It was so windy today that it deserves a blog post. I was carry two heavy bags of groceries and they we’re getting lifted by the gusts. 

Two days in to the animation class. There is a lot of use of graphs and timelines which I am into. Also, the underlying theme, so far, is animation uses a lot of physics. Things fall, bounce, squish, stretch, and overshoot a bit when they stop.

I am starting a one month animation class tomorrow. Thought it would a cool self present for my upcoming birthday. At first I thought I would start it on my actual birthday but why wait to start learning. I am very curious to see if my skill levels up. 

A couple of things that always bring me joy are:

The "you can do this with Javascript" person on a CSS thread. It's like someone going to a thread about speaking French and saying "you can say this in Spanish".

When a podcast DJ plays an album at the wrong speed, fixes the speed, and leaves it on the recording. It is a signal to me that this is a show that I need to keep listening to.

I wasn't expecting to be so happy from an iOS update but this last one fixes something huge for me. Before the update everytime my partner or bandmate or friend sent me a message, Siri would say...

"So-and-so sent you a message that I can't read"

Yesterday after the update, Siri read all the Japanese messages in Japanese. It was such a relief. All that info that I usually had to pull the phone out to read was "magically" in my ear.

You don't notice a lot of updates but when they get around to one that affect you, it feels amazing.