A lot of the things I want to do are hampered by the hoops I jump through to get started on a task. This year my personal theme is Minimize Friction, set things up a head of time so when I want to post an article or edit a video, it doesnāt take me very many steps to get started. Here are a few strategies I plan to implement to achieve this:
Organize Digital Tools: Consolidate and streamline my digital workspace. For example, create a streaming set up where I just have to hit Start Streaming.
Automate Routine Tasks: Identify repetitive tasks that can be automated. One example is using the WordPress Social plugin that will send my posts automatically out to the social services I use.
Create Dedicated Spaces: Establish specific areas for different activities to reduce the time spent setting up. For now this will be two spaces, a digital creation space in my basement office and a writing space in the āstudioā (the dining room that has never been used for dining).
Staying motivated
Getting through January will be easy enough, the newness of the year and of the tasks will be enough motivation. Itās whether Iām still able to do it in August is where the real challenge lies. To maintain momentum throughout the year, I plan to:
Regularly Review and Adjust: Schedule monthly check-ins to assess my progress in minimizing friction.
Embrace Minimalism: Declutter both physical and digital spaces regularly to remove distractions and keep only the essentials. This is really tough for me because Iām such a back rat, but I did sign up for self-storage to help.
Establish Routines: Develop consistent daily routines that incorporate essential tasks. By adding repeating tasks to my TickTick to do list Iāll be able to stay on top of what needs to be done.
Leverage Technology: Use apps and tools that enhance productivity. This is the easiest for me, as long as I donāt confuse setting things up with the act of actually getting things done.
I first read about Ryan Meetups back in March It sounded like the coolest thing, but that meet up was in New York and I had already missed it. It sounded like a fantastic experience. I was curious on how the social dynamics change in the room when you know everyone’s name. As time went on the article faded into the past, that is, until August 4 when this video was shared with me:
Dare I fly to LA for the Ryan Rave? That just sounded so absurd, I mean, who just does something like that. Apparently, I do! I him-hawwed around, half joking/half serious about flying out to LA until I found round trip tickets for $130 which cemented the deal, I was flying to LA for the Ryan Rave!
My flight was on Spirit, an airline that apparently would charge you to use the bathroom if they could. Luckily, I only had a personal item, my small bag with an iPad, Bluetooth Keyboard, a USB battery, a charger, a toothbrush, and toothpaste. That’s all I needed for my evening trip to LA. They wanted to charge be ~$20 to choose my seat, but I let fate decide where I was sitting. And to my delight, I was sitting by my new best friend Tiffany. She flies out several times a year to visit her sister. For this trip she was going to see Beyonce. I was going to the Ryan Rave, so it was a toss up on who was going to the coolest activity. She made the flight go by really fast, we talked the entire 4 hours!
I hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and an iPad bag. The Ryan Meetup Discord gave the directions for the best way to get to the Rave, and that was by taking a bus to downtown and then an Uber over to the Rave. The bus was pretty easy to find, and I took it to some bus stop downtown. I had no idea where I was, but I had an address of where I was going, so I ordered an Uber. He drove me to what seemed to be an abandoned warehouse district, a couple of blocks over from Skid Row. The GPS put us a couple of blocks past the Rave, so when the driver said we were there, I looked around and it was like something out of a zombie movie after everyone I left. I hesitate for a second and then got out. The attitude this trip was going to be to take a leap of faith and see what happens. So here I was, somewhere in downtown LA, walking around like the tourist I was. I knew the address of the Rave, so I started walking in the direction of where I thought it was. As I came across an open garage door, someone inside yelled out “Ryan?” and I knew I was home. It was currently 5:00pm PST and the Rave didn’t start until 7, but I had nothing else I could do or place to go, so I started hanging out with a few of the Ryans that were already there.
Jet lag was real, since it was past 8pm my time and I hadn’t eaten since noon, I was ready for some supper. Oh, and travel tip, don’t use the word supper around Californians unless you want to be made fun of. I got them back by making fun of them calling pop soda though.
As the night progressed, every new person was greeted with a loud rambunctious “RYAN!”.
I was pretty jealous I got there so early, I almost left so I could come back and get the royal treatment.
By the end of the night, the rave was a real deal with about 350 people all named Ryan. The youngest was a 6 year old girl who it appeared was a little overwhelmed at the spectacle of it all. Another old Ryan and I talked about the oldest Ryan there, which it turned out to be me. The name didn’t become the popular name it is today until about 5-10 years after I was born. How do I know it wasn’t popular? You know when you go on vacation and they have those racks of license plates with your name? Growing up they never had Ryan. In fact, they never even had a place for Ryan.
At the end I met several Ryan’s I still stay in contact with. There’s Vegas Ryan, with an air of coolness that no one can match. Cleveland Ryan who has this fascination with asking IG every day about a banana that is at different degrees of ripeness. Out in California is City Councilman Ryan, a 20 year old who is on city council of his town. Near the end I met comedian Ryan, who I found out was going to be in Columbus in December so I told him I’d be heading to the show. Did I make it? You’ll have to wait for the December 2023 Checkup!
Uber was hilarious as people were leaving. They would pull up asking for Ryan, and we all had a good laugh. I shared an Uber with Maryland Ryan back to LAX. He was at terminal 2 and I was leaving from terminal 5, so we just had the Uber driver drop us off at 2 and I would just walk to my terminal. I guess I didn’t know the size of LAX because terminal 5 was a 2 mile walk from 2. It was almost 1am PST (4am for me), and my flight didn’t leave for another 5 hours so the walk did give me something to do.
Once I got to my terminal I was flabbergasted to find out that there was nothing open and no vending machines. So I got to sit around and try to nap until things opened at 5am PST.
On my flight back Spirit only wanted $6 to choose my seat, so I went for it and got a window seat. When I boarded the plane, a couple had already shifted over to my seat and they weren’t happy that I arrived to take the window seat. I fell asleep for a little while and when I woke up they were gone, so they must have moved to better accommodations and in the process gave me all three seats to myself.
I arrived back in Columbus around 1pm, meaning I did the whole LA trip in 23 hours.
Other events
The Hardin County Fair was the week of September 5-10. I love my fair food, and this year I also had a booth.
Althauser Honey Farm was no longer setting up a booth, so I took it over and set up a bunch of vintage electronics. It was pretty popular, especially for those that wanted to print out posters with PrintShop. Oregon Trail was also pretty popular.
On September 23rd I DJed the KHS Homecoming Dance. There was also an Ohio State game, which I think was almost more popular.
Near the end of the month was the last Sweet Harvest out at Althauser Honey Farms. A full weekend of pumpkin picking, friend greeting, and general merriment.
Tara and I traveled to Marysville for Caylee’s tennis match with Jerry and Joel and ate Culver’s afterwards.
On the 29th Tara, Joel, and I headed over to Kirby to eat at The Blue Room with Amy A. and some work friends.
Also, during the month of September Katie turned 20.
Movies
World War Z: It seems like I watch this movie every couple of months. The movie is at the cusp of being a great movie, but it seems like there were too many committee decisions made in the making of it. I’ve heard the book is better, I probably should read it some time.
Legally Blonde: “Like, is it hard?” is a quote that I like to use from time to time, and after I said it in September I decided to watch Legally Blonde again.
Cannonball Run: We were flipping through one of the free TV streaming services when we caught that this was on. It has been a long time since I’ve seen it, so I was basically watching it for the first time. It feels a lot like an Adam Sandler movie, except in this one Burt Reynolds gets to hang out with his friends and make a movie.
TV
Ahsoka (5) – The previews made me feel like this was going to be another season of Rebels and I wasn’t disappointed.
Airwolf (2) – I just love the absurdity of trying to fit needing a battle helicopter into a scenerio every week.
Cheers (9)
Just Shoot Me (1)
King of Queens (3)
Parks and Recreation (10)
Star Trek The Next Generation (2)
The King of Queens (8)
The Neighborhood (3)
The Office (1)
The Office Superfan (5)
Wednesday (1)
Wings (5)
Health
Average Steps/day: 14,975
Most steps in a day: 18,515
Min steps in a day: 12,830
Resting Heart Rate: 53
Average Time Asleep: 7hr 22min
Miles walked: 99.2
Miles ran: 96.7
Potpourri
You may remember back in July how I said that we traveled more miles that month than ever. Well, my little trip to LA let me travel 4,547 miles in the month of September, 4,005 of those by jet.
First up for the month was my niece Rachel’s wedding! It was held at the Perry Community Center, a very cool place. The wedding was great, from the ceremony and violinist to the reception and DJ. And by DJ, that was me and I turned that mother out.
I presented at the CREATE conference on the 8th at Maumee High School. It was great catching up with people that I haven’t had a chance to talk to in real life for over 3 years.
My BIL Craig was in town on the tenth, and we took him out to 101 Smokehouse. Three days later was Tara’s and my 25th Anniversary dinner with Tara at Ralphies. I know, such a romantic spot.
This summer I decided to dye my hair purple. Why? It’s all about no regrets. I don’t want to be bald in my 80s thinking, “I should have dyed my hair in my 50s”.
If I had know the Barbie movie was going to be so popular I would have gone with pink, but there’s always next summer.
Mom had a check up at The James. Everything is looking good, and we got Culver’s!
In sad news, Jeff Rickenbacher passed away. I have such great memories of 4-H club meetings at his house, along with our many video game sessions throughout HS. He was able to do one last trip with the family.
4-H Chicago Trip
I am very thankful I was asked to help chaperone the 4-H trip to Chicago. It was a fantastic trip. The bus drive seemed to fly by, and we started our outings in Chicago with some Chicago deep dish pizza at Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria. The next day was a trip to 360 Chicago and some spectacular views of the city. There was also The Tilt, a “ride” which tilts you over the side of a skyscraper. It didn’t agree with some people, but I thought it needed to tilt out farther!
Afterwards we all went to Ed Debevic’s. The name sounded familiar, and then I remembered I ate their when I came to Chicago from college for a Music Conference.
Our waiter was not impressed
That afternoon we had a fantastic tour of Chinatown, taking the train down and getting a walking tour. We painted kites and ate authentic Chinese food.
In the evening was our river cruise around Chicago. The cruise was very cool, although the fireworks were a little underwhelming.
The next day was a trip to The Bean. I’ve seen it a couple of times, so it’s lost a little of it’s luster to me, but the kids really liked it. After the bean was a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley field! Although they lost against the Orioles, 6-3, the first hit of the game was a home run by the Cubs! We had awesome patio seats with free food. My only negative for the day was troubleshooting some network issues back home, but luckily Kolt was available to run up to the high school and get everything working.
That evening was the “walking ghost tour” of Chicago, which I wasn’t too psyched about, but once we got there it was amazing.
Our guide, Baylor, was amazing. What I learned was that a lot of people died in rather senseless ways, usually in a fire. I also learned that Al Capone did more by the end of his thirties then I have done now!
Out last day was some shopping, a visit to the Lincoln Park Zoo, and then off to the Chicago School of Shoemaking. I made an awesome leather belt!
Colorado Trip
We flew out to Colorado to see Delaney and one of the productions she worked on at the opera house in Central City. Unfortunately, we got going a day late do to a ton of travel delays. Our flight was supposed to leave from Columbus and return to Columbus, but due to the issues we switched to flying out of Cleveland. This was going to be a pain except weāre grateful that Joel offered to drive us to Cleveland. This meant that we could take the Pilot down to Rochelleās before we left, and when we returned she could pick us up at the airport and we could drive home from her place. Anything to save on parking!
Our hotel was in Georgetown, a really cool town a little over 30 minutes west of Denver. However, the airport is on the extreme east side of Denver, so we had over an hour drive to get there. Picking up the rental car from Thrifty was an experience. Basically, they just point you to a car and register you on the way out. The funny thing was this huge barricade that comes up out of the ground to stop you from just driving away with a car. I donāt know if people steal from rental places a lot, but they act like it does.
The rental car was a Kia Forte, which was a pretty nice car. It had lane assist, which was cool. I assumed it also had adaptive cruise, but I couldnāt figure it out and I was too lazy to look it up.
On the way to Georgetown we stopped at Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre. Tara and I had been there before, but Grace hadnāt. After a brief rain, we were all set to go look but unfortunately there was a concert that night and so we werenāt allowed in.
Our first stop at Georgetown was the Georgetown Visitor Center. Your typical visitor center. After that we checked in and headed over to Cabin Creek Brewing for supper.
By this time I was starting to feel lightheaded. Denver is around 5,000 feet and Georgetown is even higher at 8,500. I figured I wouldnāt have an issue with all my running, but I was wrong. The first morning I went out for a run, and the first mile feltā¦ Wrong? Different? I toughed it out, but I didnāt break any speed records. It didnāt really get any easier either.
Next up was a visit to Garden of the Gods and the Visitor Center. We do not have geological formations like this in Ohio. It felt like it could be a planet on Star Trek, I was ready for a Gorn to pop out.
After the Garden of the Gods we bought a timed pass to climb Pikeās Peak. We had some time to kill before we could go, so we stopped at the North Pole, Home of Santa’s Workshop which is on the way up Pikes Peak. If you are under the age of 7 that place is great. It was free admission that day so we walked around. The magic show was way better than you would think. Also, the map hadnāt been updated. It showed an arcade, but the building now looks like it is used for storage. There seemed to be some games inside, but nothing we could play.
Finally, it was time to climb Pikes Peak, and oh boy, what a drive it is. There are no guardrails as you are driving up, and if you went off the road, it was a mile or two straight down. On the way up we saw our first marmoset crossing the road. The temperature on the way up dropped 40 degrees, getting down to the 30s at the top. It was snowing a little bit! The oxygen level at the top is 50% of what it is at sea level, so I was not doing well. We did hear the best conversation though, a man was on the phone and he told the caller ājust here watching a marmoset lick a rockā. It looked like someone had spilled a drink, so the marmoset was cleaning it up.
While we were up there the rangers came in to the center alarmed, telling us that if we drove up that we needed to leave NOW! The weather had totally changed since we got there, with the clouds rolling in and visibility dropping down to 20-30 feet. We started our descent, using the GPS and the lights on the car in front of us to help. They warned us not to ride the brakes, but as we were going down I started to smell them. About four miles down is a stop and the rangers check the temperatures of the brakes. The smell was coming from the car in front of us, their brakes were over 400 degrees! That car had to stop and wait, while our brakes were at a cool 160 and we were allowed to proceed.
We stayed out there into July, so youāre going to want to read the July checkup to see how the rest of the trip went!
Movies
Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse: Visually amazing, story is amazing, being part one of two was a bummer.
The Little Mermaid: Pretty good, I like how they tried to make Ariel more a part of her story. But, having her sing “Part of That World” instead of “Part of your World” because she hadn’t met Eric yet didn’t really work for me.
Moonfall: I expected this to be more fun and outrageous. It was just ok.
Date Night: Tina Fey and Steve Carrell, of course it’s good.
Adventures in Babysitting: Rewatching a classic.
The A-Team: Better than I remembered.
The Flash: It was ok. I liked how they just decided to burn down the whole DC movie universe since it’s going to be redone by James Gunn.
The 40 Year Old Virgin: Another Stever Carrell classic, and it’s pretty good.
Happy Gilmore: Adam Sandler movies are like comfort food, when you can’t think of something to watch, put one on and veg out for 2 hours.
TV
TV I watched (number of episodes in parenthesis):
Cheers (11)
Everybody Loves Raymond (2)
Family Ties (5)
The King of Queens (1)
Wings (2)
Health
Average Steps/day: 16,705
Most steps in a day: 28,640
Min steps in a day: 12,049
Resting Heart Rate: 58
Average Time Asleep: 7h 3m
Miles walked: 171.2
Miles ran: 31.8
Potpourri
I don’t think I’ve ever traveled more miles in a month then I did in June. There were 2,133 miles driven (which includes the bus ride to Chicago) and 1,199 miles flying, for a total of 3,332 miles traveled.
I’ll start off by saying, no I haven’t seen most of the movies up for an Oscar. But, this is the internet, so where has the lack of knowledge ever stopped anyone from posting. I love going to movies, and I love when a movie hits me just the right way. Unfortunately, I don’t get to go as much as I would like, so I missed out on a ton of movies this year.
The Oscars lost their luster for me when they expanded the number of movies up for best picture. Nine movies? Come on, eliminate 4 of those. The number expanded just so producers could add “Oscar nominated” to their film’s tagline. I do want to see the winner, Parasite.
For best picture, I don’t really have an opinion. I only saw two of those movies, Joker and 1917, neither of which were best picture material. But, I totally agree with Joaquin Phoenix winning Lead Actor for Joker. He was amazing. For Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress, I didn’t see any of those movies this past year. Looking at the list of nominees, they are all amazing, so I’m sure it was a tough decision.
I only saw one award given, Animated Feature Film. Mindy Kaling is amazing, but the winner of the category was… for lack of a better word, unnecessary. Toy Story 4 was not worthy of a best animated feature film award. The third movie in the Toy Story saga was perfect, and 4 did not live up to any of its predecessors.
Finally, 1917 won for Visual Effects. It was pretty good, but I wonder if blockbuster fatigue has set in since it was up against Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Anyway, here’s to the movies of 2020. I can’t wait to see what’s in store.
Just a couple of storm troopers working for what’s left of the Empire
I finally finished the last 3 episodes of the The Mandalorian and I’m impressed. It’s easy to find fault in the Star Wars Universe, I’m looking at you episodes 1 & 8, and the internet seems to have a habit of magnifying the negative. So, today dear reader, I’m here to celebrate The Mandalorian.
SPOILER WARNING, I may mention specific plot points and characters, so if you haven’t seen all 8 episodes, I recommend you do that post haste!
The premise
The Mandalorian takes place 5 years after the fall of the Empire in Return of the Jedi. Although the emperor is dead, remnants of the Empire still exist. It is in this world where the protagonist of the story, the Mandalorian, take place.For some reason, the group of fighters called Manadalorians don’t have names. Throughout the season, our character goes by the nickname “Mando”, which rhymes with Lando, and that stands for… nothing but a terrible nickname. But we don’t have trouble, just Mando does.
Mando works in his corner of the galaxy, taking on the jobs that are tough and pay well. This is where he takes on the job of delivery “the child”, which the internet has dubbed Baby Yoda all because he looks like Yoda. He doesn’t speak, but he does use the Force. Out here, the Force and the Jedi are still myths. Apparently Luke needs a better publicist. After rescuing the child, most of the season shows Mando on the run.
Season 1 is in the bag
I liked The Mandalorian a lot, minor quibbles about his name aside. It’s a gritty look on the Star Wars universe, where people are trying to survive. The first scene is episode 8 is my favorite scene of the season. If you have a passing interest in Star Wars, then you’ll want to watch the 8 seasons. They are all available now on Disney+, so you can join, watch the episodes, and then cancel. That was my plan, but now I think I’m going to watch The Clone Wars and Rebels first.
No spoilers in the article, although there may be in the comments. Just don’t scroll down that far if you don’t want to see them.
I wonder how she sees when her eyes are glowing?
Last night was the opening of Captain Marvel, opening the way for the last Marvel movie of 2019, Avengers: Endgame in April. There is a Spider-man movie, and a couple of X-men movies coming out in 2019, but they aren’t being created at Marvel Studios.
Captain Marvel is a competent super-hero movie, but origin stories are getting to be a by the numbers affair. At least in this one the audience is joined by Captain Marvel’s alter-ego Vers in not know anything about herself. Brie Larson nails the role and is backed up by an amazing cast, but in the end, it’s an origin story. We see her get powers, overcome diversity, and learn where she fits in. When watching a super hero movie I have a simple way of grading how good the movie is. Am I engrossed in the movie or am I just waiting for the hero to use their powers? Walking out of the 2008 Iron Man it was definitely the former. I wasn’t waiting for Iron Man because the movie was so good. Captain Marvel falls into the latter, I was waiting for her to use her powers.
There are a ton of fun little Easter Eggs through out the movie, and the youngification of Samuel L. Jackson is amazing. The interesting part to me is that ’95 isn’t that much different from ’19, except for the lack of cellphones. The opening Marvel movie credits were touching.
The jokes were pretty good, although I felt that a bunch of them seemed to be out of place. I don’t know if scenes were re-shot to make them funnier or if they added the jokes while filming, but it hurt the pacing of the movie.
I rate Captain Marvel an Evening Showing, not quite a must see opening nighter. And if you were wondering, there are two after credits scenes.
My movie and TV reviews are spoiler free, I’ll only give away what is in the trailers. The comments are the wild wild west, anything goes there.
Here is Alita doing her Jessica Jones impression.
It’s a week late, but I finally got to go see Alita: Battle Angel. I went in to the movie knowing basically nothing about the series, and learned from the trailers that Alita was a robot found in the junkyard by Christoph Waltz. This is an ambitious movie, way too ambitious to do the world building justice. The movie makers should have attempted a smaller story for the movie. Right now there is a lot going on to bring the viewer up to steam, which distracts from the story arc.
The movie takes place in Iron City, which is below a floating city named Zalem. Apparently, keeping your limbs is quite a challenge in the city since it seems that almost everyone is a cyborg with synthetic limbs. Instead of the gladiators in the coliseum, the people of Iron City watch a game called motor ball. It is some sort of roller derby with a lot more destruction.
The cast is top notch, I’ll watch anything with Christoph Waltz in it (even Downsizing). The actor who plays the love interest Hugo is meh, and the don’t give Jennifer Connolly enough. She’s great with what’s given, but her talents are wasted. That’s not the biggest disappointment though, that honor goes to Jackie Earle Haley.
For those that may not remember, Jackie Earle Haley was incredible as Rorschach in Watchmen. Here? I didn’t even realize he was in it until I saw the credits.
Most of the special effects are great, but the insertion of Alita is jarring in several scenes. You don’t get a sense of physicality from her, just CGI. The more normal looking human cyborgs look great, but as the cyborgs look more and more like robots, the uncanny valley sets in and pulls me a little bit out of the movie. Alita’s big eyes didn’t distract me as much as the rest of her CGI created body.
I’m redoing my ratings system for movies starting with this one. Instead of giving a number or a star, I’m going to give a “should you watch it” and if so, where? Alita: Battle Angel is rated Matinee, go see it on the big screen, but don’t bother with the price of an evening showing.
After I stumbled across the Hemingwrite – A Distraction Free Digital Typewriter by Hemingwrite Kickstarter, I started looking at different ways to accomplish the same task but without spending $500 on a device. I’ve always had an interested in different writing setups, and would love to be a writer. For some reason, my lack of grammar and my legendary skill at procrastination has not resulted in the next great American novel. Here are some of my setups I’ve been trying.
Macintosh SE/30 running System 6 with Microsoft Word
I have written a fewposts on my Macintosh SE/30 and about bringing it back to life. It works really well as a distraction free system, it’s very fast, quiet, and reliable. Pulling documents off of the machine is as simple as copying them to a floppy drive.
IBM Thinkpad T51e running Ubuntu at the console and using vim
This isn’t that bad of a machine, the keyboard is really nice. Unfortunately, I can run multiple consoles and can still chat and surf (all at the console) but it’s harder to not be distracted. It’s really nice in the fact that I can use Dropbox or git on it, and reconfiguring the console font gave me a pretty nice font.
Atari 800 running The Last Word
Writing on my Atari 800 is fun! The keyboard is really nice, and The Last Word is a fantastic word processor. Pulling files off is a little bit of a pain (saving to a disk image and then extracting the file from that disk image) and I haven’t figured out a good way to send files to it for editing.
Atari MegaSTe running Protext
I love the keyboard on the Mega STe, but writing in Protext wasn’t the best. I don’t know if it was the weird interface or what, but it just wasn’t a nice experience. I will probably go back to ST Writer the next time I write with it.
Raspberry Pi with a Nook Simple Touch display
My newest experiment is using a Nook Simple Touch as the display. That was one feature of the Hemingwrite that I really liked, the use of an e-ink display. E-ink is the display used in the black and white e-readers,and has a very low power usage profile. The other advantage is the fact that it works well in bright light situations, such as outside.
I have this working as a prototype in my house. The Raspberry Pi is connected to my wifi, and running tmux at the console. With a rooted Nook Simple Touch, I connected to the local wifi and ran vx-connectbot which connected to my Pi. After connecting, I ran tmux -a, which then connected the vx-connectbot session with the console session, and I used the keyboard connected to the Pi but the display was on the Nook Simple Touch. I had to configure some vx-connectbot settings to get a good experience, but it worked really well. Next up is to figure out how to package the parts into something that would be portable.
After the bean was a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley field! Although they lost against the Orioles, 6-3, the first hit of the game was a home run by the Cubs! We had awesome patio seats with free food. My only negative for the day was troubleshooting some network issues back home, but luckily Kolt was available to run up to the high school and get everything working.
