The Apothecary Diaries 2, fin

Wait for it… Wait for it… Boom! Now for the agonizing wait until they make the next season.

Call Of The Night 2, episode 1

I appreciate a second season that respects the viewer and doesn’t waste half an episode on a lengthy recap. Or in this case, any time at all. The OP animation serves to remind you where we left off, and then it’s off to the races. Or at least the zoo.

The ED, on the other hand, has nothing to offer, visually or musically.

Verdict: solid start.

New GATE anime

Not more Rory Mercury and friends, though. It’s based on the spinoff.

(apparently they do show up at some point, but it’s not a continuation of the main story)

Finally!

When I moved back to Ohio three years ago, I kept my old iPhone with my California number, bought a new iPhone, and transferred over all the data, including my ~10,000 songs ripped from CD. This introduced the well-known problem where all the album covers were linked to the wrong albums. TL/DR: none of the recommended fixes worked, due to aggressive caching.

Today, I replaced it with a new iPhone (yes, I bought last year’s model, because new Apple hardware is a crapshoot with real crap). Before I set it up, though, I broke the sync connection, deleted all the music from it, and ran a backup. On the new phone, I restored the non-syncing backup and then synced the music over.

So I just had to burn the house down and build a new one.

(my iPhone history, coming from a work-paid Blackberry, is 4S to 6 Plus to XS to 13 Pro to 16 Pro. I still think the 4S was the best actual phone, but I don’t do much calling these days, and I’ve never really been much for receiving calls; these days, it’s mostly just email, texts, navigation, and PagerDuty alerts)

(3 years is basically how long it takes for Apple to lard up the OS and frameworks so that older devices are no longer viable)

Unrelated, Ai Shinozaki

Big Boobs Japan just went on a repost binge, adding back ~400 old photo shoots that got misplaced in one of its hosting changes. This includes over 40 shoots covering Ai’s entire career, from chubby-cheeked busty 14-year-old to still-got-it busty 33-year-old.

(shields up, Javascript down, as usual)

[Update: wow, either they just un-re-posted it all, or else went in and changed the dates to match their original uploads. The site went from having 30+ pages of stuff posted on the 4th to none at all.]

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