Kona – Day 54

Sunset yesterday.

Never miss a sunrise or a sunset.
I did spring into action today and did “leaving” stuff. But not without a last walk to Honls.

Viking Neptune

Surprise. There is a cruise ship. It seems to just be making a little Xmas jaunt to Hawai’i from LA. I could do that. Now that I am old.

Xmas 23.

I am all checked in for my flights. All I have left in the cupboards is ½ a jar of peanut butter and a little jelly. There’s enough coffee and a banana to get me going tomorrow morning.

I did my annual audit of my subscriptions today. I decided that my last dead tree newspaper – the WSJ could go. And its digital subscription could go too, because Apple News, which I pay for, gives me pretty good access to the Journal.

I hate “renting” software. Nevertheless, Photoshop and Lightroom are rented. I keep antique versions of MS Word and Excel going. I do a lot with Excel and would hate to downgrade to something else. Word, that I could do without. Apple Pages would be fine. Renting MS Office is a non-starter for me. 

In addition to renting news from Apple, I rent music from Pandora. And bookkeeping from Quicken. Also “free” delivery from Amazon. Password control is rented from 1Password. VPN comes from Tunnel Bear. Twenty-five vampires suck money out of my various accounts monthly, quarterly or annually. That ranges from The Asylum taking the rent, the IRS taking quarterly taxes, to Apple helping itself to 99 cents every month for iCloud space. 

Note to the Peg’s Dead NowWhat Team: There’s a spreadsheet for all this. 

 

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