I am working only one day this week. I wish every week was like this one!

After a nice lunch with my family, I will say that I am thankful for the little Italian market and deli nearby that sells yummy foods.

I don’t really like how Mastodon posts are now in the auto-generated Discover sections for things like music and specific sports. I just want to see Micro.blog posts in Discover.

I am happy that I was able to cook homemade chicken soup for my family this evening.

I can’t believe we got a couple inches of snow on the ground today.

I am disappointed in the current slate of Broadway musicals. I thought last year was particularly weak, but this year is worse. I am only an infrequent Broadway theater goer, do to the ticket prices, but I listen to a lot of cast recordings. Nothing is grabbing my attention now.

Do any Micro.bloggers have any suggestions for a good iOS guided meditation app for beginners? There are so many to choose from.

I’m happy that the Accidental Tech Podcast hosts got invited to the Apple Mac and iPad event, and that @marco got a couple of review units, too. I have enjoyed ATP’s last two episodes all the more because of it.

🎵 I’m listening to a bunch of different versions of what is probably the greatest Bossa nova song ever: “Aguas de Marco"/"Waters of March”. It’s lovely and hypnotic.

Chrome (on Windows 10) does not take that long to load, but it takes long enough for me to forget why I launched it by the time it opens.

I voted!

My favorite line from @gruber’s 2018 MacBook Air review:

The Esc key works perfectly.

I am so relieved.

🎵 I thought to myself this morning: “Why don’t I just play all my songs on shuffle?”

My employer is changing its email retention policy to discourage employees from keeping email forever, and focusing on its use as a communication tool rather than an historical archive. I have been waiting for 20 years for such a thing to occur.

I am excited to go vote today. My wife and I made a voting plan and everything. Thankfully it is not that hard for us to vote where we live.

🎮 I have been playing a lot of Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey the past couple weeks. I am very glad I bought them. It’s good to have escapist fun for a change.

I bought a “fast” lens for my micro 4/3 camera to take pictures of my kids indoors, where the light is not good. I have gotten some great shots, but I have concluded, after about a month of shooting, that what I really need is a TTL flash that I can bounce off the ceiling.

No one told my kids that Daylight Saving Time has ended. 😴

VoteSaveAmerica’s voting guide is very well done. I was able to quickly learn about the candidates and the ballot measures that will be on my actual ballot on November 6.

I have not been looking at polls, because I don’t want to drive myself crazy, but I am really nervous about voter turnout for next week’s midterm election. I have a vague dread that Democrats will, once again, not vote in large enough numbers to help un-f*** this country.

Halloween with the wife and kids was fun. It was unusually warm and we didn’t have many trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood this year.

This article, about an actor’s family finding an apartment as they move to NYC, is kind of depressing. It’s unreasonably expensive to live in the city. If I were in his position, I would probably try to live outside the city a little ways.

Oh, now Lana Del Ray and Jack Antonoff are on stage. This is the best Apple event in many years.

Is anyone else hearing the distorted Halloween echo whenever Tim Cook is speaking at the Apple iPad Pro event?

🎵 How have I never listened to “The Last Waltz” before? I guess because I thought it would be sad to listen to the last concert by a band (The Band) I loved. It isn’t sad at all.