Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz Dave @lemmy.nz 1 yr. ago

Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 14/11/2023

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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I'm excitedly waiting upon a new bag of coffee beans that should arrive today. Someone here mentioned Raglan Roast's Brown Lightning was their go to, so I'm giving it a try.

ETA: Oh, I haven't done this week's photo challenge yet, I'll try to get to that today.
- I graduated to tea when I discovered you can get the same amount of caffeine but with a more gradual curve. I love the taste of coffee though. Had some Honduras beans on the weekend, not bad.
  
  My coffee arrived at about 10:30, broke straight into it. Not bad, but I do find brand new coffee a bit acidic, I think there are preparation strategies but I'm no good at it.
  
  I drink coffee for the taste (and to hold a warm mug). I often drink decaf, or cut the caffenated stuff with decaf for lower caffeine but better flavour.
  
  I can't drink tea, I just don't like I've tried to like it but have made no progress.
Today I'm learning nftables and how to segregate SSH traffic so I can still remote access while the VPN is up.

Significant learning cliff but I'm starting from halfway, so shouldn't be too much of a mission
- Oh wow, good luck! I haven't had to dive that deep yet, sounds like something I need to avoid looking at until my skills are better 😆
So annoyed with myself. I took a ceiling tile down at work to fiddle with something in the void and got some dirt in my eye. Now a few days later my one eyelid is all swollen. How stupid can I get? (Don't answer).

Waiting at my doctor now. I expect a lecture.
- Always take the tile out sloping away from you, apprentice mistake there buddy.
  
  Makes sense
- Did you get a lecture? It's been an hour and a half so maybe you're still waiting 😆
  
  At least somebody cares. LOL No lecture, just need to see an eye doc to get it sorted.
  Gone are the days when the GP would just prick it with a pin himself.
  What a palaver hey.
Omg I forgot about the photo challenge! That gives me something fun to do today.

There are lots of roses blooming. The variety of fragrances is interesting. Unless you've smelled it before, you can't predict if it is going to smell sweet or fresh or sort of smoky.

There are 2 kinds here and one is a cabbage rose but it smells super old-fashioned. If I can go outside I try to smell them every day if it isn't raining.
Just recovering from walking Kepler in 3 days. Feet are still sore.. Weather was supernice, except for the second day on the saddle, lots of rain. Slept like a baby in the van last night!

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