What are you doing today?

[betta4ever!]

I'm so sorry for your loss

 

[jaylach]

I was a bit surprised today by Microsoft. I used to be a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) but not since 2009. Today I received the following via email. Being an MVP DID have it's perks such as ALL Microsoft software except games being free and an invite to the Microsoft Global Summit in Redmond Washington. I had to pay airfare but Microsoft paid everything else including putting me up in the Weston hotel at ~$200.00 a night and all meals.

 

[JuiceBox52]

I was a bit surprised today by Microsoft. I used to be a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) but not since 2009. Today I received the following via email. Being an MVP DID have it's perks such as ALL Microsoft software except games being free and an invite to the Microsoft Global Summit in Redmond Washington. I had to pay airfare but Microsoft paid everything else including putting me up in the Weston hotel at ~$200.00 a night and all meals.

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You might run into my dad there he had MVP 5 or 6 years in a row until he chose to move on from the company

 

[jaylach]

You might run into my dad there he had MVP 5 or 6 years in a row until he chose to move on from the company

Unless he was an MVP from 2007 to 2009 I doubt it. I stopped the MVP status when I closed my business in 2009. I was MVP for three years.

 

[jaylach]

WOW!!!!! Just found out that Jim Brown, arguably the best running back to ever play the game of NFL football, died today at the age of 87. But football wasn't his only talent. He was also successful in movies such as the dirty dozen and 100 rifles. He was also a major activist for racial equality. He will be greatly missed.

Reactions to the death of Jim Brown, NFL star, social activist and actor

The sports world reacts to the announcement that Jim Brown, an NFL star, social activist and actor, has died at the age of 87

abcnews.go.com

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I am sitting outside, drinking tea, catching up on some reading, praying, and generally getting my head on straight for the day, while listening to the catbirds, robins, meadowlarks, and house finches filling the air with music and reveling in the GREEN!!! Wow, I love springtime.

 

[emeraldking]

I’m enjoying the fine weather, food & music at the BAM festival at the moment…

 

[Geoffrey]

Did some clearing out of junk throughout my house, and then I took a huge pile of cardboard to the recycling center.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Envelope addressing is tedious

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Envelope addressing is tedious

So is putting in new flooring on the stairs. Good exercise, though.

 

[GaryE]

I dug out my brand new vegetable garden today. Tomorrow, I buy wood and deer fencing, and set it up so I'm not sharing with other animals. This food's for humans. It's a small garden, for tomatoes, peppers, brussels sprouts and for fun, sunflowers. I took a rotting shed and stripped it to the beams, then used old wood and plastic to make a greenhouse. I needed to extend the growing season here, and it has worked well so far. I would have made a larger garden, but the deer fencing is an issue.

I got back from a trip to Scotland and Ireland a few days ago, and experienced jet lag for the first time in my travelling life. It's been an inconvenience before, but this time, I really felt it.

17 days away with the fish unfed, and I only lost one - a tetra that wasn't looking good when I left. They're all happily eating again.

So for the rest of today, I plan to sleep. It's early night now. Tomorrow- water changes and fence supplies.

The guy next door has an old treehouse he built for his now adult kids, and we discovered a huge raccoon living in it. Since my old dog who wouldn't even chase squirrels passed away in the winter, it's incredible how quickly wildlife has moved in. Raccoons, deer at the windows. It's amazing the effect an old, peaceful, easy going dog could have on making them wary. I've spent 3 months looking at every rescue shelter within 400 km, and they seem to be empty of everything but pitbulls. I kept reading about post pandemic dogs, but the shelters around here are largely empty.

 

[connorlindeman]

Went fishing again this morning. Caught 7 Largemouth Bass.

 

[Back in the fold]

@jaylach A giant has fallen with the passing of James Brown.

 

[Geoffrey]

Went fishing again this morning. Caught 7 Largemouth Bass.

Nice! It's a beautiful day here, I should have gone out, too.

 

[connorlindeman]

Nice! It's a beautiful day here, I should have gone out, too.

It was a bit windy, which can be annoying on the kyack, but it was still worth it.