Uno is a brave hamster. Riding high on a shoulder.

Jarritos Mandarin is my guilty pleasure when we hit the street taco place by our house. So good. But sooo unhealhty. ๐ŸŒฎ

Old school indeed.

Also old school exhaust smell.

Made by our sonโ€™s loving hands when he was but a wee lad. ๐ŸŽ„

Not Charlie Brownโ€™s

No real snowmen in sight for our area ๐Ÿ™

When dinosaurs attack

All sides of the exterior of this building have these large dinosaur outlines. You wonโ€™t be surprised to learn they build giant animatronic dinosaurs.

Chillin with a a friend

This bark is a long time family favorite. But Iโ€™m sure not interested in a โ€œ2020โ€ edition of anything. Ready to move on from this year for sure!

It was a dreary sky

The cold bade me stay inside

But the food guilt propelled me

Our little friends joined in the harvest. Today they can rest and consume copious amounts of food.

I have gone to the dark side… Also wide. Bought an Apple keyboard with numpad to replace my silver one without. Iโ€™m excited to have the Control key back where it belongs.

We enjoyed riding a train pulled by this steam locomotive. It passed through a lovely bit of countryside. From the archive.

#mbnov

Neither my wife nor I have ever made a cake from scratch. Today we tried imitating my mom’s coffee cake I loved so much. Mistakes were made but we recovered and the result was good. Definitely have ideas on how to make it better. Just wish we had mom’s recipe.

We voted! ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

Early voting started yesterday but when I drove by the line was 2 blocks long to get in. Today when I drove by the line was like this so my wife and I seized the moment. 1,486 people voted in this location yesterday, a couple hundred would be normal.

I replaced my MBP+Monitor setup with a 27” iMac. Freed up desk space and eliminated a bunch of cables.

One radio is monitoring 2m VHF, the other FT8 on 14m.

October 13, 2020 | 1:05PM CDT | My study near Dallas, Texas

Posted for a day in the life #adayinthelife

Once we broke the seal on our hotel room everything inside was quite normal, i.e. clean with no odd smells. The staff and guests all followed CDC guidelines. This combined with nightcaps led to my wife and I sleeping 12 hours last night. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿจ

Ahhh Manhattan

Our first night at a hotel since February. ๐Ÿจ Nice to get away if only briefly.

Our long-awaited family member arrived ๐Ÿ–ฅ. For once I didn’t even have to wait all day for FedEx (arrived at noon).

Homemade lumpia with our dinner ๐Ÿฝ

The good news is I have my memory upgrade now. The bad news is there is no sign of Apple shipping the iMac it is intended for. ๐Ÿ˜ข

Our 6th grader writing a short story at school. He prefers his iPad and keyboard to a laptop. ๐Ÿซ Socially distanced and all masked up.

I have never seen so many handles and grade choices on a gasoline pump before.

Life is so complicated these days ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿš™

Overall I’m loving widgets in iPadOS 14. I added this one on uplifting news and was immediately depressed by the caption.

On clicking through it was the truncation - the next word was “prevention”. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ