Apple Fitness+: If you bought a piece of equipment or are considering taking a class or signing up for a membership for something, Apple Fitness+ might be a good first step. I have used it for a few things, primarily rowing. It’s a good mix of motivation, data, and structure, technical enough that there’s room to grow, but always beginner friendly. (The word “inclusive” comes to mind.) Rowing with Josh and Ana kept me busy from January 2023 into May without having to repeat many 30-minute workouts, and Apple continues to add more.

Air Fryer Chickpeas: Kaycee Ray’s has a version on their menu, and they are delicious. This recipe is a good place to start. I want to try air drying the beans for a bit next time. Warning: the beans may pop a bit near the end of cooking.

This marinade for your grilled chicken. Nice char.

I have no problem with my daily caffeine jags, but I’ll try anything once.

• Sneakerasers: these are Mr. Clean Magic Erasers for the white rubber trim on your sneakers. Made famous on Shark Tank, they definitely do the job.
• Flippers Custard: My first memory of custard as a child (custard twist with candy eyes) is from Flippers. They make their own custard, and was made one of Pete Genovese’s Best of… lists.
• Sweet Amalia oysters: These oysters are locally famous for being a product of South Jersey and delicious. You can sometimes get them at the Newfield restaurant, but they might be on tap at your favorite oyster bar.

1. Steamed Blueclaw crabs: like golf and cycling, crabs are often forgotten after Labor Day, an out-of-season treat for another day. But crabs are most available in the fall, and sometimes stick around until Thanksgiving.

2. The Dry Rose at Bellview Winery

3. Sweet Amalia Oysters: these aren’t always available at their namesake store, but they were at the Samson Street Oyster House last night.

A notch better than all previous efforts. Lost focus near the end a bit and dropped some watts. The quest for 40 mins continues apace.

After making serial cups in the original Aeropress, I can make two cups at a time with the big brother.

Shooting for sub-20 mins. But this felt good.

Do hard things.

1. Harlan Coben’s Shelter on Amazon Prime. It’s a series based on a tweener novel. Dark and fun.
2. Soft-boiled egg: seven minutes at a gentle boil.
3. This Pina Colada recipe.

I’ve been using OneNote for a while now, and I was going through my notes and saw this one (from a class I’m taking) and thought that it was a good example of why I like it. You can take notes using a stylus. You can type. You can drop screenshots into it. It’s all of the ways you probably collect information, and it’s very much like a modern version of an old-school notebook. It looks like one of my college notebooks, but with some typing. I love drawing lines to connect ideas, referring back to something I wrote earlier. There’s some weirdness to the application and it will be hard to move to another tool if I ever decide to. But I was always curious about it since I read an article by James Fallowes.

The next largely mechanical task is saving material you come across in your work, whether it is something unexpected on the Internet or the result of more purposeful research. There are countless tools of this sort; the one I now use is OneNote 2007 from Microsoft. I like it because it can handle almost any kind of information—Web clippings, PDFs, audio or video files, straight text—and index it for quick retrieval. It also has an elegant feature that makes capturing information utterly painless. When something you want to save is on your computer’s screen, you can press a button or two and “print” that blog posting—or photo, or e-mail, or online receipt—to your OneNote file. It’s like storing paper documents in folders, except that it’s faster, easier, and more reliable when you look for the material later on. Microsoft has made other Office programs available for the Mac, but not yet OneNote. Scrivener, a new research and writing application, is what I would try on the Mac.

Logitech Keys to Go are back

Some great things to check out:

• Bonesaw Brewing’s Subarashi
• 5 Points veal Parm
• Twilight Zone on Amazon Freevee

I’ve listened to this song a number of times, and never realized that the lyrics were about Blade Runner.