If you hate dogs look away. For the rest of us The Dogs of 2022 is four and a half minutes of delight. 🐶
Sasha had me out taking her for a walk at dawn.
Solstice and Equinox dates for the next few years
Since I just looked this up for myself.
| Year | March equinox | June solstice | September equinox | December solstice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21 March | 04:33 | 21 June | 21:13 | 23 September | 13:03 | 22 December | 10:48 |
| 2023 | 21 March | 10:24 | 22 June | 02:57 | 23 September | 18:50 | 22 December | 16:27 |
| 2024 | 20 March | 16:06 | 21 June | 08:50 | 23 September | 00:43 | 21 December | 22:20 |
| 2025 | 20 March | 22:01 | 21 June | 14:42 | 23 September | 06:19 | 22 December | 04:03 |
| 2026 | 21 March | 03:45 | 21 June | 20:24 | 23 September | 12:05 | 22 December | 09:50 |
| 2027 | 21 March | 09:24 | 22 June | 02:10 | 23 September | 18:01 | 22 December | 15:42 |
Source: Seasons: Dates of Spring, Summer, Fall & Winter. Note: times are for Paraparaumu, not far from Waikawa Beach.
I didn’t have my watch with me, but I got to spend maybe 20 minutes out admiring the warm, still, partly cloudy night while Sasha walked us around before finally having a pee at a quarter to one. 🐶
Another book from an author I quite like: The New Teacher (The Sheridan County Mysteries Book 1) by Erin Lark Maples. 📚
The story flows well, and I’m intrigued by a few American words I’m not familiar with.
Hmmm, The Raven’s Mark by Christie J Newport just wasn’t really my thing. 📚
Beth must break all the rules to stop any more girls from suffering. But will her everything be enough to stop a sick murderer?
I quite enjoyed Knight Trials by Alice Bienia, though it felt a little tangled in parts. One page that sticks in my mind was a couple of paras of totally gratuitous tech jargon, presumably aiming to make a point. 📚
Today I cleaned the used straw and shavings out of the quail run and gave the girls a fresh deep layer of bedding. 🐦
This was a really good TV series. I hope we’ll get a Season Two. Darby and Joan 📺 :
A retired Australian detective and an English nurse work together to solve the mystery of her husband’s recent death.
Why herbal tea isn’t actually tea | The Tea Curator:
Tea is said to have been first discovered in China way back in 2737BC by Emperor, scholar and herbalist, Shen Nung. According to legend, he was sitting under a native Camellia Sinensis tree, boiling a pot of water, when some leaves fell from the tree into the pot. The Emperor drunk the infusion and experienced such a wonderful state which ‘gave joy to the body and sparkle the eyes’; that moment was the genesis of when tea began to permeate itself into Chinese culture.
Oystercatcher: Ah yeah, gidday. Just sitting on my nest. You? 🐦
The positive about taking Sasha out for a pee at 2 am was the gorgeous bright stars. Mars was prominent by Taurus. Orion and Sirius were ahead of us, the Pleiades low near the horizon. Just beautiful.
Christmas lunch with friends: tiger prawns and chicken on the barbie; a bowl of fresh raspberries and blueberries. Plus lots of other delicious dishes, not shown. 😆
memento mori [is] remembering death so you don’t waste the time you have in life. Memento vivere, remember to live … is making the details of the moments of your life matter, the thrilling ones and the mundane ones.
Via: Remember To Live - It’s All In The Details - What Is Stoicism?
Superb article: Inside Wikipedia’s great macron war:
In 2007, New Zealand got … its first street name with a macron: Kōkiri Place … the mayor of Taupō … got sick of waiting for new road signs with macrons over the “o” so started changing them himself, using reflective tape.
Today I updated an old post which also meant I ended up finding, re-editing and re-exporting photos from my collection. It made me realise how much more I know about photography now than 5 years ago. 😀 Those old photos almost make me cringe.
4 years ago I wanted Micro.Blog to help me write more
Update: thanks to @artkavanagh for pointing out that I'm just shy of 5 years, not 4!
Hah, on 13 January 2018 I wrote on my new Micro.Blog with a link to my now removed and archived KnowIt blog:
A fresh start in 2018. In which I stop posting on my nearly 20 year old WordPress blog and take up at Micro.blog.
Over on KnowIt on 12 April 2018 I wrote (emphasis added to the quoted text):
I started blogging in 1999 — nearly 20 years ago — on a DIY HTML page. At times since then I've written on several blogs, quite regularly — even several times per week. These days it seems most of my writing goes on Twitter.
Meanwhile, this blog has accumulated some 3,255 published posts and 2,677 media items.
As we launch into 2018 the site feels heavy. It's a bit of a psychic weight and I feel keenly aware that I hardly ever write here any more.
It's a responsibility writing a blog post: finding and preparing one or more images, choosing topics, words and phrasing carefully, researching things, attributing sources and so on. In 2017 I wrote 25 posts, and published 23. The other two were never finished.
I've been considering what to do with this site. It has around 1,000 page views per month — well down on earlier times, and not surprising since I don't update very often and have switched to random posts rather than topic-based information.
There are 1,669 email subscribers, which sounds good but when I view the list of email addresses I'm confident in saying 99% are spammers rather than actual readers.
I don't want to delete the site — there's still some good info here, though some of the old stuff is truly archaic and occasionally embarrassing.
What I've decided to do is to make a fresh start. I'm unlikely to add anything new here, but will be making brief updates at Miraz.micro.blog. They are automatically cross-posted to Twitter [link removed].
Micro.blog is about brief writing. I'm hoping I'll actually write more words in a week by switching. It should also free me up to be more casual, more spontaneous, more willing to write. I hope it'll be
lighterand quicker.Who knows, maybe I'll switch back here at some point. Maybe I won't. It's definitely a fresh start.
Note: as at 23 December 2022 I have 4046 posts on Micro.Blog and I've written 9928 replies to posts others have made on their blogs. What's more, I know the folks reading are real people, not bots or spammers. I don't know or really care how many people are reading this blog, but I do know I love this community.
Excited to subscribe to en clair podcast:
… a casebook of forensic linguistic cases, literary detection, and language mysteries. It also looks at codes, cryptography, undeciphered languages, and linguistic myths and legends. Each episode presents a case of linguistic intrigue or controversy from ancient history to the present day.
Always a welcome web page: Winners of the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
More good sense from @annahavron — Schedule ONE Daily Thing, That is Not Work-Related:
With a daily routine that a) incorporates at least one thing that gives life to your spirit, and that b) you are committed to CHANGING until it actually works for you, you can transform your life.