I think about the little house during the auto-refactor portion of my vision exam. It’s at the end of a straight road, so even if the road turns left or right headlights shine into the windows. They probably have blackout curtains, but they should plant some privacy bushes. Seriously.
#thoughts
Apple finally let people migrate purchases (merge accounts), rather than just waiting for longtime users to die off. It went smoothly except for this. This notification pops up every time I watch a show or movie. Every time. It’s a known issue, so hopefully will be fixed before I die off.
#Apple
A tale of two tulips, dark and bright, though not much to say at Duke Gardens in April, fewer flowers, more construction, but that Rembrandt tulip, quite the overachiever.
#flowers
Turtle fam sunning at a pond in Duke Gardens. That’s tree pollen on the water, hope they don’t have allergies.
#animals
Turtle doing yoga at a pond in Duke Gardens, more limber than me, probably.
#animals
The dream of every husband whose wife works from home has been achieved. I walked into her meeting without pants on. Audio meeting, true, but still, and I needed help with my knee brace, so not pervy either.
Not much to be done about crazy high tree pollen counts, so might as well enjoy the dogwood blooms popping up like daisies all around Raleigh.
#spring
The back deck turns yellow as spring is in the air and our lungs, the tree pollen count approaching infinity. A real The Last of Us (video game) vibe outside, except it’s not spores but microscopic grains containing sperm cells (not feeling better about that as I should).
#spring
Another day, another Apple Intelligence failure. This time Siri hallucinates how to hide the Menu Bar in macOS. In reality, the Menu Bar visibility options are in Settings under Control Center.
#AppleIntelligence
While weeding in the yard around the steps to the front door, I noticed life finding a way.
The southern flying squirrel, or bird seed ninja, strikes at night whenever the feeder is left out. This one was only caught looking guilty because a raccoon wandered onto the deck and tripped the camera motion sensor.
I got a survey from Apple about my iPhone 16e, but there were a lot of questions about Apple Intelligence. Apple, If you are asking whether your house is on fire standing on the lawn backlit in orange through a haze of smoke, it may not just be the house that is the problem.
#Apple #iPhone
It’s spring around the mailbox.
I used the 2X telephoto of iPhone 16e for the first time walking to the car from Walmart without breaking stride.
#Apple #iPhone
A tan leather skin from dbrand makes for a nice finish to the cleaner design of the iPhone 16e.
#Apple #iPhone
It was 26°F (-3.33°C) this morning, but apparently trees in the neighborhood aren’t checking the weather.
When feeling threatened, like by someone within ten feet of the door, this particular opossum does not play dead but panics, often running the wrong way and trapping itself in the corner of the second-story deck away from the stairs. Maybe some kind of technique acting class is order?
#Animals
Was there a slide puzzle difficulty contest between Apple UX engineers? Control Center FTW! That last spot is death by discombobulation. My workaround is to reduce the media player to a single row, fill in the “second” to bottom row, then expand media player.
#Apple #iPhoneOS #iPadOS
The will to live.
#Coffee
Evergreen year round and flowering twice, Camellia blooms through the snow, not knowing or caring it’s below freezing, living its best #Flowers life.
Juncos waiting patiently for me to throw birdseed onto the snow covered deck because they are too dumb to use the feeder…or are they. I just went out in the cold and cleared the snow and spread some feed.
#Birds
Overnight my iPad hides the nightingale, the weather widget moving from its place on the left side of the Home Screen to the right side. It’s a small bug, but a big deal in that Apple’s famed attention to detail continues to wander, a path that dead ends with Windows.
