Our friend Josh was in town this weekend and we met up to go on a hike. We drove up near Mount Lemmon to Mount Bigelow. It was 35°F and cloudy, but enjoyable. There was a bit of snow on the mountain.
It was my second hike of the weekend. After yesterday’s 14 mile hike I didn’t think I’d have it in me, but our little hike was quite enjoyable.
Afterwards he stopped at a cafe in Summerhaven for a little bit of lunch before heading back down the mountain. The snow started falling during lunch; it was fun to see snow for the first time in a very long time.
We were sitting in the living room. My sister and I were both fueled by crazy amounts of sugar dumped on top of our “Super Sugar Smacks”. The Zenith color TV, maybe a 17-inch model, was perched atop a console television that had given up the ghost. We were watching ElectraWoman and Dyna Girl.
“Why do you bang your fingers together like that?”
My sister was referring to a stress relief habit I have. I curl my fingers inward and then bang the parts of my four fingers between my top two knuckles together. After doing it a couple of times my fingers start to feel flat.
“I don’t know, I just do.”
This was often the explanation I had for anything. I didn’t realize it was unusual, but it wouldn’t be much further into my life that I would realize that most found me weird.
I added, “try it”.
My sister did and she never found the sensation of her fingers feeling flat.
I still do this. It’s still a stress relief for me. It’s not the only thing I do. Like this habit I also snap my fingers when I walk when I’m running out of processing power. I’m also a 56 year old man that carries a fidget spinner.
I guess I’m still weird.
Every once in a while Earl will notice I’m typing out patterns with my right hand on a table surface.
He’ll ask, “what are you calculating?”
I’m actually distracting myself by typing out items on a 1970s cash register (NCR 255) I used at Hills Department Store, when I worked there back when I was in my early 20s.
No idea why that particular muscle memory lives on well over 30 years later. It must be part of my being weird.
Truman has decided that Lucky looks quite comfortable when he sleeps in the hallway in a certain position, so Truman has decided to adopt the same approach to sleeping in the kitchen.
Companies have been leaving Twitter in droves this week. Here’s a listing of some of the companies that left the platform since the U.S. Election last week.
3M
Balenciaga
Berlin Film Festival
Best Buy
Devon County Council
Eli Lilly
The Guardian
Magers & Quinn Booksellers
North Wales Police
NPR
Playbill
Royal National orthopaedic hospital
UnitedHealth Group
Victoria’s Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
Austrian Airlines announced today that they have also left the platform, and they did it in style.
Every morning I read the forecast discussion from the local office of the National Weather Service. The first paragraph of today’s forecast is worded in a way I have never seen before, but it warmed my heart.
.DISCUSSION…For most, it can be a challenge to define where
inspiration comes from. For the great artists, it usually would
come from a glance at something so wonderful that it initiates a
sense of awe. Something so wonderful that it makes them want to
mimic that emotional response. Today, the weather across all of
Southeast Arizona will be perfect…truly awe-inspiring. A
shortwave ridge of high pressure nudging into the Desert Southwest
from the west today will usher in mildly warm afternoon
temperatures 5-10 degrees above climatological normal (the upper
70s to mid 80s across the valleys). A gentle breeze. Sunny skies.
It`s that type of day where you must find your way outside to
Here’s one of the best television show theme songs in the history of the medium. From the late 1970s, here’s all the versions of “Different Worlds” by Maureen McGovern, the theme song for “Angie”.
Back when theme songs could be 90 seconds long without the suits flipping out.
So many of us use our computers at what I would consider a “surface level”. This is especially true around using a Mac; Apple has baked in a lot of productivity shortcuts into the MacOS experience but at times they can be difficult to find.
Matt at “A Better Computer” shows the magic of the Option key on MacOS. I found his video fascinating.
Just a guy with a husband. We’ve been together 28 years and he still makes me see fireworks on a daily basis. Hiker. Storm Chaser. Private Pilot. Tech Guy. Hackerish.
