I was thumbing through the music catalog this morning, and I couldn’t find just the right morning music, til I stumbled on

“Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd.”

I listened to this a week or two ago and enjoyed it, and so far it has been perfect this morning.

The IBM Maximo sales guy just said

“You know, everyone is at a different place in their journey”

Interesting way to quantify facilities maintenance man…but legit.

In august of last year, I began a process of de-clouding my “smart” home products. I’m no Luddite, I enjoy being able to turn on the bathroom fan from the bed as much as the next guy, so I wanted things to continue to work in the way we had become accustomed, just with less reliance on the cloud.

My old Withings Sleep mat finally gave up the ghost. It had been getting flaky for a while, and about a month ago, it stopped connecting altogether.

I’ve replaced it with the Garmin Index. I usually steer clear of the Big Garmin Machine, but this one actually seems legit.

We shall see…

I swear, Apple Music for windows sucks SOOO BAD there aren’t words for it.

And to be clear, I’m a BIG Pro Apple guy.

“That threw a kink in the wrench, let me tell you”

Hmmmm a kinky wrench huh… 🤔

I’ve fooled around and gone audiobook shopping. In my defense, I will be spending a good bit of time travelling, so…

Some Ken Follett, S.A. Corey, Herman Wouk, and the new Rick Atkinson Revolutionary War book, “The Fate of the Day.” Book one of this series, “The British are Coming” was fantastic.

This morning I’m enjoying a cup of Peet’s Major Dickason’s roast.

This coffee is much better than I expected it to be.

I have a convoluted history with this coffee. I will put the story up on the “Big Beautiful Blog."

Nanakorobi Yaoki

“Fall down 7, stand up 8.”

This is the third time I’ve been at Discount Tire in recent months, and all three times there’s some person here with their entire computer rig setup in the waiting area. Is this some kind of co-use space I wasn’t aware of?

Gratuitous blowout photo for kicks.

Well, yesterday morning, we had QUITE the storm, which lasted until around 3 p.m. Once it blew past us, it was as if another world came from it.

Beautiful, clear, blue skies, 75 degrees with a slight breeze, and not even the usual post-rain humidity.

While I appreciate the day off, Im among the minority who actually like their job, and their co-workers.

Of course, some republican will read this, and try to get me fired because I said I was happy.

“There will be no events that lead to smiles, laughter, or happiness of any kind. That’s “woke” and we wont have it. Real Americans are always unhappy about something.”

Message sent in Signal chat, probably.

I just realized I’m off today.

Typically such realizations go the other way.

Yay!

“Still Lovin’ You” MIGHT be the greatest ballad/love song of all time.

Fight me.

Man I feel like I should be at the coast right now. I just looked up from my desk and saw a print of a coffeehouse we go to when we’re down there, and just for a second, I could feel that breeze.

I’m going to pretend (as I drink my coffee on my porch) that today is a nice blustery day in October.

Rather than a mildly breezy 80 degree day in March.

Ugh internally routed cables can

SUCK IT

But this TIME Alpe D’ Huez is soooooo lovely it just might be worth the hassle.

The fool who chooses not to read is more illiterate than the man who is unable.