While visiting the Santa Monica pier, there was a plane flying overhead with a banner advertising Stella Rosa wine. All of the feels were hitting, our first daughter passed away in 2015 and her name is Stella Rose. Seeing her little sister looking up at the banner and saying, “it’s Stella”, was bittersweet. It’s always hard on family vacations, missing her, but I always love seeing her name pop up in random moments like this.

People standing at the end of the Santa Monica pier. A plane carrying a banner is flying overhead.

“I hope that I get all of my wiggles and jiggles out.” Our daughter before getting on our 11 hour flight. Yes, I hope that she got them all out or it’s gonna be a long flight. 🤪

Focus mode is set. After the past few months of work, I am ready for this vacation. Going to enjoy the next two weeks in California.

Focus mode setting in the iOS Control Center. It is set to vacation focus mode.

No bow ties allowed? That’s kind of harsh.

Black and white photo propped up on a table. The photo is of a man smoking a pipe with a red line across the photo from the t

Just spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to set up my daughters Microsoft account so that she could play with friends on Minecraft. I couldn’t manage her settings properly through my Microsoft account, even though we are set up as a family. I had to create an Xbox gamertag before I could see all of the options. Such a convoluted mess with things spread across so many different accounts and not obvious or clear at all on what you’re supposed to do.

Talk about a temperature shift next week. I may need to get my coat out of the cellar.

Image from the app Mercury with the current temperature of 38° Celsius showing for Düsseldorf, Germany. With the weekly forec

I do think that things feel a bit snappier in iOS 27 on my 17 Pro. It’s been a few years since I haven’t noticed some weird performance behavior immediately in beta 1. This feels promising.