Loving my new robots t-shirt but not sure I know them all.
Early morning ‘Junaid-style’ omelette. Named in honour of a friend who first introduced my girls to the pleasure of a spicy omelette for breakfast.
Inside the Ismantorp Fortress on Öland
Out and about in Edinburgh tonight
These have now become lunch!
I’ve long-since settles on Fantastical as my calendar app of choice in the Apple world. However just occasional, like today, BusyCal’s filtering is absolutely invaluable.
I got a lovely little gluten-free birthday cake from my wife.
This looks like the European ‘CE’ mark Apple (reluctantly) etches on iPhones, but it’s not. It’s a ‘China Export’ mark on packaging for a portable fan. Real CE marks have circles that ‘kiss’ and indicate the product meets all the relevant EU requirements. This version means ‘approach with caution’.
After they were recommended at an Analog Tools meetup I tried to order some Calm Strips for delivery to the UK. I thought they might have appealed to some family members.
It has not gone well and I have neither product nor money back!
Yesterday my wife was delighted to be asked to sign the leaving card for one of the team at the little coffee shop she used near her office.
I’m very pleased after replacing the little rubber feet on my beloved and venerable 1980s Voyager calculator.
The coffee roaster.
Today in stationery corner. New scissors from Ernest Wright in Sheffield.
I’ve just had to order a new stapler and, due to an error in Amazonia, I now have 30,000 staples to work through! The offspring will be inheriting this stationery!
A few years ago I regularly switched over between different task managers (to-do) and notes apps. I now seem to have settled into a happy equilibrium with OmniFocus and Bear respectively.
Bumped into this elegant young cat while out for a wee stroll this evening.
I am re-reading J.G Ballard’s ‘High Rise’ and enjoying it. I think, without being too specific, he describes a form of social media in how residents relate to each other and the wider society around them.
There was a woman walked into the café I was just leaving wearing a tee-shirt saying “it’s weird being the same age as old people”
I like this a feel the same thing every day.
When I saw this I just thought of onomatopoeia.
One final visit to the Systembolaget yields a very fine Porter.
