Checked out a new city park today Griffith Woods Park. It was brisk but the falling snow made it super beautiful, and the dog really enjoyed all the new smells.

dog and child standing side by side in a snowy outdoor scene. activity map of outdoor walk in Griffiths Woods park.

The dog decided while we were out skating today to partake in some Christmas cheer.

gingerbread house partialky eaten by canine.

Knocking one off the holiday todo list. All the kitchen knives sharpened. These 3 are my favourites. 2 Masakage Yuki (gyuto and petty) and a nakiri (can’t remember the smith). All from Knifewear, can’t recommend them enough.

Number 1 TODO to get off my list on my 2 weeks off is to finally migrate my #HomeAssistant classic zwave integration to zwavejs. #HomeAutomation

Awesome our new (6 month old) range one of the burners now only has 2 settings. Off and 100% almost started a fire today. That will be fun to deal with after the holidays I’m sure.

The Christmas baking has been going well so far.

Posted my first self designed 3D model on Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5736482 it’s nothing too impressive but it feels good after printing alot of other peoples designs to make something 100% original.

Date night in dinner.
Seared dingle peninsula scallops basted w/ basil butter.
Crab cakes w/ home made roasted garlic aioli.
Salad w/ blueberry goat cheese and elderberry balasmic.
COVID has taken restaurants away from us but doesn’t mean with have to miss out on good food.

I’m really torn about seeing the new Ant-Man movie. I loved the first 2 but knowing Evangeline Lilly is a anti vaxxer really makes me not want to support it.

@manton @help any reason with crossposted posts to mastodon that they’re getting truncated similarly to twitter? Mastodon seems to support long form posts so it would be nice if the full content could be posted.