Enjoyed
HTC Windows Phone 8X Red
The $200 price was probably including a Verizon discount and a Microsoft employee discount.
Nokia Lumia Icon 929
My last Windows Phone.
Huawei Nexus 6P
This was a good phone until the battery life became very limited...a common problem with these phones.
moto g⁵ˢ plus
For a very reasonable price this was a good phone with amazing battery life and an SD card slot.
Google Pixel 3a Clearly White
All around good phone. No SD card slot and I wish it had more storage but I survived. That just means that I can't copy my whole music library onto the phone but I don't miss that too much. Eventually it did get pretty close to full with all the sailing navigation charts and things. And it caught a few raindrops one day, after which the USB-C charging port only worked in one orientation. That was very annoying until I marked my charging cables to know which way to insert them.
Red, White, and Drunk All Over by Natalie MacLean
This was an interesting read that significantly expanded my knowledge on wine. Yet it wasn't a clinical, textbook sort of read. For instance, there are a few chapters on specific wine making regions. These were interesting but it probably would have been a dry (pun) read if the whole book was a chapter on each region. But it mercifully moves on to the drama of wine critics and the finer points of hosting wine-tasting parties. A couple of the characters are very interesting and entertaining (one vintner that spouts one-liners non-stop) and the others are competently described.
Overall well written, enjoyable, and educational. I don't recall exactly what it was but something about the first chapter didn't enthuse me...I recommend that you keep reading.
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