This is pathetic. Facetime on Mac doesn't recognise the mic connected to the USB audio interface?! System Preferences and every other fucking application does.

Cut your losses and decant the wine.

Heh, 99€ refund from JCrew for the trouble. Amazing what 10 minutes on the phone can do.

Huh, JCrew package still not here. Email not answered.

Called CS and…they're issuing a 20% discount, which kind of beats BR's 15%. Said to call again if, by Friday, it still hadn't arrived. Great support…but I politely asked him to email a summary of what happened during our conversation, just to have it in writing.

Either way, future discounts on expensive clothes.

I can transfer a call from Mac to iPhone but not the other way around? Seriously?

10 minutes on the Edge Pro and my Takeda is razor sharp again, chips polished out. Apparently factory edges on Japanese knives tend to be chippier than they will be after a few sharpenings. Something to do with using power tools and loose carbides or something.

The thing about travelling is that I always have to be careful in the preceding days about scheduling when I open wines. Been debating for a few hours whether to open a bottle tomorrow or whether to just stretch what I have open to last until after I get back from Strasbourg on Saturday evening — a delicate balance between the slight rush now to drink up the stuff in my cabinet before I move, and avoiding my least favourite problem: being drunk.

I suppose it doesn't help that the last 2 tastings I've gone to have given out gift cards of a value equivalent to the cost of the ticket. Put those towards some very nice wines.

+1. Even in physical form, my documents are filed in folders — though I usually scan them and destroy the physical copy.

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It would teach some efficiency and management as well, a skill I've observed to be sorely lacking thanks to the efforts of Apple et al.

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We've been going back and forth for a few days now — they said it was guaranteed to arrive by the 21st (and it hasn't). Let's see how they handle this tomorrow.