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!

I got my first watch in Fifth grade: a used mechanical watch with spinning number wheels which didn’t last but a few weeks. it drifted hours in a day and soon I was in the habit of taking it apart (one of the number wheels was loose and I’d hook it back on to get a few more hours use out of it). Next I went through a series of calculator watches, progressing in junior high through several “data bank” versions, into which I painstakingly typed the phone numbers of everyone I knew.

I’ve been enjoying the Bullet Journal system for utilizing a paper notebook. The idea of using one whole “spread” of two pages for a specific topic is particularly appealing. I also like the index idea. All the items I want to record in a notebook are of the notes variety. The other main entities of the bullet system (events and tasks) are well-covered by my digital tools (namely, iCloud calender and Omnifocus).

I’m looking forward to the day when apple allows all iOS apps to show information in their icons, like the apple calendar and clock apps do. Just a number badge is so boring in our modern world!

I’ve had trouble with one of my macs not syncing to iCloud. Specifically, if I update a document on my second mac, it goes to iCloud just fine (I can see the updates on iCloud.com, my iPhone, and my iPad) but I don’t get the update on my first mac. The best workaround I’ve found is to make sure both macs are awake and online when a document is modified. it seems if a mac is offline and misses the new data push from iCloud, the mac never requests new data from iCloud.