Wow, it was almost a month ago now Hawk and I made the decision to upgrade our phones. We've actually had the phones in our hands and been using them for a few weeks. How's it going? Although the transition process was ridiculously difficult our new phones are easily a win- and a very inexpensive win- over the phones we replaced ( Read more... )

As I mentioned already this past weekend was a mostly stay-at-home weekend. I hate just being a homebody, though, so we mixed it up with having a friend over on Sunday- and going on an easy hike together. "Easy" was the speed because Hawk is still recovering from foot surgery a few weeks ago ( Read more... )

Our new iPhone 16 Pro phones were delivered Wednesday afternoon. They told us it'd take a few weeks, but then the phones shipped in 3 days. Woohoo, fast delivery, amiright? Ah, but then came the fun part. We'd physically gotten the phones but we still had to get them to workYears ago when we bought new phones we'd go to the Verizon store (or AT&T ( Read more... )

Yesterday I posted about how Hawk and I bought new iPhones (the new 16 Pro) Thursday night. The deal was practically a steal. Verizon and Apple (I assume they're subsidizing it on the back end) offered a whopping $1,000 credit, each, for trading in our old phones. Normally the trade-in value for our older, mid-range phones would be $100 or less.

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As of last night Hawk and I have new iPhones on the way.

We weren't really in the market for updating our phones. At least I wasn't. I updated 2.5 years ago, buying an iPhone SE 3. It's fine for me still. I figured I'd upgrade sometime next year, when the next gen comes out. Hawk's phone is older. She's got the SE 2, and it's about 4 years old. So ( Read more... )

Blue Ridge Trip '24 #22
Jonas Ridge, NC - Thu, 5 Sep 2024. 4:30pm

Upper Creek Falls turned out to be more than we expected- both in terms of the size of the main falls and the length/strenuousness of the trail. At the bottom of the big falls we weren't thinking about the latter, though. Yet.


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On our hike into the Dinkey Lakes Wilderness last Saturday I made what was, for me, a big choice. I left my camera behind.

"But wait," you might object, "What about those photos you shared in your first blog from this hike?"

Ah, what happened is I left my dedicated camera behind. My really nice, expensive, and unfortunately somewhat heavy camera ( Read more... )

For the past year or so I've been using AllTrails.com and its smartphone app for hiking.
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Phoenix Weekend Travelog #5
Back at the hotel - Sat, 11 May 2024, 9pm

Today has been another lazy day like yesterday. Lazy Lather, Rinse, Repeat! But not exactly like yesterday. Yesterday I griped that I didn't start the day with a soak in the hot tub. Well, today I hit the hot tub around 7am and enjoyed a good, long dip.


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Well, well, well, my iPhone news reader app is once again watching what I'm reading and trying to give me just more of the same. After I clicked on, I dunno, maybe two articles about Costco in the past week, now it's showing me "Costco" as a news topic:


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