Jennifer's 365 Project

He's pretty sure he's stealthy.

This kid is full throttle all morning every morning, then drops like a ton of bricks for a nap.

I finally had a chance to download Pokemon GO yesterday and played around with it briefly in the evening. Today was the first day I really had a chance to explore the game mechanics. The game is using the same backend as Ingress, which Chris and I played quite a bit a few years back.

The map is similar looking, but the play around capturing Pokemon (where you can have the Pokemon overlaid what you're camera is seeing) ads a whole level of complexity to the game. I can see why it's so popular so fast.

In the morning I dropped Chris off with Quinn at Tanger Outlet and I went to recycle some old computer parts and dead monitors I've had cluttering the house for a long while. I know we didn't get everything loaded into the car we should have (there are bins in the basement I'm sure have old stuff we need to toss), but it was nice to get rid of a trunkload of crap we no longer need.
After I picked up everyone from the outlet mall we went to Millennium Park to see the new boardwalk. There is a boardwalk that connects the loop around the lake and an older unpaved trail.

The boardwalk was much shorter than we thought it was going to be, but Quinn had a fun time running back and forth on it, so the trip was worth it.

Corinne gave Quinn a fun Darth Vader towel poncho, so after his bath tonight he ran around in it. He's really enjoying being wrapped up in blankets and towels, so this was a lot of fun to run around in for him.

Corinne, Adam and Comfort came over for pizza and a stroll through the park. It was refreshing to have friends over and break up the monotony of weekend evenings.

He's still afraid of the penny pony at Meijer, but will pull this thing out every other day and ride on it.

I've been pretty unimpressed so far with the Displio units we received awhile back. They were a kickstarter and took about a year to ship, which is fine (the Pebble had a similar delay).

There are two things that are frustrating. The device was hailed as standalone, and it's not. You were supposed to be able to customize it via apps, and there aren't any.

This week the Displio cloud is down and has been for several days, so the devices don't work. They had promised to release the source code so you could host your own code and have the devices point there (and there is an option in the setup process to change where the devices gets its information).

Right now they're just annoying paperweights while they do maintenance.

I will admit that they do respond to comments on their kickstarter page and it sounds like they respond to email inquires, so that's a positive thing. And while the device did launch prior to all of the features being available (like rotating for different screens) they have been adding things as the months go on. So there's promise...

I'd just really like to be able to host the code on our Raspberry Pi webserver and control things that way. That's a connection that doesn't go down.

We bought several 18 month shorts back in the winter when they were on sale at target. We figured he'd be able to wear them at some point in the summer.

At 16 months they're still way too loose. I decided to tack them real quick with some thread. I ended up taking them by about an inch, but now they fit and he can finally wear them.

I brought home a few raspberry plants that my mother gave me, so they were sitting on the deck this morning when Quinn and I went out. he spent quite a bit of time picking as many berries off as he could and stuffing them into his mouth. I'm glad he likes fruit as much as I do.

We spent the day in metro Detroit visiting Chris's mom and my parents. Quinn had a great time at both places. We spent most of the day outside at my parent's house, which meant there was an excellent opportunity to try sunglasses again. He finally wore them for more than 2 seconds so I consider that a success.

We decided to try the Toddler Time at Sky Zone this morning since today is a floating holiday at for me at work. They're open for 2 hours twice a week for just toddlers. We were there for an hour and he had a great time, although he certainly started to run out of steam at the end of an hour.

This is definitely something we will do again!