Miraz Jordan

Our dog groomer has come down with Shingles. Ouch! That means we need to find an alternative groomer for Sasha 🐶 who’s about due for a trim. 😒

Something I’d like is more information in the list of Micro.Bloggers I’m following (micro.blog/[name]/following) @help. Useful would be: date they last posted &/or how many posts they’ve made. I follow ~600. I recognise 50—100 names because they actually post.

Amazon have made a change I really dislike. When I look at a page of listings my eye now sees first in giant red letters a (supposed) discount amount to the left of the actual price in smaller black type. My eye sees the red, reads it as a price, I gasp (and remember costly). 😵‍💫

On a day where I seem to be feeling a bit off-colour I’ve really enjoyed eating some Celery soup. Really easy and quick to make, once you’ve chopped up a load of celery and potatoes. Just right today.

Tonight I made Roast cod on spiced Puy lentils — delicious. There was no cod available so I cooked a fish I’d never heard of before: Elephant Fish. Now I’m horrified to find it’s in the list of fish to avoid because of ecological concerns (set netting and bottom trawling). 😒

This month I am finally doing a chore I really have trouble getting to: selling stuff I no longer require. So far this month I’ve sold an Apple Watch, a Fujifilm zoom lens, a broken version of that same zoom lens. Today I’ve listed a 27mm lens I never use. 💪🏼

This is interesting: The streets have eyes, including the bit that says:

One of the problems is the [facial recognition] software doesn’t perform well across all ethnicities. … the software has been designed with lighter skin as the default.

Aaargh, Candice Renoir quickly became one of my favourite shows on Acorn TV. Just finished Season 4 which ended with a major event! I know 8 seasons exist altogether. I’m so hoping we get to see the rest soon!

I think I’ve realised why my Netatmo rain gauge sometimes stops working. At this time of year we get little rain. When I go to investigate the rain gauge failing to work I have to clean out lots of spider webs. Once I do that, it works again. Ergo: spider webs clog it.

I’m so much enjoying Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery. Only a couple of episodes left to watch and I’m having trouble not just bingeing them!

Breakfast time for Sasha. 🐶

I’m especially fond of waterfalls and have just discovered: the New Zealand Waterfalls website. 🤩

Sasha 🐶 very obligingly naps in the car while I water the front lawn of our rental property. We could do with some decent rain! Maybe Thursday will bring some…

I’ve been having a great Easter Friday, doing crosswords, watching videos, and during daylight, enjoying warm sun and fresh air. Also cooked Red lentil & carrot soup, which was kind of thin but nevertheless pleasing, and Homemade croutons, most of which were too burnt.

In case it’s useful for someone else — I wanted to be able to grab the title and URL of an article I was viewing in NetNewsWire and make a Markdown link for posting to Micro.Blog. I used Applescript for this:

tell application "NetNewsWire"
    
    set myTitle to ""
    set myURL to ""
    set myLink to ""
    
    set myTitle to title of current article
    set myURL to url of current article
    
    set myLink to "[" & myTitle & "](" & myURL & ")"
    myLink
    
end tell

I activate it with Keyboard Maestro.

Thank you so much to the NNW team for supporting AppleScript.

I find recipes on the Internet then try out some of them. I’m forever converting measures of ingredients. This is useful and 🤯: Cooking Weights & measures, eg:

[English and New Zealand] flours are milled differently [so you have to change quantities of other ingredients].

Wow. This 10 minute video An Interview with a Professional Jump Roper is quite something. Sometimes Tori Boggs and her rope are both moving so fast I can’t even see the rope and her hands and feet are just a blur. Her strength and endurance are astonishing.