Birthday Blessings

As part of celebrating the final year of my 40s, my family and friends bestowed bountiful gifts. In this post, I’m sharing two from some of my favorites: Lego and Apple. Japan Postcard This Lego set is from my wife. She sneakily bought it while we were browsing inside the Lego store at a mall several months ago. Nice. I love the small details in this diorama, showing a Japanese landscape. We’ve got Sukura (cherry blossom), Mt. Fuji, Himeji castle, bamboo, and more. No Koi though! But you can imagine them swimming in the water there. It even gives you the option to display either “Japan” or “Nihon”. Ultra 2 A good friend of mine generously gave me a lavish gift (his previous watch…there’s a story behind it) in the Apple Watch Ultra 2. How awesome is that!? This watch solved the problem of my old SE 1st gen, which still worked well enough to track fitness but no longer got updates after watchOS 10 and has poor battery health. The Ultra 2 is a super upgrade with nearly all the latest…

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