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Why walk when you can dance, why talk when you can sing?

Is anyone having trouble with the precipitation map in Apple Weather? The still map will show precip, but if I’m lucky I might get one rectangular corner of the animated map showing anything and the rest is blank. iPhone, iPad, Mac, all latest OSes. My wife’s, too.

I went to an actual bookstore yesterday and bought some actual books. I forgot how “dangerous” bookstores are. I could have left with many, many more.

Miles: The Autobiography
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

I Just Turned 55

Sometimes I write songs, but sometimes I write parodies. I’ve written a few since high school, just for fun. The idea comes to me and it usually goes pretty easily. This one came to me recently, I have no idea where the idea came from though. 😉

(With full apologies to Sammy Hagar)

**I Just Turned 55**

One foot on the brake, and one on the gas, hey
There’s so much traffic, driving past me
So I tried my best to get outta the way
I saw lots of middle fingers and heard honking all day

Go on and pass me doin’ 65
I may be old but I’m still alive
Suspend my license, check my eyes
I just turned 55, oh no, ow

So I’m tryin’ to exit number 24, hey
But I can’t wait any more, huh
I was getting passed left and right
At this rate, I’ll be stuck here all night
But damn, I gotta pee

Pass me doin’ 65
I may be old but I’m still alive
Suspend my license, check my eyes
I just turned 55

(I just turned 55)
(I just turned 55)
(I just turned 55)
(I just turned) 55, ow!

When I drive on the road, you know it’s hard to see
And I have to stop all the time just to pee
What used to take two hours now takes all day
Huh, it took me 16 hours to get to L.A.

Go on and pass me doin’ 65
I may be old but I’m still alive
Suspend my license, check my eyes
I just turned 55

Oh no, no, I just turned (I just turned 55)
I just turned (I just turned 55)
(I just turned 55)
(I just turned 55)

Oh good, my last post was almost the exact same gripe as from a month ago. I thought it felt familiar. Sorry for the redundancy.

I think it’s dumb that most weather forecasts talk about the lows on “Wednesday night” when they actually mean the low temp on Thursday morning, just before sunrise. Who thinks of anytime after 2 or 3 am as part of the previous day’s night? Apple’s Weather app gets this right.

[apple.news](https://apple.news/AhgFUxuzlT9SDjUvTS6zirQ)

> Despite Everything You Think You Know, America Is on the Right Track – The Atlantic

Last September I paid $200 to replace the battery in my 2018 MacBook Pro. Last weekend it was completely dead. Apple is telling me it will be $678+tax to send it to a repair center. Could it cost even more to repair? I couldn’t tell from her answer.

Fix it or replace it?