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Finished reading: Second Hand by Heidi Cullinan 📚
★★★☆☆This was a re-read, from many years ago (it was one of the first e-books I bought, this story is light and fluffy with a predictable ending…and an adorable puppy. 🏳️🌈
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I walked into the bedroom and he turned around to glare at me; evidently interrupting his bird watching wasn’t the best of ideas… 🤣 📷 🐈
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Follow-Up: The IKEA Sonos speaker is working perfectly (which is more than I could ever say of the HomePod Mini stereo set up) this morning; holiday music is flooding the room whilst I’m debugging some legacy Java code. 🤓🎄 (Yes, I had a spare speaker lying around… 🤣) 📷
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I give up, it’s time to throw in the towel on the HomePod set up in my house and just go get cheap Sonos speakers from IKEA. 😮💨 It’s hilarious Sonos does a better job at implementing AirPlay than Apple, I’ve had so many issues trying to play to multiple speakers over the past two years. 😱
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Finished reading: The Unlikely Heir by Jax Calder 📚
★★★☆☆Fun, light, fluffy…with just a hint of substance, this book was a fun read. 🏳️🌈
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Follow-Up: The package was found in the bushes below my house, next to the sidewalk…completely soaked and disfigured from the rain. 🌧️ I’m guessing the steps were just too much for the delivery person, all ten of them. 😅 Also, there is no way that box can fit in my mailbox, so again, someone lied.
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So, either Amazon is lying, the US Post Office is lying, or someone has taken my new Kindle from my mailbox. 😭📭
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Finished reading: Dead Tired by Ravens Dagger 📚
★★☆☆☆A fun, if silly read, with a lot of puns. 😆 It presents an interesting intersection between science and magic but I wish there was a little more details into the magic system.
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Currently Listening: A Holiday Carole by Carole King. 🎵🎄
First heard Carole on Gilmore Girls and then bought her compilation album at University. When I went home over the Holiday break and I was listening to it, my mother expressed shock because she listened to Carole when she was my age. 🤣
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Default Apps and Services of 2023
It seems like a lot of folks have been writing about the default apps / services they use and while I’m late to the game, here is my list…at least for 2023. 🤣 I did a little tweak to the format everyone seems to be using: I split up my home and work life, as I do my best to keep things separate.
Assuming his site / page are working, you can go see a list on Rob Knight’s website or add your site to the list at Github.
📨 Mail Client
- Home: Mail & Fastmail
- Work: Outlook
📮 Mail Server
- Home: Fastmail & iCloud
- Work: Exchange
📝 Notes
- Home: Notes & DEVONthink
- Work: Notepad++ & GitHub wikis
✅ To-Do
- Home: Reminders / GoodTask
- Work: Jira
📷 Camera
- Home: iPhone 15 Pro
- Work: N/A
🟦 Photo Management
- Home: Photos & Synology Photos 1
- Work: N/A
📆 Calendar
- Home: Fantastical
- Work: Outlook / Exchange
📁 Cloud File Storage
- Home: iCloud, Backblaze, & OneDrive
- Work: Enterprise-hosted SharePoint / OneDrive
📖 RSS
- Home: Reeder
- Work: N/A
🙍🏻♂️ Contacts
- Home: Contacts / Cardhop
- Work: Outlook / Exchange
🌐 Browser
- Home: Safari
- Work: Edge
💬 Chat
- Home: iMessage, What’s App, & Signal
- Work: Teams & Slack
🔖 Bookmarks
📑 Read It Later
- Home: GoodLinks
- Work: N/A
📄 Word Processing
- Home: Pages & Word
- Work: Word
📈 Spreadsheets
- Home: Numbers & Excel
- Work: Excel
📊 Presentations
- Home: N/A
- Work: PowerPoint
🛒 Shopping Lists
- Home: Reminders / GoodTask
- Work: N/A
🍴 Meal Planning
- Home: Paprika
- Work: N/A
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance
- Home: Banktivity 3
- Work: N/A
📰 News
- Home: Combination of RSS and Podcasts.
- Work: N/A
🎵 Music
- Home: Music & Plex
- Work: N/A
🎤 Podcasts
- Home: Overcast
- Work: N/A
🔐 Password Management
- Home: 1Password 4
- Work: N/A
🤖 Code Editing
- Home: VS Code
- Work: Visual Studio, IntelliJ, & VS Code
📚 Books
- Home: Kindle
- Work: N/A
🌎 Blogging
- Home: Micro.blog 5
- Work: N/A
🖼️ Screenshots
- Home: CleanShot X
- Work: Snagit
🌤️ Weather
- Home: CARROT Weather
- Work: N/A
📑 Clipboard Manager
- Home: Paste
- Work: N/A
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Trying to convince my sister-in-law to use it instead of a series of external hard drives; she has an extreme aversion to playing for cloud storage. ↩︎
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I’ve been pushing my Team to use a common Wiki page for shared bookmarks. ↩︎
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I was using PocketSmith but as they recently raised their prices without offering anything new, I’ve moved on. ↩︎
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It took years but I was finally able to convince my Parents to start using a password manager, especially when functions on both their iOS and Windows devices. ↩︎
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Moved 18.3 TB of data from my Storage server to my Media server; gotta love the “
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🍿 Kicking off the winter movie season with You’ve Got Mail, which is an old Holiday favorite of ours. 🎄
