Saturday: runaway process on Watch, probably?

Yesterday, my Watch told me it was down to 10%. I was surprised? I took it off and put it on the charger, thinking, maybe it didn’t charge fully the night before — sometimes I bump it off the charger during the night. Anyway. Took _forever_ to partially charge, figured, oh well, it’ll be better in the morning.

Nope.

It did fully charge and was hot when I took it off the charger. 5 minutes later, it was already down to 98%. A half hour later, it was at 88% while I frantically tried to figure out what the hell was going on. I put it on the charger and it charged very slowly. I turned processes off. No improvement. I turned it off and turned it on again, and put it back on the charger. I took it upstairs in my pocket, thinking when I’d trying unpairing and re-pairing next, but in my pocket it thought I was tapping an entry code so it timed me out. Ooops. When I got it back on my wrist, I decided to give it a few minutes. It’s All Better Now. We think there was some kind of runaway process and turning it off cleared it out.

So I don’t need to go order a Watch 8, which is fine, altho that does have a pulse oximeter in it. But I don’t think that’s temptation enough. Altho I did tell A. I’d get her a new Watch. Hmmm.

Convention hotels continue to struggle

https://www.ajc.com/news/sheraton-atlanta-hotel-in-downtown-faces-foreclosure/EV26CDQUR5AWJH4YTHH4LR5IHQ/

A Marriott for most of its life, Arden bought it in 2017, Legionnaire’s hit in 2019 and I think we all still remember what happened after that. This mostly business travel hotel is still well below pre-pandemic peak traffic.

The article has a couple of amazing paragraphs near the end:

“Downtown properties have been the first to feel the weight of rising interest rates and changing workplace trends, but real estate analysts predict the effects will continue. Tierney expects more building owners, especially those with older assets, may decide that foreclosure is the best option.

“They’re looking two-to-five years out and they don’t see a rebound,” he said. “So why try to catch a falling knife when you can just drop it right now, walk away and let the commercial bank deal with it.””

For a while, I blogged on and off about the predicted return to the office and chuckled at its perpetual pushing off further into the future, and reduction in expectations. I guess this is one of the last gasps of that theme? From here on out, it will be less about How Are People Going to Be Forced Back to the Office And Will It Be Fulltime and it’s going to be more generally about the evolution of work and travel.

(Unrelated, other than being by the same reporter, and also Atlanta property related: https://www.ajc.com/news/exclusive-mjq-concourse-moving-down-the-hatch-to-underground-atlanta/E23TGQDEWVA5PGXLW55JKJX27I/ So. Freaking. Cool. I hope it happens. Maybe I’ll go check it out in a few years.)

Why Do Crypto Folk Keep Agreeing to be on Odd Lots?

SBF went on, and poof. In jail.

Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong went on, less than a week later, poof. USDC breaks its peg.

No one cares about my opinion, but there’s a real pattern developing. Crypto dude on Odd Lots. More collapse. Now, _to be fair_, I don’t think that staying _off_ of Odd Lots would help them anyway. Odd Lots is turning into some kind of Road Kill Predictor, the Crypto Vultures of Podcasts, if you will.

But still. Why.

I am of course pleased to see further reduction in a bubble that was terrifying me a year ago, but now only inspires schadenfreude.