Success: 8+ hours of uninterrupted sleep. I’ve been working on my sleep for a couple of years now and am starting to see and feel improvements. It makes so much difference to not be tired and foggy all day. I have a decade or more of terrible sleep to catch up on.
Ahhh, this is the time of year when the sun rises before 7 am. It feels like the year is really actually heading towards summer. I’m looking forward to some good warm days and not-cold nights. I’m ready for a holiday in a hot place (not happening, of course).
I really enjoyed most of the stories in Voices Carry and Other Stories of Women and Crime by Dayle A. Dermatis. 📚
I didn’t finish the first story, but found the second, Bothering with the Details, specially appealing. I bought this as part of The Mysterious Women bundle.
Amazing. According to Ancient Earth globe, 260 million years ago Wellington, New Zealand (close enough to where I live now) was located at the South Pole.
So, in another 260 million years will it have drifted north all the way to the North Pole?
Day Two of spring and the peach tree is already in sync. Blossoms appearing.
Timezones! (I assume.) I diligently posted at least once each day for #mbaug photo challenge, and used that tag so I could easily collect the posts. MarsEdit shows 1 post (or more) per day. A Micro.Blog Search though shows something else — ‘incorrect’ dates. Timezones?
// @help
Another excellent read: Tracking Game: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery by Margaret Mizushima. 📚
Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mountains plunge Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo into a sinister vortex.
The fingers of the sea.
For Micro Monday let me recommend @GeneticJen who is writing a magificent must-read series on Women in tech history. So far:
- Margaret Hamilton
- Grace Hopper
- the ENIAC programmers
- Katherine Johnson
- the women of Bletchley Park
- Hedy Lamarr
As always with love it is inexplicable. I just love Spain. The 4 weeks we spent travelling there in 2015 were too brief. I also love waterfalls. The Fervenza do Ézaro waterfall is between Santiago de Compostela and Fisterre in Spain.
On 04 November 2012 we made a wonderful discovery: an empty section at Waikawa Beach. By mid-January 2013 it belonged to us and we’ve been living here 5 or 6 years now. That pile of bricks is where our house now stands.
I very much enjoyed Pretty Little Horses (an Abby Maxon mystery novel) by Annie Reed. 📚 Gripping ending kept me up late reading.
The copy editor needs a better eye though for quite a few trivial annoyances, such as missing words (esp. ‘the’) or ‘the' instead of ‘to’ etc.
Enjoyed Gators and Garters (A Miss Fortune Mystery Book 18) by Jana Deleon. 📚 This story felt more like hanging out with old friends. Didn’t have quite the zing of previous books.
Ida Belle’s wedding to Walter—but the caterer goes missing
Maybe the series has run its course?
Living here is great for my emotions. Today’s special boost: the black swan pair with the five thriving cygnets.
This is what Aotearoa New Zealand wants:
man who carried out mosque attacks in Christchurch on 15 March 2019 … sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of ever leaving jail. … pleaded guilty to 51 counts of murder, 40 of attempted murder, and one of a terrorist act.
In 2008 I visited Hawai’i briefly and took a guided tour up Mauna Kea to visit the observatories. I had no idea at the time that it is sacred indigenous land. I hope the indigenous people can overcome the plans to build more telescopes, desecrating their land.
International Day of the Dog 2020, you say. 🐶 Importing some old photos and just found this, appropriately. On High Street in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand (2009, before the huge earthquake of 2011): Corgis on High, a public artwork. I hope they’re still there.
‘Yod dropping’! How do you pronounce emu?
the evolution of emu to EE-mooh was an example of yod dropping.
some words ending in that /u/ vowel in English (e.g. “blue”, “rude”) were once pronounced with a palatal — /rjud, blju/ — but are now not. This … is yod dropping"
Cool: Auckland Zoo welcomes first rhino birth in 20 years
The baby girl rhino was born on August 14 and is the first child of 30-year-old southern white rhino, Jamila.
… after a 16-month pregnancy, with the newborn tipping the scales at a healthy 65 kilograms.
