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…)

Sunset from a few nights ago. Today is socked-in sea fog, so no chance of a beautiful sunset tonight.

In the 24 hours my daughter had had The Sims on her computer she has: become a vampire, got married to some random she met on the street, become pregnant with twins, and now just turned her husband into a vampire…

The kiddo. Eight now, unbelievable!

The walk home after picking up my daughter from a friend’s house Saturday night.

Also… keen to hit the ground running again…are the micro.blog achievements still a thing? I can’t remember where they were located any more, could someone please remind me? :)

Hello everyone! Been away a while. 2020…well, it was a year, wasn’t it? Finally feel as though I’ve woken up.

I feel like I need to read more poetry 📚 and also listen to more classical music 🎼these days. Would dearly love some recommendations, if anyone has some?

Found a Puriri moth on the side of the road on my morning walk today. Picked it up, thinking it was dead, but after ten or so paces it started moving in my hand. Wish I’d got a photo of me holding it (they’re huge!), but here it is in the pohutukawa I popped it on.

Waiting for the school bus…in a few minutes this clam will be completely shattered! 😉

Someone’s chicken has gone into overdrive. I can hear it bokking over the hills!

I’m trying to teach myself to draw dungeon maps. Here’s a first attempt :)

Tonight’s sky 🥰

Going to try and be more regular with blogging…again. Today’s offering: Bus Stop Days.

Really enjoyed reading this post about Agnes Martin! I hadn’t heard of her but she sounds like a wonderful soul.