We watched Promising Young Woman last night. I highly recommend it. 🍿
Finished reading: Manazuru by Hiromi Kawakami📚
I’m unclear. If I am using iCloud Drive to store a folder of text files (accessible via different apps on iOS & Mac OS), does iCD keep old versions of the files? If so, for how long and how do I access them? I ask as I have read that it does, but I cannot find the details.
I’m intrigued by the look of Freezeframe and would definitely like to take it for a spin when the app becomes available.
I’m in the market for a Calendar app…I’m an old Fantastical user until it moved to a subscription model, and returned to the stock app. I have tried a number of apps, but my two main contenders are Fantastical and BusyCal, but I’m still not sure about that subscription though?!
I posted Episode 49 (Widening our circle, taking tonglen further) of the Behind The Thoughts podcast today, but I think that it got lost during a Micro.blog hiccup, so re-announcing it here.
Having just read my emails and seen the announcement of Hey World’s launch, as I then went to open my Micro.blog timeline I thought, “I bet the first post I see is about Hey,” and sure enough…. 😁🙌🏻
Starting my Field Notes annual subscription.
We watched The Little Things last night. It starred Denzel Washington, Rami Malek & Jared Leto, and the performances from these three are the glue that hold the movie together. I struggled hearing some of the dialogue early on, but it is worth your time IMO. 🍿
I spent some time yesterday evening playing around with URL schemes as I tried to build a Drafts action. I was aware of URL schemes existence but had not had reason to directly interact with them, or I’d tried my best to avoid them out of unfounded fear!
As it turned out, I really enjoyed myself just getting dirty and figuring things out. It reminded me of the experimenting and playing that I used to do when I taught myself to code many moons ago. My preference then was always for just playing around, trying this and that and seeing what happened. When education formalized the process for me, I struggled.
Having bought the cookbook Vegan Japan Easy a little while back (ahem), I though it about time that I try a recipe. A couple of nights back I prepared this “Ramen for Faye Wong,” as it was titled. Two hours lates(!) I was pleased with the outcome - both looks and taste.
Well I don’t think that the weather gods have seen the forecast this morning.
Showers until noon, then sun.
If the rain falling outside now can be classified as showers, I don’t want to see a torrential downpour!
My love of Ulysses has been rekindled with their support for Micro.blog publishing and how the app handles that. With the new Beta that includes managing multiple blogs under one account. Other options include publishing right away, scheduling or save as a draft.
Last night we watched Nomandland on Hulu, about a woman (played by Frances McDormand) leading a modern day nomadic existence in the American West. I enjoyed it. 🍿
Watching the airplanes come in and leave each day, following flight paths close to our house, it is as though they are traveling highways in the sky, each following the seemingly exact same path as the previous one.
Yesterday was a day of draft form filling, my application for US citizenship. There are still some blanks that I need to check the answers to and some accompanying paperwork to collect. For now though I’ll leave it for a couple of days, and take a rest.
The Comfort of Memories
I find myself sitting in my car on our driveway. It is overcast and there is steady stream of rain falling. The weather looks set in for the day, and likely tomorrow as well. I feel at ease, comfortable, safe. This weather takes me back to weather in Britain that I grew up with. At times it might be weather that the British poke fun at, or complain about. Or it might be weather that visitors tease the country for.
Whoah! The thunder is rumbling this morning. The Gods up on Haleakala have something to say as the house shakes, the rain falls, the wind picks up and the clouds descend.
I don’t listen to audio books often, but last night I discovered that I could listen to a book that I had downloaded to my Kindle, via the iOS Kindle app. Resting my tired eyes and having the book read to me was lovely. This rekindles 😬 thoughts of upgrading my old Kindle.