Notes for August 24–28

I came back to work this week, started catching up on everything, and decided to go out for groceries without an umbrella (it is still August, right?) and got drenched. That might be why I ended up having to take a day off–the fact that there was a virus rampaging through the household for a few days might have been entirely coincidental. But it removed all the momentum from my return to work and didn’t improve my ongoing shopping list of ailments (back, plantar fasciitis, etc.). Trying to get some exercise in by going to the pharmacy was not on my bingo card. Musings On Poverty Since misery loves company, I followed up on the other day by pulling up a spreadsheet and trying to figure out how deep I would be in the hole if I bought a new desktop Mac, and… nope. I don’t think I am going to buy any new Apple hardware this year (unless something critical breaks). In fact, maybe no hardware whatsoever except for reviews, which just feels weird. I got some very generous donations recently,…