Currently in the midst of a blue blood super moon with an eclipse. That could double as a pretty cool sounding drink order. 🍸

I love my kids, but the fact that there is just one more day left of summer school holidays fills me with pure, unadulterated joy.

Personal CRM Software

I’ve been experimenting with CRM software, as much to help manage my personal life and friendship groups as my work. Cloze seems the best option I’ve found so far. Unfortunately, it’s a fairly expensive proposition for something that won’t actively generate me money. HubSpot CRM is free, but the product itself seems pretty average. You get what you pay for, I suppose. When I start looking around the web for software, I also get a bit disappointed that I chose to go with Fastmail for my email service.

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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.

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.

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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.