Mandaris

If you have seen the trailer, then you have seen the movie.

It was late at night, we wanted to watch something lite. Seeing Nicolas Cage and his stunt double mow through unremarkable opponents was just the thing we needed.

Description from The Movie Database

When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to the only person who can help: her estranged father Matt, currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands. Their reunion is fleeting as they are soon tracked down on the island by crime boss Donnie and his lieutenant Bobo.

Here is a link to The Retirement Plan trailer.

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If you are not familiar with Dungeons & Dragons, there are two general flavors for how to play:

1. Using miniatures and a map, or
2. Theater of the mind.

This reminded me of all the times that I would play with my daughter when she was little.

Two weeks ago, my wife told me that we should start looking for new phones for our daughters because they have been having performance problems for the last couple of months. They are both using a 6th generation iPhone and seeing limits with battery life and a couple inconvenient os incompatibilities. My wife said that we should buy a new phone for ourselves and hand down our iPhone SEs to them.

So I was really excited about what this Apple event was going to bring.

And I am excited about the upcoming camera control button and I’m excited about just moving up from what I previously had. I understand that just because it’s a new phone and it’s a year over a year change it’s not always going to be exciting.

But, this release feels kind of weird it feels almost as if there wasn’t a lot there.

I think the problem is that with the upcoming release. There’s a lot of things that are being promised by Apple Intelligence. Which is something that I don’t really want.

I feel that ultimately we are moving towards a product that I am no longer the target audience for. And there’s nothing wrong with that; not every product is going to be made for me.

The uneasiness that I feel is that I no longer know what that product is going to be.

Am I being materialistic in hopes that some magical tool will made? Or, am I sad that they don’t make them like that anymore?