Getting ready for something tasty. Happy New Year all!

Microsoft Autoupdate had an update to itself, but there were no subsequent Microsoft app updates. Bizarre.

Email subject from @LandsEnd: “Fleece Navidad!” 🙄

PSA. These holiday stamps are landscape-oriented, as the image shows. Without the image, I went for portrait. Oops. about.usps.com/news/nati…

Are you a small shop in Advertising / Branding / Marcom who loves @TextExpander? I’d like to meet you. Tell me more.

Just tried to use the @BBEdit command line tool on a remote server. Wishful thinking. Sadly, retreated to pico.

Congratulations, @danielpunkass / @redsweater on the release of @MarsEdit 4, complete with cool new icon: red-sweater.com/marsedit/

Holiday rehearsal. Empadão de Camarão.

Holiday cooking / baking PSA: butter takes a long time to get to room temperature. Put it out when you make morning coffee.

PSA: Broadchurch season 3 just dropped on @Netflix. Loved the first two seasons.

You know it’s that time of year when the emails start with:

Hi [FirstName,fallback=there],

Excited to see @TextExpander among @benthompson’s list of SaaS services he uses. Long-time @Stratechery subscriber. Highly recommended.

I should not swipe up to unlock my iPad. I should not swipe up to unlock my iPad. I should not swipe up…

Happy Birthday, @PeterMaurer and @MacTipsDaily! Twice in November, two Smile folks or Friends of Smile share the same birthday. 🍰

Ready.

Shout out to Printopia by @decisivetactics for letting me AirPrint to my non-AirPrint printer with ease (say that three times fast).

Fun fact: Our sewage treatment district @OroLomaSD has an excellent newsletter. I read it in full every time it arrives.

Favorite @TextExpander snippet during release process: ,spctl for: spctl -a -t exec -vvvv Favorite result: accepted

Help @AppCamp4Girls achieve their vision for 2020: smle.us/wrisl Check out their Fireside Chat series: smle.us/dfc0y

Added Cardhop to @TextExpander’s Brand Names public group to automate CamelCase resistance: smle.us/sogdk /cc @flexibits

Congrats @flexibits on the release of the new Cardhop contacts manager!

Wow! Core Intuition 300: smle.us/a478j. Congrats @danielpunkass, @manton2! AND a Membership Program: smle.us/lrfxp

PSA: @ttscoff is giving away a copy of the excellent new 60 Mac Tips, Vol 2 he co-authored with @macsparky: smle.us/f5dgl

Tonight’s paella in raw form.

Shishito peppers. Soon to be an appetizer.