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The bluejay has whiskers¹

1. not really, its a bug. ↩︎

I haven't been active on this site for a while, and I'm not promising now that is going to change, but I took a picture of this pretty flower and I thought I would share.

Every year I think that we are going to be better, and every year I'm disappointed. See, there was a major snow storm this weekend, but you wouldn't know it if you drive, only if you walk. The roads are clear, but the sidewalks are a disaster.

Not only that …

Four years on and I still think that no one really gets that our response to the pandemic is a root cause to a lot of the "there aren't enough workers" calls in so many industries, this is especially the case for professions that are women led, like teaching, nursing …

I'm still, still, working on a workflow that doesn't include lightroom, but does include editing RAW files. For most of last year I have been only editing the JPEG files using the default windows editor and that's it.

That works fine, but most of the time the results were, meh …

I have the finally figured out how to work out an updated workflow for this site. There was a strange number of random issues that just started to break making is a pain to update and therefore I just stopped.

So, now that I have that figured out, I will …

Its not everyday that you see a hawk eating a starling in your backyard in the middle of the city.

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 …

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 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 …