Flora

It’s still impossible for me to wrap my head around, but it’s been six months since we said goodbye to Flora. She was part of our family for 14 years, through some wonderful and some very hard times. Jane and I have never lived together without her, and her absence in our lives is as fresh a wound today as that first night without her.

I’m so grateful that our children were able to know her, even just for the ten weeks she overlapped with our daughter in this world. Her love for and kindness toward them left an indelible mark on me.

Flora took responsibility for tending to all of us from the very beginning. She held on until she knew we were all going to be ok after our daughter’s arrival, and left us on the night of our tenth wedding anniversary - she was taking care of us right up until the end.

I miss you.

Kid 90 was one of the worst things I’ve watched in recent memory, but I’m genuinely excited to catch the new Octonauts movie!

Wake up, dino time.

Coloring time!

This Shortcut to import Switch screenshots is pretty handy! I set up an automation so it runs as soon as I join the switch Wi-Fi network.

Playing around with ProRAW on our walk yesterday.

I have mixed feelings about Project Monarch. As a Mac user forced to use Outlook, the current inconsistencies across platforms make me crazy. But it’s hard to imagine this will feel nearly as native at the current client.

These Mac App Store failures on Mojave have been making me crazy. “cancelled” is an incredibly unhelpful error message.

Finally set up Big Sur on a spare machine yesterday. I’ve never had an issue with iCloud contact sync, but this morning I found duplicates of every contact.

iOS Scanner Apps

I just discovered that PDFpen Scan+ was discontinued, and went on a mini quest to find a replacement. I landed on ‎Scanner Pro.

I also considered:

‎Adobe Scan, but it will only store scans to the Adobe cloud.
‎Microsoft Office Lens, but this seems tailored to the OneDrive environment.
‎ScanPro, but the price is too steep for my frequency of use.

Scanner Pro works with most of the cloud environments, so I have it pointed at a folder in Dropbox that gets slurped into my inbox. A scan can also be initiated from Shortcuts, so I’ve removed the app from my homescreen.