My Spanish listening skills have improved a lot this past year, and occasionally shuffle will bring up a song I haven’t heard in a while, and it’s trippy to ‘suddenly’ be able to understand the lyrics without really trying so much

After a couple of years of being bilingual at home with my husband, I find it funny that I now have a specific accent for annoyedly accepting others’ plans in both English and Spanish

My older cat was in a bit of a mood this morning with my husband off on a business trip. Must be rough getting half your morning pets

Went to the store intending to buy a new fitted sheet for our bed, ended up with a flat sheet instead… Thank goodness it’s a long weekend 😅

Starting to poke around the Amiga platform for the first time. So far, it’s like an extra colorful version of my childhood computing experience

I am not sure if it’s some sort of placebo effect, but I’ve tried various Bluetooth headphones at this point, and they all seem to have the same slightly dead sound to them even when they support modern codecs

A small quality of life upgrade for my MiSTer set up: a power switch

I was very thankful to be able to go into my local office today for the first time in 2 years. Worries about catching COVID aside, I’m struggling on some level to understand people not being happy about going into the office again

Re-shell attempt number two went a bit better. I managed to install the screen hinges correctly, and the quality of the shell is quite a bit higher. Maybe still not OEM level, but at least now it doesn’t feel awful to hold and use!

I haven’t used our photo printer in ~6 months, and in that time it seems to have spontaneously died? Super reasonable…

TIL if you want to suppress the grub boot menu on a dual boot Ubuntu install, you need to use a workaround and set GRUB_TIMEOUT=0.1

It is quite neat to be able to make apps in Swift Playgrounds, it makes the iPad Pro feel more like a Proper Computer

Looks like if you want to have functional Rust auto complete in the snap version of VS Code, you need to install the rust-analyzer snap. The regular Rust extension does not work. The joys of sandboxing…

Past me: Oh, I’ll just pop the extra m.2 NVMe module I have into my ThinkPad. Present me: Well that’s not going to work, is it…

My friend was kind enough to give back my first C64 after losing interest in it. Feels very sentimental

TOO LAME FOR THE PINEBOOK PRO

Sometime in summer 2020, I got it into my head that it would be a good idea to buy a PINEBOOK Pro, a laptop made to run open source software. I had a lot of free time because of the pandemic, and it felt like a good opportunity to get back into Linux. It also felt like a good idea to have a computing device that I controlled with the bizarre political situation in the US (not claiming this was rational, but it was definitely on my mind at the time.

Coming to the conclusion I’m not cool enough for a distro more advanced than Ubuntu. Just don’t have the energy to tinker these days

Need to get the analog board of my Mac Plus serviced, it’s gotten to the point that it needs percussive encouragement to start each time

Gees why do toaster naan only last 3 days out of the package before they go moldy?

Ugh, missed two appointments in a row. Hard to balance the demands of work and family sometimes 😑

Thanksgiving: The holiday of boundless dirty dishes 🍽🦃

Kind of crazy that USB-C has been a thing long enough that I have a pile of too many spare chargers

I went to the New England Quilt Museum to see their COVID-19 exhibition, and wow. I don’t think I’ve ever connected with art on such a deep level. Seeing our shared experience – worry, uncertainty, boredom – was so powerful. It was hard not to weep