I’m off to the Nov meeting of the RVA People’s Budget Steering Commission.

Want to get involved with Richmond’s local government and don’t know where to start? RVAPB needs multiple volunteers from each district to be Budget Delegates.

This morning I feel sad and scared. I won’t feel this way forever or necessarily for very long, but it’s important to acknowledge that I feel it now and that I am not alone.

This morning my gracious, patient teenager allowed me to both explain the Electoral College to her in great detail and give her a demo of OmniOutliner.

Love you, kid.

Okay, hear me out… butter is delicious.

Siri, start a two minute timer.

STARTING 10 MINUTE TIMER.

Siri, start a 1 minute 45 second timer

#everytime

I like my Sunday morning walk to the neighborhood bakery for pastries and the pleasant surprise when one of my kids wakes up early enough to come with me.

Today we send the family’s iPhone 13 minis off to live in a farm upstate. Goodbye little friends!

This is my obligatory post where something I post on samdavies.me (through micro.blog) automatically gets crossposted to Bluesky and Threads.

I like that my iPad and iPhone will show me pictures of my kids opening presents on their birthdays.

Today I learned that Congress never bothered to pass a law clarifying what’s to be done under Section 4 of the Twentieth Amendment.

Per Wikipedia:

Section 4 permits Congress to statutorily clarify what should occur if either the House of Representatives must elect the president, and one of the candidates from whom it may choose dies, or if the Senate must elect the vice president and one of the candidates from whom it may choose dies. Congress has never enacted such a statute.

Nailed it.

Today my friend is coming over and we’re gonna watch an hours-long NES race like other folks would watch football.

Remember that time when I was a kid and I was rudely pedantic to an adult I care about while they were playing the piano? No? I’m the only one who will ever remember this? Thanks my brain!

I’m in one of the closest neighborhoods to the election office and pedestrian/bus access is pretty bad.

ADA access from the closest bus stop has three crossings to go the long way around a speedy traffic circle.

Sidewalks from the property entrance to the building don’t exist until the parking lot.

Just walked to drop off my ballot at the Richmond City Office of Elections.

✅ One important aspect of my participation in my government

I like morning weather just cool enough to wear a large flannel shirt.

One would think when given a delivery window by a major shipping concern, one would on occasion receive delivery towards the beginning or middle of that window. It’s never happened to me, not even one time.

In iPadOS 18 if you toggle “Use Large App Icons” in Settings->Home Screen & App Library the large icons appear with the app’s name beneath.

If you toggle icons to “Large” in “wiggle mode”->Edit->Customize, the large icons appear without the app’s name beneath.

It should be a crime how bad the website is to sign your kid up for the SAT.

Weird. My iPadOS 18 Music.app doesn’t have the new Sidebar style. Files.app does, but not Music. Wonder if this is a bug or if it got pulled from the build last minute? All the reviews say Music.app has the new style.

A family should not need a spreadsheet to figure out how to optimize what cell phone plan to get, which hardware upgrade/trade-in promotion to take, and if they should bundle non-cell phone internet services or not.

How good are iPads? SO GOOD is the answer.

Squirrels are the Jean-Ralphio Sapersteins of small mammals. 🎶 The woooooooorst 🎶

I saved up and got myself a new 13” iPad Pro which arrived today. It’s very very very nice.

I enjoy reading so many of your posts on Micro.blog but rarely have enough to say to write a reply.

I wish there were a way to say “I see you” or “this made me chuckle” that didn’t also come with the social media baggage I know Micro.blog has tried to avoid.

Sometimes this place can feel lonely.