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Thursday: experimenting with Siri, reminders, Notes
I had a delightful phone call with J. So nice to catch up! It’ll be good to see her and the kids in about a week.
I had a visit with M. It is raining today. Like, all day, more or less.
I have been experimenting with Siri, Reminders and Notes. I’m trying to figure out what is an easy way for A. to keep track of her Questions that is NOT in her head. It seems like Siri cannot readily edit Notes (I mean, people claim to have some Shortcuts to make this work, but why). Using Siri to create Reminders strikes A. as more difficult than just typing something into Notes. We will see how this goes. So far, we are still keeping stuff either in a Note on my phone, or on the paper on the table.
We were going to download VDI’s “Driving Essentials” on the PS5, but then they realized they could do it on the XBox which A. has more familiarity with. Because we rarely use any of this amazing stuff we own, there were some updates and reboots and resetting passwords but eventually we got the thing started. A. didn’t really understand the game representation of side mirrors and rear view mirror, so I took her out to the car and had her sit in the driver’s seat and look at the mirrors.
She’s having dinner now, but we’ll see how this goes. The simulator has not great ratings online, however, the maker has all kinds of trad media plaudits so *shrug*. It wasn’t that expensive, and it seemed worth a shot.
ETA:
Biggest problem was figuring out how to get out of park. So far, anyway; we’re still in the tutorial.
I had a visit with M. It is raining today. Like, all day, more or less.
I have been experimenting with Siri, Reminders and Notes. I’m trying to figure out what is an easy way for A. to keep track of her Questions that is NOT in her head. It seems like Siri cannot readily edit Notes (I mean, people claim to have some Shortcuts to make this work, but why). Using Siri to create Reminders strikes A. as more difficult than just typing something into Notes. We will see how this goes. So far, we are still keeping stuff either in a Note on my phone, or on the paper on the table.
We were going to download VDI’s “Driving Essentials” on the PS5, but then they realized they could do it on the XBox which A. has more familiarity with. Because we rarely use any of this amazing stuff we own, there were some updates and reboots and resetting passwords but eventually we got the thing started. A. didn’t really understand the game representation of side mirrors and rear view mirror, so I took her out to the car and had her sit in the driver’s seat and look at the mirrors.
She’s having dinner now, but we’ll see how this goes. The simulator has not great ratings online, however, the maker has all kinds of trad media plaudits so *shrug*. It wasn’t that expensive, and it seemed worth a shot.
ETA:
Biggest problem was figuring out how to get out of park. So far, anyway; we’re still in the tutorial.