Changelog Digest

I didn't really need to buy Connor a new iPhone for his graduation, but I made him the offer since that was what I gave Will when he graduated, and he took me up on it. Connor had been using the iPhone SE that I had bought as an extra family phone 4 years ago, and although it's still in good condition, it's definitely dated. He picked out a basic iPhone 16 in teal green, but only after I demonstrated that he could disable the so-called Apple Intelligence features.

I also didn't really need a new Kindle, either, but Amazon was having a sale recently, and I got an additional discount from trading in the kids' Echo Dot devices, which were at least six years old and had barely been used in all that time. In fact, when we moved house last year, I had boxed them back up in their original packaging, so they might have fetched even more on the resale market than what I got for trading them in. At any rate, my new Kindle is more responsive than the old one, has a slightly better screen, about twice as much storage space, and charges via standard USB-C. The only downside I've found so far is that Calibre on my laptop can't sync with it; I have to use Amazon's USB File Manager app. And I still can't sideload EPUBs directly.

I guess I will deregister my old Kindle and offer it to Robby to use. In the past, whenever he has wanted to read an ebook, he's used the Kindle iOS app on one of my old iPads. If he doesn't want the Kindle, maybe I'll load the Discworld books onto it for Connor, since he never did get around to reading them before they disappeared into moving boxes. (Although he has plenty of other books that aren't packed away... he's currently working his way through One Hundred Years of Solitude.)

Yesterday provided some much needed D&D silliness, including an airball match between our DM's versions of the Yankees and the Red Sox. (Yes, we invented a new sport for magic users.) It ended with us on a pirate ship with a literal skeleton crew, emerging from a cavern where it had been trapped for 100 years. The DM was trying for a PotC callback, but when I said it sounded more like the end of The Goonies, he confessed that he had never seen it. I realized that on reflection, I remember that movie fondly because it was about a mystery hunt.

My mom came over for lunch today and we watched some baseball. I always enjoy the games on Mother's Day because the players wear pink gear and use pink bats. She gave me the digital code for A Complete Unknown that came with her copy of the DVD, so I might try to watch that soon. We also talked a bit about the Red Sox clubhouse Netflix series, which we've both seen now. She's more keen on watching their games now that she knows who more of the players are. (Alas, Triston Casas is out for the year.)

I may try to watch Andor soon since I keep hearing good things about it. I've also marked my calendar for the Murderbot season premiere on Friday, and LEGO Masters is going to air over the summer this year.