My brand new iPhone 6 Plus has a problem! Either there is something stuck in the headphone jack (highly unlikely) or the jack is broken on the inside. I have an appointment at the Apple Store for tomorrow. In all of my apple gadgets and computers, this is the first actual hardware issue I’ve had. I hope my poor little baby is okay.
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Haircut
I’m about to get in a fight with a lawn mower.
NaSoAlMo Song #1
Hello and welcome to the first song finished for the 2014 NaSoAlMo. Aren’t you excited?? It’s more than seven minutes long and it’s got lots of 12-string guitar. It fits both of my mini-goals for the month. Hooray!
Not sure about the mix. It’s very late and I am 90% asleep, so who knows if it sounds good or not. Surely not me!
iCloud Drive
I just made my first practical use of iCloud Drive.
For most of the past year I have been recording new music using GarageBand for iPad. I’m not sure why, exactly. I think it’s because it’s portable. I don’t have to carry a lot of stuff around with me. Just the iPad, the adapter I use, and either a guitar or a microphone. Mixing demos on the iPad kinda sucks though. GarageBand on iOS is pretty limited in that respect, so I port the files over to my Mac and mix them in the full OS X GarageBand.
Prior to today I would export the iOS file to iTunes and pull it to my desktop, then open it in the full GarageBand. The two programs are not interchangeable though so I would save a copy as an OS X file and mix that.
With the latest updates though, I can now upload the iOS files to iCloud, and then import them directly from there to the OS X GarageBand. I still have to save a new copy, but I can eliminate the iTunes middle man, and get the whole thing done without having to plug the iPad into the Mac.
I just did it with NaSoAlMo song #1 which I finished recording today, and will mix tonight… if I can stay awake.
Out to Lunch
We are having lunch in Manchester after doing some bathroom remodeling research. Our table is interesting.
Why?
But what does it mean?
Weight Watchers Weigh In
The weigh in is complete and I was down, but only by 0.6 pounds. I’ll take it! That brings me to a 10 week total of 32.6. Every half pound(ish) counts, kids! Here’s to continued incremental weight loss success!
Saturday Morning
It’s 6:30am on Saturday and I’m awake. I’m out of bed. I’m not at all happy about it, but I am. We are getting ready to go to our weight watchers meeting.
I think I did okay this week. The between meal snacking seems to have gone up a little, but the actual meal time portions were generally way down. Hopefully it all evened out. I did not get any exercise in though, and that is upsetting. I need to start incorporating more of that if I want to keep getting good results.
I’m not sure what to expect today. I could be down. I could be up. It probably won’t be much either way. I’m not worried about it though because I feel like I did a decent job this week. If the numbers aren’t there today they will work out eventually.
I’m still staying positive.
iPhone Astrophotography
The moonlight was almost bright enough to read by tonight.
Old Orchard Beach Pier
I forgot I had this. This is the Old Orchard Beach pier. This is the place I was thinking of visiting for a sunrise pic this summer. It’s the only beach I know of around here (its actually an hour away from here) that has a big pier. I’m off work on Tuesday… maybe I’ll go for a sunrise-by-the-pier pic then.
