Herb Alpert is coming to town in a few weeks. I’m glad to see he’s playing at a venue (Edmonds Center for the Arts) just down the road from us.
I checked out the latest Beta of Photoshop last week with its AI abilities and then deleted it. I’m not sure I’m ready to be playing weird animals, etc into my photos.
Watching Orca pod from Edmonds Beach.
I see that Tangerine Dream is on tour and is going to be in these parts in September. I saw the group back in the ’70s and so it might be time to check them out again! There have been many changes in their musical style and lineups, etc over the years but they are still a group of musicians to reckon with.
And here’s another sign that Spring is here in Edmonds.
DPReview is still operating as of this morning. I think it’s time for the editors to do an update to the update.
It’s actually beginning to feel like Spring around here, with trees blossoming, temperatures on the rise and my usual seasonal allergies acting up!
I’ve just gotten my second bivalent Covid vaccine. I received the first one back in September of last year so I’m definitely past due for this booster. So far, a day later, I’m not feeling too bad, although I have a bit of “mental bleariness” that could either be caused by vaccine side effects of the Mucinex decongestant that I’ve been taking for nasal congestion caused by seasonably allergies.
And now I’m really hoping that Netflix renews Wellmania for a second Season!
Another visit to the Marina in Edmonds.
We are watching the final episode of Wellmania on Netflix - another terrific Australian show.
It seems that at least they are going to archive dppreview content when it closes.
A while ago, just after lunch, the hired help with leaf blowers were making noise in the yard next to our Condo. One-day I suppose all these workers will be using electric blowers with strong batteries, and not gasoline, but there will still be the noise, albeit somewhat reduced in volume.
Yesterday was a Mall walking day here in Seattle but it’s looking like the sun may be shining for a few hours this afternoon and we can get out for a walk in the open air. For course that could change quickly since this is the Pacific Northwest.
I hate that dpreview is closing but at least there’s dprforum and dprevided to follow. One of these sites may eventually become the main replacement for the dpreview as far as interest and activity is concerned.
There’s a backlash brewing among young voters.
Good Friday in Australia is a public holiday and when I was growing up in Adelaide it was the only other day except for Christmas Day when the newspaper wasn’t published. Once again I’m showing my age.
I might also be having some issues with my hearing and so I’m missing important dialog in shows such as Extrapolations. My wife suggests that I need to be paying more attention to the visual clues, of course. I guess I’m showing my age.
We almost cancelled Apple TV streaming service a while ago but then checked on upcoming shows. I’m glad that we stayed with the service at least for the time being and we are watching Extrapolations and the new season of Schmigadoon! both of which are excellent shows. I was a little bit confused by a subtle plot (albeit with lots of clues thrown in) for Episode 6 of Extrapolations, but thanks to this site’s explanation I’ve been able to confirm what I thought was going on.
I’ll need to process the flying puffin in Lightroom and upload it somewhere before I can post it here.
It’s a rainy day here in Seattle which is a bit of a pity for people on Spring Break. We lucked out on Tuesday however when we took advantage of blue skies to drive down to Tacoma from Edmonds to visit the Zoo. We had a great time and I even managed to capture some puffins in flight.
I’ve just reset my automatic crossposting of these Micro.blog entries to my Mastodon account. I find that I just wasn’t posting my thoughts to Micro.blog when I knew that such entries were automatically going to end up on my Mastodon instance. I guess I’m just funny that way but I want to keep more to myself and knowing that this community is smaller than the interest I get on Mastodon is encouraging me to just post more and not worry about content so much. I’m still going to keep posting on Mastodon, but I’m definitely keeping these two services at an arms length as far as my entries are concerned.
I’m reading Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz. It’s a James Bond novel which, to my knowledge, attempts to fit into the Ian Fleming Bond canon in the same way that his Sherlock Holmes novel The House of Silk tries hard to emulate the writing of Arthur Conan Doyle. An insightful article on the Horowitz bond books is also definitely worth a read for people wanting to catch up on what these books (and the original Ian Fleming novels) are all about.
We walking around Bridle Trails State Park this afternoon as part of our project of finding new and different places to exercise here in the Seattle region. I recommend the paths in this State Park but we are warned to keep an eye out for horses coming by. I’d actually also warn the unwary hiker to keep an eye out for horse manure on the trail.
The Sound is a lot smoother this afternoon than it was some 24 hours ago. #Edmonds #PNW
