Jesus Christ on his bicycle of love it’s cold enough to freeze a witches tit out there. Went for a woodland dog walk with Di today. The puddles were frozen solid. As in six inches of ice solid. We did the usual ten thousand steps over ninety minutes but gawd were my fingers and toes frozen solid when I got home
Never wanted to, but what am I to do? Can’t help it…
Bought the new MacBook Pro 13” with M1 chip this week. Oh sweet baby Jesus what a beautiful beast of a machine she is. Let’s be honest here; I’ve always been an apple fan boy. Kind of fell out of love for a while and convinced myself of Android supremacy but oh my gawd was I wrong. The speed of the new Mac compared to my pixel book is beyond compare. Plus the design. I’m not kidding when I say the surround sound from the laptop speakers is better than my home tv and Yamaha sound bar. I’m blown away!
It’s hard to believe that it is almost three months since we all went back into lockdown. For the most part I have not let the house. Crazy world that we live in.
it does however look like we might have some light at the of the tunnel with an announcement due from the government on the 22nd. I suspect that will be one of the highest rated tv shows of the year with the entire population glued to their screens in anticipation of whatever they plan to announce.
I don’t expect to have any foreign travel this year but hopefully local trips will be allowed once more. My three long weekend camping trips may be just the ticket for letting off some steam.
count down is commencing…..10….
We’ve got a problem. Yup indeed we do. Although they say it will be seamless to move from one provider to another they all try to make it as painful as possible to keep you with them.
Moving email from google to ProtonMail is painful. Moving photos from google to iPhoto is painful.
Moving contacts from google to iPhone is painful.
all in all not a good week so far.
No matter how many times they say they have created tools to make it easy for users to transfer from one provider to another that’s just not actually real life.
I’m now on day two of trying to get all of my contacts from google synced to my iPhone. Absolute nightmare. Getting the photos exported will take days and I expect any roadblocks along the way.
Tried to import the important emails from gmail to ProtonMail yesterday. Google blocked it because it was insecure. ProtonMail is the most secure client out there.
As I said. Never assume it’s going to be easy.
To data freedom. It’s quite concerning how concerned I am about this whole privacy drive. I’m actually anxious about it. That in itself feels quite weird. I am so tied to technology that the thought of even trying something new is a little worrying.
There are so many things I have to do before I can really cut the Google/facebook cord.
Of all these tasks the important email task will be the most difficult. I know I’m going to miss something in the 3.5gb email inbox I currently run. Or inadvertently delete something in the mass clear out. Luckily I track all important logins in a password safe so I can easily go through them and change the account. I haven’t decided on what my final account will be. I’m assuming it will be the protonmail account, or potentially a spookydaffodils redirect.
Yesterday I took a major step by ordering a new iPhone and macbook. I guess this is really happening. Am I going over the top here? It feels like a possibility. Once I have the two set up I’m going to start the process of wiping accounts.
Interesting conversation with some of my colleagues this week. Apparently in Europe and the US the news outlets are saying the UK had been diverting vaccine doses from AZ Belgian plants to England (before they experienced the supply chain issues) which is why the whole debacle over the EU insisting UK product be shipped to Europe kicked off. Interesting that we did not get that news on the telly box over here. Makes you wonder who’s spinning what.
Well it’s the weekend but if the truth be known it might as well be Wednesday as the only difference is I don’t have any conference calls. Every day is starting the meld into the other. We are expecting a lot of rain and possibly some snow today. I will try to get to the allotments to do a bit more prep work this afternoon. I was expecting my seed propogater to arrive by now but its been delayed to the end of the month. Fingers crossed it doesn’t extend past that or I’ll never get anything planted.
It’s my second drink and smoke free month. Head feels like a truck drove through it. Is this withdrawal symptoms or just brain damage? Really hoping that by the end of the month I can return to some form of normality.
What drives dreams? If the ministry of imagination is responsible for the production of dreams the staff in my ministry have been smoking pot. Just woke up after dreaming I was on a ferry to gawd knows where. I discovered I’d had a second dog for years who secretivley followed me everywhere. The ferry company stored pea based rice cake type snacks in the bathroom so I pinched some and headed out to the car desk only to discover I’d lost the car. I’m assuming it’s time to get up and take a pee.