Two days late and two dollars short! Indeed, it’s Tuesday, and Happy Tuesday to you. I’m late for the second week in a row, which isn’t a habit I want to get into. But I feel like I have a good excuse this week! I had a good excuse last week, too. I’ll work to keep my tardiness to good excuses only.

Road Trip to Seattle

Around noon Thursday, I received the text our whole community has been awaiting for a few years now:

“Tristan got the call.”

I’m from a small community in Southern Manitoba, Canada, where many children have hockey sticks glued to their hands for 9 or 10 months a year. A baseball bat — certainly my tool of choice — is generally a secondary choice for most young kids. Between a short summer and a small population, Major League Baseball isn’t something most kids dream about when fooling around in the backyard.

The stats tell the story, too — the last Manitoban to play in Major League Baseball was Corey Koskie, who had a great professional career with several teams. Koskie last stepped on an MLB field in 2006. Before him, the most recent Manitoban to play in the Big Leagues was Harry Sketchley in 1942. And before him, Mel Kerr in 1925 and Russ Ford in 1913.

Needless to say, hailing from Manitoba and having a chance to step on a big league field is as rare as it gets in North American professional sports.

So when someone on your team just a few years ago gets the call, you drop everything you’re doing to watch history unfold.

That text Thursday afternoon set in the fastest road trip decision I’ve ever made — by 3:00PM local time, we were in the car, destined for a 21.5-hour drive across the continent to watch our baseball friend Tristan make his MLB debut for the Tampa Bay Rays. We slept for 3 hours in Billings, Montana and continued on the next day, with arrival time just shortly before Tristan’s first game in the Big Leagues. We arrived, watching Tristan take pre-game batting practice, and proceeded to watch Manitoba baseball history that evening.

Though we travelled to watch Tristan play, reality set in when we arrived at the park — we were supporting Tristan’s family as well. A number of his family were able to make the trek on short notice. Our friend group — of which I would likely know the family least — quickly became acquainted to the large group supporting their son, brother, or grandson. It quickly set in that we were part of a much larger celebration.

I have more thoughts than I could ever imagine after this whirlwind road trip — from the immense pressure bestowed on professional athletes, to the lack of grace provided by amateurs, to the importance of witnessing history — and I hope to flesh out those thoughts another week.

For now, just like last week’s Sunday Edition, here are a few quick photos from the Emerald City — a city I definitely want to revisit again some day.

Feeling Friction With the iPad

I continue to enjoy Chris Hannah’s iPad journey over on Journeys Through Glass. I do think some of these topics have been talked about to death — such as whether you can use the iPad as your daily computer or whether it can do “real work” — but, for whatever reason, I still find these journeys to be interesting.

My iPad use continues to expand. My accounting work is glued to my Mac, but nearly everything else falls onto the iPad. This newsletter is produced almost exclusively on the iPad. I edit photos almost exclusively on the iPad (some of the best Lightroom features are only available on the Mac, such as AI features, so I jump there from time to time). I read exclusively on the iPad. I do all my Bible study on the iPad. I use the iPad a ton.

But I also find the iPad pretty infuriating to use for various other things. I hate using Files on iPad. I despise Excel on iPad. I can barely stomach any app that has to do with numbers, or spreadsheets, or finances. It’s just not good at these things for me.

All told, I didn’t think I needed or wanted a separate computer for some of the above tasks, but it’s quite nice nonetheless. I like the differentiated arenas for each device — it puts my head into a particular frame of mind, which I think helps boost my productivity for that task-type ever so slightly.

Rest

Keith Hodder:

Because to catch my breath feels like laziness. It feels like giving up. Don’t even mention patting myself on the back for getting the work done either. I’m terrible at that too.

Good article. Really good article.

I’m pretty opinionated on this, and you don’t have to agree with me, nor am I a bad person for my opinion.

My opinion: Work is more important than play. Life should be skewed more towards work than it should be towards rest. We were created to worship the Lord, and work is worship.

But God also created the Sabbath for us to rest. We are supposed to rest. The land is supposed to lie fallow. We are supposed to step back, thank the Lord for our blessings, rejoice for our lives, and begin the work another day.

Rest is also worship. This is a fundamental facet of worship.

In today’s day and age, rest is difficult to practice properly.

The Second Cup

Keychron K0 Max Keypad

My K0 Max Keypad is slated to arrive later this week, so I’ll provide a quick review at some point in the future. I’m very excited for two things with this keypad: wireless connectivity and a low-profile which fits more in line with the low-profile keyboard of the built-in MacBook Pro keyboard.

I’ll report back soon.

Schuyler’s Journal (Field Notes) Cover

I have a ton of Field Notes covers — I wrote a lot about them back in the day. These new journal covers from Schuyler look excellent. The leather looks to be in line with the calfskin leathers they use in their exquisite Bibles. I can only imagine these will be great quality.

Productivity, AI and pushback

Great words from Seth Godin.

Happy Sunday. I hope you have a wonderful week ahead.