My current 30 GB iPod — a Christmas 2005 gift — is now on its last legs. The battery life is pretty much untouched, but it is periodically not recognizing touches to the scroll wheel or sending anything through the audio connection. It’s not a critical problem yet, so I’m able to hold out for the presumed widescreen iPod Video coming out at some point this year or early next year.
Engadget seems to think it’s going to be announced in September or October. Here’s hoping.
So, our bedroom window features a screen that’s the wrong size for our off-size window. The first day we were in the house, Jenn accidentally knocked the screen out just by touching it. It was put back in, but as a clearly temporary situation.
Well, I forgot about that Sunday, when I opened the back door and other windows to get a breeze going through the house. And one of those was the bedroom window.
About 30 minutes later, Jenn comes into the study and asks when I last saw Lucky. His sister was sitting by the open window, looking at us, with the “I didn’t do it” air every sibling, of any species, quickly masters.
So, slipping on the Tevas, I went out into the land of fire ants, looking for the cat. He appeared from around the corner, panting — a black cat out in 98 degree sun isn’t an ideal situation — and slipped past me, back into through the back door.
He already wants to go back outside again, despite the sun, despite the fire ants and despite only having a prickly Joshua tree to climb.
I guess it’s time to get his collar back on him — he previously slipped it off — and to start thinking about a house with an actual usable back yard in the future.
Thirteen pounds, six ounces. Twenty-five inches.
Well, Amazon Vine is up, but the initial five books available for free preview (and then review) were gone, gone, gone before I even logged in. Just by chance today, I logged in, saw a new book had been added and still had five copies left. I should receive my copy of Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
shortly. I’ll link to the review when I’ve got it done.
The NYC branch of the Yarbrough family just got a new member and Kate’s got a younger sister: Isabel Laine was just born, 9 lbs. 1 oz. Mother and child are reportedly doing well.
