All the unidentified phone numbers you block are calls from your future self trying to warn you about your terrible choices…
My friend Les, from Yorkshire, says he much prefers the Australian winters to those back in the UK. Here, he says, there's snow but you have to make an effort , go for a drive to encounter it, rather than having to co-exist with it for three months of the year.
Preparing what my Yorkshireman friend Les calls "sloppy peas." It's reconstituted dried peas (not the split variety but proper garden peas) cooked up with a hambone. In the absence of the latter, I'm substituting a smoked pork hock. The peas are mostly reconstituted but need more cooking.
And almost instantly fixed. Somehow I'd disabled app deletion in Restrictions. Rectified.
This is seriously weird. I can't delete apps from my iPad in the normal manner: there's no black x on a while circle when I hold the app & make it jiggle.
Received an email from the President of the Mac User Group asking if I could find a used high-spec Mac Mini for use as a new server for the Club's OpenText FirstClass BBS arrangement. The old G4 XServe that Apple donated to us 10 years ago is no longer up to the job. We have a quote from a supplier for $2100 to upgrade the processor & RAM of a Core i5 model.
I found a retailer in the same side of the city with several 2.8 GHz Core i7 Mac Minis at $1080 each. We'd only need to upgrade the RAM for a bit over $300. Hopefully we can get one of those machines.
@literary Ow. As one who lives daily with three bulging discs, I feel for you. But in my case I know the cause, partly genetic & partly occupational.
Got my favourite shirt tangled up in a door handle a few hours back. The button ripped out and rolled away into an underfloor heating duct. Fortunately there's a spare button attached to the shirt & I was able to sew that on in its place, once I could work out where the end of the thread was on the new spool.
@manx Your next task is to set up Blurbybot in Telegram to deal with notifications.
// @matigo @larand