💤 Those steps through Bristol yesterday gave me my first good nights sleep since arriving. Grateful.
🚶♂ I apparently have walked 22,069 steps today. I’m taking the evening off.
I just received an email to say that Bear 2 private beta is coming. Mac first, iOS later. It has taken a while to get this far, and still doesn’t appear to be rushing to prime time, but I’m interested. I stopped using Bear, and prefer plain text files for my notes, but might be giving this a try.
I never feel as though I have arrived in Bristol until I have taken a walk across and am standing on The Downs.
🌧 Waking up to a wet, wet, wet Sunday morning.
😮💨 “Those feet were made for walking…” and now they are ready to fall off. A day of city walking.
September 2022 newsletter letter
Friday, September 30, 2022
September 2022 Hello and welcome to my September 2022 newsletter. I am back in the UK visiting family, staying with my mother. Last night my sister and her husband flew in from New Zealand. Distractions are at a maximum. I’m grabbing some early morning hours to pen these words. I was going to say that two things have marked this month for me - post COVID symptoms and then this trip to England and onto to Europe for a family wedding.
👧 Up late waiting for my sister to arrive.
🌧 The rain is pouring outside, the temperature has dropped and this is the first true autumn weather that I have experienced in a good number of years.
Thursday, September 29, 2022 →
👨💻 Updating and fixing bugs on mum's iPad
Thursday, September 29, 2022 →
I love this.
An unexpected wave of Grief
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Grief is a beast, I was going to call it that but will return to what it is, an emotion. Grief is an emotion that appears to always have a surprise up its sleeve. Right now I feel as though I have been hit by that wave that catches you at the beach when you are looking in the wrong direction, hitting you from behind, toppling you over, tumbling you around, sending salt water up your nose and down your mouth, before depositing you in the shallows.
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 →
🇬🇧 Arrived and very jet lagged
✈️ Awaiting final leg
Haleakala on Maui with Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawai’i visible while flying out of Honolulu. You might have to zoom in for a better look.
Flying across country last night, sitting at 35,000ft with no nearby points of reference, it was not possible to register how fast the aircraft was moving. In the distance I caught a glimpse of a couple of airplanes flying in the opposite direction, recognizable by their blinking lights. Watching those blinking lights fly by, literally and figuratively, in the darkness of the night, was a reminder of our speed.
🛌 Resting between flights.
TWA Hotel, JFK
Restroom signs, Hawaiian style, at Honolulu airport.
🛫 Up, up and away.