Finished reading: Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata 📚
♨️ We just put a heater on. It's cold this evening, in our corner of Maui.
♨️ We just put a heater on. It's cold this evening, in our corner of Maui.
Spinning wheels today…that’s what it feels like right now. The day started off well, but the wheels got progressively bogged down in the mud as the day has gone on, at least that is how it feels from where I sit right now. Maybe I am too hard on myself and need to take a break, and do something different when the results aren’t coming?
March 2023 Photoblogging Challenge
Day 3: Solitude, suggested by @circustiger
At dusk on a cold evening, a lone fisherman sits waiting on the beach in Comporta, Portugal.
☔ I haven’t seen so much rain here. Since I landed back on island a week ago, there has been rain with short breaks, and a lot of wind. I just drove home with wipers doing double speed, and rivers forming alongside the road.
☔ I haven’t seen so much rain here. Since I landed back on island a week ago, there has been rain with short breaks, and a lot of wind. I just drove home with wipers doing double speed, and rivers forming alongside the road.
March 2023 Photoblogging Challenge
Day 2: Weather, suggested by @pcora
We’ve been having terrible weather of late. Continual wind and rain, with the occasional glimpse of sun. Cold as well.
🌧️ It’s pouring out there. “Out there,” is outside of my truck. I have come to off load the recycling, but it is raining so much that for now I am not venturing out.
🌧️ It’s pouring out there. “Out there,” is outside of my truck. I have come to off load the recycling, but it is raining so much that for now I am not venturing out.
March 2023 Photoblogging Challenge
Day 1: Secure, suggested by @mandaris
A plant behind a secure window in Florence, Italy.
February 2023 newsletter letter
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
February 2023 Welcome to my February 2023 newsletter. This month has been dominated for me by travel to Europe. A solo journey made up of two parts. First I stopped for a week in England to visit my mother. From there I travelled down to Portugal for two weeks. Nothing specific was planned for the England leg of the trip. I simply spent some quality time with my mother, did some odd jobs for her around her apartment, and allowed myself to rest and get over jet lag which I find can hit me pretty hard when I travel east to Europe.
Well that will teach me. I saw a passage earlier today that I liked, and thought that I would build a blog post around. “I’ll remember where the text is," I said to myself, “I’ll pick it up later."
Remembering it now and wanting to write that post, I have no idea where I saw it. Lesson learnt. Next time I will bookmark it, copy and paste it somewhere where I’ll find it, or simply write it down.
And in a funny way, I still wrote a blog post around it.
It’s cold, wet and windy today. February is going out with a bang.
Resting in the Anonymity of Travel
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Yesterday I landed at JFK airport in New York after a seven and a half hour flight from Lisbon. The previous night I had spent at an airport hotel in Lisbon due to my early departure the next day. Although someone was sitting next to me on the flight to JFK, we both kept to ourselves, eating, reading, and watching movies on the inflight entertainment. I arrived in New York at lunchtime, but my onward flight to home in Hawaii did not leave until the next morning, and so I had booked an overnight stay at the TWA Hotel connected to Terminal 5 at JFK.
🧪 Doing a little testing of omg.lol's status updates.
🧪 Doing a little testing of omg.lol's status updates.
🚧 The spam bots appear to be on overdrive for the last couple of days. The amount of junk e-mail dropping in has significantly increased.
🚧 The spam bots appear to be on overdrive for the last couple of days. The amount of junk e-mail dropping in has significantly increased.
🚧 The spam bots appear to be on overdrive for the last couple of days. The amount of junk e-mail dropping in has significantly increased.