Weeknotes: Week 30, 2023

These are the highlights from the week of July 24 to July 30.

🦀 The big headline this week was our long weekend visit with our dear friends Kristen and Alan in Maryland. It was a big busy weekend that included reading (and drinking) poolside, playing pickleball, a rain-delayed Major League Baseball game, a terrifying drive through a storm across one of the country’s scariest bridges, shopping, eating, and a Premier League friendly.

🛼 I created a Blogroll page with links to other blogs I follow. Thanks to this thread started by @alexandra for reminding me about these.

After my subscription to Glass expired, and I realized that if you’re not a paid member you can’t browse content there except by using links to individual photos. That doesn’t seem like a very sustainable business model if you hope to attract people to your site’s content. But what do I know, except that I’ve decided Glass isn’t for me?

I found this Southwest Airlines phone case on Etsy and I couldn’t resist buying one.

I learned this week that my promotional pricing for Google Workspace is ending and the price I pay will nearly double starting next month. It turns out that my Apple One subscription includes iCloud hosting of my personal domain. So now I am working on a migration strategy. If it was just me it would be pretty easy, but I have three family users that I have to keep happy, so it’ll take more than the usual amount of planning.

I made another work of Lawnmowing Workout Art, number 4 in an ongoing series.

I rediscovered Stingray Music when quite by chance I realized I still have authorized access via my streaming provider. I appreciate that the channels are curated by humans, not algorithms.

❤️ The Holiday is the world’s most perfect romantic comedy and one of my favorite films of all time. The score, composed by the incomparable Hans Zimmer, is just superb.

📚 I took a short break from my ongoing slog through book four of Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series to read Kurt Vonnegut’s delightful little book of essays called A Man Without a Country. I especially enjoyed the one about being called a luddite, which someone recently tooted or blogged about and is how the book came to my attention in the first place. (I’d love to give credit but I can’t find the post.)

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