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Sep 23, 2023: Somebody tell my Summer flowers that it’s Fall now…
Sep 20, 2023: Getting a bit tired of apps/services that promise me I can export my data then come to find the export doesn’t include ALL of my data (usually …
Sep 20, 2023: Anybox users beware…data loss… Just a public service announcement to anyone using Anybox. Don’t believe the dialog that pops up when you go to delete a source that says no documents …
Sep 18, 2023: Welcome to a new week everyone! May everyone’s various Apple OS updates go well 😂
Sep 17, 2023: Back to work tomorrow after a week off. Should have taken two as I hardly ever take vacation. Was nice to have the time off regardless. Didn’t do a …
Sep 14, 2023: Trip to Chicago Botanic Garden Instead of feeling like I’m poking myself in the eye reading social media I almost literally went to touch grass in Glencoe, IL. Beautiful weather …
Sep 13, 2023: Perspective. I need some. Blocked my first person here tonight. I have no energy for zealots. Its so absolutely fucking exhausting. Someone so zealous that they’re …
Sep 13, 2023: 😴
Sep 10, 2023: Really enjoying social media less and less. Stopped using Twitter again and not missing it. Threads is doing nothing for me. Nothing wrong with it but …
Sep 7, 2023: Thinking the Twitter/X experiment might be ending soon.
Sep 6, 2023: One thing I do not like about the Tiny Theme (making the assumption it’s the theme anyhow) for micro.blog is how it handles pictures. Everything is …
Sep 6, 2023: Starbucks Reserve - Damn Good Coffee Starbucks gets a bad rap sometimes for tasting “too burnt”. I hear this to this day even though they’ve had a nice range of roasts, even light (they …
Sep 5, 2023: Went outside this morning to see my Swamp Milkweed infested with these Oleander Aphids. The problem was neutralized…
Sep 4, 2023: Morning in the late summer garden A visitor…
Sep 1, 2023: There are several things I really love about Tot from Icon Factory but the abysmal handling of indents is not one of them. It would seem in their zeal …
Sep 1, 2023: A COVID testing refresher With cases on the rise, and colder weather and more time indoors coming soon, a timely refresher on when we should all be testing ourselves with some …
Aug 30, 2023: Created my first Shortcut on iOS in years today. Nice way to get interstitial journals entries into Tot.
Aug 29, 2023: Arguing with the developer of Anybox that it should have a KeepIt-like Finder integration feature. His argument for closing the request was “it’s not …
Aug 26, 2023: Weekly Recap - 8/26/2023 Another back to school week, this time my daughter going back for her 3rd year of college. My son and I are home for two weeks on our own. The house …
Aug 24, 2023: Threads is live on the web.
Aug 23, 2023: How lame am I that less than a week after canceling/deleting my Fastmail account I got them to recover it and am setting everything back up? 😂 Just …
Aug 22, 2023: Wow Adobe co-founder John Warnock dead at 82.
Aug 21, 2023: Claims that Threads is opening up their web version this week.
Aug 19, 2023: Interesting. Brave Search has an ad-free tier for $3/month. Really like the summarizer feature they’ve got. Results pretty good so far too.
Aug 19, 2023: Weekly Recap - 8/19/2023 Busy week behind me. It was back-to-school week here and my son started his Senior year of high school. As I wrote it was bittersweet. I’m proud of …
Aug 19, 2023: Waiting for the show to start…
Aug 18, 2023: Taking a social media break for the weekend starting tonight. Have a great weekend all!
Aug 18, 2023: Once again I’m amazed at the stuff you can find on the Internet. Found the set list for a Chicago (the band) concert I went to in 1987!
Aug 17, 2023: Other social media sites need to copy the “leave this conversation” feature on Twitter. I don’t remember that one from the last time I was on there.
Aug 16, 2023: They’ve arrived! I paid for a quarterly subscription to get the red ones. Probably needed some new notebooks anyhow… (I didn’t)
Aug 16, 2023: Bit of a bittersweet day as I took the last of my kids’ “first day of school” pictures. Have one each year for my son from Kindergarten thru today, …
Aug 15, 2023: Both Readwise Reader and Omnivore are truly terrible at saving webpages. Both fail regularly saving pages and I end up having to go to the website …
Aug 15, 2023: I hate to say this but since rejoining Twitter and not getting involved with the outrage machine I’m not seeing any of the outrage machine. This is …
Aug 14, 2023: Hillary Clinton being on MSNBC the night that the Georgia indictments are coming out is just delicious serendipity.
Aug 14, 2023: While Americans broadly support renewable energy, polls show, they are less enthusiastic about having it in their backyard. One survey from 2021 found …
Aug 14, 2023: Because it’s like 65 here and raining and feels a bit like Fall. And because I can… 🍺
Aug 13, 2023: At the beginning of the year I bought the domain jasonkratz.ws from namesilo.com because it was the cheapest registrar I could find for .ws domains. …
Aug 13, 2023: It’s official, I have canceled my Fastmail account.
Aug 13, 2023: My energy level is pretty low today, in part because of lack of sleep, and in part because of the amount of stress I was under last week. I’m slowly …
Aug 12, 2023: Weekly Recap - 8/12/2023 This week I got back to blogging (yet again 😳) on micro.blog and started getting all the bits and bobs going: My Now page My omg.lol profile and now …
Aug 12, 2023: Beautiful day to split up some firewood 🔥
Aug 12, 2023: Pixelfed is not an Instagram replacement. That is all.
Aug 12, 2023: Saturdays are for...? For me the answer to that question usually has been “try to cram in as much as you can that didn’t happen during the week”. Usually that’s revolved …
Aug 12, 2023: Beyond excited that pre-season football is here. Bears game at noon! 🏈
Aug 11, 2023: Just going to put it out there: I can’t believe how sane this place is (meaning micro.blog but counts for social.lol as well) compared to the horror I …
Aug 11, 2023: It’s official. I’ve moved over to the latest macOS Sonoma developer beta now that Rogue Amoeba has released initial test versions that are compatible. …
Aug 10, 2023: Hey I’ve got a Now page! Slowly but surely I will tackle this blog thing and make it into an online home!
Aug 9, 2023: Back to old habits… More than one actually but two worth noting. Twitter I’m almost embarrassed… no full-stop I am embarrassed… to admit I’m back on Twitter. The simple …