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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good to have #Seahawks football back. Excellent test of my blood pressure meds.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

.79” out here at KWAFALLC5. First day I won’t be watering my veggies in two months.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Okay, the new season of Reacher is the best since season 1 (so far). Almost binged all three dropped episodes tonight.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

King crab right now is like $90/lb around here. That’s a lot for an ocean bug.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Finally nailed the King Arthur bagels recipe today. Changes to process: 1. Reduced time between the diastatic malt water bath and the oven 2. Used a different oven mode for the Miele oven (intensive vs bake) 3. Flipped the bagels 2/3 through 4. Cooled them slowly in the double oven vs the counter

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Being retired is going out for a snack only to find out the local pub is closed because it’s Monday.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Never mind… let’s just watch the ducklings follow the safety car in.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

What a race this has been at Silverstone. Never so excited to watch a last lap play out.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It's sort of weird after traveling for (n) years with a laptop due to work that now I pack it automatically and then realize I just took my laptop on a trip and never used it. This time, I'm leaving it home.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’ve had Henry the 8th by Herman’s Hermits stuck in my head all morning and I’ve decided it might be the worst #earworm to get stuck with… In other news, nice to see Lewis Hamilton get the pole for the sprint race this weekend.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It’s about the only breakfast I have every day. Usually sourdough, but occasionally an English muffin or a bagel if I was feeling industrious the day before.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Glad to have some clear nights here in the Pacific Northwest; captured the veil nebula here with my redcat51, post processed with PixInsight. #astronomy

Veil Nebula; wispy reds and greens over a muted starfield.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A Michelle Obama Appreciation Post: I deeply admire your elegance, graciousness, beauty, accomplishments, relatability & effortless class. Thank you for being one of the greatest First Ladies of all time!🙏 Much ❤️ from one of your countless fans, Mar🐫

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A clear tell you’ve been driving in Minnesota in late spring.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Adulting card refreshed; changed the drives side tire on an F350 outside Denver because we caught a screw in the road. Apparently retirement didn’t make me entirely useless.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Easier to cut back on beef lately - our local butcher (admittedly, a nicer one since we know where the beef comes from) has increased the cost of ribeye per pound from $25.99/lb to $34.99/lb over the last few months.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’m so ready… and going to be so annoyed with Miami if they have thunderstorms. Feels like a whole new season now.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Found the receipt for my second computer at my mom’s house (commodore 64) was the first. That was an investment back then - used it to do some word processing jobs.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If you have never tried Stella Parks brown butter shortbread cookies, you’re missing out. Literally my favorite dessert snack and it only takes one - even then I nibble it like it’s a Wonka chocolate bar (with a bourbon sipper next to it). www.seriouseats.com/brown-butter...

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Brown Butter Shortbread Cookies

Brown butter and toasted sugar make an extra-special batch of slice-and-bake shortbread cookies.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

And I’ve given up on Netflix, another price hike, shows I like going other places…

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Sitting here at the bar and ESPN has a “digital” golf game on - or rather indoor golf with a screen for long drives. This is a thing?

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Way late to the party, but the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle game was a great Indiana Jones story. I kept at it just to see the story play out. Well done.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Okay, finally nailed smoking a pastrami. Time to pack it in, they’re all downhill from here.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Giving fifth element vibes.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Nice to see the Mercedes team having a good F1 qualifying this weekend. I still think we're going to lose up to 6 or so cars during the race (or more). Going to be fascinating to watch them shake out the kinks in this first race.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'm going with George Russel for Driver Champ; so far it feels like they and Ferrari are going to be able to get some podiums in before all the manufacturers get things stabilized. Now I'm curious what happens to the middle-east races coming up.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My childhood resembles that picture.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Really want to upgrade my M2 Macbook Air to an M5 Macbook Pro, but can't decide how the RAM is impacting the price. There's no way it'll go down when RAM prices decrease, right?

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Now that I've retired, I wonder how long every day will feel like Sunday and I need to go to work tomorrow. So odd.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Indeed. I need to first figure out how to be shiftless don’t I?

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

And I pulled the trigger. Nearly 34 years in and I’ve retired from Microsoft. Time to see what this life without a day to day calendar full of meetings is all about. #ch-ch-ch-changes

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

And with those few words now I have “Looks like we made it” by Barry Manilow stuck in my head.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Yep; deterministic code and likely some NLP intent detection. Over time it’ll improve I suppose.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I also had “turn the yard lights on/off” which continues to work. Fundamentals underneath are still there but the conversational interface is less well trained than the tried and true…

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I’m not entirely a hater of things, but for the basics - the new Alexa+ is just awful. It’s like it’s worse at context for which device is playing, music search is worse. The tradeoff to get more rich, multi-turn conversation has broken basic skills I actually depend on.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Can’t wait for the first race. I’ll still watch Bahrain tests before then.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Age Verification - I saw Buck Rogers on opening day in the theater.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The #snoopy watch face on the Apple Watch is the best one. Now it needs roadrunner and wile e coyote.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

If I could find a good alternative to lightroom in the cloud that nailed the any-device-thing, I'd have already done so. Let me pay one-off for lightroom, and use my own storage.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

You're supposed to go on a journey of finding hardware to make these work again, get it installed and configured, only to decide they didn't have anything relevant anyway. It's all about the journey though.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I've determined it's a new drinking game.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

New drinking game, take a shot every time Tom Brady says twitchy.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The number of burpees and windsprints Woollen should be doing after that trick…

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Is this going to be one of those games where the announcers faun over the Rams and McVay and Stafford the whole time? #LAvsSEA

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Trebor @12thfret.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Northern Lights over Greenland.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This has been the most boring winter I remember. Wind ended in Novemberish, only one snow that didn’t last until noon.

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Jim Lewallen @jameslew.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Now I know why I schedule my yearly dr's appt in the mornings. Did it after work this time and now I'm stuck fasting all day. Going to be some #hangry meetings this afternoon.

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