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A base mode MBP would be fine for you no? (Not sure what you do with your Macs). I just upgraded the RAM on the higher end stock model just to be sure.
The pigeons!
Two funny pigeon stories:
NYC block around St. Barts (50th and Park Ave). There were about 30 pigeons on the sidewalk blocking humans from walking around them. They kept moving in a cluster so people had to cross the street.
Then locally, I was walking home and there were four pigeons on a telephone wire eyeing me. I laughed because they were positioning their tails to be in range. I darted to the right just enough to be tagged on the wrist instead of somewhere more noticeable. I thought it was hilarious because I could see them moving around on the wire as I got closer. They are definitely NY pigeons.
What's on my mind? Glad it's Wednesday.
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Wishing it was Friday!A base mode MBP would be fine for you no? (Not sure what you do with your Macs). I just upgraded the RAM on the higher end stock model just to be sure.
The pigeons!
Two funny pigeon stories:
NYC block around St. Barts (50th and Park Ave). There were about 30 pigeons on the sidewalk blocking humans from walking around them. They kept moving in a cluster so people had to cross the street.
Then locally, I was walking home and there were four pigeons on a telephone wire eyeing me. I m laughed because they were positioning their tails to be in range. I darted to the right just enough to be tagged on the wrist instead of somewhere more noticeable. I thought it was hilarious because I could see them moving around on the wire as I got closer. They are definitely NY pigeons.
What's on my mind? Glad it's Wednesday.
Why is it when you are off for the week next week, the current week feels so long!
Because of the elasticity of how you experience time.
Indeed. Time is relative and all that. Like when your team is 2-0 up you can’t wait for the final whistle.
0-2 down and there is never enough time!
This is absolutely true, - and an excellent example illustrating this principle - except that, in my case, I prefer a cushion of a lead of at least three nil, and am still gnawing my nails at 90 minutes when three nil ahead.
Of course, in the case of my team, it has to be said that they are almost uniquely useless in maintaining any sort of lead, so my concerns (re time and re team defence) are more than fully justified.
Useless? We’ve not won in 5 and our next opponents have just appointed a new manager who always starts well.
At least I can take comfort it will all end in tears soon enough!
It has been said that "all political careers end in failure" but I am beginning to suspect that (unless you are Sir Alex Ferguson) all managerial careers, likewise, run the risk of ending in failure.
Our phones are sort of "tethered" to us through the course of the day (since it's our primary communication device), so they're alway handy to add an item, and Siri even works really well, even from the kitchen where my phone is the office, "Hey Siri ... add lettuce to note grocery list", *boom*
The thing that's super handy is both of us having access to the same list - we never know who might be in a position to pop in for supplies! I'll leave for some other reason, message the wife (hands free), "Hey, I'm by Pubs, I can stop", "OK, I updated the list with a few additional items", "OK, great", walk in with my phone, good to go! It's nice as a rolling list where we might pick up a few things at one store, revise the list, the balance can be picked up by someone else (like at a specialty store).
For us, it's definitely a case of the tech solution being highly advantageous (and not just force fitting the use case to be "techy"
)(and for the green-minded folks, it's one less piece of garbage
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We've been on a burn, but even with the weekend-only alcohol, I've been avoiding beer. I even recently bought a number of 6-packs (various) that were BOGOF/BTGOF, but they're basically "stored".
Ugh, the Lagunitas Little Sumthin', is 275 calories, with 39g of carbs, and yeah, I'd drink 3 of those plus other drinks.
For the last couple of weeks, we've just been doing something like vodka in a flavored fizzy water, maybe a little twist of lime or even orange, that keeps it at ~70 calories a drink (and mostly alcohol sugars).
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That’s no way to talk about Mrs AFB!
That’s no way to talk about Mrs AFB!
Wielding a pen, trust me, I'd be even worse as I am perfectly capable of correcting syntax, grammar and spelling on a shopping list.
It’s usually just crossed out when I write cake! I’m sure I’m spelling it right.
Yah I'm kinda #greenwithenvy over @Zenithal's 6lbs of potato chips [crisps] too, but dropping them off the shopping list has definitely helped me lose and keep lost some excess weight.
Finally admitted to myself if they're in the house they are just NEVER consumed in moderation. Even if I buy a snack-size bag on the road, which I still do once in awhile, they're gone immediately, and that reinforces my decision to stay out of that aisle in the supermarkets. Some things I just have to leave in the rear view. Combination of food science advances --we do know more than I ever wanted to know about crisps!-- and my age and figuring I pressed my luck enough being immoderate about assorted food and drink in my youth.
So I sign myself "older if not wiser" -- but way past believing I can manage with a straight face to dole out 11 or 13 crisps from a large bag and call them "a serving".
I keep bags of twiglets in the house and limit my self to a couple of bags a week. They are less than half the fat of a regular bag of crisps.
But I've long learned the key to eating less, is keeping less treats in the house.
What's weird about Apple and me and grocery lists, I've decided, is that Apple thinks lines on lists in the Note app should start with a capital letter, but I abhor that since they're just common nouns to me. I will actually take the time to backspace and ditch the caps lock they unhelpfully supply and type the word or phrase "correctly" by my own lights.
So it's
broccoli
mixed peppers
... and not
Broccoli
Mixed peppers
At my age you'd think I wouldn't waste the time. Somehow it became "a thing".
That is funny (and weird).
I have just consulted a scrunched up list from last week (written - neatly - by fountain pen on a yellow post-it) beside me, here in my study.
Lists are discarded only when either, every item has been crossed off, (as purchased or dealt with), or, those that haven't, have made their way onto a fresh list.
Anyway, it seems that - unknown to me, or unrealised by me - when drawing up a list, I actually capitalise words at the start of each sentence ("Peas", "Butter", "Organic Milk", Bread - though it could also read "French rye bread" and only the proper noun would receive its correct capital letter).
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I loved crisps (chips) as a child - my mother had this idea that sweets weren't healthy (they were reserved for very special occasions), but that crisps had some sort of potato ancestry, and were therefore tolerated more readily; besides, through some complicated networks - she knew a businessman who knew this other businessman - she knew - slightly - one of the characters who had invented one of the better known crisps in the country, and had been well disposed towards him (and his products).
However, for years, as a teenager, and then, a university student, I had persuaded myself that crisps (chips) were for children, and thus, disdained them.
Now, I have forgotten the precise source of temptation (human, and I suspect, male) who introduced me to the delights of crisps with beer (or wine), although a few suspects (yes, male, all) do come to mind. Anyway, it was an epiphany - of sorts.
Of course, they are never consumed in moderation. Not by your humble scribe, at any rate.
That combination of food science (yes, I know how bad they are for me, and I don't care), age and - er, um the fact that the sylph like figure I may have once sauntered around in, is also a sight seen in the sort of rear-view mirror marked "decades ago".
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That's me, too -- I use the capital letter at the start of each line: "OJ," "Salad Dressing," "Tomatoes," "Rice," etc.....
I don't always write neatly and there are no lines on the writing pad paper I'm using, as sometimes I scrawl the item in a hurry, sometimes I write larger than other times, whatever.
If I'm making a list of things to take on a trip, I'll also capitalize each item: ("Underwear," "PJs," "2 SS T-shirts," "Black Cardigan," etc. Ditto with things to do prior to the trip: "Do update on Garmin GPS," "Gas," "Lock windows and sliding door," "Turn down thermostat," etc.
I don't always write neatly and there are no lines on the writing pad paper I'm using, as sometimes I scrawl the item in a hurry, sometimes I write larger than other times, whatever.
If I'm making a list of things to take on a trip, I'll also capitalize each item: ("Underwear," "PJs," "2 SS T-shirts," "Black Cardigan," etc. Ditto with things to do prior to the trip: "Do update on Garmin GPS," "Gas," "Lock windows and sliding door," "Turn down thermostat," etc.
Yes, that is pretty much how I do it, as well.
Moreover, my lists are strangely legible (well, writing with a fountain pen does seem to help ensure that your writing becomes more legible), but also because, if someone else needs to have to use them, they need to be able to read them, first.