Miraz Jordan

I like to add Titles to my Photos in the Photos app on Mac, but half the time what I type gets eaten up. Pasting works fine though, which led me in the end to this Applescript, triggered by Keyboard Maestro. The linked script is a text file.

I wanted a messenger style bag to carry my camera with its big lens when I walk on the beach to take bird photos. I found what turned out to be a perfect bag at Army and Outdoors NZ. It’s a Vintage Canvas Messenger Shoulder Bag. Roomy main pocket, spacious pockets for spare bits.

Darn! So intent on measuring out 710 mls from a 750 ml bottle of milk I totally forgot I was supposed to heat the milk before adding it to the rice! How to make Mary Berry’s Classic Rice Pudding. Oh well… too late now.

This is a great little story — Taranaki man’s e-bike wheelchair carries his wife to see the sea:

he explained how he made some clever alterations to the frame of his e-bike to connect it to Bev’s wheelchair. … the invention allowed her to see more people when out and about.

Yesterday I sponged a patch of matted hair on the back of Sasha’s neck and found an open wound (the size of a small finger nail). No idea how it got there! Mary the vet thinks it was maybe a White-tailed spider bite. She cleaned it up and Sasha has 7 days of Clavulox.

I read Micro.Blog via Safari on Mac (mainly). Every morning it’s the same thing to catch up on the timeline: refresh, scroll, scroll, click the More button, scroll, scroll, click… It takes about 5 screens usually. Now Keyboard Maestro does the work for me. Pauses allow load time.

Finally had my second booster Covid jab. Hurt a bit going in but feels good being better protected. 😎

Just amazed at the cleverness of NYTimes Sunday, July 17, 2022 Crossword Puzzle:

Note:

 Players seek to combine one or more of the cards they hold with cards laid out on the table to make the best possible five-card poker hand.

Can’t say why without spoiling it, but wow!

Really enjoying listening to Sona Jobarteh & Band (1 hour):

Sona Jobarteh is the first female Kora virtuoso to come from a west African Griot family.

Heh, the Spinoff are spending a week talking about a huge deal in the lives of over half the people in the world who are over about 12, and which is almost never talked about openly: Why we’re talking about periods all week on The Spinoff.

It’s 3.45 am and I’ve had a cup of tea and a biscuit after being awake for a couple of hours already. It’s that ‘untethered’ time in the middle of the night when all the unreal things come out to play. Maybe I can sleep now. Thanks for the interlude, Micro.Blog Timeline.

I’ve suggested our library buy this. It looks really interesting and is relevant around here. Life in the Shallows:

How wetlands work, what lives there, and what we can do to protect them

This whole coast was once wetlands, most now drained. A few remain, including nearby.

Sasha, mostly blind, stopped at the white line on the road then tiptoed carefully across. Next she ended up on one side of the ‘Give Way’ triangle and walked carefully along the line. The world can bewilder her. 🐶

Planning a trip out for dinner tonight to nearby Shannon, a 35 minute drive away. Including say 1 hour to eat that’s a 2.25 hour trip and I can (just) leave Sasha that long. Now, how to schedule her dinner and post-dinner walk? Old dogs can be complicated… 🐶