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Celebrated mom’s birthday today with chicken fried steak (one of her favorites)! A great day.


Spice in the form of home grown assorted peppers. Turned these fine frozen specimens into hot sauce last weekend.


If you use recent Fujifilm camera (e.g. X100V), they have neat film simulations. I’ve made a iOS 15 Shortcut that’ll get the film sim from EXIF of a Fujifilm JPEG. Handy if you need a quick reminder about what film sim you used. Doesn’t yet work on B&W and sepia sims.


We made our first batch of hot sauce the other weekend. Two pounds worth of home grown peppers made about 32 oz of sauce (we like a sauce that is thicker and doesn’t dribble off things). So good. 🌱

frozen home grown peppers in ziplock bagsweighed peppersroasted peppersbottles and jarred peppers.


Had a really good Independence Day fried chicken with a slaw based on real garlic aioli & ripe red Santa Fe peppers.

fried chicken on a baking sheet with slaw to the side (slaw has ripe red Santa Fe pepper slices).

I like Sierra Nevada’s Summer Break. Citrusy as expected and not too hoppy. It’s very refreshing. Just don’t expect a lot of complexity (it is a solid drinkable beer!).


Partner made Boston cream pie (dessert after an amazing ribeye). 🤤


I just changed my Apple ID email address. That was scary. I think everything is fine? Took a bit of device coercing. Some needed complete log-offs, other devices figured it out on their own. Really inconsistent and that made it more scary. Hope I never have to do that again.


With the latest iOS, if a martini is in my face, Apple Watch unlocks my phone 🤗


iOS Shortcut: RaspberryShake Helicorder 24 Hour PDT Plot

I’ve a RaspberryShake that serves up helicorder plots. By default, they’re in UTC. My brain isn’t yet wired to convert UTC to PDT (my local time). So I’ve modified my original shortcut to overlay PDT onto the left Y-axis. Someday I’ll make this a bit more sophisticated such as switching to standard time or be fully international. As with the last Shortcut, this one assumes your Shake is resolved at rs.

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