This morning’s teas
I’m starting to keep this blog as a journal more than larger posts
It’s 48°F right now in Portland so a cup of tea sounds perfect.
Muhammad Usman
15 years of usmanity.com
It was the last day of 2009, last day of the 2000s and I had just come back home from working at the warehouse. The whole past week I had been thinking so hard about my life and what I wanted to do next. I had been out of high
End of year review, 2024
In last year's post, I focused mainly on my health. This year, I wanted to write a holistic review of my year and talk about things in addition to my health like work, pets, home life, and other things. First, let's start with health.
Health
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Samson and Rosie on Thanksgiving
This year, Rosie is the newcomer to the family but she is settling is well. Samson and her love going on walks so this is a photo (after many attempts) we were able to get of them.
My photography skills have definitely deteriorated so I will try to capture more
Formatting messages in iMessages (in iOS 18)
With iOS 18 and other recent Apple OS releases, Apple announced animated and formatted messages. At first, on iOS this looks like this:
But I wanted to share some more interesting shortcuts that I discovered on macOS by accident, you can actually format your messages using traditional text formatting shortcuts:
Showing photos to Heisenberg
I’m trying to notice the little moments in my daily life that are simple pleasures in grateful for.
“Simple pleasures” comes from the Bobby Mcferrin album and I like it a lot.
Yesterday, while I was heads down working, my cat Heisenberg came by and just sat in between
Who killed the squirrel?
I just sat down to write this because I couldn't stop thinking about what I experienced earlier today. I was talking on the phone with my sister so I was in the midst of conversation when I walked outside to the trash bins to throw away a bag