When the first commercial came on the broadcast of the parade this morning, my kid said “Wait?! There’s commercials on live TV?!” and I just thought, Kid, you have been SPOILED.
📷 🦌 Found a deer.
📷🌇 Six years ago this evening I took this photo of a sunset at St. Louis Public Radio. (iPhone 6 photo)
Today I learned my smart thermostat has developed the capability to be used as an AirPlay speaker and it feels like an on-the-nose analogy to my career. Related: my thermostat lives in a room with a 3-speaker Sonos surround setup.
📚 Quite enjoying James Lapine’s new book “Putting It Together”, about how he and Stephen Sondheim created “Sunday in the Park with George”. He interviewed almost everyone involved and it’s fascinating to hear the story in all the different voices.
Got @birbigs’ book from the library this morning and well over halfway through. This one got me good. Oof.
I guess the pandemic probably delayed it for a year or so, but looks like we’ve hit the “hire a babysitter to go out for the night” stage. Not sure the full weight of that realization had hit me yet.
Suzanne Vega was inspired to write the song Tom’s Diner 40 years ago today.
🍁 There were no leaves in my yard when I finished mowing it less than 24 hours ago.
