Vaccine time. Amazing how quickly this has come about.
Microposts
Picked up these beers for a weekend treat. Love the labels on them.
Got my invitation to book my Covid vaccine today, a lot earlier than expected given my age group.
I have today off work, and I woke up over an hour before I normally would. I did not sign up for that.
Two blog posts in two days. What is happening with the world!?
I had been thinking about replacing one of my Amazon Echoes with a HomePod mini but Apple killing the HomePod has me thinking not to. How much of a future does HomePod mini really have?
I removed Jetpack from my Wordpress blog last week. When I posted this morning I realised I was using it to parse the markdown from my posts. Anyone got any recommendations for an alternate parser plugin?
It would be great if we could schedule the widgets that appear on the iPad home screen. In the evenings I don’t need to see my time tracking widgets but there are other ones which would be useful to see more prominently.
Speaking of proper native Mac apps. I wish there was one for Teams. The official app is a cludgy mess of a user experience, and it still doesn’t have native macOS notifications.
I really wish there was a native Sonos app for the Mac, one which responds my Mac in a similar way to the Apple Music app. If a call comes in then mute or pause my music, connect with the media keys so I can pause music with a key press if I need some quiet. Those kinds of things
I discovered the Craft and Things integration so I’ve moved all my tasks out of Reminders and into a simplified Things setup. We’ll see how it goes.
Sad to discover that Murray Walker has died at the good old age of 97. He was the voice of Formula One when I was growing up and getting in to the sport. Even now when a race start I hear his voice “And it’s go, go, go”. 🏎
I’ve also fired Day One up again, I used the app years ago and I figured since one of the things I’ve been using Roam for is a daily journal Day One is the logical place to turn to.
Gave the app Agenda a try this morning hoping to use it for meeting notes and capturing inline tasks for Reminders. Unfortunately the integration doesn’t work how I want. The Reminders are created in Agenda but they don’t appear as tasks which can be checked off. Very odd.
Giving Craft a try today. I’ve read a few things recently about Roam’s security that has unsettled me a bit. Add that to the fact I’m getting fed up it doesn’t work well on an iPad or iPhone and there’s no sign of an app in the works I think it’s time to try and find a way to replace it.
Back to work today, I don’t feel quite as rested today as I did last week but the show must go on. I’ll brew some coffee before I start my day. At the weekend I got some new beans which are so fruity when brewed, unusual for their country of origin, Papua New Guinea. ☕️
Just realised it’s the return of Formula One this month! 🥳🏎
My Fastmail spam filters seems to have turned themselves up. Found a load of legitimate email in it recently, including notifications that the domain I use with Fastmail is up for renewal.
Today is the start of another long weekend, I have today and Monday off work again. I plan to spend some time painting, but I’m being drawn into looking at some alternatives to Wordpress to power my website and I can feel myself being sucked into a redesign.
Considering going back to Things to handle all my Tasks, or maybe Reminders, I feel like Roam Research for tasks has me missing things.
We’re supposed to be implementing a no calls or meetings policy at work on a Wednesday afternoon, but I’ve spent all of mine doing just that. I feel very drained.
Today is a dark mode day I think. It’s very grey and cold outside, the sun of the weekend feels like a distant memory as I sit here at my desk working by spotlight.
Always with the accidental screenshots when trying to turn up the volume on my iPhone 😖
The painting continues to progress, lots of repainting things but it’s slowly starting to look a little like me 😂🎨
Realised that I can now post from Gluon instead of the official Micro.Blog app. It’s a little nicer to use on the iPhone and has some features not in the official client.
Really enjoyed this episode of Thouroughly Considered debating the future of the Mac and iPad. I’m not sure where I stand on the debate, but I’m looking forward to finding out what happens.
It’s starting to feel like spring is coming, the sky is blue and clear, the sun is shining, plants are starting to come into bud. It’s a beautiful reminder that God sustains the world and despite all that’s happening in it, His creation keeps on regardless.
Speaking to my parents earlier we realised it’s a year since Mum’s cancer diagnosis. Feels like a lot longer ago than that.
In the spirit of showing my work, the self portrait is progressing. I’m very rusty and it’s starting to look a little bit like the Joker 😂 🎨
Another day of work today as I try to use up my annual leave before the end of March. I’ve dug out my paints and plan to try and make some progress on a self portrait I started last week. It’s been so long since I did any painting, I forgot how hard it is.