Update 📰

🎮 Sadly, I was forced to cancel my Analogue 3D order, some unexpected expenses have recently reared their ugly heads:

• Dryer is on it’s last leg
• Car issues (both of them)
• Vet bills
• The outside faucet needs to be fixed

For the time being, I’ll just have to limit myself to software emulation. 😭

Took a late lunch break and went for a walk to clear my head and get some sun. 🍂🚶🏼‍♂️

Side note: I’m really digging my new Garmin and I love it doesn’t need to be charged every day.

Just per-ordered the Analogue 3D! 🎮 …I just couldn’t resist revisiting my childhood. 🤣

Out shopping for tonight (having friends over to watch Hocus Pocus) and stopped by a local coffee shop for my annual pumpkin spice latte; the name of the shop might have changed but it still looks just like it did when a friend of mine and I would frequent it for breakfast back in the day. 🎃☕️ 📸

Woke up to frost on the ground…not sure I’m ready for winter just yet. 🤣🥶

My insurance wouldn’t refill a prescription, so Walgreens offered to fill it for me without insurance…the price: $256. 💊 The same medication / dosage at Costco: $10. 😱😡😤 Gotta love healthcare in ‘Murica. 🇺🇸

There is something cute / fun / odd about listening to a podcast and suddenly hearing French when they get to an advertising / commercial break…I guess I forgot to turn off my VPN last night. 😆🇫🇷

I haven’t really been happy with my phone Home Screen for a while, so…I’m trying a minimalist approach. 📱

Congratulations Apple, I will never again buy AirPods from you.

Burning the midnight oil, trying to hammer out a few more unit tests. 🥱

Trying to get my legal affairs in order (aka, a will and medical power of attorney)…and a law office I talked with wanted a $10,000 deposit / retainer. 😱 WTF…it’s just a few hours of work, my life isn’t that complicated… 😮‍💨

Covid and flu vaccines acquired. 😷

It’s becoming rapidly apparent that my Synology DS3617xs is not long for this world or even my network set up. Just had to forcibly restart it, the second time in just two weeks. I can no longer trust this to be the backbone of my home infrastructure. 😭😤

Well…wide awake again, might as well get to work. 😵‍💫

Insomnia sucks. 🥱

I was listening to the latest @atpfm podcast, about the dust up between Apple / Creators / Patreon and I’m in agreement with the hosts: it’s just yuck. I love their hardware but with the focus on squeezing more revenue out small devs / creators, it’s getting harder to justify giving Apple money.