Take 5, D.

Week Notes, 2025-08-10

Weekly Features from August 4th - August 10th:

📣 I normally write up the weekly update on Sundays, but because L. and I will be out of town on a three-day weekend getaway, I'm writing this a few days earlier than usual. This week's cutoff is at 1 PM on Thursday 08-07, so reports about our trip to Columbia and the Missouri State Fair will wait until the following weekly update.

☎︎ Due to being on-call this week, I spent far too much time close to home. Compared to my last job's on-call coverage, I receive significantly fewer calls now, but there's a tradeoff for that reduction in quantity as adherence to Service Level Agreements is much more strict here. Whenever I receive calls at Priority 1 or Priority 2 levels, I have exactly 15 minutes to reply before my boss and his boss get notified. If they get notified, I will have to talk with them about the delay in response, and I'd rather not have that conversation. Therefore, I do very little outside the house unless I'm prepared to drop everything to answer a call.

🧃 Both my iPhone and Mac were upgraded to the latest OS 26 Betas--Developer Beta 5 or Public Beta 2, in case you are curious. Liquid Glass looks and responds a bit faster on the iPhone than in the prior Beta. As for the Mac, I'm not seeing any major differences, and no, I don't count the changing of the HD icon to be "major."

😵‍💫 Between being on-call and my mother's first birthday since her passing, my mood has been all over the place this week. I have been sleeping well, but I still wake up cranky and agitated. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not socializing a lot this week! I never liked being on-call at my last job, as I would pre-worry about calls coming in and ruining my evening or night. While the calls are less frequent, and the shift coverage even more so, it's hard to get the old approach out of my head. As for my mother's almost 76th birthday, I think I am just going to have to get through Friday 08-08 and let that day pass.

🏞️ Since I was more or less homebound while on-call, I turned my attention to organizing some photos. I had let my collection of iOS and macOS wallpapers get way out of hand, and with the upcoming Liquid Glass interface hitting both platforms, I was overdue for cleaning out pictures that don't jibe well with the new look. My last count for iOS wallpapers was at 94, whereas the macOS wallpapers were at 665! Naturally, I found one more wallpaper to get the total to the "magic number," then started my cull from there. I'm happy to say that I nearly halved my totals, now down to 56 and 350, respectively.

🆕 I am still spelling out an explanation for the media files I'm noting below. This week, some further explanations and/or reactions to the *spins wheel of fortune* Listening links.

Other Things to Note from The Week That Was:

💫 Creating:

🏥 Health:

🎧 Listening:

🗄Organizing:

📖 Reading:

🌾 Socializing:

🧪 Testing:

📺 Watching:

🗃️ Work:

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