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Aug 13, 2024: Not a bad run commute this evening. Spring is in the air. #running
Aug 7, 2024: Allocate Smartly Trading Update For the past 12 months I have invested a portion of my capital using the Allocate Smartly tactical asset allocation free subscription. On the last …
Aug 4, 2024: About me: running I’ve been running now for 15 years, starting in 2009, seven years after my school years. In school I was naturally ok at the 800m and …
Aug 1, 2024: General shit Went back to work today. Took annual leave on Mon/Tues and sick yesterday. Made it only a few hours today, then came home coughing and spluttering. …
Jul 30, 2024: Snow run out the back of Arrowtown (Miner’s trail). Also, I’m sick. Probably shouldn’t have done that, but I needed to check, and …
Jul 27, 2024: Weeknote 2024-W30 Gone full nerd this week. It went something like this: Saw @82mhz@oldbytes.space’s post on #OldComputerChallenge - triggered that I should do …
Jul 26, 2024: Grim crime thrillers My favourite film genre right now are dark, grim, realistic crime thrillers. I think what grabs me is they all feel like they could be happening in …
Jul 23, 2024: I pretend these are boosters from Mario Kart. Pew pew.
Jul 20, 2024: Trail users I logged the trail users I passed on my run today. It was a beautiful sunny winter’s Saturday and I started at midday. Distance was 18.5km and …
Jul 20, 2024: In a rabbit hole Ok, I’m in a rabbit hole of IndieWeb/SmallWeb/SmolWeb/Blogging content. There is some fantastic stuff out there. People are amazing. Warning: …
Jul 18, 2024: Rolling fog on the lake this morning. Eery and beautiful.
Jul 15, 2024: Pretty fresh jog this arvo.
Jul 14, 2024: Small trimmings to my landing page, a weekly accumulated elevation profile, and updated colour scheme for light mode. Small wins. zakb.micro.blog
Jul 14, 2024: I had heard of Gomez, but for whatever reason had never given them a chance.. til now, and oh boy am I loving their 1998 debut album “Bring It …
Jul 13, 2024: Hard slog but very rewarding run today with beaut weather and good chats. First 3k in the fog, next 7km under the snowline, then 20k of undulating …
Jul 13, 2024: It’s hard to get out the door for a run at -2°C but scheduling with a mate increases the chance of it happening. Gonna be a cold one. Cool route …
Jul 7, 2024: 96,019 blocks since I installed uBlock Origin on #firefox 3 months ago. Wonder what I’m missing.. or not. Can’t believe I lived my life …
Jul 7, 2024: Weeknote 2024-W28 🏃♂️ Picking up the running again. Physio didn’t explicitly tell me I can’t run, so I did 35.2km / 2,239m for the week. Maybe a little too …
Jul 6, 2024: Finished reading: Revenge by James Patterson 📚 ⭐⭐⭐ Patterson is not really my type but it was on my shelf from god knows where. It was a quick easy …
Jul 6, 2024: Current #queenstown #trailrunning conditions. 👌 Fernhill loop
Jul 5, 2024: Totally switched off, ready for the weekend. Sorry boss.
Jul 3, 2024: Lunch walks #walking #lunchwalk
Jun 30, 2024: Quarterly Review 2024-Q2 Pretty meh in terms of health, but caught up with friends and family, found some new interests, and kept plugging on. 😷 Got COVID for the first time …
Jun 29, 2024: Glorious day to be back at it. Knees felt good. In fact, I could feel the new muscle groups (from strengthening exercises) doing their thing. Maybe …
Jun 28, 2024: converting bulk exported strava data to gpx When you bulk export your Strava data you’ll receive a zip file of: .gpx .fit.gz .tcx.gz files. To get them all into gpx format follow these …
Jun 28, 2024: Training ground - Queenstown Hill Queenstown Hill is a nice little 500m climb tucked just behind town. It has a Council-maintained trail to the “Basket of Dreams” and is …
Jun 27, 2024: From the bus. Shotover River is low.
Jun 26, 2024: Mountain biking is huge here. With it comes a network of guerilla downhill tracks scattered in our hills, often hidden just off the sides of …
Jun 24, 2024: Walk up Queenstown Hill after work.
Jun 23, 2024: I’ve hit 200 passwords in my password manager. Time to cull.
Jun 23, 2024: Training hill - back o' CF An unmaintained track at the back of Coronet Forest recreational reserve, part guerilla downhill MTB trail, part desire lines created by local …
Jun 22, 2024: 10,000m in 24 hours Distance: 79.96km Elevation: 10,099m Elapsed Time: 23:38:43 For my birthday back in 2022 I treated myself to a wee challenge - Go up and down some …
Jun 22, 2024: micro.blog is working for me Since April I’ve farted around with a few setups for a website and started dipping my toes into blogging. I went with a fail-fast, learn-fast …
Jun 22, 2024: Snow report from errand duties: Yeah nah. #RemarkablesSkiField
Jun 22, 2024: Why is linen always so freakin difficult to navigate?
Jun 16, 2024: This leafless bronze canopy of willows caught my eye on a walk today as the afternoon sun shone on it. #walking
Jun 16, 2024: Weeknote 2024-W24 🏃♂️ Went to the physio and confirmed I’ve got runner’s knees. No surprise, but good to put a name to it. To be specific, it is …
Jun 15, 2024: Remarkables ski field opened today (conveyors only). I won’t be forking out $1k for a season pass but might try and get up for a few skins this …
Jun 12, 2024: Stone circles, roundabouts and digitial places 🤔 I’ve just updated my #Junited2024 list. zakb.micro.blog/junited/
Jun 12, 2024: Runners knee it is. Can’t say I’m surprised. Physio strapped them up and sent me off with some roller and easy inner quad (he gave me the …
Jun 11, 2024: 5 passes in a day Date: 27 December, 2023 Location: Glenorchy, New Zealand Distance: 69.25km Elevation: 4,394m Moving Time: 13:42:31 (I was moving much longer, but I …
Jun 11, 2024: I think all the mountain slogging is catching up with me. Knees are not good. Time to take these strengthening exercises seriously. Physio tomorrow.
Jun 10, 2024: Wet morning. #Queenstown
Jun 9, 2024: Made a climbing pole for the monstera and repotted it on an angle to make it easier to tie the main trunk to the pole and hopefully encourage upward …
Jun 7, 2024: I may have planted the garlic too shallow. They’re just uprooting themselves. Will top up with soil and mulch. Broad beans going ok. No idea if …
Jun 6, 2024: Mt Aurum in a day Date: 15 Jan, 2023 Location: Queenstown, New Zealand Leg 1 (MTB) Distance: 15.73km Elevation: 512m Moving Time: 1:19:16 Elapsed Time: 1:28:46 Leg 2 …
Jun 6, 2024: Desire line swinging under a birch tree into the public carpark. There’s a vehicle entrance to the right of the shrub for wet days. The carpark …
Jun 5, 2024: Great idea @birming@mastodon.world. I’m enjoying the material. Here’s my #Junited2024 contribution, with a focus on location and places. …
Jun 5, 2024: Gloves didn’t quite cut it at 0°C. Liners next time. #rookie #winter #commuter
Jun 3, 2024: Weeknote 2024-22 🏃♂️ Ran 45.4km/2,651m - Getting close to my sweet spot again. Even threw in a grinding 2min-on/ 1min-off hill session. Got back into my scrub bashing …
Jun 2, 2024: Trail running always quickly becomes off-the-trail running. Can’t help myself. #trailrunning #nottrailrunning
Jun 1, 2024: Created an elevation profile from my gpx file in python and used a colour palette generated from a photo from the run. Bit of fun for my posts. …
Jun 1, 2024: Geez it’s windy tonight. Glad I anchored down the greenhouse. 🌪️🌪️
May 31, 2024: Green Lake Overnighter Date: 8 Jan, 2022 Distance: 56.17km Elevation: 4,228m Moving Time: 16:27:18 Elapsed Time: 30:24:22 At the carpark I farewelled my mates heading out …
May 29, 2024: Some things that come with a tourist destination: Traffic cones in monuments Views Developments Graffiti Ducks www.qldc.govt.nz/your-coun… …
May 28, 2024: Afternoon trots up past the launchpad. So good to be back at it. #trailrunning
May 28, 2024: Urban ducks #walking
May 26, 2024: Trying my hand at coding again Back in 2020 I started making these spinning 3D models out of my running gpx files. I’m not a programmer, and my code is ugly, but sometimes I …
May 26, 2024: Weeknote 2024-21 👨👩👧👧 S and her fam visited. Was fun being host and spending more time with my niece especially, who is a happy little camper at 7 months old. …
May 26, 2024: Morning shadows This 200m stretch runs through private land but the owner let’s people through. Usually gates are open but sometimes there’s sheep inside …
May 23, 2024: Sunset and moonrise Watching the moon rise as the sun sets on Remarks. #walking Watching the moon rise as the sun sets on Remarks. ![[IMG20240522171654.jpg]] …
May 21, 2024: Early rising Started my day at 4.30 this morning. Forgot how much I feel on top of things when I do this. Will try and get this routine back.
May 20, 2024: Wintery trot Bit of a dusting yesterday making for a good wee trot around the local hills today. #trailrunning
May 19, 2024: Garlic is in Pulled out the old silverbeet and some forearm length carrots and chucked in the garlic. Bulbs saved 3 years running from Te Mata Garlic NZ. Not sure …
May 19, 2024: Time to move on Been trying a bunch of Obsidian / GitHub Pages deploying thingymabobs with Jekyll / Quartz / Obsidian GitHub Publisher, Obsidian Digital Garden blah …
May 18, 2024: Horrah Not sure what’s in the water but I’m being drawn back into the horror genre again. These are looking good. Is the 70s vibe a recent thing? …
May 18, 2024: Thoughts. On blogs and posts. I’m a fan of general day-to-day things-we-do posts. I enjoy reading about amazing crafts and skills people are …
May 14, 2024: Lunch walk Beaut weather. #walking #LunchWalk
May 13, 2024: Glorious morning for a frolic A nice easy one up Bush Creek trail today, good one to get my legs back. I like to goat it up to The Steiger at the end before the backtrack to …
May 9, 2024: Snapped a few desire lines around town. First one connects the rec ground from the one way access road that connects to the public carpark and …
May 8, 2024: I went for a jog today “Yeah, no shit, you run every day” would be the response from those close to me, but actually this is a big deal. I haven’t ran …
May 7, 2024: Bunnings and Mitre 10 are becoming my second home Got a start on the wardrobe in the spare room this afternoon. It’s quite a hefty space (850d x 800w) which is great for storage, but a pain …
May 6, 2024: This is just embarrassing Crusty broken lower shower seal/water channel needed replacing. Though when I removed it I realised it didn’t need one at all as there’s a …
May 5, 2024: Imperfection wins the day Colour matching did the trick. Saved some moolah by just painting the patches and not the whole walls. If you look hard you can see where I’ve …
May 4, 2024: Dusty fans We’ve all got em. I look at this filth every day. Took all of 5 minutes to clean. Lesson learned. #WeblogPoMo2024
May 4, 2024: This wee track goes to a nice swimming or fishing spot along the Kawarau River. It is a sheltered nook with a shallow bank, but don’t go too far …
May 3, 2024: Painting.. or not Turns out I didn’t have any left over tinted wall paint from the previous owner/builders. Now the quest to figure out what colour was used. …
May 2, 2024: Progress Think I’m getting past covid finally. Enjoying small walks now without a cracking headache. #walking #LunchWalk #CovidRecovery
May 2, 2024: Pluggin holes 6 year old house, seemed about the right amount of nicks. #WeblogPoMo2024
May 1, 2024: Calendar photos Each year I try to make a calendar for the fam. These are some photos that’ve made the cut, in no particular order. Swims under Richardson …
May 1, 2024: Weighing up how I build the desire lines data schema and what makes the cut. First one has become quite a heavily used locals track that skirts closer …
Apr 27, 2024: Not much happening being sick and all. Here’s some slightly chomped radishes that’ll make it into my belly today. #GardeningNZ
Apr 26, 2024: A month of COVID My first stint of COVID hit me on the 26th March 2024, now a month back. I’ve been lucky to have lasted this long without it. The first 10 days …
Apr 25, 2024: Sometimes just dumping it on a pad is the way. #GTD
Apr 25, 2024: #WeblogPoMo2024 WeblogPoMo 2024 A daily blogging challenge for the month of May. I like these monthly challenges as motivators to get shit done. The …
Apr 22, 2024: Love this song. #grunge
Apr 21, 2024: Brave souls take the right to join the mayhem of our busiest roundabout, and more direct route into town. Left is the formed path to the bus hub and …
Apr 20, 2024: Weekend breakfast go-to. Chorizo, silverbeet, mushroom, tomato, spring onion, poached eggs and feta. Makes me audibly satisfied. #food
Apr 20, 2024: Desire lines and psychogeography Stumbled across the term “psychogeography” which Wikipedia describes as “the exploration of urban environments that emphasizes …
Apr 19, 2024: Lunch walk. Native plantings, incoming flights, Autumn colours. Deer across the river have quietened down. Must’ve found their mates. #walking …
Apr 18, 2024: Lucky to have this wee 2.5k loop taking me down by the river. Autumn colours settling in. #walking #CovidRecovery
Apr 17, 2024: I’ve only just discovered the #fediverse and found out #indieweb and #smallweb are what you call those cool, fun, real websites I’ve …
Apr 16, 2024: WTF found a new status. Thanks COVID.
Apr 16, 2024: Failing miserably at customising my website.
Apr 16, 2024: Cosmos keeping the colour alive mid Autumn. Cracker day.
Apr 15, 2024: Little website revamp. Learning soooo much. Here’s my wee haul for lunch today. #GardeningNZ
Apr 13, 2024: Quarterly Review 2024-Q1 🏃♂️ Went back to the West Coast to bag Mt Griffin trig A9RQ. Didn’t quite complete the loop I intended but was a much better experience than …