2019s
My Personal de-Google-fication Continues
Google Photos is no more for me. I deleted all the photos in that account, then cancelled my Google One subscription. I removed the app from my iOS devices.
I’m not totally killing my Google account and Gmail address, however, as much as I might want to. There is still stuff with Docs and Drive for podcasting collaboration I need to maintain an account for. I do have to think about others in that particular situation. But the Gmail app is coming off devices, too.
I believe this means the only Google apps I’m left with are Translate and Waze. I’m sure I could find a replacement for the former, but no other app gives me what I need for dealing with Dallas/Fort Worth traffic like Waze does. I’d like to be Google-free, but it’s just not in the cards as things currently stand. I’ll settle for now with this being the best I can do.
Shazam is really awesome, a fun movie, and has a really good pro-foster care family vibe on top of it.
But adoptive and foster parents be aware: there is a huge abandonment issue where the child gets re-traumatized, and the monsters in it may be really scary, depending on the age of your kids.
I hardly ever get to Mavs games. Maybe once a year. This year has been my most in a season, at three. I’m 1-1, and the winner was when @tweetgrubes was filling in as DJ.
I feel good about tonight.
Let’s be honest, it was only a matter of time before they were driven to these lengths.
Watching the Joker trailer, I’m left with two thoughts:
- I’m certain Joaquin Phoenix is going to bring everything he has to the role, just as Heath Ledger did with it in The Dark Knight.
- This is going to ruin the mysteriousness of Ledger’s Joker, much like Lucas ruined the mysteriousness of Boba Fett with Attack of the Clones.
“I don’t know how adoptive and foster parents walk their journeys without a tribe of kindred spirits who can confide in confidence with one another.”
Parenting kids with trauma pasts is too hard to do by yourself. You need people in the trenches with you, people you can confide in without judgment, who know what you’re going through because they’ve been there, too.
Gee, Chris, why do you continue to buy physical media? Digital is so easy.
Gosh, I don’t know why.
My non-hockey but musical kid got to meet @DallasStars music meister @tweetgrubes tonight. Thanks for showing him how you run things, Grubes!
Taking my non-hockey kid to the @DallasStars game because his school band is performing in the AAC South Plaza before tonight’s game. Then he gets to meet @tweetgrubes!
Because who doesn’t want some “Boogie Woogie Piano” while catching a train in London?
I am five years behind the curve, but today I learned of the 2CELLOS' cover of “Thunderstruck”.
I may or may not have totally ripped off @Gabz’s typography modifications to the Kiko theme for Micro.blog because his site is so clean and readable. 😬
The use of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” for this Godzilla trailer is inspired. youtu.be/yHzJSvVGn…
I fully support such legislation. babylonbee.com/news/more…
Finished the latest in Nick Petrie’s Peter Ash series while my SUV was getting serviced this morning. My only complaint about these books is that Nick cannot write them fast enough. He’s easily vaulted into my list of must-read authors. 📚
Finished Mark Greaney’s latest Gray Man thriller last night on the plane ride home. Can’t recommend this series enough. 📚
