Just a bit further now.

For three books, I’ve been doing my editing all wrong. Now I know for #4!

Recipe Behind Coca-Cola’s Milk Success: Less Sugar, More Protein - WSJ

While regular milk has 8 grams of protein and 12 grams of sugar per 8-ounce serving, ultrafiltered Fairlife and Organic Valley Ultra each have 13 grams of protein and 6 grams of sugar.

Fairlife rocks.

I went into BestBuy to get new AirPods. They rang me up at full price, so I had to price match them with… BestBuy.com.

They don’t have the same prices in-store and online.

Unreal.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party Fires Election Warning at Boris Johnson - WSJ

described British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s divorce deal with the European Union as a “sellout”

I don’t know about UK politics, but this makes Farage look like he’s secretly trying to prevent Brexit.

After rumors swirled last week, Google announced today that it will be acquiring Fitbit in the coming months.

My relationship with Fitbit goes back to January 2011, when I purchased my first tracker. The company had a compelling offer to consumers over the next few years. Decent products, built-in weekly step competitions with friends, and trackers to fit your preference. I personally always used the waistband clip-on models. I also loved the sleep tracking and silent alarm features.

My Fitbit account has 25 friends, family members and close personal friends. Only about seven are still active. That was the thing about Fitbit. People would get one as a gift, get really into it, and then slowly fade away. The trackers were easily lost, including my father-in-law who lost one in a snow bank.

Fitbit inspired my love of walking. I’ve also used two versions of their scales, which I think are among the best digital scales out there.

Some of the blame for the company’s failure is due Fitbit’s refusal to play nicely with others. When Apple Health came out, Fitbit adamantly refused to support data logging. You could use a work-around through other apps, but it was never clean. It seemed that Fitbit’s perspective was that allowing people to share their data with Apple or other apps would somehow risk them losing customers. This data lock-in policy turned me off to Fitbit.

It’s been more than a year since I’ve worn a Fitbit regularly. I did have a Inspire for three weeks in October, but I returned it on rumors of this merger. Interestingly, I paid $98 for the Inspire + waistband clip. For an extra $100, I could’ve bought an Apple Watch Series 3.

Now that Fitbit is joining Google, it’s time for me to do what I’ve done with all of my other Google accounts: erase my data and delete my account. I’ll keep using my Fitbit scale, but it’ll be disconnected from the Internet and I’ll log my daily weigh-ins manually.

It’s a shame that technology companies are being sucked up into the Big 4, but that’s what’s going on in the market today. I hope that changes, soon.

Apple Watch Competition to Grow as Google Plans Its Own Wearables Following Fitbit Acquisition - MacRumors

Fitbit health data will not be used for Google ads

Okay, sure, I believe you.

Grilled to perfection. 🔥🥩🔥

🎞

Looking good. 🥩

Cooking up a little red wine butter for tonight’s ribeyes. 🍷🧈🥩

Boy Scouts to boost annual youth fees by more than 80% - CNBC

As of Jan. 1, the annual membership fee for 2.2 million youth members will rise from $33 to $60

RIP

Walmart Grocery Delivery is not ready for prime time.

Halloween trick-or-treating at Mommy’s office was a great success.

Still on hold. 50 minutes later, ISP is only now reporting an outage.

The ISP hold music pauses every few minutes to remind me that I’m a valued customer. After 37 minutes of holding, I’m glad to have this distinction! I’d hate to find out how long non-valued customers have to wait on hold.

When is my ISP ever NOT experiencing unusually high call volume? 25 minutes on hold and counting…

Tim Cook says AirPods Pro are complementary to AirPods, not replacements

I would guess that one, particularly in the early going, will be people that have AirPods today and want to also have a pair for the times they need noise cancellation.

It’s nice to have dreams.

Downstairs heater is broken. Got down to 65 degrees last night. 🧊

Twitter to Ban Political Ads - WSJ

Paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.

This is dumb.

Apple Watch Sleep

Watch as sleep tracker,

Have a plan, app to record.

Need to get past bulk.

I guess tonight’s the night I upgrade to Catalina.