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06/02/2025 to 06/08/2025

On Monday, Tiffany’s Apple Watch Series 5 that she got in 2020 unfortunately met the concrete floor in the garage. The face completely shattered, and it is no longer usable. RIP💀 The Apple Watch Series 2 she got in 2016 has been on the bottom of Pokegama Lake since 2020 so she can't use that. So being the gentleman I am (and being the individual responsible for her previous watch ending up in the lake), on Friday I gave her my Series 5, and I have gone back to using my Series 2. We will need to upgrade our watch situation at some point. It will be interesting to see how she like a larger watch.

AND not to be outdone by my wife, on Friday we sat on the dock to watch some loons and my iPhone Xs, that I purchased in 2019, fell out of my pocket into the lake. RIP 💀 I find it ironic that my iPhone 6s Plus met the same exact fate in 2016. I probably was wearing the same sweatpants that had the loose pocket that both phones fell out of.

Thank God for entropy or we would never upgrade our devices. 😊 Tiffany ordered me an iPhone 16 Pro Titanium Black 512 GB. And after reading my brother's, Jamie Thingelstad, review of Mujjo leather case for iPhone 16 Pro, she ordered me one as well.👍

My replacement phone will not arrive until Tuesday, so I had to get creative. It turns out that enough of my iPhone Xs still worked that allowed my Apple watch to be still connected to it. This allowed me to acknowledge notifications on my watch from my phone to be able to log into required work systems. I then fired up Andrews old iPhone 6s that has a bad battery and used that to be able to send/receive messages. What a cluster but at least I’m still in business!

While interacting with ChatGPT during the week about creating networking exercises using windows command prompt, I had one of those epiphanies and realized how useful batch files (.bat) in windows and shell files (.sh) in Unix or Linux are. I never realized I could use a shell script, instead of a make file, for compiling C code for example – not that one is better than the other. It's fun to bounce ideas off AI and end up with serendipitous knowledge.

Tuesday, we had a dive team meeting.

Scuba diving 🤿 in Tioga on Thursday afternoon. More entropy, dive computer battery was dead, GoPro battery dead, and nasty brown sludge spill to clean up in dive kit. After brushing the cobwebs off, I ended up having a great dive with Rich, Bill, Thomas, and Jon. Visibility was ocean worthy and the abyss of Tioga called me back. After the dive, I grilled hamburgers and Tiff made asparagus that we had picked within the last few days.

Friday, we deep fried some Walleye that Steve had given us and then attempted to watch Hamilton on Disney Plus; we made it about 3/4th through before our attention span ran out – it's a long musical.

Saturday evening, we watched Alone. Surprisingly, Tiffany had picked this movie. It was extremely intense and violent. A storm front moved through late in the evening and dropped a decent amount of rain. I really need to get grass seed put down where I removed the two stumps from.

Sunday, I started the work week a day early.

End of blog. Thank you for reading!