My normal morning routine is to get up, wander downstairs, make coffee in the Keurig and take my daily medications (allergies, reflux, vitamin D since I’m a home body who never gets sunlight), do some mobility work (shoulder spin up, 27 squats), then wander back upstairs, plug in various devices (phone, watch), open the laptop to read comics, sip coffee, etc. That’s a fair approximation of most mornings. This morning I disrupted that by making oven bacon and French press coffee. Almost forgot to take my drugs because it threw me off my rhythm. But both the coffee and the bacon were worth it.

Tried putting the bacon on two aluminum baking sheets, one on the lowest rack, in the cold oven, then setting it to 425. Once it hit 425, timer for 12 minutes, and done. The lower rack made very crisp bacon as the husband likes it, and the upper one was slightly softer like I prefer. I think we may have a winner. And of course it produced nice clean bacon fat to pour off for later cooking.

Decided this was the year to upgrade our various i-devices, so we’ve both gotten new iPads (a mini, in my case - I like the smaller size for caring around the house), and we picked up watches yesterday (walked into the Apple store and basically asked what models they had in stock; thankfully the red & green ones they had matched our favorite colors). Waiting to order phones for another week or two to make sure they don’t arrive while we’re out of town for Thanksgiving. We’ve skipped several generations of updates in each of these, so it was time. Expensive, but fun to have new toys to play with. I’m still getting used to the pen with the iPad, and I think I’m coming down on the side of “nice, but totally unnecessary”.

To my Mac using friends:

Other than mailing a photo, is there some way to change the size of photos in iPhoto 4? As in, cut down the pixels, etc., as if one were getting a photo ready to upload to LJ as an icon or the like.

I cannot seem to find a way to do it in version 4 and I'm trying to wait until I upgrade ye olde computer next to upgrade to the latest version of iPhoto. When I email photos it'll take them down to a size, but that seems cumbersome. Any way to alter them right in iPhoto itself? Thanks!