April wasn’t a bad month. I was productive and was able to finish the month with a well deserved long weekend vacation.
<h2 id="reworking-my-site">Reworking My Site</h2>
Early on in the month I decided to put Astro on hold and instead focus on cleaning up what I already had for my site with Next.js. I took some of the designing I was doing with Astro and applied it to my current platform. The work was fun and in the end my site is now running the latest version of Next.js (for now) and looks a tad bit better. The downside is that I had to remove my photography section and photo blog temporarily while I find a CDN to store the images.
<h2 id="a-nice-long-weekend">A Nice Long Weekend</h2>
At the end of the month, my wife and I went to Cape May, New Jersey to celebrate her birthday. The weather was gorgeous and we were able to check out the local wineries and just sit out on our hotel’s veranda with a drink and read. It wasn’t a full week, but the long weekend was the perfect way to unwind.
<h2 id="hey-were-league-champions">Hey, We’re League Champions!</h2>
The latest I-League season at my rink ended this month and my team was able to win the upper bracket championship. We started the season out rough at 0 - 3, but finished with 7 straight wins to capture the trophy. I managed to get a 1 - 0 shutout to seal the win.
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<h2 id="monthly-round-up">Monthly Round-Up</h2>
🏃🏼‍♂️ Running &amp; Biking
<ul>
<li>Running: I only ended up running 22.9 miles this month.</li>
<li>Biking: Nope</li>
</ul>
🏋🏼‍♂️ Lifting
<ul>
<li>After hitting the 1,000 lbs. mark, I’ve deloaded and am working my way back up. It’s going well, might not be doing the same weight, but am doing more volume.</li>
</ul>
📚 Reading
Finished
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/anansi-boys-neil-gaiman/6438691?ean=9780063070738">Anansi Boys</a> by Neil Gaiman</li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/heart-is-a-lonely-hunter-carson-mccullers/266374">The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</a> by Carson McCullers</li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/pacific-crucible-war-at-sea-in-the-pacific-1941-1942-ian-w-toll/8754662?ean=9780393343410">Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942</a> by Ian W. Toll</li>
</ul>
Started
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-conquering-tide-war-in-the-pacific-islands-1942-1944-ian-w-toll/8758811?ean=9780393353204">The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944</a> by Ian W. Toll</li>
</ul>
✍🏻 Writing
<ul>
<li>Continued my reading logs<ul>
<li><a href="https://kpwags.com/reading-log/25">April 7 (#25)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kpwags.com/reading-log/26">April 14 (#26)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Continued my Blazor Series with <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/04/04/digging-into-blazor-entity-framework">Integrating with Entity Framework</a></li>
<li>Wrote about <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/04/18/libby-and-libraries">Libby &amp; Libraries</a></li>
<li>Wrote about <a href="https://kpwags.com/posts/2023/04/28/some-site-and-design-updates">My Site Updates</a></li>
</ul>
🎮 Gaming
<ul>
<li>Not much of any gaming</li>
</ul>
📺 Watched
<ul>
<li>Finished <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8806524/">Star Trek Picard</a></li>
<li>Continuing <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/">Star Trek Voyager</a></li>
<li>Started re-watching <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2191671/">Elementary</a></li>
<li>2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs</li>
</ul>
🎬 Movies
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092/">The Great Gatsby</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/">The Shawshank Redemption</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1649418/">The Gray Man</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/">Inside Man</a></li>
</ul>
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Update 5.2.2023 : Fixed Duplicate Header

April Check-In

This past weekend, Lauren and I went to New York City. It wasn&#39;t the best weather for the trip, but overall I feel we lucked out as we only needed umbrellas twice. Most of the time it was just gray or misting which isn&#39;t too bad in the grand scheme of things.
The weekend was relatively low-key, we spent a lot of time watching hockey both at Madison Square Garden and at sports bars. We got tickets to the Harvard-Yale game at MSG and it was a fun time. We had no real stake in the game, but it was an amazing arena and a fun game to watch.
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We had pretty good seats for it too as you can see.
The other thing we did was spent Saturday afternoon at Museum of Natural History. I went there once in elementary school and was bored out of my mind. I think there were two parts to why I was so bored. The first was that I was so used to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and how many of their exhibits were interactive. The second was that it was around the time when it was &quot;not cool&quot; to really read and study the exhibits, so trying to fit in with my peers, I opted not to care. Fast forward 10 or so years later and I&#39;ve been wanting to go back to the museum and actually explore the museum for real this time. Needless to say, I&#39;m glad I did. We didn&#39;t see the entire museum, but we saw a Dark Matter planetarium show, explored the ocean, and the dinosaurs.
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I already miss NYC.

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