Ooooh, I never knew this Backing Up MarsEdit:
MarsEdit stores all its data in a folder in your home folder. To open the MarsEdit data folder, hold the option key on your keyboard while selecting the Help menu at the top of the screen, then select “Open MarsEdit Data Folder.”
The unusual mystery writer conceit in Secret Sleuth Box Set (Books 1–2) [dead link] by Patricia McLinn took a bit of getting used to, but the books were a good read. 📚
Enjoyed the hunt in Graves On The Fens (DI Nikki Galena Series Book 14) by Joy Ellis. 📚
It arrives in the morning. An old-fashioned airmail envelope addressed to Detective Nikki Galena. Inside, on a single sheet of blue airmail paper, are three words: You failed me.
Today’s tea: Himalayan Evergreen Autumn, Nepal:
Grown at 1850m, these leaves were hand-plucked on the sunny morning of 30 October 2021, then quickly withered, pan-fired, rolled and oven-dried. The result is a delicate tea with a citrusy, buttery fragrance
A neighbour called and said she was watching the Matuku-hūrepo | Australasian bittern nearby so I rushed down to join her. My first time seeing this extremely rare and cryptic bird. 🐦
Status: Native, Nationally Critical
Bitterns are extremely cryptic and rarely seen.
I’m copying 325 blog posts from Publii to Micro.Blog via MarsEdit. AppleScript helps a lot. I was stuck on choosing the right blog. @danielpunkass sorted it:
tell application "MarsEdit" make new document set current blog of document 1 to blog "Waikawa News" end tell
On 20 September 2013 there was an enormous thunderclap right above our house in Wellington. Next day when I was walking the dogs I noticed a tree only some 50 metres from our house (and above the level of our house) had been hit by lightning.
There is thunder rumbling round. So glad Sasha can no longer hear it (and react to it with terror).
Fascinating read The sense-defying magic of the Pitcairn Islands:
Pitcairn is so high and solitary that there is nothing out there but the Pacific. From where I’m standing the curvature of the Earth is discernible, and from that curved horizon to the island there is nothing but dazzling blue.
Soooo clever: chose the theme Anatole for the new site. Downloaded the theme Arabica so I could easily search the files for stuff I wanted to change. No wonder I can’t find stuff… 🤦🏽
I’ve been active on Micro.Blog for 5 years, modified my theme a few times. Feedback on a new blog: setting up a new Micro.Blog account is hard, frustrating and confusing. Even choosing a theme from Plugins is hard: not enough info, info in the Github page that doesn’t apply…
9 inches of rain in 24 hours! Auckland flooding:
Auckland is under a state of emergency after being battered by torrential rain, with more than 230 millimetres falling yesterday.
Back on 05 December 2021 I thought I’d try Publii for my Waikawa Beach blog. It works adequately, but I really truly miss being able to work with Posts via MarsEdit. Plus there are blog features Micro.Blog is just so much better at. I’m planning a move…
Woohoo. We’ve just ordered a Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer - KSM160. That should help a bit with our cooking explorations. Bread products here we come.
This is Sasha, out on a walk with me specifically for the purpose of her having a pee… I guess I'll be carrying her back inside again. 9.3 Kg… 🐶
You know what Plugin I’d like Micro.Blog to have? Something that puts a small banner at the top of the Timeline and says: Since midnight you have posted [n] times. Help me easily catch days I haven’t posted yet.
Whew, writing this 1700 word article for my Waikawa News site has actually taken weeks, including research. It should help inform local discussions to take place soon about vehicles on beaches though. Balanced beaches: birds, babies, bikes, boats
Whew. First I did research that took at least a week. Then I spent at least another week trying to write a big article for my Waikawa Beach blog. Finally I have a draft. Read-through tomorrow when I’m fresh, then I’ll publish. It’s not usually this hard.
In written Māori macrons over vowels indicate a lengthened sound. I’m pleased to say that these days I aim to use macrons correctly. In earlier, more naive, times I ignored them. Learning to say placenames correctly is an ongoing challenge though. The Side Eye: The Stink A.
Apparently Seneca had thoughts on personal blogging 😆:
They asked him what was the object of all this study applied to an art that would reach but very few. He replied: “I am content with few, content with one, content with none at all.”
— Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic (7).