When I couldn't rewatch The Closer I discovered its spinoff Major Crimes on Neon so decided to rewatch that instead.
What I'd forgotten is that Major Crimes is just all around superb — great scripts, great acting. I'm having the biggest problem not just bingeing all day. Such a fabulous show!
For those who delight in the finest points of punctuation, this 23 minute video gives a lot to chew on — The commas that cost lives.
A particularly fun item: the fellow who wrote a whole book with no punctuation whatever. Reprints addressed his critics concerns : 🤣
at the very end of the book he appended this page: a leaf filled with commas, colons, semi-colons, etc. … Lord Dexter included a small note for the printer …
"The knowing ones … complain of my book the first edition had no stops.
I put in enough here and they may pepper and salt it as they please."
Deb and I had partly booked and planned a trip for after Easter: fly to Christchurch, hire a car, visit the West Coast. Today we cancelled all the bookings.
Between the fuel crisis, rising costs, general political uncertainty, it all just seemed unwise.
We'll do some short trips in our EV instead.
This chin scratch must have gone on for more than a minute before I got tired of waiting and took the photo anyway.
Then, after a bit more scratching it finally stopped. 🐦
The recent rain has filled the Ruakākā River, which looks very brown. It has also filled the ditch behind our place that recent digger work has exposed.
Apparently the Council require the ditch to be covered over for subdivision work to proceed.
After about 180 mm (7 inches) rain in the last 2 days, this morning is warm and misty.
This clue and answer in a recent crossword delighted me! 🤣
I don't follow sports but can at least usually understand the headlines (more or less). This one totally had me stumped: 😆
White Ferns win T20 dead rubber against South Africa
Via RNZ - NZ News, Current Affairs, Audio On Demand.
The answer was here: Dead Rubber.
Interesting. With severe weather forecast for the next 2 or 3 days I received a text from our insurance company (some details removed):
FMG here, just checking in due to the Red weather warning in parts of your region.
Put your safety first.
You can view our disaster info and FAQs at [url]
If you need to make a claim, the fastest way is FMG Connect [url] or call [phone]. Take care.
Here's the map from the news sites. We're in an orange area (wind and rain).
This morning's visitor.
Horses in paddocks beside the racecourse.
Four in the morning and I've been awake for hours. Just one of those nights where sleep and I parted company. I want to be friends with sleep again! 🥱😢
In some rare good news: $50m plan to double the number of public EV chargers | RNZ News:
The government is providing interest free loans of $52.7 million to two companies to boost the number of electric vehicle public chargers around the country.
The zero-interest loans will go to ChargeNet and Meridian Energy, who are investing $60m in capital, and would see 2574 new charge points, 1374 DC fast chargers and 1200 AC chargers.
The move will more than double the country's chargers, to around 4550.
Oops. Still sometimes accidentally hitting that camera button on my phone. Guess where I went this morning …
Early in Book 3 I was ready to abandon this set as the books just weren't that good. Also, the author had a strong penchant for annoying (word-count padding?) lists. Jamie Quinn Mysteries Books 1-6 (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) by Barbara Venkataraman. 📚
Meet Jamie Quinn (and her quirky friends), always finding trouble she definitely wasn't looking for.
I picked the set back up again and the other 3 books were much better.
On today's beach walk I spotted several swimmers, a bunch of shapes on the sea too far away for me to tell what they were, cargo ships far away, a nearby sailboat and a bunch of gulls.
I was enjoying listening to frog songs over recent nights, but Claude has helped me discover it's not in fact frogs, but almost certainly the Black field cricket or pihareinga (Teleogryllus commodus).
These may well be the same crickets Deb's upset about because they're wrecking her lawn. 😿
There's a slight hill behind our house, which meant a better view of work behind us. This photo shows the digger clearing the land behind our house in preparation for subdivision work.
We learned today it will clear the whole area over the next couple of weeks, not just the wee road that's planned.
Biked to one beach entrance this morning and walked on the beach in the glorious sunshine.
Someone was water skiing, and several folks were surfing.
What a grand place to live!
The subdivision plan shows that behind our house will be another house, then a wee road, then another house. Behind that will be the existing house seen in the photo.
Today a digger has started work on the wee road.
I used the AI Eraser in Nitro to remove some annoying power lines.
