When I was growing up in North Dakota, the northern lights were visible pretty regularly. Ohio is much farther south and there's a lot more artificial light in the Cleveland area than in rural North Dakota, so I don't recall seeing them here previously ( Read more... )

I got fiber internet back in 2021. Well, I thought it was fiber. It turns out it was something called copper, or something like that, but it turns out it did a more than good enough job. I wasn't planning to update it, but AT&T finally ran fiber to my neighborhood recently and offered a number of specials to convince people to shift. When they ( Read more... )

Given how poorly my 2022 resolutions went, I was tempted to bury them down the memory hole. How badly did they go? I barely remembered I had made them, which is one reason that this summary is only coming up in 2023 instead of my more usual late in the target year.

Use the Phone LessWell, the number didn't go up much, but it sure didn't go down ( Read more... )

I've got three comparatively minor resolutions for 2022.

Use the Phone Less

Like most of us, I spend a lot of time on my phone. This wasn't true before the pandemic since I'd never take the phone anywhere, but that I'm at home with it all the time, the number has escalated. I'd like this number to trend downward. iPhone's have comprehensive time ( Read more... )

On July 14, 2017, I got my first cell phone for my Great California Road Trip.

I think that the very first person I remember meeting who had a cell phone was my long-time scoutmaster Dwight. In addition to being my scoutmaster and the father of my friend and classmate Joe, Dwight was an attorney, and I have possibly not accurate recollection of ( Read more... )

More than a year ago I noted that I was relearning Spanish via Duolingo. I somehow failed to write anything about it since, even though it has become a regularly recurring part of my life. I have spent at least 20 minutes a day on it for 410 consecutive days and counting as of this writing ( Read more... )

This post officially marks three full years with a post on every single Sunday. Of course, I’m getting in under the wire by posting this from my phone while on vacation, but it still counts ( Read more... )

11 years and a few months after I transferred my landline to this house, I have turned it off. With last summer's acquisition of a cell phone, it rapidly became apparent that spending the extra money to have two phones made no sense. Frankly, there were only reasons that the landline lasted this long. The first was that the service desk that ( Read more... )

I am considering doing a more thorough summary once I go through my pictures, but in short ( Read more... )

I am in California. This is not inherently unusual given my stated baseball plans, but what is unusual is that this post is not pre-recorded. Instead, I am pecking it out on my new iPhone 7. Yes, 21 years after I first recall meeting someone with a phone (Kip, a quad mate freshman year, used the free late night calls to talk to his girlfriend) and ( Read more... )