It is Memorial Day Weekend. It is custom at my workplace, on a Friday prior to the long weekend, the workload is light and whenever the lab is done, we all get to go home. This is usually around noon. Knowing this, I had planned to go grocery shopping right afterwork, and beat all the people trying to buy stuff for their long weekend.

As planned, I made it to our local grocery store and the first thing I noticed was that I was one of the 5 people waring a face mask — yikes! Welcome to Idaho, I guess. I do my thing, and just when I was ready to head out to the cashier’s area I had realized, I did not have my wallet with me. First thought was, “Oh, I’ll just use Apple Pay”. Well, this particular store, does not accept Apple Pay. So, I had no other choice but to leave the cart in a corner somewhere, run to the car and grab my wallet, that normally it’s attached to the back of my iPhone. Once I had the wallet, I realized, only my driver’s license was in it, no debit card. And that’s when I panicked, I’ve got no other credit cards, only my — for whatever reason — my PayPal Cash Debit card.

Today I learned that you can still use it, even if you had no balance in your PayPal account, it will just use your bank account in file as backup.

Groceries are taken care of. Now, let’s find the damn card. Long story short, it cannot be found, so I decided to contact the bank and cancel that card.

Well, it turns out, the lady on the other side of trephine informs me that the card was cancelled on the 26th, last Wednesday, exactly the last day I remember using the card. Most likely I drop it, at the gas station, where last I remember using it, someone called the number on the back of the card and report it lost.

Guess there are good honest people out there, and I am certain this person wears a mask. And even if you don’t — thank you.

Little was out of the state on Thursday which provided McGeachin the ability to become acting governor. She used that power to sign an executive order prohibiting the state and its political subdivisions, including public schools, to enforce mask mandates.

Little signed another executive order when he returned Friday restoring control for local entities to enforce mask mandates.Source: Gov. Little reverses McGeachin’s order: ‘irresponsible, self-serving political stunt’ | KBOI

Note: I used to call these posts Something I liked this week vol X, but I am switching to just Something I liked, no weekly.

The GuliKit Route Air Bluetooth Adapter

It is quite frustrating that, currently, the Nintendo Switch does not have built-in Bluetooth. Thus, having to use regular headphones if I wanted to play on the couch while my wife and/or the kids were using the television. The only regular “headphones” I currently have access to is my gaming headset. It worked fine but for whatever reason it would stop sending audio every once in a while, it was bulky and needed constant charging and so on.

So, I looked into this adapter by GuliKit, not expensive, and it looked like it would do the job. There is nothing super special about it other than it would give the ability to pair my AirPods Pro to it or whatever Bluetooth enabled headset or headphones.

Paring the AirPods Pro was pretty easy, and they paired with noise cancellation on by default. The only problem I encountered was that, then, I had to repair the Pro’s to my phone every time I wanted to use them. Weird right?

I felt it would be better not to spend too much time troubleshooting this, so I removed any pairing records from the adapter, repaired my AirPods Pro back to the iPhone and thus to any other Macintosh device I own. Then I went ahead and paired my Power Beats Pro to the adapter. Now I have a dedicated set for just the switch, and it is working just fine.

Ever since it became a thing, I was able to set up my site to have both a light and a dark theme, and it would switch automatically depending on the system’s settings.

Said dark theme has been tinkered with for a long time until I found the right color palettes for my linking that is. Totally inspired if not blatantly stolen from one of Tweetbot’s dark mode themes 😉. So much so that I was playing with the idea of making it permanently, dark.

So, today I went ahead and made the necessary CSS changes here and there and now the lights are out on my site, if you will, with an always dark theme, ish.

I don’t think I have broken anything or messed up, but I’m sure I’ll find something at some point.

Meanwhile, I’m happy, for now.