Well, that was an interesting experiment. M1 MacBook Pro. I exported my Health data from iPhone. Then I opened the 1.7GB(!!!!) XML file into BBEdit. It took less than a minute to open and I can scroll up and down the 5,504,661 lines as though it’s some tiny daily diary entry.
A sea misty morning at the beach today.
This week’s delicious International Breakfast was Mandazi African Donuts. Although deep fried, they weren’t oily or greasy. They were perfect, in fact. Would be ideal if you invite folks for afternoon tea. Just prepare ahead of time as the dough has to rest for an hour.
My friend Anne writes cogently, coherently and interestingly about the Miss Silver mysteries by Patricia Wentworth. Some smart lit crit in there, and a most excellent quote from one about Hillary’s lunch. I wonder if I should try the books? I don’t much care for old-timey stuff…
Whew! A busy day doing various tasks for our local Waikawa Beach Ratepayers Association: emails, blog posts, some admin stuff, update the list of members, liaise with the Horowhenua District Council about a dumped trampoline — perfect for a cool, rainy day.
As I watch The Path to Happiness: What Chinese Philosophy Teaches us about the Good Life and learn about so many male thinkers I have a nagging wondering about how women might have framed differing approaches to the world. Did those men cook, clean, raise children?
Ha ha ha ha ha… The Mitchells vs. the Machines movie was weird, hilarious, bizarre, moving. I loved all the, I don’t even know what to call them, tech jokes, Apple winks, meme jokes. Very funny!
a dysfunctional family saves Earth from a robot uprising while on a road trip.
Look who I found while weeding. I think it must be a Brown Tree frog - Litoria ewingii:
They all have a white stripe along the jawline from the armpit, to at least, below the eye and sometimes to the end of the snout.
I didn’t think to turn it upside down. It was pretty small.
Whew, listed my old S3 Apple Watch for sale. People seem to still be buying them used.
At first I was excited by the new Aotearoa Astrotourism Academy. Then I looked more closely at the instructors and the programme: there is no Māori astronomy mentioned at all and no evidently Māori instructors. Tourists should learn traditional Māori perspectives on our skies!
Eight black swans: two parents and 6 almost fully grown cygnets. It’s amazing all six babies survived to this age. Soon though they’ll leave and probably only the parent pair will stay.
This one was a bit disappointing: A Simple Case of Murder (Lost in Alaska Book 4) by Leigh Mayberry. 📚
Pretty much everything was out of the Police Chief’s hands and I found the ending unsatisfactory. A spelling error was important in the plot but was rife throughout the book.
Today’s International Breakfast, Greek omelet, was delicious. We didn’t have oregano so used mixed herbs. I’d reduce the herbs next time. I realised you remove pips and juice from the tomatoes to reduce the liquid. Very delicious.
This was so delicious and easy to cook. I used chicken stock rather than plain water. Curried cauliflower & lentil soup recipe | BBC Good Food 🍜
Take one cauliflower and blend with red lentils, fennel seeds, curry paste and lemon juice [for] this warming, hearty soup
This morning I told Deb we’d probably have to buy a tanker of drinking water soon. With only 1.8 mm rain forecast today and hardly any for the coming week, our tank is concerningly low. No complaints, but as at dinner time we’ve had 17.6 mm rain — about 1100 litres in the tank. 💧
Another good read: Next of Kin (DI Sarah Quinn Mystery Book 5) by Maureen Carter. 📚
Lisa Webb is beaten and left to drown … the latest victim of a serial sex offender who has been terrorising the area. But DI Sarah Quinn realizes things are not as they seem
Interesting: a successful author who doesn’t read:
I was shocked to discover that she creates whatever she reads in her mind. … When the heroine arrives, her mind generates an image of that person. My mind, sadly, does none of that.
Well, the official results are in from my Ancestry.com DNA test, and surprisingly, I’m not 100% English. Looks like there’s a bit of Scots (18%) and even Norwegian (10%) tossed in. Given my last name (Jordan) I actually thought there might be some mid-eastern connection, but no.
For the past year or more a tiny fatty lump on my neck that I first thought was a pimple slowly grew into a small very annoying lump. A few days ago my doctor removed the lump for me. Today Deb helped me change the dressing and took a photo of my three blue stitches.
I have two more lunar eclipse photos that aren’t too terrible. One about half way in and the other about three quarters to totality. 🌕
