So conflicted. I want Liverpool to stay ahead of city, but I don’t want Arsenal to fall way behind.

Beautiful late fall bike ride!

The fruits of my first try at making bacon on the Traeger. 8 pounds of pork belly from Costco, 12 days of curing, and almost 4 hours of smoking led up to this delicious BLT sandwich for lunch. Tomorrow night I’m making Carbonara!

I’m really excited to begin this next chapter for Luther College: www.luther.edu/offices/p…

Full moon on the lake. Tried to remove the dock with AI but it didn’t do a good job.

Wordle 1,213 3/6*

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Not that three is so great, just wanted to mark today as my 1000th wordle. Win streak is 100% thanks to rounding.

Family work day at the cabin! Clearing space for a potential pickleball court. It was raining, so the risk of wildfire was quite low.

Wow! Love those Aurora Borealis! Even if it is slightly cloudy.

Northern lights

Beautiful bike ride this afternoon!

Two scientists — one of them called the “Godfather of AI” — share Nobel prize in physics - BBC News

Wow! Books by these two are among the few that I kept when I cleaned out my office.

Steam off the water and a few clouds in the sky on this chilly October morning.

WellsFargo must be the leakiest CC company in the world. Card compromised, ok, we’ll send you a new card… New card compromised before I even activate it! Now entering the bewildering world of choosing a new card company! Thoughts?

Bought this at the Madison farmers market today!

Enjoyed watching the Loons win tonight over Saint Louis. But the sideboard ad for Purina… “Our City. Our Pets.” I just couldn’t help but wonder if they weren’t trolling Trump.

10 years of sustainable open source - Read the Docs

This resonates so strongly with me. I feel like I could have written this about Runestone.

Why do they keep turning his mic back on!?!

Just a followup post on the DDoS https://blog.runestone.academy/2024/09/10/distributed_denial_of_service_2024.html Any thoughts on how to be better prepared for the next one are welcome!

Spent the day trying to find ways to fight the DDoS running against Runestone Academy. I think I have a solution for now, but suggestions are certainly welcome. Also learned that Digital Ocean’s claimed protection is useless for a small site.

Man, this USMNT match against Canada is awful! We need Poch!

Had fun visiting friends in Alexandria the last two days. I even got to revisit the site of the Runestone.

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We were just ready to walk out the door to drive to the airport when this happened.

The Delta app said our flight was on time, but our incoming plane was late from Detroit. Flight Aware said our incoming plane was four hours late from Minneapolis. Flighty Pro showed our incoming plane as still sitting on the ground in Minneapolis. Sometimes you get a sense that things are going wrong, and this was one of those times.

Delta rebooked us for the same flight one day later. Thanks Delta. I’m sure there were other options to get us back sooner. I know there were seats on an Iceland air flight this afternoon, but those are gone now. Maybe not gone, but the price adjustment systems didn’t take long to make them go from marginally affordable to completely unaffordable for a group of 8!

We cannot get through to Hertz, so we are just going to keep the van. We found a new AirBnB for tonight, and we’ll take advantage of our extra day as best we can. Looks like a trip to the Perlan museum and maybe a short hike, otherwise more hanging around downtown.

A Day in Reykjavik

We left our beautiful seaside house and headed to Reykjavik for a day of city touring. We were very lucky in that our AirBnB host had our apartment ready for us by 11:30 so we had a base for the day as well as a place for the kids to crash and rest during the afternoon.

Our first stop after dropping our stuff was for an icelandic hotdog at Bæjarins. Its just a hot dog stand, but they are worth the walk and the wait. There were at least 25 people in line when we arrived. The line moves quickly. As there is not a lot to think about. The hot dogs come with fresh diced onions, some cruncy onions fried in the air frier, Icelandic Remolade, ketchup, and pylsusinnep ( sweet brown mustard). As we were standing in line we struck up a conversation with the lady in front of us who was a tour guide. I think she was really just charmed by Maren. She warned us that we really needed to try the regular hot dog. When Bill Clinton visited, she told us, he only had mustard, and we’ve never forgiven him!

After the hot dogs we all went our own way to explore for the afternoon. We saw the Viking ship sculpture and the big Lutheran church.

We also checked out Rainbow Road, and lots of shops and a few bars.

Dinner was at Bastard Brew and Food, just down from our apartment. Delicious delicious stake sandwiches, in a quirky atmosphere.

We arrived at our AirBnB in Grundarfjörður on an amazing evening. We have a beautiful view of the ocean and Kirkjufell mountain right out our window!

After a good nights sleep we spent our saturday in Snaefellsnes peninsula, driving a big loop and taking in lots of sites, stopping for short hikes along the way. The morning began with very sunny weather and the seas outside our window were completely calm.

Our first stop was the town of Hellissandur, the street art capital of Iceland. There are so many different buildings with murals painted on the side. This is probably the most famous of them.

Not too far down the road from is the Saxhóll crater. A small volacano that is easy to climb. Johannes led the way in grand style! The views from the top were great, but it was super windy! One of those winds where you could lean way into it and not fall over.

After an impromptu comfort stop behind one of the many rocks next to the road we continued on our way to Djúpalónssandur Beach We spent a good amount of time here exploring the remains of the Epine GY 7, a British trawler that shipwrecked here in 1948.

We also spent a lot of time getting our feet wet in the North Atlantic, throwing rocks into the ocean, sitting on the beach, and saving many starfish that had washed up on the beach.

It is a great little hike with lots to do. Oh and we all tested our strength by trying to lift a series of rocks, that were part of a test for old sailors. The weight of the rocks ranged from 50 to 340 pounds. You had to be able to lift the 120 pound rock if you wanted to be an oarsman.

After our hike we ate a picnic lunch at one of the picnic tables near the parking lot.

Next up was Arnastapi and statue of Bárdur Snaefellsás, the giant troll man. By this time the youngest ones had had enough touring and were in need of some play time, luckily there was a small playground that was perfect for the situation.

Although there was a real need for some nap time, and yes, by this time it was way past nap time. We had one last stop for the day at Ytri Tunga Beach The main attraction here was to see some seals.

The weather at the beach was really windy, but we did see some seals, so mission accomplished! We had just under an hour to drive back home and it was very quiet in the van.

Dinner this evening was a smorgasbord of what we had leftover for groceries, Icelandic hotdogs, French friends from the fish and chips a few nights ago, and even a few pieces of fish, not to mention the Mac and Cheese that Nana brought with.

Next stop, a short night in Reykjavík and an early morning flight back to Minneapolis.