Miraz Jordan

The other day in the dog park at Levin I heard a Tūī in the tree right next to me. This clip starts with other birds, then the Tūī comes in. In the background someone calling a dog.

Also on Lambton Quay, 6 chaps moving a very heavy looking and very large object up Plimmer Steps. Amazingly, the two behind the object had not been crushed when I next passed by.

At Plimmer Steps on Lambton Quay, John Plimmer with his dog Fritz.

Seen on Lambton Quay in Wellington.

Today I was a good citizen and voted in the Aotearoa New Zealand general election. Polling closes on 17 October.

With summer coming, I had a window open overnight. This morning I can hear a rooster nearby. 😎

We’ve been really enjoying Netflix ☛ Away 📺:

Away follows the first crewed expedition to Mars … The series is described as being “about hope, humanity and how ultimately, we need one another if we are to achieve impossible things.”

Today’s weird beach rubbish find: fluorescent light tube.

Party colours in Aotearoa. It’s so confusing seeing news about US elections because their right-wingers are associated with red and lefties with blue. In Aotearoa the left use red and the right use blue.

Information about voting uses orange to avoid accusations of partisanship.

In Aotearoa everyone gets 2 votes:

1. vote for a specific person to represent the electorate

2. vote for a particular party to be in government.

Once votes are counted parties with enough seats can form a coalition to actually govern. Right now that’s Labour, Greens and NZ First.

In 2020 we also vote on two referenda in Aotearoa:

1. give people with a terminal illness the option of requesting assisted dying.

2. whether the recreational use of cannabis should become legal.

I intend to vote yes to both. I suspect neither will pass though.

Aotearoa is holding a General Election on Saturday 10 October 2020. We received info by mail a few days ago and can vote from now. I’ve cut out my voter card (optional, but helpful). In my electorate there are 8 candidates, some total nutters. The brochure is superbly done.

Hah, nice quote:

If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don’t make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: “He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.”

From: The Enchiridion by Epictetus.

I should have known that the excellent NetNewsWire 5.1 would allow me to ‘Always Use Reader View’ for a feed where I need it. 🥳 Thanks @brentsimmons

Window cleaning didn’t take long (outsides only). It needs a good quality sheepskin and blade, a dash of water and a drop of dishwashing liquid. A vast improvement!

Window cleaning is on the agenda today. After this week’s storm it’s like looking through a fog. It’s probably a mix of salt and sand.

Our dogs don’t like it when the grass in their yard gets too long. Perhaps it tickles their bottoms… It also makes it harder to find and pick up 💩. So today was weedeating day. Oshi helped by digging a hole (not visible in photo). 🐶

Past me was pretty smart and bought all the episodes of Rizzoli and Isles. I’d forgotten that they’re pretty fun. A good thing to watch at the tail end of this spring storm where it’s still too cold and windy to be outside doing things.

Hilarious, when all 3 telcos here don’t take the racist s**t 1 customer wants to throw:

Uh oh, they’ve used the word “normal”. Christmas decorations with snowmen in summer is normal. … A language spoken continuously … for hundreds of years is most certainly not normal.