Uncovering Merlin’s Scottish Legacy

Merlin was my first wizard.

TIL a new phrase: bibliophilic olfaction

It was in a TikTok about the smell of books

It tickled me. That is all.

There is no race to see who can start a Teams meeting the earliest.

The butterfly house was not a bad way to sit in stillness. They will come to you if you wait.

We did get to see the Walz motorcade, so that was cool

The worst of the night were the people who amplified their voices to preach hate. I do believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe my freedom of religious expression and yours do not need to be hostile. As a captive audience member while waiting for my bus, it felt like an ambush.

Several times we simply opted out of the crowds by picking a bench and sipping a lemonade until we felt up to facing them again. So many things we might have eaten or done but for the long lines everywhere. This wasn’t our year.

Today’s trip the the Minnesota State Fair was a challenge through and through. No surface lots had room at the fairgrounds, and it wasn’t until the 4th park-and-ride lot that we could actually park-and-ride. Lines everywhere were the worst I have ever seen. Moving in the Fairgrounds was difficult.

Today I learned, via my work MacBook Pro, that having your clock set to update automatically will override settings preferences for 12-hour or 24-hour time displayed on the menu bar. I started having “Ava” announce the time again, and prefer the audible updates differently than I had initially chosen.

I’m not grumpy all of the time, I promise. I’m just looking at yet another change in collaboration technology that is going to find its way into a company still spending a lot of energy maintaining SMB filers and with people synchronizing sharepoint folders to File Explorer.