elainegrey

Happy New Years!

Is observation of the new year just a remnant of marking the seasons? Or were the celebrations always for the choice of an arbitrary point to mark the beginning and ending of the cycle? https://www.britannica.com/topic/New-Year-festival Seems like the observations have been going on for millennia.

Ages ago Christine and i said we'd observe the day with a romcom. In the past, it's been observed more in the breach (i think we saw Rocky last year.) This year was What Happened Later, which Christine notes was a postmodern-ish romcom, with a literal depiction of "RomCom unplugged". The emotional notes were complex with regret, anger, longing, pain mingled with rediscovery and resolution.

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I've hid in a book since Thursday lunch to Saturday morning. Well, i visited with my sister  (checking in after her health scare cancelled our Thursday lunch plans) and picked up Dad at the airport on Friday, and had a belated Christmas lunch with Dad and Christine today. Dad was so distracted the week before Christmas that i just wanted to wait until he'd returned  to give him our Christmas gift.

It was more of the Miller and Lee Liaden series  I read: i first read some of these in 2007, and it looks like various rereads in 2015 and 2017

Friday morning's peace and reading was broken by Marlowe bringing in a bird, which i eventually trapped in the bathroom, then had in a shoe box, certain a wing was broken. After making calls to rehabbers, i checked in again and the bird burst into flight in the bathroom -- so we let it go

https://17sounds.substack.com/p/feathers-on-the-floor

Sunday was very productive for house cleaning as i procrastinated. I did get started with the new wildlife cams. They use different sized SD cards, so i only have one running.  I'd had the old camera running in front of the house where it missed lots of people coming and going and stuttered as it assembled panoramas. The camera tech has really improved. The wifi is great: i can check in from the couch -- at least, with the current placement -- and see how the battery is doing.  You can see video at https://vimeo.com/showcase/10884374 and stills at https://airtable.com/appkrnb2MjpvcsLGZ/shrOmq0SpL05MVkNN https://airtable.com/appkrnb2MjpvcsLGZ/shrOmq0SpL05MVkNN The opossum images were only good enough to claim the sighting, not really worth preserving.

I am trying to declutter in various ways and trying to reduce preserved images is one of them. I have an application i use as a digital scrapbook where i have been collecting the sort of snaps one takes day to day and nuking most of the images once they are there. I took a photo of the array of greeting cards and scanned the letters and messages so that i can dispose of the physical items. It's all contextualized in the scrapbook, at least. I suppose if i could just let things go that would be even better.....

Similarly  I am deleting all but the very best wildlife photos from my phone and created a database where i can record the observations, which are really what i want to have last.