I thought I would be posting a video today, a video of the photo sequence of the heron flight photos that I’ve been posting over the past week.
That’s not going to happen.
Read MoreUpdate: Me and My New MacBook Air
In July of this year, I bought my first Apple product, an M2 MacBook Air. The intention was to see if the laptop could replace my aging, ailing Windows PC. As I suspected, the transition to macOS has been cumbersome, and quite annoying at times. Here it is weeks later, and I’m still in the process of transition. Two pieces of financial software are yet to be moved to the laptop. I would like to say that process will go smoothly, but I have had several surprises about how hard it is to set up something on a Mac after doing it so easily on a PC.
Read MoreThe Frustrations of My Fantasy/Reality Technology World
I am an old guy, retired, finding myself in a mildly desperate financial situation, a situation brought on by my own actions, an old guy desperate to exploit my creative mind. That often leads me into fantasy, and not the fantasy in which you might expect a man to indulge, but in the fantasy of living a better life, a life provided by an imaginary source of funding, usually some sort of lottery.
Living a portion of my life inside that fantasy can relieve the drudgery of real-life, but it also can sometimes butt heads with my real-life goals and expectations. I often find myself considering the possibilities of life-enhancing purchases using a dual-perspective process that involves what is actually possible within the limits of my budget and what would be possible if some life-altering financial windfall should manifest itself in reality.
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