Joy of Sx
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
One Day at a Time (9 December 2015)
Wonderful getaway with DH. Dinner at Provenir (Sicilian olives, grilled scallops, duck, pork belly). Margaritas. Beach front room with visiting ducks, nesting oystercatchers, a sly family of stoats.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
One Day at a Time (8 December 2015)
What I'm reading: Embassytown, by China Mieville
Things I got done:
- Weeded and deadheaded in front porch garden
- Pruned mock orange in front porch garden
- Sprayed 10L weedkiller behind house, in back porch garden, on north side of front porch garden, and halfway down the steps
- Dishes (x2)
How other people helped:
- Dishes (#2 x1)
- Vacuumed and dusted (#2)
- Dinner (DH and #2)
There is no way to reflect the hours spent agonizing over whether I will ever get the Christmas tree up this year, given that it depends on #2 organizing the things she has moved in, then moving the picnic table, then moving the massage chair. Perhaps I should get a little tabletop tree.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
One Day at a Time (7 December 2015)
Things that made me click:
What I'm reading: Embassytown, by China Mieville
Film watched with DH: Not a thing
Things I got done:
- Raising children in the post-9/11 world
- Beautiful video
What I'm reading: Embassytown, by China Mieville
Things I got done:
- Transported #4 (x2)
- Watered potted plants and in water tank garden (42L)
- Dishes (x1)
- Weeded the water tank gardens
- Cleaned kitchen sink
- Laundry (x2)
How other people helped:
- #2 brought BK from Whangarei
One Day at a Time (6 December 2015)
Things that made me click:
What I'm reading: Embassytown, by China Mieville
Film watched with DH:
Things I got done:
- Big surpise. Killer cop has history of covering up killing by other cop(s).
- Another video of Chicago police killing a young black man has been squashed as city attempts to pay off family for their silence.
- (Probably a white) man taken into custody after hostage situation and shoot-out with police at Wisconsin motorcycle repair shop
- Focus on national polls may be distraction from what's really going on in the states
- How methodology matters in presidential primary polling
- I agree with most of these
What I'm reading: Embassytown, by China Mieville
- Downton Abbey
- The Frankenstein Chronicles (x2)
Things I got done:
- Watered back porch garden and potted plants (56L)
- Transported #4 (x2)
- Weeded and deadheaded in back porch garden
- Cut down another 20% of growth under jacaranda
- Dishes (x1)
How other people helped:
- Took #4 shoe shopping (DH)
- Transported #4 (x2)
There is no way to reflect the hours spent listening to people talk, today mostly DH with new business ideas.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
One Day at a Time (5 December 2015)
What I'm reading: The Prince of Bagram Prison, by Alex Carr
Film watched with DH:
- The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (x2)
- Quantico
Things I got done:
- Dishes (x1)
- Planted jasmine under cedar trees
- Transported #4 (x3)
- Transplanted some seedlings, rooted one of the strawberry vines
- Dishes
- Dinner (DH)
There is no way to reflect the hours spent listening to people talk. More US news streams.
Friday, December 4, 2015
One Day at a Time (4 December 2015)
Things that made me click:
- Mass shooting, so I posted this on Facebook
- Also this
- Then distracted myself with some really cool pictures of a Mount Etna eruption
- Canadian public health gag order?
- http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/acceptance-profound-sounding-bs-linked-lower-intelligence
- http://www.newzealand.com/my/article/worlds-best-northland-ticks-a-lot-of-boxes/?draftmode=true&bust=27900EF7-9C98-FECA-EFD54DFCFD49EB24
- http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2015/12/3/9844480/why-people-believe-bullshit-science
- http://www.vox.com/2015/12/2/9836566/republican-climate-denial-why
- http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/15-tips-keep-your-mind-alert-and-focused
- https://richarddawkins.net/2015/11/fossilized-tropical-forest-found-in-arctic-norway/
- http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/congress-visas-europe-216416
What I'm reading: The Prince of Bagram Prison, by Alex Carr
- The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
- Manhattan
- Modern Family
Things I got done:
- Dishes (x1)
- Cleaned toilet
- Transported #4 (x3)
- Planted #2's berlotti beans (x3) and sugar snap peas (x5) in water tank garden
- Watered potted plants, front porch garden, and salad garden (28L)
- Weeded salad garden
- Academic interview with #4 and Sir
- Took #4 to buy more work pants
How other people helped:
- Dishes
- DH took #2 to garage for car repair
- Grocery store (DH)
- Transported #4 (DH x1)
There is no way to reflect the hours spent listening to people talk. More US news streams.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
One Day at a Time (3 December 2015)
Things that made me click:
What I'm reading: The Prince of Bagram Prison, by Alex Carr
Film watched with DH: Nothing, again!
- The Atlantic, The Geography of Gun Deaths
- US gun fact: 12% of guns used in US mass shootings are obtained illegally
- Wellington vimeo
- This article was my introduction to today's mass shooting in the US, followed by MSNBC live
- Why humans have grandparents
- 4,000,000,000 years of ribosomal evolution
- We've heard talk about "America's reputation abroad", but what about Republicans' reputation abroad?
- Mortality up for white people in the US. I have a theory: it's stress
- Now I want to watch Racing Extinction
- Gives me an idea for a January TIOLI challenge
- DH and I discussed recently that a Constitutional Convention would result in the break-up of the US. Someone else has been considering the implications.
- Another what-if-Trump-wins-the-nomination article
- Gender differences related to climate change beliefs
What I'm reading: The Prince of Bagram Prison, by Alex Carr
Things I got done:
- Dishes (x2)
- Weeded water tank garden
- Watered potted plants (28L)
How other people helped:
- Dishes (#2 x1)
There is no way to reflect the hours spent listening to people talk. Yesterday it was DH, today it's US news streams.
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