Every day I'm on #Mastodon I like to jot down #3goodThings #threeGoodThings for #today... things done, things to do, or just a good thing 
1. A quiet day chilling and reading in the sunshine.
2. Daughter/granddaughter here for couple more nights.
3. The slow cooked pork loin was duly pulled (resists double entendre, well kind of) and was delicious.
Last beer for the night, here.
1) I rolled some code today, first time in three weeks, which gap is a serious health flag for me, so that's a good thing.
2) Interesting convos last night and tonight leading me ever so slowly towards a thicker formulation & explication of why what I do when I'm coaching isn't actually woo-woo at all, but pragmatic and rational.
3) Tomato season is upon us here, and it's my favorite time of year.
What about you? What's yours?
Three good things for today: 7/29/2025
1. Chilling on the patio after mowing the lawn.
2. Got the lawn mowed this morning.
3. Grocery shopping done for the week.
Today's exercise: About an hour and a 20 minutes of mowing and yard work.
#3goodthings #ThreeGoodThings #haiga #haiku #zen #digitalart
Wednesday, July 23 
1. Hilarious texting with my sons today. (I knew I was right to plan for an Aquarian kid — the twin was a bonus!)
2. This Sacramento summer is going down in record books as “the one where people on Reddit complained it was too cold to enjoy their pools.” I don’t miss the A/C hum, but it’s weird to be inside due to chilly winds. (It feels like late September.)
3. Youngest granddaughter texted last night & said she’s coming to visit Grumpy Grandma in January, yay!
#3goodthings #ThreeGoodThings #birds #Lisbon
Monday, July 14
1. The Vagabond couple arrived safely back 
in the US from their Portugal getaway.
One more pic below for fun.
2. Diligently compared prices for standard grocery items I have delivered & will save at least half by switching stores.
3. We are getting a ten degree drop in temp beginning tomorrow & extending over the next ten days.
#3goodthings #ThreeGoodThings #photography #landscapephotography
#Portugal
Wednesday, July 9
1. More Portugal pics from Vagabond son & DIL — Lisbon & the Algarve district (coastal - south). Their friends’ condo isn’t too shabby!
2. I have five more tomatoes ripening, which may be my total harvest for this summer. (Accounting for the price of the plants, water & fertilizer, God owes me about $10.)
3. We have two 100+ temp days coming up then it’s back to “the summer that never was.” So far. 
1. The fediverse rallied around @GottaLaff and swatted away a social media meanie.
2. Wrote up an abstract on Shirley Jackson's "The Tooth," and it was quickly approved for a literature conference in November.
3. Took a 3 mile walk with a friend.
#ThreeGoodThings (food)
1) Thankful for the #FOSS community, which has provided such amazingly useful tools for free. I've been diving more and more into FOSS options and trying to figure out how I can contribute.
2) For my Dad, who, after a recent diagnosis of mine has been doing a bunch of research to try and understand more about it. #mentalhealth moment.
3) For this overcast sky today - the heat the last few days has been killing me! Ready for a quick break.
Today:
- I had a nice quiet day recovering from a busy weekend
- I darned some huge holes in an old sock (already darned several times!), so it should hold out until I finish the new pair I’m knitting
- it’s clean sheets day
Today:
- I attended a Special Olympics basketball training session and chatted with more people about the benefits of participation
- the sun shone for a large part of the day and people were out making the most of it
- I made felafel and salad wraps for dinner
#ThreeGoodThings
#SimplePleasures
#SpecialOlympics
#AcademicStudyLeave
25/06/2025
① The new company finally shared their job offer to me, and I’ve signed it! It’s so surreal to see that it’s a permanent position after probation… keeping my fingers crossed always 
② Got free food from the same couple who lent us their villa. Such nice people, I swear.
③ I managed to fill the job application form (as documentation and formality). It was a lengthy one but I did it!
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#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings
Today, we:
- had a nice day off together
- learnt more about Glasgow on our walk thanks to the book we bought by @thisismyglasgow
- went to the excellent Riverside Museum
1. I got a good and productive 2 and a half hours of piano practice in today while still feeling like I had time to do other things.
2. Ich lerne noch Deutsch und es ist nicht zu schlecht.
3. As I write this, I am drinking a gin and tonic and am enjoying all of your Thursday afternoon posts.
#3goodthings #ThreeGoodThings #dogsofmastodon
Thursday, June 19
1. Temperature forecast today is 10° lower than yesterday due to the breeze that has set all the oleanders and myrtles in motion, à la a movie by Monet.
2. The vacationing family in NC celebrated Ollie’s third birthday with quite the lavish party 
(pics below). Ollie has more clothes than I do. Seriously.
3. I’m doing better with ignoring the state of the world & our politics…doesn’t improve anything for the world but keeps me sane-ish.
1. Friends
2. Sleepovers
3. Strawberry-flavored mints that make you salivate uncontrollably
Bonus: Mirrored walls
Okay, slowing down, a little. A good chance to do my #threegoodthings for today.
1) Protest turn-out very good, parade turn-out frankly embarassing.
2) Friend/visitor Varun took care of a big cleaning task I'd been dreading, before I even woke up. I thanked him profusely, albeit also telling him to never do that again: my shit, my job to clean it up. He understood.
3) Good night with after-dark barking for the dogs out on the deck. Only *1* trip to timeout.
And you? What's your three?
Every day I'm on #Mastodon I like to jot down #3goodThings #threeGoodThings for #today... things done, things to do, or just a good thing
1. Moved a massive amount of timber and bits from daughter's front drive to rear garden to build garden room/shed AKA log cabin, helped by SA and said daughter.
2. Started setting out the first row to get a feel for the well documented instructions for building.
3. Hot, sunny, day and totally knacked, but in a kinda good way.
3a. Good excuse for takeaway supper.
3b. Busy weekend ahead.
1) Although I didn’t get a lot of time at the piano today, I got to spend it with my friend Felix M. and his lovely variations, working through some of the spots which did not satisfy me last November.
2) My wife is back from Belgium/The Netherlands and we had a nice dinner this evening.
3) I’m reading two very good books.
Dissents 
Shayne Parkinson 
