Watched Episode 1 of For All Mankind and enjoyed it. It brings to mind how fragile the success of the Apollo missions were, despite how much we take it for granted now. 📺
Over the last 24 hours I’ve been running on a brand new 27" iMac 3.1GHz 6-core i5. Compared with my old 2013 MacBook Pro this thing screams. I know it’s not an iMac Pro but this is plenty enough for my needs. Also glad that I swapped out the default Fusion drive for SSD only.
Work
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Day 7 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. All in all I have a pretty great job. I’ve been doing it for long enough that I feel I have well and truly mastered the fundamentals. With my interest in personal productivity I have constructed a range of efficiencies into my process flow to make things easier for me. This enables me to increase my overall productivity, do more with no more effort.
Microblogvember: We tend to think that we always have complete agency over our lives. If you stop and think how much is actually left to random chance, it can be a bit frightening.
Adobe Technical Support chat was so slow in linking me with somebody, that I was able to trawl forums and test random solutions. Just when somebody got to me, I had solved the problem. Great work, Adobe. 🤔
Microblogvember: I take my kids to the park and inevitably they find a stick to play with. Trees make the most versatile toys ever known to man. A stick can be a proxy for any number of imaginary things.
Family
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Day 6 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. I am most comfortable within a nuclear family. I grew up in a family with my Mom and 3 siblings. We had a few extended family members, but most lived in different parts of the country or overseas. As an adult the nuclear family is again the structure we are living in, except now I’m the Dad.
At the checkout of the IGA grocery store three employees and I each claimed our childhood James Bond. We had Brosnan, Moore and Connery. Plus one, “no idea”. Friendly staff for the win!
I’ve escaped from Migration Assistant hell!
I’m in the midst of Migration Assistant hell.
Nature
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Day 5 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. Right now in Perth we are in the perfect time of the year to enjoy nature. We are moving into nice spring sunshine with temperatures in the mid-twenties. This is a time to enjoy, before the Perth furnace gets cranking for summertime and I can’t step outside without getting burnt. The grass is still green from winter, before it browns off over the summer months.
I’ve bought an annual subscription to Harmonizely as my replacement for WhenWorks, which is shutting down at the end of 2019.
Microblogvember: When I was a kid my friends and I would typically play sport on the street. Cricket and tennis were the two typical games. I don’t see kids doing that anymore.
Food
Monday, November 4, 2019
Day 4 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. Over the past year I’ve been enjoying food a bit too much. Concurrently I’ve stopped playing sport. This has led to an imbalance in the food in/energy out equation. In turn, I’ve seen the growth of a generous belly for the first time in my life. I’m not particularly pleased about this. My kid calling me ‘fat Dad’, is jesting that cuts a little too close to the bone!
Catalina has filled my drive with hundreds of wifi diagnostic files for no apparent reason. Cool.
Microblogvember: If you want to be arithmetically precise, don’t say average; instead say mean.
A shipwreck from 100 years ago is still stuck at the top of Niagara Falls. Wow!
Failing
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Day 3 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. It seems that part of the human condition is to view failure as an end in and of itself. I think it’s better to consider it part of the process towards success. A life well-lived encompasses a procession of trade-offs. We necessarily fail to do all the things we might want. We can’t be good at everything.
Microblogvember: I haven’t been invited to a fancy dress party in years… which is good, because I don’t really like them.
Microblogvember: When does a mark become a blemish? Is it simply in the eyes of the beholder?