🇦🇺 Happy Australia Day. 🇦🇺
I really want to like and be excited by the Apple HomePod, but it’s not doing it for me. I already have an AppleTV connected to great Energy speakers for Apple Music. I have Siri in a multitude of other places, and a Google Home mini. Don’t think I have a place for the HomePod.
Despite this being the era of peak TV, I’ve never been less interested in watching TV.
Question: Herman Miller Embody or Steelcase Gesture for only 2/3rd of the price of the Embody?
LED desk backlighting installed.
I was at the library with my kid today, and serendipitously saw The Organized Mind on the shelf, so picked it up. I wonder if it will be any good? 📚
I wrote the first draft of this blog post in my notebook this morning, sitting on the bank of the Swan River. I think that’s what pushed my mind in the direction of the topic I wrote about.
Take Time to Breathe
Life can get overwhelming. Work to do, dinners to cook, kids to care for, relationships to tend. Trying to do it all can be fatiguing. I have found this to be particularly true over this current long school holiday break, where the presence of children and their needs are incessant, but the other parts of life still need to be managed. Trying to balance it all is not easy, and I don’t believe there is any magic bullet that will solve it all.
Not quite the perfect crime.
I’m being tempted by another productivity app, Agenda, despite having a pretty solid workflow at this stage. I like its premise of linking tasks, notes, calendars within a timeline.
When I was younger I used to devour 📚. Now it has taken forever to work my way through this short one. I blame kids (and iPad). My library wants it back soon so I have to find time to finish reading it.
I am so over my cheap office chair that must be near its 10th birthday. Very tempted to have a massive upgrade to a Herman Miller Embody Chair
The pressure to make the first page of my new Panobook count… 😰
I tried to take a standard photo of Booj but he insisted on the selfie!
I’m curious how many micro.blog users know one another in real life? Is that a thing?
When a camel thinks your hairy leg is a salt lick. Goober calf.
I recently bought a 3-pack of Google Wifi devices to upgrade improve my failing home WiFi. After installing and using for a while, I have some thoughts.
Google Wifi
For months my home WiFi has been less than satisfactory. Dropouts, slow connections, complete failures to connect, router reboots required, and so on. I have a slightly more complicated than average setup but it’s nothing so extreme that I should have had such annoying problems. I don’t live in an area with a lot of competition for WiFi spectrum and my hardware is all of the non-cheap variety. I have tried different configurations from using my ISP provided D-Link DVA-2800 (the worst modem/router I have used in my life) as a single WiFi router, then in conjunction with the device I have used constantly for a number of years — my Airport Extreme ac (the tower one).
It’s been fun to find some great new (to me) voices on micro.blog. My RSS reader has a bunch of new blog subscriptions to track. It’s almost like the great days of Google Reader.
I’ve updated my /now page