Enjoy Castelsardo, Sardinia, today.
North coast.

It is easy to be absurd if you lack shame.

Enjoy Sardinia this morning.

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Enjoy Bosa Sardinia

Enjoy Sardinia today.
It's going to be raining hard tomorrow 😥

Enjoy Moses in Rome today.

Enjoy Rome today.

A highschool classmate died last weekend. I just found out. Funeral was this morning.
She was way too young.

Went to bed Saturday night and didn't wake up.

We were friends many decades ago. A year ago I was planning a trip back home and we tried to meet up. Schedules didn't align. We promised to try again next time.

Now she's dead.

Look around you today. If you are alive, then BE alive. This is the only moment we have...right now.

And be a good person while doing it.

Good bye Jennifer.😥

Enjoy the Spanish Steps in Rome tonight.

Rome is beautiful and warm today.

But leave it to my wife to plan on visiting 2 cities each on two islands half way around the world with connections and rental cars.

I'll need some sort of talisman to make this all come together.

I think I just finished planning our big vacation. We leave on Thursday morning.

Every hour is planned. I know it will not work out that way, but at least we can get back on track if we want to see certain things.

Lots of driving, too. I made a bunch of personal Google maps and printed them for backup.

There is a LOT of room for improvement and automation in this vacation planning space. I can see great opportunities for AI to make this easier and faster.

If you are so inclined and fortunate, time to order flowers for delivery to your mother for Mother's Day. Those florists can cut off orders if you wait too long.

Biden will be in San Francisco on Thursday. You should hear the sounds of helicopters overhead and vacuum cleaners near the ground sucking up donations.

No problem is worth fixing unless you know how it breaks a valuable best-practice.

The Structure of a Best Practice:
-Description
-Trigger Event
-End-State
-Stakeholders, Orgs & Roles
-Systems
-Pre-Existing Conditions
-Scope
-Steps
-Metrics

The context of Problems that cause failure:
-Problems within Pre-Existing Conditions
-Problems within Steps

First, understand what Success looks like. Then understand how the problem makes it Unsuccessful.

Rainbow off our new bevelled mirrors at sunset right now

Father in law had successful surgery, but now we know it's cancer.
Prognosis still TBD.
Next big question will be: Do you want to go through chemo and feel like shit for, potentially, years? Or, live out your last days with a slow decline.
At 88, these are already the bonus years of life.
I think we all need to consider that we will, one day, face our last day alive. That's ok. It's nature doing what it does. Maybe the more we consider it when we are approaching that day the easier it will be

More family medical issues:
Father in law checked himself into the hospital. Too much pain. He's going into surgery at 4pm (90 mins). Hospital is in Southern California. We're in Northern California. Wife considering flying down this afternoon.

We just did this in February with her brother going into surgery.

I'm fine, btw. Wife is a bit shaken, but steady.

Doing network management for the home network on a Sunday night is boring, thankless and innocuous.

Not having internet on Monday morning is the initiator of WW3.