Notices by Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com), page 2

@miss_jwo I really like my new job (been here a month) and don't intend to leave.

I did recommend it to my EM from my last place though. He's great at what he does.

And it's the fact that you wouldn't beat around the bush that would be a major reason I would be interested and recommend it.

@miss_jwo If I hadn't just started a great new job I would apply for this in a heartbeat.

@wmjohnston06 Ha. All too true

I'm working from my SIL's house today and the St. Bernard is NOT having it. He demands homage and treats and tolerates no other activities.

@PublicWolf My dad was a nuclear tech on submarines and the maintenance schedule thing couldn't ring more true.

Apple's native apps (Notes, Reminders, etc) work really well for me... when they work. This year's OSes are so unstable though. For example, I have to unsync my notes from iCloud, open the Notes app and then turn on iCloud syncing again or the whole app crashes... every time.

On top of that I simply cannot remove an old debit card from the Apple Wallet on Mac. No error, just doesn't work. I can no longer browser older hidden apps... the list goes on and on and on.

I'm glad Sep is almost over. We've had to upgrade my wardrobe some, replace our washer/dryer, replace our phones and watches, change mobile plans and replace our car. Of all of that only the phones/watches and some of the clothes (as I no longer need to commute every day) were planned. I'm so done with all of it.

@phillycodehound interesting. I’ll have to look

@phillycodehound Yeah... too much. It just kept going up and up. We had 2 lines, 2 watches and an iPad on it. Now we'll have 2 phones and 2 watches and enough of a hotspot to just use the iPad that way.

@phillycodehound I don't even know what Senji is, lol

@phillycodehound Yeah... it's because the new watches are 5G only. Supposedly support is coming, just not a "day 1" feature... Which kinda makes sense for the price. We were up to $225/month with T-Mobile. That's just crazy at that point.

Switched phone carriers. Should save us ~$2,000/year. Only catch is it turns out they don't support our watches yet (new 5G Apple watches). Hopefully they fix that. Worst case is we'll give them until the end of the year and look if they don't. At that point we will have given the service a fair shake and we won't lose anything if we move back to a major carrier.

@harold Nice! Ours is a bit more complicated. The public spots around here are always packed so charging at home is important but it's a condo and our parking spaces are deeded (it even gets its own property tax bill) so trying to get electric chargers is not a simple thing. Really hoping they figure it out though.

@harold Oh nice! We live in a big building so we can’t charge at home yet. They’re talking about changing that so we leased this one. I had a Nissan leaf back in 2013. Would love another electric.

@Callalily I get it. The Leaf is, which we had, was about the same price as most cheaper hybrids today but had horrible range. It was a great second car, but couldn’t have been our only car.

@Callalily Nice! I had an electric once and a diesel before that so it’s my first hybrid. Will be nice with city gas prices over $4

@grumpasaurus Ha! Ain’t that the truth. I’m just glad we have a permanent spot in our building.

@Callalily yes. Supposed to get over 50mph.

@Callalily Thank you. For us it should be perfect, even if my wife wishes it had a stick shift

@grumpasaurus Our Fiat 500L was a stick too. This is actually the first automatic she’s ever had and my first since 1997. I love stick but now that we’re back in Chicago with city traffic I’m fine with automatic too.