Microblogvember: The old proverb is that it pays to be selective. Don’t just settle. You can do better than that.
Renovation
Friday, November 15, 2019
Day 15 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. About three years ago we did a house renovation. We had our kitchen gutted and rebuilt, our bathrooms reconfigured, wood floors sanded and interior walls painted, and a new front deck. A huge job already was made bigger because we had to move all of our furniture into storage and move our family into a short-term rental for the duration of the project.
Microblogvember: I don’t enjoy swimming in bodies of water where I cannot see below my feet, into the murky depths.
I want to remove the www from my andrewcanion.com domain but I somehow have a weird mishmash of redirects to `http(s)://www' that I can’t figure out what to change, where. Anything I’ve tried to do has broken all access.
Recycling
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Day 14 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. Recycling is kind of a big deal in our house. Our council runs a three bin system for rubbish management: one bin for food and organics, one for rubbish, and a third for recyclables. My wife Hannah works in the recycling industry. She is the Head of External Relations at Western Australia Return Recycle Renew (WARRRL). This organisation has responsibility for establishing a new container deposit scheme for our State.
Microblogvember: Our poor old dog Jeff has a big lump at the top of his neck.
Beverage
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Day 13 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. My favourite beverage is coffee. There is no contest. There is not much better than an Australian flat white. Italian coffee is great but it’s a transitory drink. You get it at the bar, drink it and leave. Don’t sit down because it will cost you a fortune. American coffee is bad. It’s either sweetened and flavoured to the point where its more milkshake than coffee, or its drip-filtered and been sitting in storage for a while.
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Microblogvember: I write this microblog from an event that I have been able to organise. We have a room of people undertaking strategy development and financial forecasting.
Smells
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Day 12 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. A smell can be a most evocative sense. It can stimulate memory, facilitate calm or revulsion, or provide us with timely information. If I smell new carpet, I am transported back to my Year 1 classroom which had been renovated and new carpet laid. That’s an associated formed around 35 years ago. The smell of a basketball stadium: that combination of sweat, dencorub, and timber treatment to this day hastens my heart beat.
Microblogvember: This morning I wanted to stayin bed. Unfortunately, a want was insufficient reason to do so.
I’ve watched the first episode of The Spy on Netflix. Highly recommend! 📺
Apple Arcade games drain battery way too fast. I’m guessing it might be the DRM? Anyway, I’m canceling for a while since I’m not much of a gamer. Maybe Apple will sort it out over time. Apple Arcade games drain battery way too … - Apple Community
Childhood
Monday, November 11, 2019
Day 11 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. I miss my childhood. It was such a different era; it’s hard to recognise my childhood as an experience compared with those of my kids. The memories of my childhood seem like something that should be written off as me looking back through rose-coloured glasses. But I contest that not everything was great and nice, but it really was what retro throwbacks show the 1980s to be.
Microblogvember: I used to touch a basketball every single day. It’s now been months since I held one.
Book
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Day 10 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. I’ve made a concerted effort this year to increase my volume of book reading. In recent years my reading has been dominated by web pages, articles and RSS feeds. This resulted in a decline in my book reading - something I used to do a lot of. To track my reading and add some motivation I set a target on Goodreads.
Catalina and wifidiagnostics files multiplying like Tribbles
Sunday, November 10, 2019
I’ve got problems with my Catalina install. I have wifidiagnostics files multiplying like tribbles in my private/var/tmp/ folder. With each of these files weighing in between 200Mb and 400Mb, my entire SSD is being swamped with these files, to the point of the operating system being crippled for lack of disk space. I thought a short-term interim solution would be to set up a Hazel watch script to automatically trash these files as they are created.
Microblogvember: My son is building a Lego craft at the moment that is designed to go into space.
Television
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Day 9 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. There is so much high-quality television programming available now. We have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Free to Air, etc. There was a time when it was necessary to find things off the back of a truck. I think those days are almost gone. This overwhelming choice has led to a strange outcome, in that I’m actually watching less TV than I probably ever have.
Microblogvember: Today’s temperature is forecast to hit 38 degrees Celsius. That is the opposite of cold.
Technology
Friday, November 8, 2019
Day 8 of Blogvember. A full list of prompts for the month is available. This week I’ve had a massive technology upgrade. I’ve moved from a 2013 MacBook Pro (the generation of MacBooks which had great keyboards), to a 2019 27" iMac. I had been deferring this computer upgrade for ages, as I dithered between getting a new MacBook (and which variant?), an iMac or even a mac mini. I was hoping the iMac would gain the T2 security chip and possibly a new display with reduced bezels.