inessential: Today

Today wasn’t so bad. Sure, the enemies of democracy, the Constitution, rationality, compassion, national and international institutions, decency, competence, ethics, art, science, and truth itself — and of anyone who isn’t a white man — now darken the offices of power. But they haven’t done much yet. The bad days are still to come.

My loathing and contempt for President Trump feels complete — but it isn’t. It will continue to deepen.

20 Jan 2017

I remember this post very clearly. And I get a reminder every year about it.

Between here in Micro.blog and Twitter, I have come across some new-to-me “listening material”. Haven’t had the chance to listen to any of it yet but I’m looking forward to.

• Ear Candy by King’s X

• Look Alive by Guster

• Heard It In A Past Life by Maggie Rogers

• Outer Peace by Toro y Moi

A long time ago, I remember listening to The Talk Show, the special guest was Merlin Mann. I don’t remember exactly what was it about, but what I do remember was Merlin saying something about, you don’t wanna do anything computer related while having a holiday party.

I should have listened.

Last night, for whatever reason, I thought it was a good idea to restore my MacBook Pro. Some things weren’t working right and also I didn’t be wanting to be running a beta anymore. I have done this before, many times over, and still I did some research before going in. I don’t know exactly what I did, what I deleted that i should have or what, but things weren’t going great. I contacted apple through the support app, chatted with a gentleman called “Tim”, very nice guy. He tried to help me out the best he could, kept getting errors. Until the computer just went caput and when I tried to reinstall the software, there wasn’t a drive to install it to. So MacBook is a paperweight right now. Sad!

At least I knew in my heart I screwed up, something, not sure what but i did. Tim set me up with an appointment at the Genius Bar for Tuesday.

Yeah shouldn’t be messing around with my tech while I have been drinking. It was a delicious beer though!

I feel like I have totally forgotten about my photo challenge ! I did well for the month of December, for the most part. Shooting only with my Olympus 17mm. January started with my Panasonic/Leica 25mm but haven’t been shooting much recently. I have been craving going out and shot but it’s been almost impossible these days.

After having some thoughts this morning about whether or not I should go Googleless, I have taken some actions since. I have (or had) three gmail accounts and have closed two of them. These two are or were the least used ones. I still have the one I created probably about 10 years ago now. I was thinking maybe to keep yah one for nonessential things and maybe online orders and whatnot. For my personal email, just used my iCloud account and go from here.

Part of me thinks that go completely Googleless isn’t doable or realistic at this point but I might be wrong.

As part of my never ending ways to “improve” my digital life. One of the things I have been thinking about lately is to stop using Google services, specially for email. It has been in the back of my mind for awhile until this morning. I have listened to the latest episode of Micro Monday in which they sort of touched on this topic a little bit and that got me thinking about this again. So I started thinking about my options.

• Option one: I can continue using my iCloud email exclusively.

• Option two: A Fastmail account.

• Option three: Don’t do a thing.

Option one is probably the easiest one as far as, it’s already on going and it’s free. Option two is maybe the most effective but it comes at a cost. Option three would be the laziest way, I think.

And also the more I think about it, option three sounds better in some ways. There are so many things in my life that are attached to gmail. I feel like if I were to get rid of my gmail account(s) it would be a huge pain in the buttness. I’m afraid of braking things up, that I will forget about important things or something. The whole idea sound like a nightmare in some ways.

I don’t know, I need to think about this in length. But the idea of detached myself from google it’s very appealing.