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I find the Hide My Email feature on MacOS Safari very frustrating. I can set up a hidden email address manually with no problem, but I don’t think that I have ever seen it work in Safari? No pop up appears offering me to create a Hide My Email address.

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Graffiti faces seen around China Town in Honolulu.

Graffiti on a doorway of a face, big eyes, triangular nose, with a concerned and worried expression. Various scribbles around and a padlock and chain hikding the door locked.

A couple of graffiti, cartoon faces on a street wall, one white, one black, both happy, cheeky looking with various other scribbles and writing over and around them.

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Now this is something that I had not seen or tasted before. A green Matcha (green tea) IPA. We had been gifted a sushi meal at Islander Sake Brewery in China Town, Honolulu, and they served as this Matcha IPA from Kyoto. I think that this is the brew? Very tasty, and certainly a striking colour.

Two small glasses of green matcha beer, an IPA, with the server in the background serving two other customers.

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Yesterday we visited the Honolulu Museum of Art to see an exhibition of David Hockney prints, both old and new. I had wanted to see this exhibition and with my wife’s birthday a couple of days before the exhibition closes, it made for good timing for a reason to head over to Honolulu to view it.

A huge David Hockney painting with two images of himself sat in chairs viewing prints that he has created.

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In China Town, Honolulu yesterday evening.

Drawing of a blue and red Dragon on a door with the words, Dragon Upstairs

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🕑 Oh no. I just found out that daylight savings starts at 2:00am this Sunday. Clocks springing forward an hour = sleep messed up for a few days.

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🛌 Those mornings when I just want to throw the sheets back over me and stay where I am…in bed.

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🌧️ Today has been an unexpectedly wet day. I saw that wind was on the cards, but it has come with a strong dose of rain as well, heavy rain. A very wintry day.

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I’m sitting in the truck after the first run of week three of the Watch to 5K program. It is my second time going through week three due to various pauses in the program through illness and visitors.

I’ve moved to a different running venue, a playing field. It is flatter than the park that I have been running in. With the running intervals starting to get longer, I wanted to move to more even ground. The times felt good today, and I tried to throttle back on the tendency to go out of the blocks as though my life depended upon in. I’m trying to tell myself, slow, steady progress.

While not always easy, I am starting to notice a difference in my comfort with the running. I’ll chalk that up as progress.

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🦥 Slowing down at the end of the day listening to Bedtime Beats playlist on Apple Music.

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Some more waves. This time in Waihe‘e Coastal Dunes & Wetlands Refuge which is managed by the Hawai’i Land Trust. I find it a special area, little known about, steeped in Hawaiian history and with the largest sand dunes in Maui.

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I watched episode seven of Masters of the Air on Apple TV+ last night. When I started watching the series I didn’t feel as though it was living up to its reviews, and after two episodes was unsure about watching any further. However, I decided to stick with it and am pleased that I did. I feel that it has got grittier. At least one plot line has been abbreviated in my opinion, but that may be in part due to run time?

My decision to stick with the series was informed by my having lost an uncle during the Second World War. He was a gunner in a RAF bomber. Of course I never knew him, though I am named after him through my middle name. I find myself wanting to understand in some way what he and the other men who he flew missions during the War went through. Like the men in the series, my uncle would not have been very old when he lost his life.

I end each episode reflecting on what war does to people, the hatred it fuels and multiplies, the sacrifice of so many and the loss. For these airmen, the courage they have to get back in one of those airplanes after what they see…for me is unimaginable.

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I’m experiencing a lovely after exercise glow. I headed out this morning for another Watch to 5K run after a week off for family visiting. The runs felt strong and consistent despite the strong wind that I was running into at times. I repeated the final run of week two to get myself going again. Back to the first run of week three on Wednesday.

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That comforting sound as the rain falls at dawn, while I sit in a dark room, slowly getting brighter, sipping my first coffee of the day.

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A quick update on my attempt to get myself to running a 5K, through the Watch to 5K program. My wife and I have had a packed week with family visiting. Fun, but on the go showing them the island. There was no time for running, and today I have decided to take the day off, rest, and catch up things before the week begins.

Tomorrow I’ll start back up.

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🫠 Having a slow morning. Our wonderful family guests left yesterday and today feels like a day of rest and catching up on a few things that need doing.

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Especially for @jean and @Miraz. Waves this morning from the cliffs near to Ho’okipa Beach.

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🤕 My grandson was firing a water gun (UK: water pistol) last night. In an attempt to get away I quickly turned and walked straight into a glass door. My head is still feeling it this morning. Ouch!

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The Clean Up Crew - a flock of white egrets chasing the mower as the grass is cut.

A lot of white egrets on a mown lawn with a mixture trees and bushes around. A patch of blue sky with storm clouds brewing.