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🧪 This is a test. Posting to status.lol via Drafts.
🥱 Oh boy, a visitor showed up before sunrise...a longer day than I planned.
💤 Trying again. Good night.
🙈 Well best laid plans and all that...not to bed yet.
🛌 Long day tomorrow. Early to bed tonight.
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🦉 Trying my first status post
It’s hot outside. Hot, hot, hot 🫠
I have a new strategy for practicing chess and seeing where I am not keeping an eye on things. Play a 6 year old who is focused solely using his queen to take as many pieces as possible.
Thursday, September 22, 2022 →
Sitting here with that satisfying glow of work done outside and having freshened up under our outdoor shower. The post COVID fatigue lingers, but I sense is receding…slowly. I just have to respect it, do what I can do when I can, and rest in between. But today, jobs needing doing are now done.
A Tuesday evening rainbow (a second is just visible) 🌈
I have been tired through today after staying up until the early hours for The Queen’s funeral, but I am pleased that I made the effort to watch as much as I was able before succumbing to weary eyes. It meant a lot to me to see and be a part of the day as it happened, or as much as I could sitting the other side of the world, being in the solemnity of the moment, and saying goodbye to Her Majesty.
I’m waking up this morning to the start of my 59th orbit of the sun, a bit bleary eyed after going to bed in the early hours having watched a part of The Queens funeral. 🥱
We went for a late morning walk in Waihou Spring Forest Reserve in Olinda. Being up country, the air was fresh and cooler. A short but very pleasant walk.
And this little character was waiting for us when we got back to the car.
A Sunday rainbow…
…and a little later a double rainbow. 🌈
I built a fire last night, the first for a long time. Some friends were visiting my stepdaughter and just as they were about to leave they asked to see our house. My wife mentioned that it was a lovely evening for a fire, which immediately had the grandchildren running around trying to find chocolate and marshmallows.
It was already dark, and I think that this was the quickest that I have got together paper and kindling, and got the fire started in our fire pit. We sat around it, roasting marshmallows, until some drops of rain and over tired kids made us decide to call it a night.
A lovely, spur of the moment change of plans.
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 →
I have had the live stream of The Queen lying in state in Westminster Hall playing in the background as I do other things. Every so often I’ll come back and sit and watch people file past Her Majesty’s coffin. Every twenty minutes the flow of mourners is stopped as the there is a changing of the guards.
When I started watching it, the time would have been 3:00am in the morning in England. The flow of people paying their respects has not stopped. As I come back to watching the scene, I find myself pausing for reflection.
This post COVID fatigue is eating me alive. An odd metaphor to use, and while it is not true, at the same time it feels very apt.
Periodically I have to remind myself that not doing something will not get it done.