At work, we’ve been working on upgrading servers on older unsupported operating systems. I have one in particular, that we’ve been needing to upgrade for a very long time. I attempted it last night and it went south. Broke. It was late at night and the person I was going to need to fix it wouldn’t be around until the morning. It was tempting to fall into my old pessimistic views and think that we would need to rollback. Lots of thoughts about how it’s not going to work and we’ll need to keep pushing the upgrade back, on and on. But I caught myself and decided to “think lucky”. I opted to tell myself that come morning, it’ll all work out. And it did! Voila. Luck Factor Principle 3 in action: Expect Good Fortune.
We finished so early that I even had time to join the local running club for my first ever run with them. w00t!
Rode bikes again with my son to the local pub/restaurant. We played cornhole for a while. It was the first time trying that for both of us. We sucked pretty bad. Still, we hung out for a while to practice being around other people. I told him that by the end of summer, he’s going to feel pretty natural about hanging out in such a crowded place. He agreed and I was surprised, because I expected him to balk about having to do this all summer. I’m happy with that.
Oh, today we also played Age of Empires II against each other, player vs player. We have never done that before. And I’m shocked he wanted to. He knew I was probably going to massacre him, and I did. But instead of rage quit, which is what I feared, he encouraged me. I kept apologizing for destroying him and he would say, “Think about all the bad things I’ve done to you, this is pay back. Think about that time I peed on you when I was a baby”.
That little story reminded me of the “Homework for Life” exercise in Storyworthy. Creating a category for that.
When I read that book, I tried the Homework for Life as a spreadsheet. And I could not recognize some of the memories I was trying to preserve. It’s not enough detail. Maybe I should blog the exercise daily instead? I dunno, we’ll see.
Speaking of see. Here’s a C5. See?
I saw it this morning.
Funny enough, a couple of hours later I saw a P51 Mustang flying. I’ve seen it before though, but it always shocks me. A freaking WWII plane flying in 2026. Blows my mind man.