–Bought Super Duper and did a total backup of the Mac onto a thumb drive.
–Picked a bunch of cherry tomatoes.
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–Got tomatoes, grapes, jam, apples at Sunrise farmers market.
–I seem to have gotten Mojave installed as the ONLY OS on my Mac (on the HD Data disk). So far, everything works, including Lightroom.
–AQI says 29, but it’s still pretty hazy out there.
–Took Grace shopping for Noah’s birthday to Folsom Premium Outlets.
–Tried 17 different ways of reverting Catalina down to Mojave on the Mac. Total failure so far.
–Rode 13ish miles.
–Spent a while cleaning up Mac and thumb drives, and reviving the Samsung PC–preparatory to reverting the Mac back to Mojave so I can install Lightroom.
–Went shopping at Carmichael Safeway.
–Added (new) bird seed to feeders.
–Got interested in the new 36mm Rolex Oyster Perpetual in turquoise. There’s maybe two available on the net, both > $1,000 over MSRP of $5,600. And a new Ceramic Daytona was seen listed at $29,500. Here comes $30…………. Unbelievable.
–No ride today; AQI, though forecast at 70, was 140. This pattern seems standard. These AQI forecasters need some help.
–Fried some burgers for dinner.
–Went to Sprouts for Hansen’s Diet Ginger Ale and such; Bel Air for apples/oranges/potatoes.
–Made smoked salmon and red potatoes for dinner. Grace ate about half of her small piece of salmon.
–Rode the bike to Black Sails to pick up some coffee.
–All bets off on photo-editing software. Buried deep in a Leica forum thread was reference to RAW Power, an app store photo editor written by one guy. It seems to use a lot of stuff that’s built into Macs. For $40, it recognizes everything (more specifically, does automatic lens correction) and has a great (simple) interface. Who knows what other undiscovered gems lie out there.
–Made dinner:Pasta Queen lasagne and caprese salad.
–Got tomatoes, grapes, pears, peppers at Sunrise farmers market.
–Another no-swim day–pool was at 79.
–Spent a long time last night and today trying various photo apps on Leica C-Lux RWL files. What a mess. Trialed some, bought some, but only one works halfway well: ACDSee. And even that one crops the photo when going from View to Develop mode. Controls are quick and smooth, though. Had to give up on standalone Lightroom–it was starting to act weird on Mac Catalina, and cannot be newly (re)installed. Subscription Lightroom doesn’t do C-Lux either, so dodged a bullet with ACDSee.
–Oops, ACDSee developed some issues too. Now using DxO (purchased), which is expensive but seems worth it. For example, it automatically loads modules for cameras that aren’t built in–iPhone 8 and Leica C-Lux jpeg in my case. Still doesn’t do C-Lux RWL, so I need to decide if I want to go to Lumix for the C-Lux features.
Omega 2503.33 came in (3 days, from Japan). Nice.