Enjoying my morning coffee with buttered toast and guava jam. I made the jam last night from a carton of yellow guavas that I bought at Costco. The aroma of guavas takes me back to the trails in the hills above Makiki, a refuge with views of Honololu, calls of wild peafowl, ripe guava on the ground, and cool breezes.
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I'm hoping I'll stumble across an opml list of all the newsfeeds from across the
National Institutes of Health, but for now I'm adding them singly to Feedland as I find them in my searches. The
NIH tab at
scienceblogging.com is where we can read the NIH aggregation.
#I've used the restored Micro.blog tweets import to begin building my archive
here. Since I seem to have deleted all of my tweets in 2014 (during my
social media sabbatical), I've started with a download of recent years. I'll try to get 2007-2014 in there this weekend.
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Dave
writes about Chat Thing, which he's using for AI interaction with his extensive blog. archive. I wonder if I could use that tool to connect to my own blog archive. I could ask it, for example, to index my
blog posts about each of the Vanuatu islands that I mentioned. I'd want to see
Paama, of course, but also
Lopevi and
Ambrym and
Epi and
Malekula and
Vao and
Efate and
Iririki and
Tanna.#
Just finished the excellent, sad, inspirational series
Alaska Daily.
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Received for my birthday: 50th anniversary edition of
Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child (and Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck), first edition of
Victory City by Salman Rushdie, a bottle of
Basil Hayden bourbon, an
Indian Food 101 cooking class tonight, and a
friendship bracelet woven by my son.
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Family movie night, just me and Erin and Oliver, was with
Finding Forrester, one of my favorites. The film ends with
Israel Kamakawiwoole singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and that took me back to
that day I met the Hawaiian superman.
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I'm in Bethesda tonight after a drive from North Carolina to drop Malia at American University. Soon after we left Chapel Hill, near Falls Lake, I glanced up to see a
bald eagle soaring high above, it's white tail feathers brilliant against the cloudless blue sky. And on the drive for the next few hours I enjoyed an endless display of redbud tree blossoms. When Malia took over the driving, I wrote a
haiku. Now I'm about to sleep, ready for a work day down at the
Duke in DC office so close to the White House.
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No soccer for me today, but another game for Oliver, who scored toward the end and had a last-minute chance to even the game but he got swarmed by defenders. I'm proud of the way he played today; his teammates have improved their passing and pushing to the goal, and I have enjoyed wathing their games.
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I see a
note about the possibility of a News tab. Going to try to figure out how to add one. There must be a header attribute to add. I checked the drummercms template but didn't see anything related to a tab for a news product. I'll sit back and wait for documentation.
#I will add the Links tab, now, too.
#The About tab is back. Thanks, Dave!
#Still nursing this strained calf on this cold, rainy day so couldn't do my usual Saturday work in the woods. Oliver had a soccer game, played well and would have scored if the goalie hadn't come out and knocked him sideways (for a yellow card that would have been a goal and red in the
English Premier League). I came home and sketched ideas for the hallway desk that will be my workspace in the new house. Watching the UNC-Virginia men's basketball game now.
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Updated the public link to the Drummer
glossary. Now let's see if I remember how to use it. For example, tomorrow I will watch a few of the
English Premier League matches.
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Updating additional outlines needed by my Drummer blog and Feedland news products (such as the
Duke River of News) by removing the previous public links. But I'm not seeing my About tab or Links tab, and the OPML headers have old links. Will have to look into this, and maybe post a comment to the Github Drummer repository issues.
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Speaking of muscles, as Dave was updating Drummer over the last few weeks I wasn't able to post to this blog. But writing that gastric post just now, and hearing the satisfying blip once the blog was rebuilt, sparked that ol' blogging muscle memory. I may not be able to run and play for the next couple of weeks, but I can blog!
#Home again after my mid-day visit to the ortho urgent care. I seem to have suffered a
medial gastrocnemius strain. Hope I can heal as fast I felt I was going for the ball when this injury happened this morning. Such a perfect morning for soccer. I had a good shot for goal, and a couple of tap ins because I was in the right spot at the right time. Such fun. Injuries suck.
#The Washington Post has a
feature story exploring how "Americans over 50 are doing extreme sports their grandparents never imagined." Not sure I should read it. I'm 52 and sitting in the Duke Orthopaedics Urgent Care waiting to have my leg evaluated. I played soccer this morning with the guys (a few of them over 50, others in their 40s, a couple younger) until I got kicked in the calf. Let me heal and let me play!
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I found a pile of scrap CAT6 cable in the house that we're having built, so my weekend project was learning how to crimp ethernet plugs to the ends.
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I've been telling people that I follow Tottenham Hostpur in the English Premier League. I guess that means I should watch them play today, even though the other games look more interesting. Leeds and Tottenham Forest are fun to watch, and Wolves have talent but a bad record so far this season.
#The NYTimes has this 'farewell to Stomp'
feature to mark the show's Broadway close. Back in October, I
wrote about how Stomp inspired one of my Peace Corps activities in Vanuatu.
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The day was so warm that I was outside again (after watching Brentford beat Liverpool), making a second, smaller firewood rack. There's a photo
here on Wan Smol Blog. I'm happy with those stacks of wood, which represent a lot of effort over the last couple of years to gather, saw, chop, and stack. Oliver asked me why I've gone to the trouble to make the racks. I explained that it's all in preparation for the new house and the fireplace on the screened patio.
#An observed holiday today, Oliver is at school, Erin is with our daughters in Baja California, and the house is quiet. A good day to clean out my clothes closet, refresh my blogs, read a book, drink coffee in the solitude.
#New header image of a box turtle. See more photos and posts about turtles on my
Wan Smol Blog.
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Hello, world. Happy new year.
#Justin Watt has time on his hands in a new city (he and Stephanie moved to Monterey Bay after Stephanie earned her doctorate of physical therapy), so he let Craiglist know that he wanted to help others with their projects. Justin wrote a
detailed blog post about why he did this, and what happened next.
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