The Mac mini arrived. And the iPhone. The biggest barrier at the moment seems to be my own ability to learn new ways of doing things, or to forget the ways I used to do things. In some ways switching over has been a good exercise - forcing me to “clean house” - sorting out passwords, bookmarks, file shares - you name it.
Over time I had ended up with bits and pieces spread across all manner of cloud platforms. I guess it’s pretty unavoidable when you have footprints spread across the Microsoft, Google, and Apple infrastructure. When you start adding the likes of Dropbox, Notion and Obsidian into the mix, it starts to get out of control.
The first casualty at home has been Microsoft 365. It has always been a “nice to have” that we seldom use - born mostly out of me running out of storage space on my previous Windows desktop. Rather than solve the problem, I just purchased more storage - which then gifted the entire family Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneDrive - which they never used.
My entire family have lived in the Google cloud for years - and have Android phones. I’m the rebel - jumping ship to the Apple ecosystem. I’m still running Google Chrome on the Mac though, because Safari is awful.
Anyway.
While writing this I’m on my second glass of wine, and Bette Midler has started singing “From a Distance”. I remember this becoming a huge hit during the Gulf War, and being played along with footage of servicemen coming home to tearful families.
How is it half past midnight already? Where did the evening go?
I should probably go collapse into bed.
Oh - by the way - I ran again this morning. I’m in the middle of week two of “Couch to 5K”. It hasn’t become difficult yet. I’m starting to realise that “just running” isn’t going to lose me any weight - although saying that, I lost nearly a kilogram last week just by not eating rubbish.
We’re going out with friends tomorrow night. I can’t imagine a couple of pints of cider are going to do the health plan any good. Oh well.