This week there are two apps I want to try. Todoist and iA Writer. I kind of started since Friday a little bit but I want to use them full time this week. With Todoist as my main task manager and iA as my main text editor. They’d be replacing Things 3 and Ulysses. Let us see how it goes.

My photographic scene looks like so. I have an Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III. My usual daily use lens is the Panasonic Lumix Leica 25mm, F 1.4. My second go-to lens is the Olympus M.Zuiko 17mm f1.8. I also own an Olympus M. Zuiko 45mm f1.8. I wrote a little bit about my photography bug a about a year ago here.

So there’s an idea that I have been toying with in my mind for a while now, some sort of photography challenge. What I was thinking was, take one of my lenses and just shoot with that lens exclusively for a month or so. It’ll be a good opportunity to explore more with lenses by putting myself in situations were I normally wouldn’t that specific lens. Just to see what happens and how I adapt.

So I think this is how I’m going to do it:

• December to January, the 17mm (I know we are already 9 days into December but…)
• January to February, the 25mm
• February to March, the 45mm

I’m sure the order may change but whichever lens I decide to start with, I‘ll make sure I keep using that one throughout the month.

Finally! Baby Luna has made it out of The NICU And she’s home with us. I will be honest, it very much took us by surprise. This morning I was preparing a small todo list in Things called “Luna’s Homecoming prep”. Simple tasks like, pick up the house, vacuum, install the carsit bases, put together the pack-and-play, etc. Little did we know that 30 mins later we would get the call from the hospital that she was scheduled to be discharged.

It goes withOut saying that we are extremely happy to have her home with us. It has been quite the ride, it has been both beautiful and a stressful one.

Baby Luna was born November 15 at 33 weeks and two days with 4 pounds, 6 ounces. Today she left the hospital at 36 and four days, with 5 pounds, 8 ounces.

Luna is doing great and we cannot be any happier she’s home, specially her big sister Marley.

Now, if you all excuse me, I’ll be celebrating by having a glass of whiskey 🥃.

I am declaring podcast bankruptcy! Too many good shows, so little time, I love podcasts and they love me (I think). Really, there are too many and I keep getting behind. Before I was able to keep up with the same amount of shows but I had more “time”. Whereas now, things are a little bit different. There are still a few shows that I will listen to as soon as they come in, like, Siempre es Lunes, Fundamentally Broken, Do By Friday, The Pixelated Podcast and The Menu Bar. The rest of my queue, a lot of times episodes just pile up and even end up deleting them. Another problem is that many shows that I have in my queue, they all talk about the same topics, just in different ways. Sometimes I feel like by listening to one of them I, by default, have listened to all the others. I guess at this point is better to delete everything and start again and see what are the shows that I really want to spend whatever little time I have. Maybe this would be a good opportunity to explore other things and topics too.

IN OTHER NEWS:

I have been playing with iA Writer, on both iOS and MacOS and I am in love (so far).

Today I was reviewing my inbox in Ulysses and noticed that there was one item in it. About a week ago or so, I came across with an article that inspired me to write about something. This something has been siting in my inbox for about a week now. Now I am thinking if I should keep working on it. Shall I delete it? Is it okay for it to sit in my inbox until is ready? How long until it’s considered an abandoned project? Are there any “writing” rules about this?

I am not a writer whatsoever, I just type my mind onto a blank sheet and post them away. But it made me wonder if good writers — real writers — have a set of “rules” about something like this. Like if something they have started isn’t ready within a day or within a week, it will never get published. Or it doesn’t matter as long as it’s ready whenever? I don’t know, stuff like that. Like for example, I have a rule when editing a photo, which it was inspired by favorite photographer Travis Jensen. One time he did one of those Instagram stories AMA’s and I asked him what was his go to editing software. I can’t remember which software he said he used, I think it was an old version of Lightroom. But he also said and what it really stuck with me was, if he had to spend more than five minutes editing, that photo would never see the light of day. Because that meant that, the photo, was never good to begin with. Something along those lines and it made sense to me.

So, about this “project” siting in my inbox, I am not sure how I feel about it. I think it would be something fun to write about and eventually share it in my blog. I just don’t feel like it’s ready — needs more editing. Is that okay? Or should I forget about it at this point? I don’t know just a thought

Thank you for coming to my TED talk? :)