Sunny Day Sail

We headed out for an early sail today.the wind was supposed to be fairly good, not great but good. It wasn't... We sailed for about 3 and a half hour, but mostly we just poked along at half a knot. We did get up to 3 during a few

Evening Walk

Today we had a normal day. Nikki subbed for a 5th grade class. I went and got a haircut after work then picked up pizza on the way home. After we ate we went on a walk up the trail, it was just under two miles. The kids rode along

First Day of Lagoon 2025

We went to Lagoon amusement park today for the first time this year. Warren hit 50 inches tall this year, so it was his first time being able to ride everything in the park. We had a good time, Nikki and I sat out on a lot of spinny rides

Rough Sail

I had some PTO to burn, so I took two days off while the kids were on spring break. Today, it seemed decent enough around noon that we decided to go sailing. The wind was out of the North at about 10 knots. This is generally not the best wind

Sailing day

We had some me decent wind for sailing today. We got out about two hours late, but that was of. After the last sail I purchased a new mainsheet, and today I tested it out. It was amazing, it was so much easier to handle and so much lighter than

Utah Hockey Club

Today we got to go see a Utah Hockey Club game at the Delta Center. Utah Hockey Club is Utah's new NHL team that we got this year. Normally tickets run hundreds of dollars, but they are selling limited views tickets through a promotion for $10 a piece. The game

Autodesk Fusion

I am working more on creating my wind direction sensor. I normally use Blender, but I feel like other applications are better at the precision work that I need. I watched a 20 minute tutorial on youtube, and got some basics down. I am not very good at it yet,

New Wind Vane Sensor

I am switching methods of angle sensing. After some testing, I think the rotary encoder has too much resistance to use for a wind sensor. I switched to a AS5600 Hall effect sensor, and have been playing around with it. It actually seems to be way better that the other

Pizza and Planning

I got home from work today and took a good nap. When I got up we decided to got to pizza pie cafe. The kids were thrilled, and Mark had wanted to go there anyways. It was really packed so it made it a bit hard to get what we

Trip Planning

I did some searching on project planning tools to plan for our sailing trip. I looked at a few different tools, and didn't find any that were a great fit. Asana was ok, but didn't offer some of the base things I needed. Monday was the same may. I think

More Homework

Today was pretty good at work. I got a lot done and am ready to move forward tomorrow. I have a few meeting, and should be pretty busy tomorrow. We worked on a big slew of Marks homework today. He is a little behind in a few things, but mostly

Mark's Singing Class

Mark started vocal for performances classes today. He didn't want to go was fairly angry we signed him up for it. But of course, he really loved it. He said it was a lot of fun and he can't wait to go back. Other than that it was a pretty

Mark Birthday Tubing

Today we went tubing for Mark's birthday. We decided to go some places new this year with just flour family. Normally we go to Soldiers Hallow up near Park City, but we wanted to check this place out. It was a pretty cool place called WasatchParc, and is at Nordic

Jump Limitless Flight

Today we went and did my Mom and Marks Christmas present to us. She got us tickets to a virtual reality wingsuit simulator. It was really really cool. We went down about lunchtime to Draper and watched a few videos of people that had done it. Then Nikki and I

Hair Cut

Warren and I went after I got off work and got haircuts. It's been a while since I got a cut, so mine was really long. Warren's wasn't too bad, but he loves getting his cut. They had a big line, but luckily I scheduled us ahead of getting there.

Packed Gym

Mark and I worked out tonight, but the gym was absolutely packed. It was wall to wall people and people standing around everywhere. We lifted weights for about 20 minutes, then Mark was able to find one of the good treadmills. I ended up running on the indoor track, which

Mark's Weight Lifting Classes.

Mark started weight lifting classes with Sarah today. He seemed to have a lot of fun and enjoyed it. He said he learned a lot and was really proud that he was able to do a squat with the 45 pound bar. While they did that we ran to Texas

Meh day

It took some effort to get out the door today. I had to run out and get my coffee cup, and had to make several trips in and out. When I finally did leave the car threw a tire pressure warning, so I had to head back and change to

Arduino Wind Indicator

I worked on my wind indicator app a little bit. I am using an optical encoder to determine wind angle, it has a 3ish degree of precision (kinda). The device has 10 pins, 8 of those being digital pins. These connect to 8 different pins on an Arduino. Then in

Another Dog Attack

Little Mark got attacked by the neighbor's dog today. The kids were headed out to get into the car to get home, and their dogs got out. Nikki screamed for Warren to run, and he made it into the garage, Duke did as well. But Mark got trapped by the

Boating Not Sailing

We went out on the boat today. Unfortunatlly it wasn't really windy enough to even put up the sails. We had a lot of fun, but it would have been better sailing. It was pretty cold at times, but not terribly. I took a ton of pictures for BlueSky, and

Breakfast Mistake

I woke up at like 945. It was a bit late, especially because I was in bed so early, but I needed it. When I finally got up I started making breakfast and got a text from my dad. We were supposed to go over for breakfast. We threw on

Project Coming Along

My Arduino project is coming along. I did need to order a new arduino board as my micro isn't working. I read up on tech specs for my encoder, and think I have a good plan to get everything together. If I can get everything working, I may even design

A Old Project Revived

A few years ago I created a project that took a rotary encoder and would use a windvane to give me relative wind direction. I got it working ok, but I am going to revive the project. I am coming up with a plan of attack and may even create

After Math

Mark finished his Math test today. He seemed much more relaxed that yesterday once he was done with it. He thinks he did pretty good. He has the concepts down I'm really proud of him. Nikki worked in Salt Lake today,, so I picked up the kids at Sharon's after

More Math

I was exhausted by the end of the day today. I took a long nap when I got home till dinner. After dinner Mark and I worked on his review so he can finish his test tomorrow. He seemed really stressed and off while working on it, but we got

Upcoming Math Test

This evening I worked with Mark on his math review. I think it just makes me like the teacher less. The review is far more complicated than the assignment and the questions add complexity that isn't needed to demonstrate that they know what was tought. As an example there was

Fry Bread Tacos

Today we pretty much just cleaned the house. The kids did great for there part. Warren was a big help with cleaning the living room and his room. He helped out with the laundry and cleaned the stairs. Mark took a bit of prodding but finally got there and did

Christmas Lights Gone

We finally have all our Christmas lights put away. It took all day, and it was freezing cold. I didn't even realize how cold or tired I was till I was done. We started at about 1230 and finished up at about 5:30. I immediately came inside and fell

Relaxed day

Today I didn't do much. Nikki went on a date night with Sarah, and I stayed home with Warren. I did go to the gym this morning where I absolutely crushed my workout. I had a 15 minute run, but it was feeling pretty good so I did 19 and

Indian Food

I got a phone call from Nikki on the way home from work today. Warren had told Grandma that they were supposed to watch Mr. Beast tonight, and so he had gone out with them for dinner. We decided to take Mark to Red Fort, our favorite Indian food place.

Math Homework

Mark is doing great in his math homework, he is really nailing it. We have been working really hard everynight to make sure he is ready to go in and learn the material the next day. The teacher is great enough to allow us to do the class work the