📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 5: Serene

Toba Inlet, British Columbia, aboard MV Indiscretion.

Waterfall, Toba Inlet, British Columbia

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 3: Card

A Father’s Day card from my son Connor in 2020 before he left home for college. He died in a motorcycle accident two years later. I usually toss cards, but I kept this one, and I treasure it. Hug your kids tonight.

Currently reading: Slow Horses by Mick Herron 📚

Lamb’s laugh wasn’t a genuine surrender to amusement; more of a temporary derangement. Not a laugh you’d want to hear from anyone holding a stick.

I enjoyed the TV series, but the book is even better.

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future. There are answers worth billions of dollars in a $30 history book.📚

Charlie Munger

Camped along the Colorado River here at Davis Camp on the Arizona-Nevada border. Smaller rigs can nose right up to the edge of the river. This is my kind of camping.

Adventure Van on the Colorado RiverColorado River at Davis Camp

Currently reading: Dune by Frank Herbert 📚

Rereading ahead of seeing the movie. I had forgotten how much I loved this book.

Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

This was a good book. I liked the characters and the storyline. The reasons Sam and Sadie found to be mad at the other were a little frustrating, but I think that’s ultimately the lesson they each needed to learn. The portrayal of grief and loss was really well done. ★★★★☆

Thank you @Annie for the recommendation!

Mac-only Apps

I’ve been evaluating Bear 2 to replace Craft for my reading notes and quasi-Zettelkasten for the past few weeks. I’ve used Craft for over three years, but that tool has morphed into a team note-taking and document-sharing platform that doesn’t mesh well with my needs anymore. My initial impressions of Bear have been quite positive. Here is an app with a calming, minimalist design, yet in many ways, has more power and capabilities than Craft. And best of all, it intuitively works like you’d expect. Like a Mac app.

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