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Bought a bicycle head/taillight set as part of a curbside pickup order. It arrived without the taillight. Went in to exchange it for a complete set.
The only one left was missing the headlight.
Customer service rep agreed it was simplest to just combine them!
Kid keeps talking about “btools” on Roblox and I keep hearing it as “bee tools” and interpreting that as the “cow tools” from The Far Side.
A #MonarchButterfly spotted while walking around the neighborhood the other day.
#nature #photo #butterfly #flowers
We have a flock – or more likely several flocks – of feral parakeets in town. I saw these two going after the sunflowers in someone's front yard. #birds
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On iNaturalist (1)
Me: brew update curl
brew: proceeds to update 60 packages including MySQL, ImageMagick, ffmpeg, python, and all their dependencies…
…not just shark week, but shark week in the *Bermuda Triangle* 🙄
I kept hearing this hawk screeching while a bunch of crows flew around. It flew around a couple of times, but I couldn’t see where it landed. I kept walking, and eventually spotted it in this tree, still screeching 15 minutes later.
Some #florespondence from last weekend’s walk at the botanic gardens.
I didn’t write down what the yellow flower is, but iNat suggests it’s Senna didymobotrya, a cassia native to Africa.
The magnolia was a popular nectar spot: every single flower that I could see had multiple bees crawling around in it.
#flowers #plants #nature #photo
Robocall from power company apologizing for the 2-hours-long-and-counting outage at my address, assuring me it’ll be fixed soon and they’ll keep me posted.
Me: What power outage?
My best guess: Either someone reported the wrong address for an outage, or there was an outage nearby that didn’t impact my building. But I didn’t see any repair trucks when I went outside, either.
Sculpture at the garden. There are a half dozen pieces scattered around the grounds of this botanical garden. Pictured here are Fuller (as in Buckminster) by Doris Sung and Trace by Nancy Graves.
Fuller is near the entrance, so I see it most times I go walking there, but Trace is waaaaay on the other side.
#sphere #photo #art #buckyball #outdoor #sculpture
1. Had to take the laptop in due to imminent battery failure. Apple apparently designed a laptop that their own techs can’t service, so they had to send it in to swap the battery.
I remember an older model MacBook where I was able to order the replacement battery, have it shipped to my home, and then swap it out using a coin to turn the latch.
2. Had to pull recent stuff off the storage drive in the desktop due to imminent drive failure (thank you SMART warnings!), which is manifesting itself in a drastic collapse of data throughput, which is of course slowing down the process of getting those recent files onto a drive that’s in better shape.
At least I don’t have to run out and buy a replacement drive on a holiday. But it’s still not what I wanted to do with the afternoon.
4 days later
Laptop has been shipped out and back with a new battery, seems to be working fine. 🎉
New HDD should arrive tomorrow, but I’ve got all the data off of the one where SMART was indicating likely failure within 24 hours 😱 and was able to wipe it before it died.
And now my desktop monitor is dying. 🤦♂️ Admittedly it’s 12 years old and isn’t even full HD, but FFS, the timing…
I spotted this squirrel as it ran up to the trash can opening. Once it decided I wasn’t going to leave, it jumped down, then ran past the trash can and apparently found something to eat, though I couldn’t see what.
Some birds spotted on a hike yesterday morning: a California Towhee (the mature one perched on top of a bush) and a bushtit (looking very birb-like). A whole lot of the latter were flying back and forth between the trees on either side of the path, barely stopping long enough for me to point the camera in the right direction.
This rabbit was right next to the trail and darted out from cover as soon as I got too close to it. Then I tried to get a photo where you could actually see something of its head other than its ears, and waited, and waited, and waited until it finally ran off the rest of the way.
Not entirely sure what the kid is making with his friends in Roblox Studio, but a a flaming toilet is involved.
