Jennifer's 365 Project

There was a storm last night with a lot of wind blowing around. Amazingly the leaves Chris had raked into piles the day before mostly stayed put. Plus there was a weird stick standing straight up from the ground. Must have fallen from the tree and got stuck.

Quinn helped Chris assemble a new carpet cleaner that arrived today.

Sometimes I feel like there are too many notifications on my phone. And That's not even close to what Chris has going on most of the time.

I really wish you could get rid of that stupid S Finder and Quick connect that Samsung puts on their phones.

There's an interesting app in the Pebble Store called Battery+. It basically looks at your usage and tries to predict when you need to charge next, as well as how long it's been since the last charge.

I'd really like it if it could point to which app or watch face had what sort of drain on the life of the Pebble. But it's still neat, even if it doesn't give you that much detail.

Ok, not really. But I did manage to break the snail mail notifier. More specifically, I messed up the 703N router in the box. We upgraded the wifi last night, including finally updating the security since we've gotten rid of some legacy devices.

So I got into the one in Quinn's room (that had been a backup wifi router) and made the changes no problem. Confident that I knew what to do, I went into the one for the snail mail notifier. And somehow in my rush to get it done in between Quinn crying for attention, I locked myself out of the box.

So now the mail notifier is broken. Along with the pinoccio I was going to set up (that worked right before Quinn was born!).

All before 9am. Today is an annoying day.

Grandma Karath and Uncle Scot came to visit! Quinn really enjoyed all of the jewelry that grandma wore.
And had a lot of fun using Uncle Scot as a jungle gym.

What I said was "sock thief". That is most definitely not what the Pebble Time heard...

Kudos to them for having a robust dictionary available. I'm still fighting with my Samsung S5 to learn some words I've been using frequently for the last two years.

We've been using these empty boxes as barriers to prevent Quinn from getting up the stairs. But he's finally figured out he can just push them out of the way.

It's only a matter of time before he gets them completely clear and makes a break up the stairs.

Chris set Quinn up in the playpen out side right before I left at lunch to go back to work. It's a beautiful, warm fall day so he's taking advantage of the weather and clearing away all of the leaves that have fallen in the last few days.

It's election day today! So at lunch we headed over to vote! Quinn had fun and the women running the voting precinct enjoyed him.

the built in music app for the Pebble Time (and Pebble) are one of the weakest features of the watch, in my opinion. So I broke down and picked up Music Boss. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good and it lets me assign a specific app to launch as opposed to trying to launch the default Google Music App. Since my preferred app is Audible, Music Boss is working like a charm.

The interesting feature with Music Boss is you can set it to show the cover art of what you're playing. Since I'm listening to an audiobook, it just shows me half of a book cover.

Amusing.

We went out this afternoon to Best Buy to look at the Pebble Time that was on sale. I wasn't going to get it, even though I've really wanted one, but Chris convinced me to pick it up.

I am not disappointed. It's an amazing upgrade from the Pebble (which I love).

The color is nice, the display is always on (unlike Chris's Samsung Galaxy Gear watch), readable in the sun, and no longer has the app limit that the original Pebble does.

Plus it has a microphone and you can do short dictations. And the notifications are more robust.

I'm really happy it's less bulky than the original Pebble as well. I love that watch but it's a behemoth on my wrist.