I got a Confession to make. I love my iPhone 13 mini, I really do. I think is the best phone ever made, however, recently, I have found myself wanting a bigger screen. Not Necessarily a better camera, although that would be nice, but I have been feeling constrained with the mini’s screen size, for whatever reason.

you’re getting old, gabz

Also, it does not help the fact that I visited my local BestBuy recently and actually held an iPhone 14 Pro in my hands. And guess what? I did not mind the size as much as I thought I would.

If, I am going to go that route, it won’t happen until sometime next year, I think. I could find a way to expedite that but I rather just wait it out as much as I can.

I live, unfortunately, in a very Red state which makes me hesitant, and yet, I still feel compelled to vote. There’s a name I have seen around that, for whatever reason, does scare me, Ammon Bundy. Also, I was told that my level of sexiness would go up ten percent if I posted a selfie with an “I Voted” sticker.

For reasons I don’t remember anymore, something’s wrong with our washing machine, besides being super-old, that we have to add the softener in the middle of it rather than the machine do it by “itself”. We can’t just add it to the tray or whatever spot and hope it’ll work. Since I am the only responsible adult here (ha! responsible, he says) I am the one that has to remember, usually Annie is the one on top of the timing, or actually paying attention.

Yesterday, I loaded some clothes, and actually started a stopwatch to figure out how long it takes until I have to add the softener. Thirty-five minutes, in the normalsetting, thirty-five minutes until I have to add the softener. Now, when I load some clothes I ask Siri to remind me to add softener in 35 mins.

Good, I did that today because I am fiddling around on the computer and totally forgot I had a load goin.

In other news,

Today is a relaxing Sunday. The girls are playing, nicely with each other which is rare sometimes, and litsening to Los Wálters - Isla Disco.

I’ll take it.

So, I messed up, big time.

Even though I did call the school to confirm the time of Marley’s lunch, in my mind, for whatever reason, it was still 12:20pm rather than 11:20am. I even left earlier than planned due to the climate to make sure I’d be on time. And yet, I was an hour late to have lunch with Marley.

😫😫😫😫

We have both been waiting for this day all week, super-excited, and yet, I failed. My day wasn’t going well, to begin with, but this… ugh!

Anyways, they allowed me to have lunch with her. As expected Marley was not happy and that broke my heart. I explained what happened to her, apologized to her, we sat, had lunch, we talked. We got snow, for the first time this year, down in the valley, and Marley asked if she could play outside after school. Sadly I think it’ll melt by the time she’s out, but I told her if we still had snow she certainly could. Once we were done with lunch I walked her back to her classroom, apologized again, and pinky-promised ( it’s kind of a big deal and she smiled) that it would never happen again, and off she went.

By that point, she was her normal self.

But I was still feeling terrible inside. I still do. Like the worst parent on Planet Earth.

Once I had some time to reflect, I came home, to try to get some work done, the day is not over. I opened my email and a whole lot of other shit ensued.

I sat back, cried a bit, cracked my fingers, and started typing emails.

Nothing today is going according to plan and I feel very frustrated, very much so…

On the other hand, I am looking forward to picking Marley up from school, then Luna from grandma’s, watching a movie, and having popcorn with the girls.

Today I wrote a thank you note, with a pen, I might add, and I can not remember the last time I wrote something somewhat extensive. Immediately realized that the pen does not have autocorrect or the card had a Grammarly extension. It was like writing blind and without a safety net.

This made me think, that I am probably more “writing fluent” in English than I am in Spanish by now. English words don’t have the same grammatic rules as Spanish words, accents, and such, so it is easier in that sense, the spelling though, that’s another issue entirely.

I also noticed that half my words were in all caps, or mixed. I swear I’ve forgotten how to write.

Second or third day now with Megazord.

Today, I am wearing it on my right wrist rather than the left, and somehow, it feels more comfortable, however, my right wrist is more prone to bump into things, for whatever reason so I got to keep that in mind. Also, I can feel the heftiness of the watch. It really is, compared to the regular watch, a behemoth, weight-wise. It is hard to forget I have it, and yet it does not feel uncomfortable to use.

The battery life is ridiculously great, it is Ultra Great /wink

Those are my initial impression so far, I haven’t yet had a chance to dive into other stuff, sadly, too busy.

In other news,

I may have done something out of pure impulse, as per usual…

Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye 🐤

Yesterday, I had a situation where I needed to compose an email in Spanish. I don’t do this often for work but now that I am working more closely with people down in Chile, I think they would feel more comfortable talking to me this way. Sadly my work computer, unlike my mobile Macintosh device, can’t or won’t recognize that I am typing in another language that is not English.

So I had an idea.

Have you all heard of Simplenote?

Simplenote, to me, is like what Tot might be for many Mac users. It allows me to share text from my Macintosh devices to my work Windows PC. What I was super-impressed by was the syncing, and how ridiculously fast it was. I would type a sentence or two, and stop to think about what to say next, on my Macintosh mobile device, and within a second, I would get a notification on my Windows POS that a note was updated. That happened every single time I would type, stop for a few seconds and continue my note.

I might have said this before about this app, but it is one of those note-taking apps that doesn’t get a lot of exposure or that people talk about. Yes, I might not have all the bells and whistles other apps may have but it is reliable and it just works.