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  • 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

    A wooden deck overlooks a forested area with trees and leaf-covered ground.
    30 March 2025
  • 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

    This image shows a macOS desktop screenshot with a search query and instructions displayed in a floating window.
    29 March 2025
  • While weeding in the yard around the steps to the front door, I noticed life finding a way.

    26 March 2025
  • Lent Minus Thirty-Nine

    Wherein a bitter truth is chewed upon.

    25 March 2025
  • 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.

    22 March 2025
  • 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

    16 March 2025
  • It’s spring around the mailbox.

    14 March 2025
  • I used the 2X telephoto of iPhone 16e for the first time walking to the car from Walmart without breaking stride.

    #Apple #iPhone

    13 March 2025
  • A tan leather skin from dbrand makes for a nice finish to the cleaner design of the iPhone 16e.

    #Apple #iPhone

    10 March 2025
  • It was 26°F (-3.33°C) this morning, but apparently trees in the neighborhood aren’t checking the weather.

    3 March 2025
  • E is for AI

    Wherein I get a ChatGTP phone.

    1 March 2025
  • 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

    23 February 2025
  • 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

    22 February 2025
  • The will to live.

    #Coffee

    22 February 2025
  • Evergreen year round and flowering twice, Camellia blooms through the snow, not knowing or caring it’s below freezing, living its best #Flowers life.

    20 February 2025
  • 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

    19 February 2025
  • 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.

    #Apple #iPadOS

    19 February 2025
  • Way back when iTools was a thing, I signed up with Apple, then shortly after iTunes came along. I made the fateful mistake of using different emails. 25 years later Apple has finally allowed the merging of account purchases–but not accounts. Here’s how it’s going.

    #Apple #iCloud

    17 February 2025
  • After updating to iPadOS 18.3.1 three lights in Control Center become Home placeholders. My top three choices are: Barcelona, Turin, and Dublin. Fingers crossed.

    #Apple #iPadOS

    15 February 2025
  • After updating to iPadOS 18.3.1 my Midnight (black) AirPods Max are now starlight (white). #Apple #iPadOS

    15 February 2025
  • Envy with Green

    Wherein I count the cost.

    11 February 2025
  • Our municipality really leans into my chlorination and my wife won’t drink the tap water. She can tell the difference, passed a blind taste test when we bought the house, so every year I spend a morning changing filters and mopping water.

    10 February 2025
  • A One Minas Kind of Guy

    Wherein my battery dies.

    8 February 2025
  • A pleasant surprise this morning, the first measurable snowfall, 1.5 in. (3.8 c.), in about three years fell overnight.

    22 January 2025
  • Heat Death Comes Early

    Wherein I wrongly blame myself for a known issue.

    16 January 2025

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