What's it all about, Alfie?

Another year in the books, and another year for me. As a kid, my birthday was way too close to Christmas, but as I've gotten older, it's nice to have them close together. I don't have to worry about people making a fuss on my birthday, and I can be assured that most everyone will be thinking about, and making plans for, their New Year's Eve activities, and so don't really think much about me. It's almost like stealth birthday - which is just fine with me.

Today, I'm heading down to Indy to visit my siblings, and just enjoy the day. I'll be back later, and that's OK. I've got The Talk Show to listen to on the way down and back - and Gruber is without a doubt, one of the more entertaining talk show personalities to me. It's always a good listen. So on my birthday I get to have good food, good company, and something good to listen to.

I am so very grateful for it all.

It's another amazing Christmas, and all is quiet. Quiet times... noisy times... it's all a wonderful time of year to spend time with family and friends and enjoy the Season. It's time to enjoy a nice movie, or maybe a football game, and to have some special treats that you don't normally have - all to remember the traditions you grew up with.

Today I'll just be relaxing and enjoying the quiet. It's Sunday, so I'll send out my weekly texts to family and friends, and then sit back and enjoy the quiet of the day. It's just my favorite time of year. 🙂

This morning has been a Big Update morning to be sure... iOS 16.2, tvOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, and macOS 13.1 all ready to go from Apple, and so everything I had went through the update. It's nice to get things up to date, not just because some of the things I've seen in Safari on macOS and iPadOS are iffy... but it's a chance to get some little surprises as well.

One thing that I've read about that I didn't really like is the new What's Up on tvOS... it used to be the things in my list, and now it's almost advertising for the things that some folks think I might be interested in. Not a huge fan, and would love to have a way to get back to the way it was. We'll see...

Until then, things are humming along, and it's nice to get it all done in an early morning. 🙂

This morning I did the first day of the 2022 Advent of Code. What fun it is to get back into Clojure - for a month. If I thought it the least bit reasonable, I'd be doing back-end Clojurescript as it gets generated into Javascript in the same way that Typescript does, so it would run on the same stack with the same speed, etc. But it's just too big a leap for most folks, and it's not worth the education cycles.

But still... the simplicity of the language, and it's ability to run in highly multi-threaded environments is a huge win, and so it will remain one of my very favorite languages.