Awesome Chills gig on Friday night. One of my favourite NZ bands. Small extra highlight was dancing beside the Minister of Finance who I barely recognised wearing a black band tshirt from the merch stand and singing along to all the songs! 😊

Off to see The Chills tonight…some tunes to get in the mood!

Thank you thank you! @jean 💛🧡

Sometimes I really hate autocorrect; mine just turned “teppanyaki” into “two pantaloons…”

Finished reading: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 📚

Had a cool trip over to the Makara wind farm today, where my husband was the first person back in a cross country running race. My wee girl and I had fun wandering around and looking at all the turbines and beautiful scenery! Then a beer after to celebrate 🎉

Fell down an Obsidian hole. I may be some time. 😩

Morning walk! The days are definitely getting shorter, the mornings darker. But we’ve had some beautiful light and calm days too…

We found this BFG in the wisteria on our balcony this morning!

Hey Blot aficionados, I’ve got a question about webmentions… (I’m hoping someone might have already gone through this, and I won’t have to pester poor David at Blot.) I’ve noticed on my Blot blog, which I thought I had set up incorrectly to include webmentions (and gave up on), acutally is displaying comments for discombobulated.blot.im, but not when I view the blog via the domain (discombobulated.co.nz).

Case in point: this conversation vs this one.

Any ideas on where I might have gone wrong? From what I can tell I set up the webmention “stuff” (LOL) using the domain URL… Ideally I’d like to have the comments showing up at both URLs… is that possible?

Really liked this: Ending over mending: planned obsolescence is killing the planet. I try to use things as long as possible, but this is a really good reminder to think twice about buying something that actually cannot be repaired; is made to not be repaired.

I’ve officially wiped windows (and Manjaro) from my laptop and am Pop_OS-ing! Super fun! 💕🎉🤓🥰🥳

Nailed it! 🤓

Yesterday, writing in my friend Gina’s boat shed!

Coffee break with my daughter!

Whew! That one got me out of my chair!

Made the should-know-better mistake of loading up the old iTunes library into Apple Music…now getting flashbacks from my twenties…all those wasted hours of deleting duplicate files from iTunes… 😱Worst part is I can’t stop!

Currently reading: All about Emily by Connie Willis 📚

Have spent quite a few hours today trying to install Big Sur on to an external SSD in a last-ditch effort to make a late-2014 Mac mini usable. (From what I understand the drive is what makes it painfully slow.) I’ve successfully installed to the SSD but am not able to select it as a alternate startup option. I think I need to enable booting from external drives, which you apparently do from recovery mode…only my mini doesn’t boot into recovery mode at all (even though I can see a partition that looks like it should be one). So now I think I need to make a bootable install USB to try and somehow get into recovery mode, to enable the external disk, to run os x from the external drive, so I won’t go bananas trying to use an old computer. Whew.

This is the closest I’ve ever seen them!

Finished reading: Sounder by William H. Armstrong 📚

Hi everyone, looking for some 📚 recommendations! My dad is going in for an operation tomorrow and will be at least overnight in hospital. I’m a bit nervous about it all and so to distract myself (and him of course!) I want to get him something for his kindle if he does feel up to reading. I’m looking for something funny (but not stitch-pulling funny, hehe) and light but not complete fluff. Something Bill Bryson-y with shortish chapters and humour and interesting factoids. Probably non fiction?

What’s everyone using for notes capture these days? I have so many tabs open on my phone and just want to unload them (but I really still want to watch/save the info somehow), but I don’t want to fall down the Evernote-hole again…

Found this Kererū feather on the way home from dropping Moo at the bus stop. Looks quite plain, but has a definite sheen if you tilt it to catch the light!

Hurriedly trying to remember what Level 2 entails! (Community case in Auckland; they are in L 3, rest of the country at L 2…)