Apple Account -- Simply Seamless -- Lego -- Taiwan -- March 24, 2025

Locator: 48359APPLE.

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Apple

Over the years, I've loaded a number of apps -- I pay for two of those apps. 

It is absolutely incredible how easy it is to manage one's Apple account which includes these apps. 

One thing has changed but it was done seamlessly. I didn't have to do a thing. 

Apple ID changed to Apple Account. 

I don't think I've signed into Apple in two or three years and yet I use it in the background, on an-almost daily basis. 

Today, I went to check something and was amazed how easy Apple made it for me to manage my Apple account. 

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Lego

This is why Lego is so compelling.

Link here.

I have no idea how this ended up in one of my social media accounts today but it did. 

I saw this item on Amazon, and really, really, really wished I had bought it before it was retired by Lego. 

A Lego search revealed this set was retired in 2000 and was selling for $99 at the time. And as noted, I really wished I had bought it. 

Looking more closely at the Amazon screenshot --

It turns out, I did buy it back in 2000 and that was before I was tracking / logging my Lego purchases. So, somewhere in my storage locker I have this Lego set. Whoo-hoo!

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Taiwan

With news that China has now pretty much surrounded Taiwan under the guise of "military exercises," one may want to watch this edition of the Independent Institute with Victor Davis Hanson which aired six months ago, about October, 2024. 

Link here.

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Walmart vs Amazon

Link here.

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My Dad Would Love The Market Right Now

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The Book Page

Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code, Brenda James, 2008.

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Eggs

Walmart, north Texas. 

No shortage. 

$3.98.

Neighborhood high-end grocer: $7.98.