You get to decide how you feel. This is a technique I learned once, for use when I am faced with a choice of (thinking unpleasant thoughts or having a bad mood or feeling down) or of feeling good. It works for me. This came from Mindful Loving. Whenever you have a thought or emotion that disturbs your peace: identify and call out the thought: think to yourself “oh, this is one of THOSE disturbing thoughts!

Before the release of iOS 13, Joy and I used a shared Apple Reminders list called “Grocery” to keep our grocery list in. I’ve found the Reminders app to be completely broken for me now in iOS 13. I can’t get my phone, ipad, and icloud.com to agree on which lists I have. Apple has explicitly stated sharing a list is broken in iOS 13: Sharing a Reminders list using the Add People function does not work currently in iOS 13.

I have long been a fan of the Vesper martini, using the recipe published in the Vesper app by Q Branch: 3 oz Tanqueray Ten 1 oz Belvedere or Stolichnaya .5 oz Lillet Blanc Belvedere was my vodka of choice. At my father-in-law’s house, I found myself elected to make martinis. Now, my wife’s dad favors vodka martinis, which I’ve never had success with. His vodka is Chopin, a Polish potato-based vodka.

Complications work much better with WatchOS 2 (I’m on 2.2). No more rebooting the watch to get the sunset time. But Apps are still slow. WatchOS 2 brought color to the complications on the Utility face. Most complications look nice with color, but the Sunrise, Stopwatch, and Timer are a hideous orange, which forces me to set the second hand to match. So instead of using my favorite yellow second hand:

Yes. Oh yes. This is the best thing ever. I downloaded Crystal and probably buy peace soon too. I can’t say enough about the web on my iPhone with these things turned on.

After five weeks with apple watch, here are some thoughts on the various faces. Note: when I refer to a half complication, below, I’m talking about the one which will only show the date, the day of the week and the date, or nothing. Chronograph The chronograph face allows four-and-a-half complications and is one of my favorite faces, thanks to discretely small hour-indicator numbers, beautiful hands and layout, and one-tap access to start the chronograph (which is mission-critical on my wrist!