I am neck-deep in Access and VBA coding at work, now that I am back from our annual training conference in Chicago.

I spent half the morning researching how to evaluate the results of attribute sample testing—once again. It’s hard to remember the parts of statistics that I don’t use very often.

After many years of avoiding it, my wife and I are seeing “Stomp” tonight. Ot was part of a theatre subscription we signed up for. It is good? I hope so.

After a nice lunch with my family, I will say that I am thankful for the little Italian market and deli nearby that sells yummy foods.

A sunflower in the backyard. My daughter loves these, but we don’t admire them often enough.

All weekends should be 3 days long…if not 5! 😀

I am coding VBA and ripping CDs like it’s the year 2000 today.

🎭 Last night my wife and I saw “Motown: The Musical”. We enjoyed it but thought it was too sanitized and limited in viewpoint to be interesting. I would have liked to hear more (any?) complete songs. The music is fantastic, of course. We’ll be listening to those records today.

I am making Excel hurt today.

We had an enormous house party today. It was a lot of fun, but boy are we wiped out! 🎈

I have finally switched over from Drafts 4 to Drafts 5 (beta) as my daily driver. Its such a cool app, with tons of customizability and depth. I might try to create some JavaScript actions next, but the built in actions do just about everything I want.

My wife inspired me to cook apple & sweet potato mash for my son this evening.

Work today is more about juggling priorities than anything else: data mining, sampling, database development, calls and meetings, and so on.

I have been enjoying the Roughly app’s complication (on the bottom, in the picture) for the Apple Watch. It’s a little frivolous to display the approximate time in words, but it’s also a little frivolous to use analog watch faces on a digital device.

Fact: Decaf coffee does not count as real coffee!

Goal #1 for the week: Reduce coffee consumption to one cup per day. But…does decaf count? Perhaps I am not off to a good start.

🏈 My Super Bowl menu: sirloin steak, caramelized onions, garden salad, French bread with brie or honey butter, as well as tortilla chips, pita chips, hummus, and salsa. Food is the best part of the game!

🏈 I am excited about the Super Bowl but I am feeling very conflicted about football in general now. I skipped the entire regular season because I think the sport is dangerous and unethical. So I have a strange mixture of excitement and disgust today. 🤷‍♂️

Ain’t Misbehavin' at NJPAC was absolutely wonderful tonight. The performers were excellent and the audience got really loose and into it after itermission. It was great fun to watch. My wife and I loved it and had a lovely time together.

I’m not sure what the biggest headache was for me today: my actual migraine, or my trip to Wegmans the day before the Super Bowl.

It looks like I will be working overtime this week. Things are crazy. I think I am involved in getting two or three new practice lines off the ground.

Every font on all my devices somehow looks different to me today. What the heck happened to my eyes?

Today was unexpectedly full of proposal work for me. I think I need to help revamp how we write proposals at my firm. It was so hectic and we could have done better if we had more time.

The New York Times crossword puzzle app and, of course, Micro.blog, have now taken over the time I had previously allotted to Twitter. My mental state is much better, though I am starting think of all words in terms of how many letters are in them.

60° F and 20 MPH winds have made it both too warm and too cold for a proper Winterfest for us today.