There's something about the morning, just sitting outside with your coffee. Soon there will be Slack, and email, and video calls.

But for now. Breathe.

I got one for Christmas. Turns out I love fizzy water, and you can pry this thing from my cold dead hands.

• No matter what room I'm in, my laptop power cable is always in the other room. See also: phone, reading glasses, heroin needle.

• Oliver Chesler, The Horrorist and one of the "bus kids" in Depeche Mode's 101 was on an episode of Blind Test wherein songs are guessed.

• Got to the grocery store as it opened, acquired toilet paper, walked out with a strut like I just won the lottery.

Weather here in the desert is getting nice. It's that time of year when you remember why you like living here. Well, until the summer hits and you question everything about yourself.

The olden were reminiscing at work this morning how 20 years ago we worked over midnight for Y2K "just in case". How can that have been 20 years ago, what is even happening? Happy New Year everyone.

I really hope they're able to turn this around.

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A new Apple device brings a year of Apple TV+ for free then. A nice four days off awaits this week so let's see what's what.

Update: well I watched none of them. Because my wife bought me a Disney+ subscription. So it's been all Mandalorian, all the time.

The camera on this iPhone 11 is every bit as good as they say it is. Oh and hey, I have a new iPhone 11.

Rolling Stone should really stop making lists. In no way are most of the artists listed there the "best singers in the world" ever. Songwriters and performers maybe, but singers?

A hundred thousand years ago I wrote a thing to post top last.fm listens to a Movable Type blog. No one does that anymore and the world moved onto tweekly.fm. When Scott (@ssxio) was toying with shutting that service down, I cloned some of what I'd used for toppr and lastweekly came to be.

Finally got around to watching Edge Of Tomorrow. Was very very good. Thought it would just be another Tom Cruise alien invasion kill the mothership tale. But it's way better than that.

If my goal was to make our house Spencer's animal sanctuary, feeding stray cats who wander into our yard has made it so! My wife is extremely happy with me for this. Ahem.

It seems like it's been a long desert summer. After months of 100° days, today was the first morning we could open the windows in the house.

So that's what breeze feels like.