Ten minutes after tossing two blankets in the dryer, I went back to "un-ball" them and a piece of bacon fell out from the last time I ate a sandwich on the couch where the blankets were. Discuss ..read more

Here lies The COVID-19 book, the crappy notebook I found in some box in the days after I started working remotely, now with only one empty page left. Normally, I keep scrap paper at my campus office desk and jot little things down I don’t need to keep. I note anything else of record electronically. This book is filled with all those little things, now an accidental historical record of how events at home and work-from-home unfolded since March. There are plenty of quick "need to do" things, Zoom meeting notes, and project reminders. But there’s also grocery lists for curbside pickup, new passw ..read more

I love my new(ish) iPhone XS Max. It takes astounding photos, has a nice big screen for my aging eyes, and it has quadruple the storage of my old phone, among other wonderful things. Is there anything I don’t love about it? Yeah. It no longer has a Home button. All you need to do to take an action is to swipe up. So. Very. Dangerous. Why? Lemme ‘splain. The Max model is heavy. I hate carrying it in my hand while I’m on an exercise walk because while it’s safe in a grippy case, it’s not grippy enough against hand sweat. It wouldn’t take much for it to go flying. Bye-bye expensive iPhone. I also ..read more