π This has been a strange weekend for me. The grandkids were off school on Friday and I kept thinking that it was Saturday.
On Saturday I couldnβt get it out of my head that it was Sunday, and then today I wanted it to be Monday.
With tomorrow being a public holiday here in the US, Presidents Day, Iβm wondering what day I will wake up to?!
π This has been a strange weekend for me. The grandkids were off school on Friday and I kept thinking that it was Saturday.
On Saturday I couldnβt get it out of my head that it was Sunday, and then today I wanted it to be Monday.
With tomorrow being a public holiday here in the US, Presidents Day, Iβm wondering what day I will wake up to?!
Saturday, February 17, 2024 β
βοΈ It feels good to see the sun this evening after a couple of days of cloud and rain. Donβt get me wrong, I enjoy moody weather, but on this still evening the heat of the sun brings some warmth and rest.
Saturday, February 17, 2024 β
βοΈ It feels good to see the sun this evening after a couple of days of cloud and rain. Donβt get me wrong, I enjoy moody weather, but on this still evening, the heat sun brings some warmth and rest.
Saturday, February 17, 2024 β
My default search engine for a number of years now has been DuckDuckGo. In the past I have also used their browser and their privacy based (redirect) email service. I have been happy with DuckDuckGo’s service, never questioning the quality of their search results. Now though I am exploring Kagi as a possible replacement. Why? That’s a good question, for which I don’t think that I have a good, clear answer. Praise or at least mention of Kagi’s service passing across my timelines has probably played a part in this decision.
I’m not sure that I am comfortable with paying for my searches after years of them being ‘free’. For now I am on Kagi’s free, 100 search trial. I might keep DuckDuckGo in another browser and run comparative searches to compare the services. I have also read of other features within Kagi that I am not clear about at this stage and must try and remember to explore these.
Privacy is important to me within search, the reason that I stay away for the most part from the big search engines. At this stage though, I don’t know if for me the privacy of Kagi is worth a move away from DuckDuckGo?
Saturday, February 17, 2024 β
π½ If someone redesigned the humble toilet brush, making it more hygienic, I believe that they would be onto something.
Saturday, February 17, 2024 β
π½ If someone redesigned the humble toilet brush, making it more hygienic, I believe that they would be onto something.
π Before going to bed last night the sounds of waves crashing against the distant cliffs, a mile away, was loud. In the middle of the night it was so loud that we could hear the roar inside the house with windows and doors closed!
I have since read that a 30-50ft swell is hitting the north shore until this evening.
π Before going to bed last night the sounds of waves crashing against the distant cliffs, a mile away, was loud. In the middle of the night it was so loud that we could hear the roar inside the house with windows and doors closed!
I have since read that a 30-50ft swell is hitting the north shore until this evening.
Yesterday morning’s view at sunrise.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 β
My wife gave me two of these metal tumblers from Japan for Valentines Day. They are great at keeping drinks cold…, and look good as well.
Yesterday was meant to be my next run on the Watch to 5K program, but I didn’t go out. I had the feeling of a cold coming on twenty four hours earlier, and yesterday I was not right. Today is also going to be a no show. I’m still not feeling right, and don’t want to do too much and just make myself feel worse. So hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday I’ll be back out there.
Saturday, February 10, 2024 β
HAPPY LOSAR
Today is Losar, Tibetan New Year, the year of the Wood Dragon 2151.
Below is His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s New Year message to the Tibetan people.
Well there’s week 3 of the Watch to 5K program completed. The conditions were perfect today - overcast, barely a breeze, and a comfortable temperature. There was some stiffness, but I was feeling better with the longer runs.
Earthquake just felt on Maui. I’m getting texts from friends across the island with people having felt it. I was sitting in my truck after a run and it just started shaking. Then the guy next to me jumped out of his car thinking that someone was shaking it!
About 15 minutes ago an earthquake was reported, initially as a 6.3 and now as a 5.7 earthquake centered 2km from PΔhala on the Big Island. This report on Maui Now confirms the earthquake and says that no tsunami is expected.
π΄ After a week living in a wind tunnel, last night the winds finally appeared to have blown themselves out. It was still when I returned home yesterday evening, and we are waking up to the same this morning.
π΄ After a week living in a wind tunnel, last night the winds finally appeared to have blown themselves out. It was still when I returned home yesterday evening, and we are waking up to the same this morning.
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Iβve just left Mahatma Gandhiβs ashram situated just outside of the small town of Sevagram in almost the geographical center of India. I had spent a couple of night’s at the ashram as part of a pilgrimage around India that I had set out on, to visit places connected with the life of Gandhi. He has been a big influence on my life, and I have read a lot by and about him.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 β
A rainbow is never far away here, but the wet and windy weather is producing some good ones at the moment π
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 β
Yes I keep saying it, but today’s Watch to 5K run felt hard. At one stage I thought that I was going to start walking during a running stage. Admittedly the island is still experiencing strong winds, but my legs felt a stiffness in them today. …Onto the next leg…