Gettin hot outside, time for cold brew.
Finished reading: The Stand by Stephen King 📚
I loved this book but it’s hard to recommend such a tome. I’m being derivative and doing the book an injustice, but if you want Stephen King’s take on a modern day Lord of the Rings - this is that book. The characters are memorable and human (well, most of them).
🍿 We took the whole family to see Inside Out 2 and we all liked it. Except for the 4 year old who didn’t like the new emotions 🤣.
It was a great way to spend Father’s Day.
The dishwasher overflowed last night and we woke up to standing water in every room except one of the kid’s room.
I didn’t know we were gonna spend Memorial Day at the lake.
The tinyPod teaser trailer really makes me want Apple to bring back the click wheel as part of an AI focused device.
I want an iPod nano with the AI-juiced Siri where I can still text and call. Basically, Apple’s take on the Rabbit R1 but use that iconic click wheel.
Finished reading: The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚
Now I know why people get obsessed with this series/world. The setting is so well planned and developed. Little morsels of an ancient time. Also a good adventure story that involves an interesting hike.
I am so late to the game with cross posting but THIS IS A TEST OF CROSS POSTINGS
Finished reading: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚👥
Another interesting spin on the whodunnit genre. This one was a little convoluted at times but the book’s main “mechanic” gave a new way to tell these types of stories.
The kids were on the verge of revolt if we didn’t watch Polar Express today. They put on their PJs and we made hot cocoa. We even lit a fire … at 3pm. 😂
It’s gonna be a chilling… I mean chilly Halloween! 🎃🥶
Got one of those silly, inspired software/web dev ideas that would make me giggle to no end but I have no time to actually implement it.
📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 2: buildup
📸 September 2023 photo challenge. Day 1: Abstract
These Athletic NA brews are pretty good.🍺
I have several messaging apps installed on my phone and each one is dedicated to a single chat. Since I’m trying to declutter my digital life this kinda annoys me. But there is a sort of simplicity in having a dedicated app for different chats.
Finished reading: The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci 📚👥
Read this for book club and we all concluded this was a book you pick up at the airport; it’s entertaining but doesn’t leave an impression. The author clearly had a series in mind and left a lot of questions unanswered. The protagonist basically said “Aw shucks! We’ll get ‘em next time!” at the end.
clearing cruft
I’ve amassed so much digital cruft on my phone that I set a recurring daily reminder to delete 1 app and close 1 browser tab. I might have to add another task to delete some links in Pocket too.
Updates:
- 17 Jul 2023: 132 applications, 55 tabs
- 24 Jul 2023: 128 applications, 52 tabs (it’s good that the numbers are going down)
- 31 Jul 2023: 123 applications, 49 tabs
Here are the first apps I downloaded when the App Store launched 15 years ago:
Hey, take off the headset when you are interacting with your family that’s right in front of you. #WWDC