Fresh starts don’t need a specific date.
They do need a decision followed up with action.
Chris
Roll Over Beethoven
“Art alone deterred me. How could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?”
—Ludwig van Beethoven
New Additions to the Library
Time to read and apply
Standard E-Books
I just learned about Standard Ebooks on Twitter today and am impressed. Carefully edited with modern typography, these free, public domain books are beautiful.
One More
One more trip around the sun starts today
Remove/Add
Deleted Facebook: Life Improved
Canceled TV: Life Improved
Eliminated “The News”: Life Improved
Sometimes the best things in life is not what you add, they are what you remove.
Idleness
“Idleness is one of the foundations of creativity. The one that is easily overlooked – and often the most important. It’s amazing what your brain can come up with when you give it the time and space to sort everything out.”
Someone
Mastering Time
“While you are alone you are entirely your own master.”
Leonardo of Venice
Apple Annoyed Me Today
There were two incidents today that was a bit of surprise coming from Apple. The free trial period for the Apple One services bundle expired yesterday and the $30 payment was processed. This is fine and expected because I fully intend to use these services including Apple Fitness+. However, Fitness has yet to be released and with no specific release date but decided to charge the full amount. When asking Apple Support they simply said they could cancel the services but no refund. So…thanks for stealing my money by not providing the full advertised services in the bundle!
The second annoyance was inside the Apple News service. This is included in the aforementioned bundle as a paid service. So why then, does Apple include advertising? What other service can you think of where they put banner ads in your face? They don’t. Again, when asked, “The subscriptions do not cancel the advertisements.”
Don’t Shave December
Because the beard is coming along so nicely since I decided to commit to “No Shave November” I have decided to keep it going throughout this next month as well.
After I start losing weight again, hopefully in my face too, the beard should be coming off in Spring 2020.
Thirty Days
On November 1st, I declared that it is time to write. In addition to writing about Angkor, I have updated this website every day this month.
The Angkor effort came in at 10,121 words this month, more than ever but still lacking. I have not edited anything and it probably shows.
I think I will focus on my photography this next month as well as catching up on my reading.