✅ I’ve got most of my tax documents organized for 2024. I think.
Not that this means I’ve filled out everything to actually submit my taxes.
✅ I’ve got most of my tax documents organized for 2024. I think.
Not that this means I’ve filled out everything to actually submit my taxes.
Elsa being born in Mexico is advantageous for many reasons. My lack of Spanish, Mexico City’s lack of water, and the anger about gentrification (which has inflated prices a lot since we first would have considered a move) are very not advantageous.
When we were acquired by PowerSchool a bit over a year ago, I had to put up a wall between all personal and work data to a much greater degree than before. This included them determining my (relatively new) laptop had to be recycled in favor of a PowerSchool issued one. Gone was a beloved 14" MacBook Pro in favor of a very beefy 16". I did not love the 16", but appreciated that they did not cheap out at all on specs. It is a great machine, but it is a work only machine. It does not have my AppleID, and to a large extent, it does not have my data.
At the time, I already had a personal Mac mini at my desk, but I only had an older iPad Pro as my personal “to go” device. That’s how things were until today. It was mostly fine. On weekends, especially, I missed being able to easily use my Mac away from my desk for personal tasks, but it also felt like it made me less likely to stay on the computer all the time. I have traveled a lot less for work in the last year, so that was also less of an issue. My life was just less on the go.
The band forced the issue a bit. The laptop we were using to record sometimes and run our interface has “issues”. So, given that I don’t have my own laptop and I want to be able to record at our space on the Focusrite interface I bought, and I’ve missed having a personal laptop anyway, and there was a good deal on Amazon on a refurbished M3 MacBook Air where I already had a few hundred dollars in credit cart points saved up, I ended up with a new computer.
MacBook Air’s are just remarkably thin and light. Wow. This is a lot of computer in an absurdly tiny package. I can tell the difference in screen quality with the Pros, but I don’t think it’ll bother me that much. Because this thing is so small. Have I told you how small it is? It’s freaking small.
Setting up a new computer without Migration Assistant is still a process, even with scripts I’ve written and not maintained. But I do like a fresh start, and this is not meant to be my main squeeze. Some things that are terribly annoying:
xcode-select --install
process. All of that stuff should just be on the machine.I’m sure a thousand things like this will come up over the next month as I make this pristine machine a cozy little shithole that I love.
For the past year or so, I’ve been really enjoying CultFlav’s food content. Their new video podcast, Going Off, is very for me. But I think it works best if you watch their other content first.
Apparently we’re watching the Schitt’s Creek Super Bowl. Canada already owning us. Good.
I think you reach the point of being a fan when just seeing an actor makes you think, “I’m going to watch that.”
That’s how I feel about Florence Pugh at this point.