Wednesday, September 18, 2024 β
Watching my grandson playing football (soccer) last Saturday morning. His team won 3 - 1. I was sitting to the left where there are a crowd of people on the touchline, but the sun was brutally hot and I had to take shelter under the shade of a tree. Those tent structures were all accounted for!
Another game this Saturday.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 β
Homemade egg pasta drying.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 β
I’m late to the game here. We started watching Slow Horses on Monday evening, and are now 4 episodes in. I now see what I have been missing. The positive side? I have three and a half seasons to go. π΅οΈββοΈ
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 β
A thread on Mastodon made me go looking to see if website for the old Camino browser. Indeed it is. Camino use to be my go to browser. A blog post announcing the end of its development was published on Thursday, May 30th, 2013. I remember Camino fondly. It was sad to see development end.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 β
I was driving home yesterday and found myself in a long line of traffic. I live not far off the Hana Highway here in Maui. This road turns into the Road to Hana, a journey which for very good reason, for its beauty and culture, attracts a lot of visitors each year. Morning time can find the road busier with cars heading out towards Hana, and evening can find the road busy with cars returning, the numbers varying as the holiday seasons come and go.
While moving slower than usual along the highway, locals turning off on the side roads as we headed east, I found myself wondering what this journey was like for those visitors who were driving the road for the first time? I regularly drive this section of road, I know what comes next, what there is to see, how long it will take to get from A to B. For visitors though, each turn in the road offers a new site, buildings and homes will be seen for the first time, what is around the next corner or over the next hill? Indeed even, in my complacency of knowing the road well, what do visitors see that I miss?
Well this is obviously a thought that has stuck with me for a long time. I initially wrote about it over four years ago, saying,
Sometimes when I am driving home, following a car containing a family or persons visiting Maui, I wonder how they are seeing the road and its surrounding scenery? For them, each bend in the road will be revealing a vista that they have not seen before. Views that for me I see pretty much every day, will be a first occurrence for them.
I guess that there is something in this dialogue that for me has some meaning? Perhaps it is around the subject and state of awareness? How present can I be to what is around me, even when what is around me is very familiar?
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 β
Be careful if you are up a ladder. I was topping the hedge this morning. I donβt think that I was doing anything irresponsible, but I almost fell backwards twice. Be careful.
Monday, September 16, 2024 β
Well the updating has commenced. Apple TV and my iPhone are on their way, downloading their respective OSs as I type. I’ll do my watch later.
I am a little on the fence about my MacBook Air at the moment. It’s a 13-inch 2020 and has finally made it to the bottom of the list for Airs that are compatible with the new OS. I suspect that with the next iteration of MacOS, the Air either won’t be on the list, or will be holding on by its finger nails. In the past when I have taken computers this far with OS updates, it has resulted in sluggish performance at times. My curiosity is piqued though by Apples new password manager. I would like to give it a go.
Knowing me, by this time tomorrow MacOS Sequoia will be installed on my Air.
Sunday, September 15, 2024 β
πΆβπ«οΈ Itβs a misty, wet and muggy night out there. I didnβt expect this end to the day. Good night everyone.
Sunday, September 15, 2024 β
This eveningβs rainbow with a Plumeria tree in the foreground (and experimenting with Halide appβs Process Zero). π
Sunday, September 15, 2024 β
A STOP sign decorated in stickers.
Sunday, September 15, 2024 β
We are fortunate enough to have A/C in our house…until we don’t. The split screen system decided to break down last week, and now the hot muggy weather from outside has made its way inside. Aside from keeping the inside cool and in my opinion more livable, the A/C also keeps the dampness and build up of mold at bay. Humidity is a reality here on Maui, especially on the wetter northern shore of the island.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Sometime in the last month I published my 3,000th post to this blog. When I hit publish on this post, it will be the 3,094th. That feels like a big number to me. Perhaps for some, they left that number in the dust a long time ago? But for me this feels like a lot. My blog started back in March of 2014. I have some posts sitting on my computer from an earlier incarnation of the site.
Sunday, September 15, 2024 β
π§οΈ Making coffee on a hot, muggy morning, and listening to the sound of rain as it dances off the concrete around the house.
Saturday, September 14, 2024 β
πββοΈ Itβs the Hana Relay today. A 52 mile race from Kahului Airport in Maui to Hana, along the twist and turns of the road to Hana. Teams of 6 compete with each team member running 3 legs of 2 to 3 miles each. Waking up this morning I could see a big group of vehicles parked up for one of the change over points, and competitors running down the hill. Good luck to them all.
Friday, September 13, 2024 β
Changing where I sit an write really does help with my productivity, or with clearing my head and finding the words and ideas that I was looking for. Even choosing a different venue in the house. I look out on a different view, which seems to give me a new perspective even if I know the house well.
Friday, September 13, 2024 β
Well following my post last week about the new Reeder app, I have decided that it is not for me. For sure I will keep an eye on its development. I believe that through its production, developer Silvio Rizzi is exploring new ways that we can consume our online content, as is The Iconfactory with Tapestry. Tapestry will probably bounce on and off my phone as it goes through beta development. The jury is still out on whether I adopt it full time…I doubting it for the same reasons as Reeder, but I’ll reserve final judgement until it is a more mature app.
For now I’ll stick with using individual applications for the individual platforms. I simply find it easier to follow and keep track of the information that I want. Going back to the newspaper analogy that I used in my original article, for me it is like having a Sunday newspaper and making it last the week, consuming it at my own rate and in the way that I like to - sequentially, backwards/forwards, drilling down deeper into some sections.
Friday, September 13, 2024 β
I visited the Rinzai Zen Mission near to PΔ’ia this morning for their morning meditation and service. It was a beautiful way to start the day.
Here is the closing prayer that we chanted.
FOUR INFINITE VOWS
All beings without limit I vow to carry over,
Kleshas without cease I vow to cut off;
Dharma gates without measure I vow to master;
Buddha’s Way without end I vow to fulfill.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 β
π¬οΈ Yeh! It looks as though the Trade winds have returned. They are blowing through the open window this morning. After a handful of days of very hot, muggy weather, hopefully as today moves on through the conditions will be a little more manageable.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 β
Spotted while out walking just off the shore line, at the end of last week. Someone or some people had been cleaning up debris that had washed ashore.
Seeing the work of these good people reminded me of a quote that went something like this,
You canβt throw things away. You can only put them where you canβt see them anymore.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 β
Picked from under the tree and ready for a quick lunchtime snack.
