I’m at work but I’m waiting for some video to upload and it’s been cranking away for kind of a long time while I worked on some slides for tomorrow’s class – and with the way all Apple products, like Keynote that I was using for my slides – are all backing up to iCloud all the time, I’m sure my working was slowing down the upload.
So seemed like a good excuse to sit at my desk for a few minutes and start a blog post. Logged into Word Press responsive view on my iPhone which is currently working better than the WP app, which stopped updating, mysteriously. some time back. Like I couldn’t see my newest posts in the app. Annoying, but not as annoying as my poor little Notes app which just slams closed as soon as I try to open it. I think it’s another iCloud backup problem – like Notes doesn’t know where my notes are, on my phone or in iCloud, and/or iOS 12 incompatibility. If it’s still not working on the weekend I’ll go to the Apple Store.
Maybe I’m having a bit of buyers’ remorse on this big new iPhone 8 Plus I just got.
See, if I go into the app store to look for an update, Apple even asserts I can open Notes from there – but no, slams shut. Grrrr
And huh, look at this – I’m not such blogging deadbeat as I thought. I started this post last week, and never finished. The Burning Girl has to be returned to the library tomorrow, and I have to quick get two holds before they expire, Ordinary People (2018 – heard the author interviewed on NPR, not to be confused with Judith Guest’s 1976 book of the same title) and Kate Atkinson’s Case histories. I’m waiting for her newer book, Transcription, but I’m 167 in line (and oh, look, Jennifer Egan wrote the review, and she also just did a WWII era novel. I still like Goon Squad best of hers, I suggested it for Go Big Read, although I also still like the first book of hers I read, The Keep). Rach has read both Atkinson’s, and recommends.
Growing up
I just read this in a book, and it could’ve been my own words, from about forty years ago.
OK, back to work.