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CalSync is a program that generates planners for the Remarkable line of products. You can find it at https://www.einkpads.com/pages/calsync-unlimited-planners-and-calendar-sync-for-remarkable

There are some security concerns, but so far it hasn’t been an issue.

First, I have been intrigued by the line of Remarkable tablets for some time. I saw one in person a few years ago, but I was still holding out. Frankly, since I got my Move, and then the Pro, I have only been using my iPad for online Piano lessons.

I currently have my personal calendars on Apple, and I also get Indy, F1, and F2 calendars on calSync.

The program preserves your handwritten notes, so I am keeping a food diary on one page and daily notes on another.

The Move is great and I carry it around. I have crochet totes for each device to make it easier to carry them. They have matching covers, which look like regular notebooks.

Here are the really fun features of the CalSync planners. The first page shows your current events. There is a “today” link on each page that takes you to that days planner page.

You can have as many pages attached to the planner that you want — BUT if you add or delete a page after you have set up the planner, it will mess up your handwritten pages.

My husband didn’t think so, but that means I will just get tickets for me.

I purchased a 3 day parking pass, two three day general admission passes, a paddock pass and two grandstand pass. I bought the GA passes the day they were available. Next time I will wait until we have weather forecasts.

Next time, I will get one better seat for race day, cheap grandstand for qualifying and GA for the first day. I will also get a parking pass and a paddock pass. I will get seats closer to the paddock.

Hopefully, I won’t need my walker but it did come in handy for the lines. There were bridges over the track which were extremely steep but people took my walker for me each time. I think I need a cane with a seat.

The paddock pass was wonderful. I met Sting Ray Robb and Conor Daly. I will confess that I stalked Conor as I would like to help him train his puppy as a diabetes alert dog.

I went to a meet and greet Friday and met Christian Rasmussen. Summer really enjoyed him.

The parking pass was invaluable as I knew exactly where to go each day, both arriving and leaving.

I’m taking a class at Dallas College –> Advanced Mobile Programming and it uses a book: KotlinAndriodStudioKoala

I ran into some capability issues in Chapter 25 so I tried the Fix with AI button.

Here’s what happened:

Here is a video on how I fixed the issues I had with section 45.2 

Again on section 45.3 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJTLeocla4

Also section 45.6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DEPmtKVyLs

It took two updates but now, when my HomePod alarm goes off, it plays music instead of beeping at me.

I’m a bit addicted to HomePods. I also have a bit of an unusual house layout. I basically have two bedrooms and a bathroom connected with a hallway.

I like to wake up with my Apple Watch (told you I was addicted), and listen to music as I wake up and get moving for the day. I had set up a HomePod pair so that they would start playing the same music in each room. I can then hear the same music no matter which room I am in.

The latest update broke that. It changed the existing alarms to tone only.

I had to pair the two HomePods first, then add the alarms to each. Oddly I can’t do that with the Home app on my Mac, but can on my iPhone. The Mac app will only allow me to add a tone alarm.

I basically had to add the alarm to each home pod manually. A bit of a pain.

I hate paper.

I lose it. The dogs eat it. Yep, two year old beagle likes to eat my paper.

Now my handwriting sucks. But I am taking classes and taking notes really does help it stay longer. Taking notes and doing at the same time is the best.

Now my handwriting sucks because I don’t do it much but it is getting better.

Texas has a thing called a senior waiver. It means that I can take up to 12 hours at any state supported college. I started with Dallas Community College because there are several campuses close to me.

This summer I took Java and Fundamentals of Cloud Computing. The Java I had taught for years but they covered topic outside of what I taught. I have hosted some websites with Azure but not much. Unfortunately, it didn’t dawn on me that I was preping for a certification test.

This fall, I am taking C# and Mobile Application Development. We are on Hello World with each class.

The Mobile Application Development course is in person and using a platform called Thunkable. It resembles Scratch and Alice. In other words, it’s a drag and drop language. You can see it at Thunkable.com.

Of course, the only reason you would know I moved is that the design is totally different.

Typepad is shutting down so I’m trying a new site.

If you try to open your assignment and you get a GitHub, page not found, you are logged into the wrong repository.

Just close all your accounts and open the correct one.

I’m taking a class at Dallas College.  Programming in Java.  I wanted to see if there was a better way to teach Java.  Well, they are doing it the same way we have been doing it for decades.

Disappointed in the instructor but that’s another post.

We are using an electronic book, and the exercises are in MindTap by Cengage.  It ties until GitHub and does some magical stuff.  On July 3, I was happily working on assignments when the system failed.

I contacted Cengage and they were already on holiday and couldn’t help until Monday.  So I did some digging and I discovered that I really didn’t want everything in my GitHub account anyway.  I decided to create a new account using my Dallas College login.  It took a lot of effort and a whole bunch of scary messages but I finally got everything working again.  I’m. Be moving the repository out of my main GitHub account soon.  

Specifically, I got an email from the repository that says that "Run checks: Some jobs were not successful".

On going to GitHub, it said:

run-checks