🥵 The last couple of days have been very humid. This morning outside it is like walking through a thick bath.
🥵 The last couple of days have been very humid. This morning outside it is like walking through a thick bath.
Monday 22nd July, 2024 Newsletter letter
Monday, July 22, 2024
Monday 22nd July, 2024 Dear Friends, I don’t think that I am in the business of looking after dogs anymore, at least not puppies. Please don’t get me wrong, I love dogs. However, my step-daughter who has a young French Bulldog has gone away with her family for a week, and my wife and I are looking after the puppy. He is sweet, but a lot of work and messy. Give him a few more years when he is happy with just a walk, doesn’t eat or drink sending everything everywhere, and doesn’t bring the outside in.
A part of the ruin of the old Sugar Mill in Paia, Maui.
Apparently today is National Ice Cream Day, at least here in the US, and I am sad to report we have no ice cream in the house.
Thanks to President Reagan, we celebrate National Ice Cream Day every third Sunday in July, meaning July 21 this year.
For more information on this important day, click here.
I’ve been playing around with muting keywords on two Mastodon apps. I don’t know what is involved with the coding, though I would have thought that catching individual words is not that difficult? However, from my experimenting I’ve decided that each one catches some, but neither catch all.
Where’s that mute button when I need it?
I was out last night searching for slugs and snails who might be eating our young lettuces, and instead I found this spider standing guard.
I don’t know. Some days just feel to me as though all the pieces are not fitting together correctly. Today everything felt scratchy and irritating. Nothing felt smooth and as though it was running well.
I’m hoping for a reset tomorrow.
For now I will enjoy the quiet, still evening and the moon rise. That does feel as though it is working as it should.
Those times when on hearing or seeing something I am triggered in a way that nudges something deep down inside me. That perception by the senses stirs something in me. It can be good or bad, or maybe in that moment I am unsure what the feeling is. But that something in me has been triggered is certain.
Such things don’t happen without a cause, and an investigation into that cause can be helpful. It can reveal a purpose as yet uncovered, an aspect of my personality as yet unknown, or some pain that needs healing.
And yet in that moment I am occupied with something else, distracted by the demands of others, or maybe adverse to wanting to explore what the cause of that trigger is. Then before I know it that feeling is forgotten about, subsumed under the activities of life. But it wont go away. It just lies dormant until a fresh trigger brings it back to the surface, returning the sensation back to consciousness and awareness.
Oohh, in the time for the weekend the first early beta build of The Iconfactory’s Tapestry project has just landed on TestFlight.
I’m sorry, no screenshots or specifics to share as per The Iconfactory’s request. For now I am just happy to give this a whirl and see where the project is heading.
The moon casts ghostly shadows over the landscape last night. The images were taken through the windows of our house.
🚘 In other news, my eyes do not enjoy me driving at night. I’ve said it before on this blog, but my aging eyes find the glare of the car headlights, especially the bright LED lights, too bright for comfort.
🚘 In other news, my eyes do not enjoy me driving at night. I’ve said it before on this blog, but my aging eyes find the glare of the car headlights, especially the bright LED lights, too bright for comfort.
🔥 I’m back from sitting in the fire of what was my men’s group this evening - at least for me. That’s not necessarily bad, in fact from my experience it is good, though it can be uncomfortable at the time…and require some wind down time afterwards.
🔥 I’m back from sitting in the fire of what was my men’s group this evening - at least for me. That’s not necessarily bad, in fact from my experience it is good, though it can be uncomfortable at the time…and require some wind down time afterwards.
A boat moored on the River Sado. The photo was taken while out on the River Sado in a more modern boat, powered by solar power and completely quiet.
Rethinking Kagi Adoption
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
I’ve been using Kagi Search for about six months now. I am on the lowest tier of the paid plans which allow me 300 searches a month. It turns out that that is quite enough for me. I have never hit that limit. What I don’t know is if I need Kagi? Or perhaps to be more specific, if I should pay for search? I do like Kagi. It generates its own results.
While going through some old notes I came across these few lines:
Who am I when others don’t see me?
Who am I when I don’t see myself?
But don’t let the second be an excuse for the first, because rest assured that the first does happen.
I have no idea where this came from or what prompted this train of thought? However, since finding them these words have been playing in my mind. Not only what did I mean by them, but why did I write them down?
I don’t see these hammer head worms very often. This one I caught a couple of mornings ago. I have since learned that they are an invasive species to Hawaii.