Had a nice chat with chatGPT today morning. I am not too concerned just yet that it will take my job. Not yet anyway.
Surprise, 6 of the restaurants are nowhere close to being in Fairfax county, and some of them are as far away like Canada.

Our backyard before & after (before pic was in May). Today we got sod installed. This has been a multi month journey to get here, but fuck the haters I am finally beginning to love our backyard, and Hobbes doesnt have to romp around in mud! Of course we’ll need to retrain him not to go pee-poo at his marzi, but thats a small price to pay.

(Our first owners were allergic to grass it seems, hence the backyard was full of bizarre plants and shurbs, half of which we cut away because they had sharp thorns and thorny leaves. We couldnt have let our doggo out with that kind of foilage)

Interesting sleep data for last night. I knew I was going to wake up at 4:30 this morning for swim meet. I don’t usually do alarms and just wake up at the time – don’t ask me how I do it – I basically think of a time to wake up and I will indeed wake up 5-10 mins before. Alarms infact stress me out more and I don’t even sleep in anticipation of it blaring. Anyway back to sleep stats – turns out I did not get any deep sleep at all last night. I wonder why – this whole week I have slept very well, have had no alcohol and have been having dinners at 7. I wonder if this is my body’s way of reacting to waking up at 4:30? That somehow my brain decided if I went into deep sleep I will miss my own alarm? Brain works in mysterious ways!

This is not an image that makes me happy but I also know that for our good this was necessary. I really wish this tree was farther away.