“Sport" is pretty much the antonym of “Miraz”, but once in a while I take my kayak a little way up Waikawa Stream. That’s the closest I ever get to sport.
It’s hilarious that my body shape happens to make me look ‘sporty’ so people often make wrong assumptions about me.
I was worried I’d been too heavy handed with the marmite on my sandwich, but it worked out OK in the end. White bread with butter, marmite, lettuce (home grown), tomatoes (home grown), parsley (home grown), ham and cream cheese.
Given how much time it spends on my lap, and the care and attention I lavish on it, I think it’s fair to claim my MacBook Pro as one of my most treasured pets.
The new 13” MacBook Pro with M1 processor arrived this morning! How clean the screen is!
I’ve been using the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | Braille Institute for a while now and really like it:
it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use!
A new mid-winter public holiday for Aotearoa New Zealand: Matariki holiday date announced:
The first annual Matariki public holiday will be celebrated on Friday, June 24, 2022
The reappearance of the Matariki stars in our sky each year marks the beginning of a new year
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I’m finding Season 2 of Batwoman much less gross than Season 1 and am enjoying the play of attitudes towards an ordinary parolee vs superhero. I like the notion that we can all be superheroes if we want to and get a bit of help.
Two sides of the stick. This fine girl was on our front door at dawn. Quite long — I didn’t measure, but perhaps a hand span or length.
My Japanese Quail are fantastic layers. With at least 12 hours of daylight they each lay one egg every day. Impossible to get 2 birds and 2 eggs in one photo, so this post has 3 ‘layers’ of photo. 😀
This morning’s inversion layer looked pretty good moments before sunrise.
Can animals really predict earthquakes?
data showed that the animals were unusually restless hours (up to 20 hours!) before earthquakes occurred and the closer the animals were to the epicentre of the earthquake, the earlier they started behaving strangely.
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Using a 2012 MacBook Pro while I wait for my new one. I didn’t install anything that isn’t essential. I had to have 1Password, TextExpander, BarTender, Keyboard Maestro, Pastebot, SoundSource, Drafts, BBEdit, Micro.Blog, OmniOutliner, Black Ink, Magic Lasso, NetNewsWire.
Woohoo, my new MacBook Pro is closer. Can’t wait to get set up on the new machine so I can stop using this temporary 2012 model and then figure out how to handle the misbehaving 2016 model.
The weedspraying getup, backpack, long-sleeved shirt etc are hot, heavy, make me breathe hard and sweat a lot — horrible! But protecting myself from poison spray is more important than comfort.
Today I sprayed gorse, lupin and blackberry on our 3,300 m2 property.
Tonight I actually thought to come down to the beach to watch the sunset. Picnic table is working well.
There are several baby rabbits that live near our front door. They just don’t seem to be getting bigger and are fairly tame. I’m calling this one Bella. Rabbits are a pest in Aotearoa New Zealand, but these babies are so cute!
I was reminded that I bought my electric bike exactly one year ago. So far I’ve ridden it for 880 Km, and it’s fallen over only twice, including today. I need to work out how to stop the front mudguard from now rubbing on the tire.
Oh, well said! —
Anniversary days are vestiges of occasions now disregarded and obscure. Let’s replace them with something positive and relevant for today.
I was saying to Deb that Anniversary Days are colonial and should go. Now: Why NZ’s outdated regional anniversaries should be ditched:
Wellington – mark the landing of the first(-ish) ship of settlers … an advance party arrived in… 1839, but the anniversary is for… 1840.
February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge: #1 close up — sand scarab tracks. 📷
