I had the best ever chicken teriyaki at Mr Choi Sushi Bar, 364 Main Street, in Palmerston North. Looked pretty suss but was busy with a variety of diners so I took a chance. So glad I did. Freshly cooked, piping hot, with rice, perhaps seaweed, miso soup. Delicious. 🍱
Excellent and powerful article re TV: Vegas keeps the Māori warrior-gangster trope alive for another generation by Leonie Hayden. Infinite quotable bits. Here’s one:
From that one simple lie to justify a failure, came the notion that all indigenous peoples were warrior races
Yay … 😰 75% chance of major Alpine Fault earthquake in next 50 years
NZ’s Alpine Fault has a 75% chance of causing a major quake … within the next 50 years.
The Alpine Fault runs about 600km up … the South Island… and poses one of the biggest natural threats to New Zealand.
Note for future me, and others in a similar situation: after extensive troubleshooting for why pressing Play on an TV+ episode just led to a beachball and no video — I had to use Vodafone DNS servers not Unlocator — to match the geographical location of the TV+ user.
Today I visited this fine fellow for a few minutes, as his people are away. Would not look at the camera. 🤷🏻♀️ 🐈
I abandoned Coffin Cove (Coffin Cove Mysteries Book 1) by Jackie Elliott about half way through. It didn’t hang together well, had way too much exposition — just not really my thing. 📚
Excellent: A Question of Despair (DI Sarah Quinn Mystery Book 1) by Maureen Carter. It was well-written, held my interest so I read it pretty quickly, and had credible plot twists. I see some US reviewers don’t understand English as it’s spoken in the UK. I loved the language! 📚
Palak Paneer Paratha
Our International Breakfast this week is Paratha from India. We made Palak Paneer Paratha. There was too much just for breakfast, so I guess lunch is organised too. 😀 Spinach was fresh from the garden.
The neighbour I visited yesterday had this wonderful large orange fungus growing on one of his pine trees.
Daring Fireball, John Gruber: Crazed Gun Owner Kills 8 at FedEx Warehouse in Indianapolis:
So seven people get blood clots after getting the J&J vaccine and we pull it, but eight people get killed by a crazed gun owner and it’s just another Friday in America. Makes sense.
Other Monarchs have hatched unobserved, but here’s one I spotted this morning, still fresh out of the chrysalis.
This statement is gobsmacking: ACC must do better to speed up fossil fuel divestment:
We balance our responsibility to invest in an ethical and lawful way with our need to earn strong returns for our unique Scheme
I’d like to use that if on trial for robbery… lawful vs income!
Early to bed last night with the blahs, so I watched Work It — a teenage dance film. I liked the notion of the geek girl who couldn’t dance — that’d be me. Pretty pedestrian movie but fine for an easy watch with invigorating music when headachy and tired.
Glad I reserved my day after the flu shot for blobbing. I didn’t sleep so well — loads of weird dreams — and am feeling a bit blah today. My only real task for the day is to take the dogs in for routine vet stuff.
Wow. Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus:
She needed grants to pursue ideas that seemed wild and fanciful. She did not get them…
Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic.
This year’s flu shot done. ✔️ Apparently it has extra ‘goodies’ to stimulate the immune response in over 65s so my arm might be quite sore. Thanks Unichem for extremely simple online booking.
Starting the day with heavy rain, thunder and lightning.
The other surprise today was the first Monarch Butterfly to emerge from its chrysalis. Such an amazing natural process! 🦋
While driving past the lake at the end of our road today I was surprised to see our local black swan pair have 6 moderately large cygnets. That’s the first I knew about them having babies this year. Zoomed iPhone photo. 🐦
Busy day! I’m getting better at line dancing, hooray! The easiest dances are OK with me. Every new dance has me falling over my feet, but I know I’ll get there.
Also: met our new neighbour today. She came up for drinks with our other neighbour and will fit in well. 👍