What are you doing today?

I used to cut my husband's hair, too, when he was alive, as both of us much preferred the way I could style it than the way some barbers hacked at it. His hair was fairly straight and not all that hard to trim once I really got the hang of it. No beard or mustache to worry about, though!
 
Did some additional Christmas shopping in the form of more Hue lights, work, had to pick my own Christmas present that work will gift me - good stuff. The Lego collection will grow, hehe. Love building with my son.

Other than that a quiet day. More audiobook streaming.
 
Clix Pix said:
I used to cut my husband's hair, too, when he was alive, as both of us much preferred the way I could style it than the way some barbers hacked at it. His hair was fairly straight and not all that hard to trim once I really got the hang of it. No beard or mustache to worry about, though!
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My wife also cuts mine, she just puts on a number 5 attachment on the electric clippers and buzzes me, then does all the necessary trimming. It's easy and look at how much money we've saved over the years!
 
With the offspring home, it was time to set up the Christmas tree. Since this may be our last year in this house, we decided to put up the 12' which we haven't used in years.

It was our first pre-lit tree and is beautiful, but half the lights on the lower 1/4 were out. So I spent a couple of hours removing all the factory installed lights. What a PITA. They are wrapped on their good and help with clips and zip ties.

The top 3/4 seems to be all working, so they will string lights on the bottom tomorrow.
 
I"m using Mother Nature's Xmas tree lights for this evening. 🤩 The Geminids (meteor showers from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon) will peak for this area and my particular location's terrain between 8 and 10 this evening, and for once it's a clear night for a great show, so I'm out the back door now for a look at free "Christmas lights".
 
FTFO as my saved password folder is currently empty. Have been trying to complete e-Checkin for an upcoming appointment and the saved password for the site wouldn't work. Went to Saved Passwords. Empty!

Emails still work. A few websites still work (including here, obviously). Was planning to update all iDevices this weekend as I like to wait a few days before jumping on updates. This couldn't come at a worst time. Hubby is finishing the semester and generally give his admin support for grading and quarterly review updates. Meeting up with several friends this weekend, some for the first time since before the Pandemic. And my important eye checkup since the two previous dates were postponed. My eyesight has suffered, probably because I'm reading more online and binge watching shows several times a month on my MBA or iPad.

Other than that, bloody fantastic day! :brickwall:
 
Work, then dentist.

In the afternoon waited for Tesco deliveries to arrive.

In the evening reading and watching some K-dramas.
 
A chat for around an hour with Decent Brother, where topics included our cousin, booster shots, and the travails & troubles (almost invariably self-inflicted) of the awful Boris Johnson.
 
Celebrating for a second evening the year's release at last of its approximately weeklong grasp of the blasted 16:27 sunset. Today it occurred for the second time at 16:28, and so even though sunrise continues to be later and later by minutes until just after Christmas, we've finally had the last of this late autumn's too-damn-early sunsets!

Gonna party with some Manu Chao music cranked up to an 8 while I scout up something festive for supper.
 
lizkat said:
Celebrating for a second evening the year's release at last of its approximately weeklong grasp of the blasted 16:27 sunset. Today it occurred for the second time at 16:28, and so even though sunrise continues to be later and later by minutes until just after Christmas, we've finally had the last of this late autumn's too-damn-early sunsets!

Gonna party with some Manu Chao music cranked up to an 8 while I scout up something festive for supper.
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Ah, Manu Chao. Wonderful.

Superb choice, perfect for this time of year.

Actually, I always think of Manu Chao as a sort of sunshine that happens to be bottled musically.
 
Eric said:
My wife also cuts mine, she just puts on a number 5 attachment on the electric clippers and buzzes me, then does all the necessary trimming. It's easy and look at how much money we've saved over the years!
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I’ve saved so much money having my mom cut my hair again. :p I started doing so when my favorite salon in Palo Alto shut down in 2020, but even since reopening, although I miss the place, I don’t miss paying $35 a month (or slightly more often) for it and haven’t been going. So as long as I’m living at home I think the home-cut is the option I’ll be going with.
 
TBL said:
I’ve saved so much money having my mom cut my hair again. :p I started doing so when my favorite salon in Palo Alto shut down in 2020, but even since reopening, although I miss the place, I don’t miss paying $35 a month (or slightly more often) for it and haven’t been going. So as long as I’m living at home I think the home-cut is the option I’ll be going with.
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I've gone a different route and just cut out the hair cuts altogether. Who am I going to impress, the people I come across downstairs in the kitchen? They have way too much dirt on me at this point for a simple haircut to influence their opinions. :LOL:
 
Clix Pix said:
Updating my software. Two machines done with Monterey 12.1 and one is still in process. After that, the iOS updates....
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I'm researching upgrading my 2016 intel MBP still running Mojave. You are far braver than me going to Monterey.

I think I've settled on Big Sur for now. I also have to update to Office 2021 (wanted 2019 but can't find it except on the gray market which makes me nervous). I know my current Office 2011 is ancient as the hills and won't work moving past Mojave. I need Office for work but do not want the 365 option.

I'm also researching what apps will work or not when I upgrade. Basically, my head hurts from reading everything and I want to run away from home.
 
shadow puppet said:
I know my current Office 2011 is ancient as the hills and won't work moving past Mojave. I need Office for work but do not want the 365 option.
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I am still running Office 2011 as well. It works just fine under Mojave so that is as good a reason as any to NOT upgrade my OS. I will keep running this one until the computer dies and then I will start over with probably 365. We have a family account for the offspring, but I never saw the need to upgrade as 2011 does all I need and more.
 
I am a firm believer in keeping one's machines reasonably up to date, so no machine in this household is still sporting an OS or iOS version that is one, two or more years old. IMHO that is just asking for trouble in a lot of ways, including security concerns. I usually wait a day or two, though, before updating to the latest upgrade or update -- MR is handy for seeing if there are a lot of reports of issues cropping up during the process -- and if all looks fine, I go ahead. Just completed all the updates today, except for the Apple Watch, which I'll do tomorrow.
 
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