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I upgraded my MacBook Pro 13” to High Sierra just now. It upgraded the encrypted 500GB internal SSD to the new Apple Filesystem (APFS). We’ll see how this goes.

Today, I had some decent nachos at Bar Fly in Safety Harbor with a friend. I wanted, not for the first time, to have a list of places I’d eaten nachos, with notes about my opinion of their nachos.

I don’t eat out a lot, but when I do, I very often order nachos. I’m very disappointed when a place has nachos are obviously so bad that I don’t order them, or are disappointing when I do.

I registered some domain names (.com, .net and .org) to make such a list and share it.

I’m thinking some of the characteristics to track would be:

• Flavor
• Chip quality
• Greasiness (bad)
• Fake cheese (a huge negative)
• Chicken quality (I seldom get nachos with any other meat on them.)
• Price
• Amount of food
• Overall perception one value
• Whether the ingredients are mixed in with the chips
• Whether the chips can hold their form (not turn to mush) before I get to the bottom of the dish.

18 March 2018 Update: I’m going to keep track of nacho experiences here until I get the dedicated site up.

18 March 2018: Ford’s Garage (a restaurant) has terrific chicken nachos. The jalapeños weren’t even hot, but tasted good. Eating the left-over last half cold this Saturday morning, they’re incredible.

New aspect to track routinely: The morning after. How are the nachos the next day, fridge-cold?

The other day, Amazon had a sale on Bushnell Legend XLT “Bone Collector” 10×42 binoculars. They were okay, but this started me on a small binocular comparison project. I tried the following models:

• Athlon 112002 Ares 8 x 42 ED Binoculars, Green //Not arrived yet.
• Nikon 16000 PROSTAFF 7S 8×30 Inches Compact Binocular (Black) //Very nice but not worth $180 for me when my Athlon 8×34’s at $85 (super deal) are awesome and not that much larger.
• Athlon 114006 Argos 8 x 34 Binoculars, Green //Amazing, especially at the $85 deal I got, compared to $165 as the approximate normal price.
• Vortex Optics New 2016 Diamondback 8×42 Roof Prism Binoculars //Really disliked them ergonomically. They seemed about as sharp and bright as the Athlon Midas 8x42s.
• Nikon 8248 ACULON A211 10×50 Binocular (Black) //Hated these. Cheap looking and feeling and poor quality optically.
• Nikon 8246 ACULON A211 10×42 Binocular (Black) //Hated these. Cheap looking and feeling and poor quality optically.
• Steiner AZ830 Binocular //Meh. Also really disliked the style of binoculars.
• Steiner AZ842 Binocular //Meh.
• ALPEN Wings 8×42 Waterproof Fogproof Roof Prism Binocular (non-ED model) //These were okay. Nothing special. A bit of black edge for my eyes, which may have been handled if they had a little more eye relief.
• Athlon 113004 Midas 8 x 42 ED Binoculars, Green //Incredible. But I got a pair of 8×42 Ares for $227 (instead of $390), compared the the $260 (usually $290) I paid for these Midas.
• Athlon 113003 Midas 10 x 42 ED Binoculars, Green //Didn’t like these at all. Congested picture and a little fatiguing.
• Nikon 8217 Trailblazer 8×25 ATB Binocular //Terribly dark, which I expected but sort of hoped wouldn’t be so pronounced.
• Bushnell Trophy XLT Roof Prism Binoculars, 10x42mm (Bone Collector Edition) //I liked the picture in these better than that in the Athlon Midas 10x42s, but these were still sort of unremarkable ergonomically and I only got about $25 off by buying them on that one-day Amazon special (paid $70, usually $95 or so). Theses also had the widest diameter barrels of the similar binoculars I’ve tried. Frankly, since I’m comparing these to $290 Athlon Midas binoculars and they produced a better sight picture than those (the 10×42 Midases), that’s amazing! But I don’t want 10x42s though.