Miraz Jordan

Gym session alongside Deb this morning. She did her thing while I worked on my weights routine. Booked a session with the trainer for later in the week — I'd bet I'm doing some things incorrectly and I hope I can increase a couple of weights slightly.

Bream Bay Strategic Plan 2006:

It is a place unique for its variety of coastal and shoreline bird-life, the Ruakaka and Waipu estuaries and nearby open shores providing an internationally important habitat for several species which are critically endangered. Fairy terns, NZ dotterel and variable oystercatchers all nest and feed on this coast. More common godwit, knot, turnstones, caspian tern, white fronted tern and Australasian gannet use the coast and the estuaries.

Archaeological sites around the estuaries of the Ruakaka and Waipu Rivers include pa, pits and terraces, and extensive midden. Intensive surveys of the coast have yet to be carried out. Sites of historical significance include the Nova Scotian landing at Waipu and the graves of these early immigrants, as well as evidence of gum digging, mining and early sawmilling.

Bream Bay:

Ruakākā
Ruakākā area is made up of Ruakākā Beach, Ruakākā Township and Marsden Point. Ruakākā has seen development due to its proximity to the expansion of the country's only oil refinery at Marsden Point during the 1980s. A timber processing plant at Marsden Point has further stimulated growth.

It's been a welcome quiet day. I went for a brief walk on the beach where I chatted with an acquaintance, D, and his sweet dog, Millie. It was a cool, grey day though, so I was glad to light the fire when I came home.

Earlier this month I sent off a bowel screening test. As expected, I received a negative result. Hooray!

Foxton has a strong Dutch heritage, so when I visited yesterday I ordered Pannenkoeken at the De Molen Cafe. I thought the apple would be cooked inside the pancake rather than lying on top.

The cinnamon sugar was a bit strong, but overall the pancake was delicious.

This morning I drove to Foxton for a stroll beside the estuary.

There weren't a great many birds around today, but I did spot a dozen spoonbills.

Also I saw a whimsically painted shed.

I've started watching The Law According to Lidia Poët on Netflix and it's pretty good:

… loosely based on the life of Lidia Poët, the first modern female lawyer in Italy.

Also:

Lidia Poët (26 August 1855 – 25 February 1949) was the first modern female Italian lawyer. Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy.

Today I feel so free and energised. I've taken control of this situation with the ex-friends who've been harassing me, recognised my own unique nature, made friends with my rage which is actually there to support me, and have been yelling my frustrations into a voice recording.

I feel joyous!

A reward for 40 minutes weights work at the gym. 🤣

You know how 'they' say you should write out the stuff in your head, making sure to use pen and paper because that's the only 'real' way. Then throw the paper away.

Well, I've discovered a better way.

I record my voice to a file, then transcribe it with Aiko, then read and erase it. Much easier, quicker and more effective. Full voice effects! I can say what I really want to say without the whole written word thing getting in the way. 🌋

I'm feeling very empowered.

Since 07 November 2023 we've had roughly 480mm rain, which has added about 31,000 litres to the water tank.

Nevertheless, the tank that was almost full on that date was approaching empty yesterday, some 37 weeks later, so today the tanker delivered 12,000 litres. 💦💦

A free Mac app idea for some clever coder — I type (or paste) in a bunch of text. Now delete it all with a splendid animation of it going up in flames. 🔥

Later versions could delete it with a huge explosion, fireworks, punchy monster or some other satisfying method. (I'm privately ranty today.)

In good news today, Deb and I both went to the gym where I did mainly stretches, along with some lat pulldowns and rowing on the machine.

This afternoon was gorgeous: sunny, still and warm so we both went for a bike ride round the village. 🚴🏼‍♀️🚴🏼‍♀️

A skill I have is to make a rule to archive unread emails that I don't want. [update 21-Jul-2025: I've deleted the rest of the original post as seeing it reminds me of unpleasant times]

Sigh. I will need to write approximately 1 million pages whose sole destiny will be to feed a bonfire before I'm able to craft an acceptable reply to an email I received before dawn today. 🔥