Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome to Monday morning, October 9th.

Let me quickly check that the microphone is capturing.

I should have checked before.

Apologies.

And yep, looks like we’re good.

All right.

Welcome to Monday morning, everyone.

It is officially in central Pennsylvania here.

We have officially reached autumn.

The temperature at the moment, what is the temperature at the moment?

Not sure.

The temperature at the moment is about, it’s in the 40s I think actually.

It is currently outside 50 degrees.

Quite cold, quite cold for me.

This will be a day of more coffee than usual, just based on the temperature.

It’s something I do each morning in general, but it’s especially very effective in the colder months, as I open up a window in my apartment, which is just one big room.

So I open up a window, and then I crack the door, which creates a cross flow.

The air is essentially being pushed out of the apartment.

I leave that open until the temperature gets down to around 65 or so degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment itself, just to, I don’t know, just freshen up the air, you know, from the previous day, kind of cycle it a little bit.

I don’t know.

It’s just a thing that I’ve done for as long as I’ve lived here, which has just been a few years.

So anyways, yes, so chilly outside, more coffee than usual.

Today will be consumed, but it’s Monday, which means that I have a Grateful Log to share, and then a lot of stuff to get into for the workday.

So let’s get on with it here.

So first up on the Grateful Log is having an awesome football weekend with Mazi, my 10-year-old son, which is insane that he’s 10.

Can I just make that quick point?

His energy level has dramatically increased.

I mean, he’s always had energy, but his physical energy, his need to run, his need to hit, like to tackle, wrestle, just loves passing football or any ball, really.

Just constant movement, which I can relate to more so, though, in my mind and then in my physical being, but it is good when I move.

But he really can move, which I enjoy.

It’s a lot of fun to be able to just—well, okay, so the context here.

We watched the Michigan game Saturday night, they won.

So that’s his team, that’s his college team, so he’s happy about that.

Then after church on Sunday, we went up to Riverfront Park, just a block or two up, and just passed football for like 30 minutes.

Even though it was colder outside and he wanted to wear shorts and t-shirt, but he was cool, right?

So we’re just passing football.

So that was good.

While we’re watching the Michigan game, and then later Sunday afternoon we’re watching the Steelers game, he’s watching the game, but he is still moving.

He’s basically tackling me on the couch the entire game, for both games.

He’s either tackling me on the couch or we are up and moving around the apartment passing the football.

I have very high ceilings, so it makes it kind of nice.

So just lots of football with him.

And he was really only with me for, I don’t know, maybe 28 or so total hours.

Majority of that being—not a majority, but it does not matter.

We crammed a lot of football into a very short amount of time, so that was fun with him.

Also, next up on the Grateful Log is just having some actual downtime yesterday, which was weird.

Typically in my evenings, if I’m not working, I’m—I don’t know, what do I do?

I work.

It’s either I’m working in the evenings or I’m going out to the house to be with Mozzie and Lindsey some evenings during the week.

Yeah, and then when I get back from that pretty late sometimes, and so then I just go to bed.

So there’s really no—I’ve said this before, just downtime is not really a thing that I can do.

However, yesterday worked out a little bit that I was able to have some downtime in the evening, which was pretty nice.

I feel like I kind of was able to take a bit of a break.

So I enjoy those moments when they present themselves.

I don’t actively seek that out necessarily, but when they are possible, it’s a nice thing to be able to just kind of chill out for a minute.

Now, I was still working.

I was—since I rediscovered this knitting thing, I was doing that the entire time, but I wasn’t—to me, that’s more of a hobby, right?

That’s— so it was different, right?

It’s different.

It was nice.

Finally on the Grateful Log is this new idea that I had for a leather product.

I just like having ideas, and I like then it’s—it has yet to become old or boring to be able to have that idea in my mind, kind of draw it out roughly either on my iPad or a piece of paper or something, but then eventually I’m able to take that idea and make it into an actual three-dimensional object in leather.

So I had an idea for a product.

Everything that I make essentially started out either as a thing that I wanted for myself for my own use or as a gift that I wanted to make to give to someone else.

That’s how I really got into—that’s how I started out with leather was really just making things for myself or other people and then—but finding traction along the way for different product categories, right?

And so I don’t know.

I had an idea for a product that I would like to use personally yesterday.

So I, you know, when I had some downtime yesterday evening, I did draw that out.

I wanted to get it out of my brain.

So I don’t know if you want to count that as work, but I like having the idea, and I’m eager to make it become a three-dimensional thing that I can hold in my hand and then just, you know, see where it goes from there.

So that’s the Grateful Log for today.

Really good weekend, and looking forward to getting into the rest of today.

I have a pretty massive list of things to get through.

It’s unrealistic that I’ll get everything checked off, but I will do my best to do so.

So that’s it.

Again, happy Monday.

Happy October 9th.

We are already creeping into the middle of October somehow, so I hope that you have a great Monday if it’s starting out.

If you’re at the end of it, I hope you had a great Monday, and we will definitely talk again tomorrow morning.

So until then, take it easy.

See ya.