But as a Southerner, I absolutely agree with your first statement.

You lived in the UK long enough to know that pretty much anything qualifies as a “pie” or a “pudding”.

You should go back to see this. The engineering alone is awesome.

Parallels is the smoothest experience that I’ve had with Windows locally.

However, for me, I’ve had fewer reasons to run Windows at all and cloud based machines have been more than adequate for my use cases.

So we recommend pairing, but we call it “learn by doing”. The expectation is that the driver is the person is who is less experienced and the coach is in the passenger seat. They’re not always seated side by side. They COULD be, but sometimes they’re just available to answer questions when needed

My wife used the money from her last Christmas card to buy a Dutch oven of her own, and every year she makes apple dumplings for her grandma. She’s teaching our son how to make them.

Every time I see that red pot I think about Lilah and smile. I smile more at times like these.

Grandma Lilah was an amazing cook. She lived in an old farmhouse all by herself out in the middle of nowhere and she used to make these things called apple dumplings in an old Dutch oven.

She passed in early January 2000.

I like how “Fire” is listed as the last outcome of the description.

Because that’s what will happen.

Yeah. I’m not looking forward to the trip home for Thanksgiving this year.

But to quote one of my favorite singers, Paul Thorn:

“I don’t like half the folks I love”.

And for me, as a recovering political junkie, I’m enjoying interacting with people on common ground while gently agreeing to tread very lightly around uncommon subjects.

We’ve been so inhumane for so long to each other; it’s going to take time to build trust again.

However, I’ve yet to find another data query language that feels like it’s worth starting over for. They all end up being similar enough to SQL that people just make them SQL in the end.

I’m so far removed from the hands on keyboard space these days that I doubt my opinion is valid much anymore, but I always wonder where the tipping point is for “starting over”.

SQL has morphed into such a powerful tool, but it has baggage.

I know @kendralittle.bsky.social did something with static something or others a while back. Haven’t looked at it closely, but curious if there were other options on the table for folks aging out of the blogging game.