Did iOS and WatchOS 9 updates earlier today. MacOS Ventura says 12.03 GB? Downloading now and will be for a while, apparently


Just ordered two Lego kits from the mother ship. Because Harry Potter universe.


Listening to Crystal Method, again. I go long stretches without, and then something reminds me how much I love them.


Neurodivergent Monday:

  1. It’s Tuesday
  2. Forgot coffee
  3. Forgot reading glasses
  4. Forgot watch

Made it to my first two appointments on time. Have coffee at work. Carry a spare pair of glasses in my work bag. Watch is sure nice but I will live without it. Not bad, overall.


Am I the only one who resents LG for using In The Air Tonight in a commercial for a cordless vaccuum? Gen Xer here tired of seeing his youth further commercialized and used against him.


I continue to be amazed by the breadth and depth of the archeological coverage in The Explorator. Published weekly—I consume it via RSS. Many of their sources also offer RSS.


The watch says “Good morning!”

The phone says “Good morning!”

The dogs say “Good morning!”

Okay!

Okay.

I’m up.


My wife saw this picture and said “Full-on Lorax”

I and my beard are in the middle


Pizza and cider with an old friend


Why I Hate Software (I Don't Really But Microsoft And Apple Are Still Frenemies)

Setting up iCloud on one Windows laptop actually went smoothly. Every tool did exactly what it was supposed to do. This, even though I have combined my vanity email domain with iCloud. To be fair, I actually send email from my personal account only slightly more often than I phone people from my personal number, which is close to (but not quite) never. On a desktop, this did not happen. Even with Office365 installed, the iCloud tool only synced calendars and contacts.

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