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It’s just one more thing to remember to charge throughout our busy days.  - Joseph Volpe When the Apple Watch pre-order day happened last year, I was in the throws of having a newborn waking me up, I slept through my "wake up to preorder" alarm, and I didn't get my watch for six weeks after it was available. It was horrible! Now I'm somewhere around a year in to owning and wearing my Apple Watch and what's the scoop?  What does it feel like after wearing it a year? Living outside of the tech bubble bay, the Apple Watch is a rare sight. One my friends-of-friends who works at Apple commented when seeing me, "I think you're the first non-Apple employee I've seen wearing the Apple Watch." Even at my office corporate in San Francisco, I am the only person wearing one. So people still ask me, "Is it cool? What's the coolest thing it does?" In terms of my wearables, my wedding ring still remains the things that I wear 99% of the time. I...

Just follow your heart, and keep smiling. - Kiki’s Delivery Service When Mini-Chaos turned 2yo, we started to let him watch movies. One of my desires while we get to pick what he watches is to help him watch good movies. I've gone back and watched movies I have found memories of from my childhood, shaken my head, and moved on. Maybe he can go back and watch movies and think, "yeah, my childhood movies were great!" So far the movies he's watched are: Ponyo, Totoro, Toy Story, Cars, and Rio. His favorite movie is Totoro - just loves it. Who wouldn't? The story about two kids moving to the country and how they perceive the world through their imagination. One of things I've been struck by watching these movies that has made me love Studio Ghibli even more is the fact that Ghibli movies star characters and stories (though fantastical) that are completely relatable to a 2yo. He knows what it's like to be a little kid, and play, and have kid-friendships,...