Surprised FedEx has fallen behind UPS and Amazon(!) in tracking packages and estimating delivery, I wouldn’t care if my signature wasn’t required and my delivery “window” was until midnight. FedEx: like the Post Office but more expensive.
Sometimes—not all the time—you have to zoom in to a universe of one and ask yourself, “how does this thing effect me right now?” If it doesn’t, stop thinking about it, at least until you are able to not think about it all the time.
Preordered! Moving from an M1 iMac to an M4 Mac mini-me and a 13-inch Apple XDR mini Display (M4 iPad Pro). I briefly considered upgrading to the M4 iMac with a nano-texture display, but since I already have one I’ll try trading screen quantity for quality.
#Apple #MacMini
Not buying it.
Trader Joe’s comes through big this week with the snall bouquet of flowers.
More than half of North Carolina has voted, including us. The wait was about 30 minutes, longish for a recent cancer patient. If she had to, my wife would have died standing in the unseasonal heat on hard concrete, but a kind poll worker took her to a chair in the shade near the door.
#Vote
In our neighborhood, this was a kind of stop-motion installation over a few weeks. It started out as a construction site, then a hand appeared “emerging” from the black box, followed by head, torso, full figure, all the while the crew moved around. You have to admire the dedication.
Nothing quite like Wendy’s fries and Goodberry’s Nutella custard for dinner. So heavy in salt, fat, sugar, and flavor, I’ll be surprised if a gastronomical anomaly does not form in my stomach. Worth it.
A Northern Flicker woodpecker is apparently large enough to activate the security camera. This is a first, and I’ve now seen five of the seven woodpecker species in North Carolina: Red-Bellied, Hairy, Pileated, and Downy, and Northern.
In this likely tiny interval of calm between personal disasters, we are going to retile the kitchen floor. My wife and I agree on rust for color, likely dark gray for grout, but we disagree on size. I want 8” tiles and she wants 12” tiles, so 12” tiles then.
