Yuri sent me this photo of Kyiv looking great at sunset. I miss my trips there to visit the team.

Ready for Halloween Trick-or-Treaters but suspect the 32 Β°F and dusting of snow is going to keep counts low. πŸŽƒπŸ‘»πŸ₯Ά

Snow isn’t a great way to start Halloween! πŸŽƒ πŸ‘»πŸ₯Ά

iMac Upgrade

It has been time for us to upgrade our 27" 3.7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5 (2019) and 27" 3.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 (2017) both with 2TB Fusion Drives. The later can’t even upgrade to macOS Sonoma.

The iMac is the form factor I wanted, but I wasn’t willing to go with an M1 Chip in 2023! With the “Scary Fast” announcements tonight and the Apple Silicon M3 iMacs I can get the chip I want! Placed orders for two of them, both with 24GB of unified memory and 2TB SSD storage. Decided to get the Blue and Orange combination.

Two Apple iMac M3 all-in-one computers side by side, one in blue and one in orange, each with matching Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse

Apple Silicon M3 is here! A MacBook Pro with an M3 Max has an incredible amount of power. Wow! I’ll be ordering two of the iMacs with M3.

We saw Spirited Away at Willow Creek Theater today as part of Ghibli Festival. First time we had seen it and enjoyed it a lot. 🍿

Movie poster for Miyazakis Spirited Away, a Studio Ghibli film, showing an animated girl in a red outfit looking back over her shoulder at a lantern-lit spirit town at night.

I’m gobsmacked by the awesomeness of RSS Club. I want to figure out something to publish RSS only now. And the logo is brilliant! I must make this a sticker!

Two cartoon fists with knuckle tattoos spelling RSS CLUB, styled like a classic fight club logo with bold black line art.

Excited to see the optical fiber connection installed to the outside of our cabin! Still won’t be setup until spring but this is a big milestone!

Optical fiber cable running down exterior gray wood siding to electrical boxes and a gas meter, beside an AC unit

Last night Eight Sleep Autopilot made 25 temperature adjustments throughout the night. I can’t speak to the specifics (I was sleeping!) but I did sleep well and was comfortable all night. 😴

Eight Sleep Autopilot chart showing 25 pod temperature adjustments made overnight from 10pm to 5am, trending warmer through the night.