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Random in December

I haven't been very active on here. I had some workflow stuff to play with, and have been in a general funk. Not necessarily weather related, but more ongonig pandemic with a lot of people deciding to ignore the pain and suffering to "get back to normal". Its a little …

Re-reading is my safe place

There are a lot of times that I will be reading a good novel and then it will get to a point in the plot that doesn't mix well with a lot of the things that are happening in my real life. Its typically to do with war, the worse …

I'm looking to make things harder on me

I like fastmail. I like mutt and getting as much work and reading done in the terminal as possible. It has a lot fewer distractions and keeps my brain quieter.

However, I haven't tried to get fastmail working with Mutt. I had it working well with the older shared host …

Autumn and little birds

Autumn is upon us, or is that tomorrow, and the little birds are here to eat our natural feeders.

two small birds vying for space on the sunflower.

There are a lot of different flowers they can peck at, but this one sunflower seems to be the favourite.

chickadee sitting on a dried sunflower

There are chickadees too, but I only saw one so far …

A beard of bees

September is here, and it stinking hot, so hot the bees are bearding. I didn't notice it happening during the summer, so I'm guessing that it has something to do with the humidity.

And now with Hurricane Lee, definetly heading to NS for the weekend, its only going to be …