If you want to find out what I wanted to accomplish, feel free to go out and read the original post. Hopefully it will shed some light on the ambitions I had towards the beginning of this yearly theme.

How did it really go?

To be honest, pretty good. Did I get as much done as I would have liked, no. There were a pile of must do items that piled up. But there were some things that I got to do that were just for fun. Mainly during my reCharge I found many projects that were just extra. Not that they were glamorous, but they were what I wanted to do and my wife wanted to do. Things that made this new property feel like home vs just a new house. Its been a lot of work, but its the little things that as I look around, I’m more at peace with what all is in place.

Finally, Apple supports a digital government ID in the state of Iowa. Hopefully all the states adopt this soon and we can get the various bars, airports and everywhere else to get onboard. Its a tall ask seeing as there are still places that I cannot use Apple Pay.

There are days it doesn’t feel real to have this sort of benefit. But for the second time at the company, I am fortunate enough to take some time off called reCharge.

Every 5 years at the company you get a benefit where you get 30 days of time off plus you can tack on an additional 2 weeks of PTO. In total, I’ll be off for the next 6 weeks. Relaxing, reCharging, and most of all… NOT WORKING.

As if I needed a reason to instant buy this game. They have truly captured some of the great traditions in college sports.

Check out the trailer below…

Living in the midwest can be both the best and worst of mother nature. The threat of a tornado is something that every midwesterner takes seriously and also has a gallows humor towards.

If you have never seen a tornado or how massive they can be, this drone footage from a storm chaser from the Greenfield Iowa Tornado on May 21st is pretty damn immpressive.