Weeknotes: Week 15, 2023

Here’s what happened during the week of April 10–16, 2023.

Substack introduced Notes 🗒️ this week, so I wondered whether it might be a worthy addition to Mastodon for following interesting voices. But it quickly became evident this week that Substack is a piece of shit, and some people tried to warn us years ago. Not for me.

Old Photos 📷 I came across a small collection of old slides that I took years ago—some dating back to the 1980s. Most are junk, but I scanned a few that I thought were interesting and uploaded them to a Flickr album. What now, toss the slides?

Hello! 👋 I’ve been enjoying my time here on omg.lol for a few months now, and I’ve gotten things more or less the way I like them. However, the idea of a “home” page has been bugging me. It seems so 1999. It is my online introduction so, like the original Mac, it has to say “Hello.”

Bike Shop is Open 🔧 My wife’s new Priority Bicycles Current e-bike arrived this week, so guess who was on the hook to get it road-ready? Naturally, I had to take it for a test ride. It’s a lot of fun, but I still prefer my Turi.

It’s Lawn Mowing Season 🧤 This year, instead of being a lazy bozo and hiring someone, I’ll be cutting my own grass again. I bought a bougie electric lawnmower and it is awesome! Much better than CATS. I’ll mow again and again.

Too much? 🤷‍♂️ After a Saturday spent playing pickleball, riding my bike, and mowing the lawn my knee hurts like hell. Ice. Need ice.

Bluetooth Blues 😨 Here’s something that has bugged me for years... Whenever my iPhone gets anywhere near my Mac, my audible iPhone notifications stop working. I rely on these and I end up missing text messages and other important notifications. I found only recently that Bluetooth on my Mac is the culprit, and disabling it solves the problem. However, whenever the Mac reboots (and it does this all on its own a lot) Bluetooth is back on by default. But there is a solution! Thank you, Internet!

% sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist ControllerPowerState 0

Limoncello Labels 🍋 It’ll be time to bottle the latest batches of limoncello soon, but I’m all out of labels. So I put in an order for some new ones. I hope they turn out okay.

Now Summary

Here are the things that showed up on my NOW page this week: