"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." ~ Epicurus

My plan for the next couple days is put some music on, get a bunch of the little things done, and weather the storm. I am used to prairie storms that roll in a lot quicker than these lumbering ocean ones. Example, I got emergency supplies 2-3 days before it is going to barely touch the city.

One typhoon observation I've noticed is the clouds. Before one arrives, there is an interesting two level thing that happens. There is a thick top layer like an overcast sky. There is also a really low layer of small pillow-like clouds that cruise by really quickly.

While rethinking how to dictate things into Drafts, I had an a-ha moment. I really just need to get a noun into the system quickly while I am out doing stuff. The nouns are the things that change the most in my tasks. The verbs are more or less kinda constant.

I set up a quick capture system using Drafts on the watch (dictation or typing), an Apple Shortcut to add a verb to the captured noun, and then the "sentence" gets sent to my to-do list inbox.

It isn't hard to type a verb for sure but this makes it so I don't have to type out hundreds and hundreds of verbs.

Very cool. ( ^ . ^ ) \m/

Finally saw the building that the original Three Monkeys are on at the Toshogu Shrine in Nikko, Japan. I wasn't expecting it to be as profound as it was. The area it is located in has thousands and thousands of carvings. It would take you days to look at all of them. Yet this one panel which is second out of five panels jumps out at you.

🙈🙉🙊

Shift-option-command-V is the shortcut for pasting text as Plain Text. If I was less lazy, I'd go change the keyboard shortcuts so that Command-V would paste as Plain Text.