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Day 1582 ⛅ brrr and a bus
9.86km / 33:05 / 68m / 14.0°C
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
A micro bat, two weeks in a row in Holmesglen reserve at dusk
Walking around the edge of the park at dusk, same time on a Tuesday afternoon, there’s been a small bat appear and go darting about above me. I have zero bat ID skills, there are apparently eighteen species of microbats seen in Melbourne, and hunting for “bat silhouette” online only seems to find graphic stencils and movie advertising, so the species shall remain unknown…
Day 1581 ⛅ the fast food and the furious
5.01km / 15:51 / 16m / 23.0°C
Day 1581 ⛅ semi-chilly commute
7.84km / 23:54 / 56m / 14.0°C
Day 1580 ☀️ smoky commute
8.32km / 25:23 / 34m / 22.0°C
Day 1580 ☀️ cool clear commute
7.59km / 23:37 / 56m / 10.0°C
We seem to have zombie zucchini plants!
They refuse to die, every time I think they’re done, a few more fruit set and slowly grow up, while the leaves and stalks are gradually becoming more and more shredded. Surely these are the last three
Day 1579 ⛅ chasing steam trains
16.62km / 1:07:11 / 80m / 17.0°C
only just autumn but we seem to have freesias sprouting, seem early to me this year
One or two spindly ones under the silver birch trees, and in the front lawn around the plum tree and along the fence
Day 1578 ☀️ saturday shopping
2.17km / 9:28 / 14m / 13.0°C
Day 1577 ⛅ zigzag home
6.20km / 18:42 / 9m / 17.0°C
Day 1577 ⛅ fixie2work
7.85km / 24:49 / 55m / 13.0°C
Day 1576 🌧 rainy lake lap
14.33km / 42:11 / 63m / 13.0°C
Day 1575 ⛅ covid 5km limits revisit
20.88km / 57:46 / 72m / 15.0°C
Day 1574 ⛅ straightishly home
5.18km / 16:24 / 8m / 18.0°C
Day 1574 ⛅ home2work
7.84km / 24:58 / 56m / 14.0°C
Day 1573 ⛅ commute home
8.76km / 27:34 / 33m / 18.0°C
Day 1573 ☀️ fixie2work
7.93km / 24:47 / 57m / 12.0°C
Day 1572 ☀️ almost to the bay
22.42km / 1:05:28 / 105m / 18.0°C
planted eight hyacinth bulbs between the magnolia and roses out the front
Boosting the small number of spring-flowering bulbs out in the front garden, there’s only a few jonquils, freesias, and a solitary hyacinth somewhere nearby. Fingers crossed these all come up
Day 1571 ⛅ short shopping
2.17km / 8:28 / 13m / 15.0°C
Day 1570 ⛅ wet commute
7.67km / 24:49 / 58m / 11.0°C
Day 1569 ⛅ wetlands and parklands
12.94km / 43:09 / 86m / 16.0°C
Day 1568 ⛅ physio and around
8.06km / 26:11 / 39m / 20.0°C
Day 1567 ⛅ grim grey afternoon
16.23km / 51:11 / 101m / 16.0°C
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Day 1566 🌧 dull rainy commute
5.10km / 17:28 / 45m / 16.0°C
Day 1566 ☀️ fixie2work
7.47km / 22:01 / 57m / 14.0°C
Day 1565 ⛅ post-holiday shopping
2.96km / 10:56 / 23m / 22.0°C
Day 1564 ⛅ back on the GOR
9.00km / 31:40 / 132m / 19.0°C
Birds for [2024-04-05 Fri], revisit Lake McIntyre
Back at Lake McIntyre again (Millicent, SA), and a walk around the lake this time. At the second bird hide Jo spotted a small bird moving out on the mudflats, then slowly we counted more and more. Five Black fronted dotterel scurrying back and forth. One more for the #birdsseenin2024 list
Day 1563 ⛅ family blue lake lap
3.69km / 19:01 / 57m / 25.0°C
Day 1562 ⛅ Southend to Millicent
24.79km / 1:46:13 / 182m / 17.0°C
Birds for [2024-04-04 Thu], Canunda National Park, SA
A windy day for our bushwalk to the Coola ruins, nothing much to see because of that … some unidentified medium-sized raptors, and emu, plenty of them seen on the drive in, and a few on the 8km hike. Definitely not a bird I see often in the wild, certainly one for the #birdsseenin2024 list
Day 1561 ⛅ Millicent family lake McIntyre
10.04km / 48:17 / 29m / 17.0°C
Birds for [2024-04-03 Wed], Lake McIntyre, SA
A short ride out of town to the wetlands in a rehabilitated quarry, then a slow loop around the lake – stupidly forgetting to bring out binoculars. Plenty of the usual suspects and three definite unusual spottings for the #birdsseenin2024 list, in the order seen they are: Blue-billed duck Lathams snipe Pied stilt
Day 1560 ⛅ exploring mlllicent
10.62km / 38:50 / 57m / 15.0°C
Day 1559 🌧 blanket leaf car retrieval
7.11km / 37:50 / 390m / 17.0°C
Day 1558 ⛅ GOR lighthouse return
37.98km / 1:48:37 / 495m / 21.0°C
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…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
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