂🤣

We definitely considered mutual back massages, I can’t remember if it ever happened though… 🤔💭

Is it normal for a toddler to want spicy pickled garlic for breakfast? 😅

I scribbled in the margins this morning that the passage below made me think of the amplifying effect of social media. But then I was struck by the idea that I might still have this Bible in 50 years. If I come across my marginalia 5 decades from now, will social media seem like a distant memory? I think so. But what will have risen in its place? It got me thinking a lot about what stands the test of time, and what doesn’t. It’s crazy to me that I can’t imagine social media, at least as it is now, being around for 50 more years, but these words are from 2,000 years ago.

Ephesians 4:17-19 NIV
[17] So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. [18] They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. [19] Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

I spent this morning writing an outline for a blog post with the draft title: “I spent eight years crafting the ultimate pocket journal setup”. I’ve been wanting to do this post for years, but it feels like it’s going to be a huge undertaking. I care about this a lot, so I really want to do it right and share all the details with more pictures than anyone probably cares to see. I can’t promise it will come soon, but I’m excited to start working on it.

Testing out a new newsletter template. It’s crazy how quickly I can make these changes with Claude’s help.

I found a better way to migrate my Google Photos between accounts. I realized I can use Partner Sharing to automatically “save” the photos to a new account. It makes me a little hesitant, because it says the photos don’t count against my storage quota, so they must still be saved under the original account technically. Apparently, when the photos are deleted on the original account, then they will be saved into the new account that they have been shared with. It smells fishy, but I’m going to try it out. I’m making backups of all photos first before I try it though. I’m really hoping this saves me from all the downloading, unzipping, and uploading 🤞

Thank you to the good people of reddit and UConn for sharing this method. I’m glad I came across this because I was already seeing issues with missing metadata from some of the photos I was exporting from Google Takeout.

I re-inked my Pilot Kakuno with Pilot Iroshizuku fuyu-gaki. I like this orange ink as an accent color for journaling. My main color is a deep blue-black, Sailor Seiboku, in my Lamy Safari.

I love these little rituals that come with analog journaling. I haven’t found a satisfying digital equivalent.