Quite a few people I work with are gun owners. What I hear from them often is; what would you do if someone broke into your house, you need protection. I’m 61 years old and lived in big cities and the country. I’ve always felt fine with a baseball bat behind my bedroom door.
This song by Jackson Browne says a lot about where we are now. music.apple.com
The county is replacing a small but important bridge near our home. It’s on a very busy street. It’s right next to the ocean so high tide floods the stream. They’ve put in a coffer dam to facilitate building the base. 
I had completely forgotten to upgrade my home server. It just sits there quietly and does its job. Had to jump through 2 updates to get to Big Sur giving me 3 relocated items folders.
Reading this, they really are lost.
We’ve gone back to Apple native apps. Canceled Spotify, Adobe suite and MIcrosoft Office. Next up, moving back to the Apple podcast app.
Oh and also broke an expensive Starbucks habit and just do pour over coffee. Starbucks is just an occasional treat now.
trickeration
just heard the announcer use the word “trickeration" on a college football game.
had to look it up to see if it was real.
trick·er·a·tion | ˌtrikəˈrāSHən |.
noun US informal.
(chiefly in African American usage) trickery or deception: they felt the need to resort to cheap trickeration to achieve success.
ORIGIN.
1930s: from trickery + -ation; earliest use found in the title of a song performed by jazz singer Cab Calloway.
When Trump says the vaccine is great and we all should get it, I would tend to run the other way. I don’t even know which so called ‘scientists" to believe.
He needs to just shut up already.
This will be my last beta cycle. This one was more or less stable on all devices and it was a big one, but I won’t be renewing my Dev account.
Seeing everyone get their new phones is fun to watch.
We’re taking a different tack, We will only buy a device when one dies. We’re just playing out the string on our 3 Macs (11" Air, 13: rMBP and Mac Mini), 2 iPads and 2 phones. They do what they need to do now.
This remote learning, school at home is really wearing on our 9 yo Grandson. He’s tends towards hyperactive / ADHD. He needs to be in a classroom. We fight with him every day to sit still, pay attention and stop turning your camera off.