We had strong thunderstorms overnight that are probably related to the bad weather in the south and Midwest that have been deadly. Luckily, we are expected to have only light rain throughout today.#

Made a lot of progress yesterday and last night migrating my daughter's site from Etsy to Shopify. After some running around, I will be continuing the migration work.#

Today I will be working on migrating my daughter's Etsy site to her own domain using Shopify.#

The last day of March is cool and rainy, which is typical of Pittsburgh springs! ☔️#

Watched a 90-minute presentation on YouTube yesterday given by Mahesh Murag of Anthropic at the AI Summit in NYC back in February. It was called Building Agents with Model Context Protocol and it was fascinating what MCP can do and will be able to do in the coming months.#

Feels like a nice spring day is in store for us today! 😃#

The more I learn, the more I realize the potential of MCP is limited only by my imagination. 😊#

I want to dig deeper into the capabilities of Claude Desktop today, especially getting to know projects as well as expand my knowledge of MCP.#

The more I played with Claude Desktop, the more impressed I was with the whole Model Content Protocol (MCP). I'm going to upgrade to the pro subscription today, which will allow me access to more powerful AI models.#

I built a simple MCP server in Python this afternoon that Claude Desktop was able to use. I created 2 simple tools: a stock price checker and a tool to control my office Lifx lamps. Next, I want to create a CLI that can talk to the MCP server without the need for Claude Desktop.#

It turns out the QuickBooks integration I had written for Google Sheets had a serious bug, not picking up all of the data. So I used the QB interface to create a custom report and manually copied the numbers into my Google Sheet. Lo and behold, I showed the same losses that QuickBooks had been reporting, thus wiping out the tax liability. The business had been underwater all last year, so I knew that when my tax person emailed me, I had really made an embarrassing mess. All's well that ends well! 😊#

My tax person emailed me yesterday about some oddities in the data I had given her for my daughter's taxes. I had been experimenting with my own integration with the QuickBooks API, and it seems that I screwed it up. Luckily, she saw something wrong and questioned it, so today I am going to manually go through QuickBooks and find the correct data. Maybe this summer I can experiment with the API once again.#

Going with the family this morning to Phipps Conservatory to see their new Spring Flower Show. 😊#

Kind of rainy and blustery this morning. A normal spring day in Pittsburgh!#

Still on the cool side today, but it's bright and sunny this morning, which always makes me smile! 😊#

Back to the drab and dreary late winter feeling day with rain and cool temps.#

This tweet by Adam Grant really resonates with me...#

Going to be a beautiful day today with the high in the upper 70s! ☀️#

Spring is making a comeback today with the high close to 70! 😃#

Happy St. Patrick's day! Somehow we have slipped back into winter with flurries and cold temperatures today!#

Rain and thunderstorms throughout the day today. I guess we are getting some of the effects of the storm that has been pushing across the country.#

Had a great call yesterday with a potential new consulting client. 😊#

Lot of running around today, including meeting with my tax person.#

Had a fun day yesterday, biking around the south side and riding the incline up to Mt. Washington to get ice cream with the grandkids, all in celebration of my youngest daughter's birthday! 🥳#

To celebrate my youngest daughter's birthday today, we are going to take advantage of the nice weather and go bike riding this afternoon! 😊#

Beautiful sunny morning and a start of some warm days this week! ☀️#

The Steelers traded for WR DK Metcalf from Seattle late yesterday. Now they have to figure out who will be throwing him the ball.#

Had a wonderful birthday yesterday! 😃#