A fine Spring day today. I visited my parents’ gravesite today to add some fake red roses to their headstone.
Then I sat on a convenient bench and cried…
An associate living in a nearby regional city spotted a notification of the death of someone with the same name as a Mac User Group life member who was also in that same city. The notification was for a different person of the same name as the life member.
So my associate contacted the life member via email asking about his health and how someone else of the same name had joined the departed list.
To his surprise, the life member’s son answered the email saying that his father had indeed passed on a few days earlier. So this is the convoluted route by which we learned of the passing of a well-respected former member.
Three current members of the Mac User Group will attend his funeral.
Had some potato wedges with dinner last night, I made up an interesting (and tasty) seasoning mix to go on the spuds. Equal proportions of chicken salt* and garlic powder plus the same volume of crushed and powdered nutritional yeast flakes. I had hoped for the yeast to be the dominant flavour and this proved to be the case.
I have an issue with a leaking skylight in the bedroom i use as a home office. My youngest brother examined it today and recommended removal of the external part of it, saying it only need a few concrete tiles to replace it. He’ll also replace the damaged ceiling plaster (aka drywall).
Sometime between August 1st & august 4th, I inadvertently deleted a desktop folder containing 2.93 GB of stuff. The Time Machine backup for Aug 4th didn’t show it but the one for Aug 1st did, so I restored it from that date.
UK: We call it Autumn, from the French word "autompne" and later, the Latin "autumnus.”
USA: We call it Fall because leaf fall down.
Just had word that one of the floor-layers due to come here in three weeks can’t make it, so the job has been rescheduled for two weeks hence.
A recent study found people who take their coffee black are more to exhibit psychopathic traits.
People who order a quad shot, non-fat, vanilla soy, extra foam, light whip with caramel drizzle are more likely to be their victims.
Assemble instructions for an IKEA office cabinet with four easy-close drawers showed a picture of a person kneeling in front of the various bits with a cloth on the floor to protect the assemblage.
No way does my back or crook knee let me do that so my assembly surface was a towel-draped coffee table. I was able to finish the job from a seated position.
@variablepulserate I also kept using QT 7 Pro after QT X first came out. No choice now though!