status, week of 24jun24

Once again, a status post for the whole week. Two more weeks of a hard push to come. Was slowed down this past week by a nasty little cold my partner brought home from her travels. Heading into the hottest week of the year so far. Frankly. ten days ago I was still wearing a hooded coat and gloves if I wanted to go outside, so I’ll take it: there was a brief period IN THE MIDDLE OF BLOODY JUNE where my hands wouldn’t work well enough to type properly on the phone.

I was hoping to sleep in this morning, but apparently my body didn’t get the message.

I have, however, been having fun doing a quick Morning Computer first thing in the day to warm up, and I feel like I’ve almost got that format where I want it.

I brought my old Pixel Chromebook back to life only to find that it can no longer update Chrome, and it turns out I need an updated Chrome to access the WordPress New Posts window. It can still access GDrive, just about, for the moment, so I can probably still use it as a writing device – it has a great keyboard — but that’s about it. Poor old Pixel. Such a beautiful machine.

In other machine updates: I bought us a Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 outdoor bluetooth speaker (UK) (US+) for the patio table, which paired instantly with my phone and has a big round sound. And it seems like my Rabbit R1 may be arriving today. I’ve seen all the reviews, I am prepared for it to be useless, but I still have a feeling that my specific use cases may actually fit the device better than someone who wants an easier way to call an Uber or use whatever a fucking Doordash is. I look forward to discovering how stupidly optimistic I am.

And while I was typing that up, it arrived.

The promise here, for me, is a little box of knowledge. One day a version of it might even be a Box.

OPERATIONS: I stopped counting pages – probably around eighty last week? Not sustainable, but it’s nice to know I can still swing the hammer when I have to. Even when I can’t breathe, see or type properly. I need to get at least that many done by July 4, but I am slowing down now. INBOX: 111 ! I am across email this week, but I probably won’t be lightning in response time.
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