Mandaris

Things I’m grateful for

• Having time off to help my family
• Journaling to help me keep my sanity
• Being in my particular part of the world
• Having some time to think this morning
• The opportunity to make the world around me a little better

I don’t know how others are able to just keep their homes in order. I just look at the stuff sometimes and find myself overwhelmed.

Inspired by Hemispheric Views 097 - Duel of the Defaults! and others in the community, I thought I would post a list of defaults.

• 📨 Mail Client: Mail.app
• 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail (But I've got the family email on google)
• 📝 Notes: Notes.app (But I'm not very good at referring to them later)
• ✅ To-Do: Reminders/OmniFocus
• 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera
• 🟦 Photo Management: Photos
• 📆 Calendar: iCloud/Calendar with a splash of BusyCal
• 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud
• 📖 RSS: NetNewsWire
• 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts (I _loved_ Cardhop but couldn't justify the cost. BusyContacts is now the one I go to when I want to do more than just add information.)
• 🌐 Browser: I separate my browsing with different browsers. Safari and Vivaldi are primary and Firefox (both regular and dev) for other stuff.
• 💬 Chat: Messages.app
• 🔖 Bookmarks: Safari
• 📑 Read It Later: Later? Safari
• 📜 Word Processing: Pages (Yes, but I don't write like that any more)
• 📈 Spreadsheets: Excel
• 📊 Presentations: Keynote
• 🛒 Shopping Lists: Notes.app (Shared note with checkboxes)
• 🍴 Meal Planning: Talking with my with wife
• 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Excel
• 📰 News: YouTube
• 🎵 Music: Apple Music
• 🎤 Podcasts: Overcast
• 🔐 Password Management: 1password

Rob Knight has a wonderful collection of people who are sharing what their default applications are.

Sometimes, I just like to take the picture and enjoy the feeling that it brings to me.

Unfortunately, we had a little accident and had to go the urgent care today. I grow more and mormore unhappy with the American healthcare system as this place doesn’t show up as an option for care when we use the different applications that our insurance companies provide.

I’m going to be thankful because it means that we can hopefully be seen soon.

Short and sweet. I don’t watch a lot of the Wes Anderson movies but this one will definitely make me think about adding more to my life. It’s a story within a story with a lot of dialogue so if that isn’t for you than feel free to skip it.

Short and sweet. I don’t watch a lot of the Wes Anderson movies but this one will definitely make me think about adding more to my life. It’s a story within a story with a lot of dialogue so if that isn’t for you than feel free to skip it.

It took me a while to get to this one. I really enjoyed the first one because of songs and side characters. I feel that if you liked the first one, you’ll like this one as well. My only hesitation is that the sex is more in your face than the previous season.

I don’t know if they will have another season, but I know that I’ll definitely be listening to them in the car.