2025-01-06

• This morning, I took Patrick, Michaella, and Lucy to the airport.

• Because I had a meeting in the morning in Westminster, I stopped at Starbucks near the office.

• There I tested out for the first time my new noise-cancelling AirPods.
• They are amazing in their ability to make one feel as if one reside in a space that is quieter than it actually is.
• One difficulty that I encountered was in pairing the AirPods to my laptop for a Teams-meeting.
• After successful pairing with the phone, the AirPods stubbornly refused to pair with the laptop.
• Documentation on the web indicated the need to press the case's button in order to enter pairing mode on opening the case (after resetting the AirPods by stowing them for 30 seconds with the case closed).
• But my case has no button.
• Eventually I discovered, by forgetting the AirPods on my phone and then trying to pair them again, that one has to double-tap the front of the case.
• My phone gave me this advice when I was traying to pair them after having had the phone forget them.
• Using the double-tap, I was able to pair them with my laptop!