Pretty good.
Almost the weekend!
There really is no such thing as a cheap dirt bike or car. Like $4,000 dirt bike..cool but it has needed about $4000 in parts to get going. Still needs a new frame. New, it’s a $12,000 bike before modifications so I’m still ahead but I’ve replaced SO MANY PARTS.
I’m pretty sure that I just ordered the FINAL parts for the dirt bike build. This has costed more than I was hoping. Crap, I said FINAL but what I mean is “trail worthy” parts. I still need to replace the frame this Winter but this will get me out in the dirt.
My wife brought me a donut from Maine.
In 2024, I published 25 blog posts. So far in 2026, I’ve published 27. I’d like to double last year’s number and it’s nice that my volume has increased.
Published 2 blog posts this week, one about Adobe Project Indigo and another about AppleCare One adamchandler.me/blog/2025… adamchandler.me/blog/2025…
The web is broken and will keep getting more broken but I’m okay with using the web in its purest broken form and having a dedicated space for LLM conversations. Bringing AI into the browser is going to be a step back for me.
Heather’s MQB Tiguan is finally out of warranty so I put a Stage 1 tune on it tonight. WOW. $650 well spent. +56HP and +79 ft/lbs of torque on a motor that put out 184/221 from the factory or essentially 30% more horsepower and 35% more torque. You can REALLY feel it.
I’m hoping the airport parking garage camera caught whoever did this but either way, this is the third time my truck has been damaged in a parking spot in three years and I’m awaiting my estimate from the body shop. I always park at the back of the lot, but I keep getting it
I’m really enjoying shooting with Project Indigo from Adobe. It really taxes my iPhone 16 Pro but shows what the limit of computational photography can be.
Rough journey home. 7PM flight JAX to BOS was delayed then cancelled so instead of getting home at 12AM, I got home at 6:15AM after waiting, flying through ATL and then driving the 2 hours north back home. 24 hours of no sleep was tough.
Final day in Florida. Hanging out on the sand bars.
Florida has been fun. One more day of boating and seafood before flying back north.
In Florida for a few days.
In a meeting and 6 people are here and there are 4-notetaking agents in the call as well from 4 different services. MG Siegler’s “Bots talking to Bots” blog post from 5+ years ago is almost the reality. None of us have to join, just let our bots hash it out and send us notes.
Microsoft CoPilot is integrated into PowerPoint (great). Response to me asking for a style update, “Unfortunately, I cannot make changes to your presentation directly.” Then WTF are you doing hogging up RAM and screen real estate if you can’t perform tasks?
Good progress on the dirt bike!
Working for 4 days, dirt bike restoration at night, flight to Florida on Thursday and back on Monday for work again. Going to be a very fast week.
Dirt Bike is nearly torn down to basics. Time to build it back up.
Nice evening last night
Big day. Camped last night, this morning I installed the new Weber grill frame, changed the Tiguan oil, cleaned the grill, installed a car seat, groceries and washed truck. Now, lakeside.
Long week. Low of 50 tonight will be nice. First time camping with the baby, too.
Just finished teaching my first virtual PMP Coaching boot camp. Previous ones were all in person (next 2 are in person as well). That was fun. eight days at 4.5 hours per day instead of four 9-hour days. So it is 8 evenings but I enjoyed the pace a lot. Great class of students.
Finally legal after waiting 4 weeks for a license plate.