👀 Got some photos while a colleague shot video, saw a vintage Triumph, walked by baby home from school (ice cream stop on the way), and even had a beer with a friend. Not too bad.

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💈 I did manage to get an haircut before the real madness begins. Mandatory photo.

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🖊 Pen has been ordered. No pink available, not even transparent. Pale yellow it is.


🖊 Found a link about fountain pens (hey there, gang!) and a pen I’d like to purchase as my first one. They’re cheap. They’re cute. They come in pink!

Can’t find a single store in the country where I can look at it.


🗑 Ad-hoc Bin

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🐌 I am also, again, apologizing in advance for the late replies in the next month. I might miss some mentions, and a few of your posts. Will try not to, but…


🏃🏻♀ Almost forgot I still have a couple of days of “Women’s Run” to shoot, in the beginning of the campaign. I would gladly skip that.


🍜 Really trying to enjoy my last moments of freedom.

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📱 I had to find a spot for Slack on my homescreen. It’s only for a month, mind you, but it does feel weird as hell.


🍎 Another event, another one I don’t really care about personally.


🕵🏼 Walked to the Judo place, and back. Took the long way too. Since I’ll be busy for so long, I’m trying to enjoy my final days, and spot a few stickers while at it. Got a bunch!


🥋 tinyMovieStar has gone to two Judo classes (and I’m using Judo very lightly here), and wants to go again. I suppose we’ll have to enroll her, the trial period is ending. I will take care of that in the morning, as there’s a chance I’ll have a shoot in the afternoon.


🌱 Greener Grass

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🌻 Vincent

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😅 Afraid the 220GB I have available for the month wouldn’t be enough to upload photos from the road, I activated another SIM card. They had a promotion going, so I now have an extra 120GB for €15.

Let’s shoot!


💼 I did not miss meetings that go on for hours, but it was a nice one in the end.


💖 Ended up getting a new one. Spot a theme?

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📓 Looking for a notebook with some clean pages for today’s meeting, I came across this. I don’t remember getting these stamps, and movieStar also has no idea.

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📚 Done with Delisle’s Pyongyang, on to Burma Chronicles.


🍇 Even on the weekend, when I’m not working! The vineyards are always following me!

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🚶🏻♂ We walked the dog.

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📚 Finally found my pet peeve with Kobo. It was not too easy.

I wish books not purchased from Kobo would sync across devices. Seems like all my previously bought books load with no issues, but do not sync.

I could load them on multiple apps, but reading progress will not update.


👀 Quick walk to the supermarket, we needed stuff for breakfast. Next up: lunch celebrating Dad’s birthday, and tomorrow’s Mother’s Day.

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😳 Seems like I’ll be shooting the campaign after all. Unlike the last one, I’ll be spending some nights away. Can’t say I’m thrilled, but it should be fun. And exhausting.


🐶 Kobo’s dog ears are cute.

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🥘 Today we sat at the counter. tinyMovieStar suggested it, so we skipped the usual table.

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💴 Negotiating another campaign coverage. European Parliament election in a month or so.


⌚ We got tinyMovieStar an analog watch a couple of weeks ago. She was turning four, and the watch matched her sneakers.

She now knows how to tell time (even if she has no real idea). She’ll go “You said you were picking me up at 4, and it’s 5 already”.

Yes, our little one is turning into me.


🪛 Three hours later, I’m done. The new furniture is ready. I’m done.


🔨 Halfway there! Still need to assemble the drawers, but I might be done before lunch.

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🪑 The Royal Palace #beSeated

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🤪 tinyMovieStar woke up. We told her we need to hurry, since Mom&Dad have to go to their offices, and she can’t stay home alone.

“Can I have a babysitter?”


😫 Fridays kinda suck, in the morning. Getting the little one out of bed is a struggle. And it’s gym day, so she should be at school on time.

“Time” is 30 mins from now, and she’s still sleeping.


🪑 That office vibe…

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👷🏻 No way around it, today is IKEA Day, Part II. The 4-drawer chest refuses to assemble itself.

Good morning.


📷 Day32 : unputdownable (Jim / @jimmitchell)

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🏁 Done with the editing. On to living.


🍷 Almost done with today’s work. Next up: tinyMovieStar tries Judo for the second time.

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💻 Current Status:

Kokoroko playing on the radio.
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👨🏻💻 Editing Day. No way around that, I’m afraid. I’ll be spending way to much time trying to avoid it, so you’ll probably notice the spam.


✏ Let the note-taking, and drawing, begin!

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🍺 Beer Run, on Foot

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😫 Instead of lounging lazily all day long (Yay, Labour Day), we’ll have to drive back to the city after lunch, and attend yet another birthday party for a kid.


📚 The Kobo Review https://maique.eu/2024/05/01/the-kobo-review.html


📷 Day31 : bubble (@paulrobertlloyd)

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🤩 Kobo has been picked up. First thoughts later, as I now have to drive for a bit.


📷 Day30 : hometown (matt / @mattypenny)

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🏛 Turning into a nice day, despite the cloudy skies. Not perfect for photos, but pretty fun anyway.

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📦 Kobo is ready for pick up.

I’m away from the city, will be back in 8 hours! Painful.


👨🏻🎨 Sculpting

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🏃🏻♂ Made it to the newspaper. On time.

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🍇 Got a late call from my editor last night, I’ll shoot a few more wineries today.

We’ll drive to my in-laws when I’m back. Tomorrow is a national holiday. Hopefully I’ll be able to pick up my new Kobo today, before driving out.


👐🏼 Have you ever seen the Trump Watch?

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👷🏻 First IKEA item has been assembled. Wondering if I have time left to tackle the second one, before I have to leave for my assignment.

Probably not.


📷 Day29 : drift (Simon / @SimonWoods)

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✅ Plans for today:

Coffee
Assemble some IKEA items
Shoot a small assignment out of town
Maybe execute a rescue operation and get tinyMovieStar back home


🥲 Drove back home, but the tiny one stayed behind. She’s sleeping at my in-laws until Wednesday.

When we were leaving, movieStar told her sweetly: “If you want to, call us, and we’ll come running, pick you up, ok?”

She looked at us, and replied: “But you’re not coming before Wednesday, right?”


😻 Lazy Day

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📺 Super lazy morning, and start of afternoon. We watched “Conan O’Brien Must Go”. The whole 4-episode season. A couple of laughs, a few chuckles. That’s was it.


📑 I guess I should look into Pocket again, since the Kobo easily syncs with it.


📚 A local publisher is having a sale on ebooks. I got three essays (total was €2.97), ready for my incoming Kobo.


📷 Day28 : community (@stupendousman)

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🎂 Party Number Four. Let’s go!

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📚 Pre-ordered. Picking up the Kobo Libra Colour this Tuesday. Hopefully.


📚 Now looking at the Kobo Libra Colour. Integration with Google Drive/Dropbox would be great. Loading books only when connected to the laptop feels like a hassle.


🍰 Getting ready for another weekend of partying. tinyMovieStar has
another couple of  bDay parties today, since most family members were
not able to join us on Monday. Yay.


🪕 sun jr., and Ask Carol. Those are my two finds for today.


🦄 Waiting…

(Also need a bit more rain to clean the dirty windshield!)

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✏ Skipping thingsThisWeek today. I’ll include some of it on next week’s episode.


✊🏼 Shitty photos only, it was impossible. The crowd was as big as I’ve ever seen. Plus carrying/looking after a very tired tinyMovieStar. We met a ton of friends.

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🌸 Today we’re celebrating the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Join us in the parade, if you’re in town.

Fascismo nunca mais!

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📚 Soooooooo…. Kobo Clara Color? Yes?


🍺 Beer Making

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🍺 One always ends up drinking a bit too much, when one’s invited to witness the beer-making process.

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🏯 Finished Shōgun. Another season would be fine for me.


⚙ A mechanic needs to look at my handbrake. Other than that, my car is brilliant. Failed the inspection, but it’s not serious.


🌸 Waze trying to brighten up my day with Flower Power.

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🔎 My car is getting the yearly inspection today. Should have done it almost two months ago! Ouch.


👀 Some prompts are harder to get photos for. This was not one of them.

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📷 Day24 : light (Esteban / @eumrz)

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👀 Rest of the Day

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👩🏻⚕ Follow Up

(Dad is fine).

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🛒 We ran out of sriracha. Got some more. Love the Chinese supermarket.

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What if I tried to make a game? A very simple one?GB Studio has been downloaded, and
it runs on the old Air. Exporting a ROM worked perfectly.
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💭 For today’s dreamy prompt, a couple others were waiting in line:

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🦚 I’m going to miss the screaming peacocks in the morning.


🥵 Thankfully this is a once-a-year situation. She’s happy as can be,
we’re exhausted.


💝 Party.


🍡 Tiny ham & cheese sandwiches (yes, it’s THE LAW!), and fruit skewers, have been made. We’re getting ready to party.


🥰 Still tinyMovieStar, but a four-year old tinyMovieStar.

Best thing we ever made! Happy birthday, sweet daughter.

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💙 … others were also considered.

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🇺🇸 California Dreaming

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📺 Finished Tokyo Vice. Sad that I don’t have a few more to watch.


🍓 “What do you want for breakfast tomorrow, little one”?

“Strawberries, popcorn, and ice-cream”.


🌆 Back in the City

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📚 Started by looking at Boox, and then realized Kobo now has color models, and they’re half the price of the smaller Boox.

Just trying to keep my brain busy, mind you.


😢 Back in 1998, I was sent on a big assignment. My first time. I went to Kosovo.

With me was a colleague from the paper, and we were joined by another one, from a radio station. He wondered if we could travel together. We said yes.

We were the same age.

He died today. Lung cancer.

RIP Pedro.


🔊 EchoFeed Amplify is also a neat idea.
 https://beep.town/@echofeedamplify


🍟 A real ad (no AI shenanigans), but seeing “WC” on a mcD advertisement is a bit odd.

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💩 Still meh.


📷 Day21 : mountain (David / @dejus)

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🥣 Poke.


📷 Day20 : ice (@the)

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😩 Usually, when I wake up in the middle of the night, I’ll just go back to sleep in a second. These days, with so much going on, my brain will immediately go into overdrive. No more sleep.


🧼 Kids watching YouTube in the living room tv. I’m sitting on the sofa, on my phone, deleting the stuff they’re watching from my history.


👯♀ A couple of cousins helped us pick up the tiny one today.

I now have a 3 year old (nearly 4), a 9 year old, and a 13 year old at home. All girls. Brilliant, but this would be TOO MUCH, if it was a permanent situation. Can’t understand how parents do it.


🦗 Ear infection for the little one. Of course. When should we expect the damn locusts??


🥦 We’re going from Amnesia  to Lemon Haze… Fingers crossed.


📷 Day19 : birthday (David / @crossingthethreshold)

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😶 Not in the mood. Any mood.


⛈ Dark cloud above.


4PM. Dad is back home, surgery a success. I’m also home already, it’s time to go get the little one. Miss her.


🥛 It’s 11:20, and I’ve told mom I’m not hungry, or need breakfast. A handful of times already.


🚨 Caged

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☕ 07:30. Time for coffee, a quick shower, and off I go.


😵 Yup, up since 4AM. Not thrilled.


📷 Day18 : mood (@agilelisa)

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🩻 Dad has eye surgery tomorrow, nothing too complicated. I’ll be keeping Mom company at the hospital. Happy I had nothing scheduled.


📱 AltStore. GO!

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👒 Another sunny day, another chance for a heat stroke.

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💇🏻♀ Next up: picking up both movieStars, and drive the tiny one to yet another hairdressing appointment. Second one this year!


😅 Almost done with editing/sending.

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🎙 First listen of the day: new Ruminate episode.

Thanks for the Bluesky image uploading fix, btw. And sorry ☺

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📷 Day17 : transcendence (Drew / @drewbelf)

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🌾 Dried

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🤪 We ended up driving for three hours each way, for a total of under an hour actually working! The people hosting us were not too nice, so we also played it cool, and asked a lot fewer questions than usual. We saw no need in being extra friendly, and just drove back home when our job was done.


🌳 Best part of the assignment: the road there, and back.

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🚚 Ready to go. Three-hour drive ahead. See ya.


🗺 Portalegre. That’s where I’m going tomorrow. A whole day at the Alentejo, close to the Spanish border. Nice. Photos are expected.


🩰 Ballet Buddies

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💛 helloYellow

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🩰 Ballet today. I like this day.


🍷 First assignment edited. One left to go.

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❌ That was quick, Beeper is gone. Clunky UI, UX, and U-something else. On macOS speed was slow, and app uses a TON of resources!


🦶🏼 Footer now has Andy’s badges. Looking good.

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💬 Finally testing Beeper. For fun, my chatting life is not that busy.


💻 I’ll have to edit some photos from last week sometime today. But, first, let’s go to the gas station and fill up. Yes, filling up is better than editing!


📦 Waiting for a package. That package was sent five days ago. The package was sent from my own country. You can pretty much walk across the whole country in five days. Where the heck is my package?


👀 Looking for photo challenge photos is good fun. Even when I don’t find the one I need.

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💴 Flickr renewal day. Not giving that one up either.


👋🏻 Hey there, fresh new week. May you be a good one!


💤 21:42, hopefully minutes away from sleep. Fingers crossed.


🍰 Done with Birthday Party #01, on to Birthday Party #02.


🔒 Also today, NextDNS renewed. No reason not to, it’s been going for 5 years.


🏴☠ One of the cool Tinylytics features: the where-do-they-come-from emoji thing. Love it.

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🌅 Driving at sunset is always nice, more so when the sky looks like this. But it’s also mosquito time, windshield gets super dirty.

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🏁 We drove over on Friday. Back to the city on Saturday. Return to the village the same day. Today we will go back to the city. Four legs on three days. And we have two birthday parties to attend today.

Mondays are awesome!


🥰 mailuv

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👺 Wondering how tinyMovieStar didn’t have nightmares today, and actually followed these guys around for part of the night.

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🪅 RIP Piñata.


🔎 Tiny Bookstore

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🙂↔ Still recovering from last night’s adventure, already thinking about today’s party. And tomorrow’s.


💴 Not that I’ll even find a use for ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear, even though I have, predictably, created an account a while back. Simple, easy, good. I will recommend it to people.

And they have a nice discount for developing countries.

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👨🏻🏫 The Board

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🍷 Today’s venue: San Michel. Nice.

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🏙 On my way to the meeting point.

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🍷 Later today, we’re driving to my in-laws, a day earlier than usual. It’s party day in the village. We must be there. We have to.
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☕ sticker spotter post was sent, it’s time to get up and face the world. Coffee, and then off to the streets. Another hard day of visiting wineries awaits.


🚜 Plenty of this as well.

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🍷 Wow, turns out I’m working again tomorrow. Neat.


🍽 Turned out to be a pretty great day. The vineyard has an amazing restaurant, and even had Kirin! Had Tonkatsu, a super Vietnamese salad, meat carpaccio, and other treats! Yummy.

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🍱 What a meal!


😆 Got to the meeting point early, now waiting. What should I do? Post more photos!


🏗 Old and New.

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🙄 That Real Estate Agent Smile.

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🏎 So happy with sticker spotter on Scribbles + EchoFeed’s amazing speed! Posts are on social.lol almost immediately after they’re published.

Alt Text still missing, it will be perfect when that is done.


🚛 Art on Wheels

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🍷 Small assignment tomorrow. It is a “work week” after all!


📏 A different mood on the walk today: wide, and black and white.

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🍺 Same spot as always, no bros this time. TGINF (Thank God it’s Not Friday).

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🕺🏻 Picking up the little one next, today I have a friend joining me, one of her favourites. Should be fun.


👻 Last one still warm, and I’m already sure where we’re going next on our Boo! stories…

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☕ InstaTurkish

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👀 Very slow, uneventful day, thankfully I had some photos left from yesterday!

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🎈 Many of the kids at kindergarten have birthdays this month (including our own tinyMovieStar. We’re fully booked next weekend!


🗓 I had completely forgotten about HEY Calendar. Only reason I remembered: there’s an update on the App Store.


💖 For those wondering, this is my favorite ever, and still the one I use today. DANBOARD / cheero colab. Need another one.

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🔋 Ordered another powerbank. It’s not pink with a cute face, which is a bit sad. Must go back to Thailand for that specific one.


😩 Up since 5AM. Wondering if I’ll fall back asleep before the alarm goes off.


🧧 It’s Fine.

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👀 Back From Ballet

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💤 Monday. 9AM. tinyMovieStar should be getting to kindergarten now. She’s still in bed.

Slow starting week.


⚙ WIP

Under enormous pressure from the internet people, I’m working on a Scribbles theme for Fiery Feeds.

(Sorry, NNW, we were not meant to be together)

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🚬 I will start celebrating yearly in a month. No more monthly updates.

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📦 Adding stuff to my Vinted store. We have been gifted boxes of stuff to put there! Crazy things too!


💅🏼 Trying NetNewsWire again. Still pretty sure it's not for me, but had
to make a theme for it. I expected a LOT more would be available, but
search always surfaces the same ones, and a repository site that is dead
and gone. Customization should be WAY easier on this
one.
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☀ App tell me it’s sunny outside. Maybe it’s time to get up and check how accurate that is.

Enjoy your Sunday.


🇯🇵 Weird Moment of the Day (™): strangest photo I’ve taken in Japan. What is even going on?

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😌 Relaxing after dinner. We’re at my in-laws, little one playing with grandma. Bliss.


🏄♀ While looking for something else, this one showed up. Tomorrow’s prompt has me going back in time.

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🥢 Lazy morning at home, before we leave for Family Tour. Today a party, another tomorrow. It’s that kind of weekend.

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🚪 Step right in, and enjoy the weekend.

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🤬 Sitting at the usual pre-kindergarten pickup spot, but today is Friday. The day when the bros come out of their offices.

A couple sat on the table next to mine. I lasted five minutes. Could not listen to more of that bullshit. Some people are too disgusting.


🎈 1 2 3 4

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🍺 At the Playground

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💨 Eat your hearts out!Just finished moving to the new
service provider, and the first test is even better than a few days ago.
Over 1Gbps!
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😍 One thing that I love about Scribbles is how beautiful the back
office looks, and how easy it is to switch blogs.
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👨🏻💻 Guess what? Photos are waiting to be edited. Just a couple, which
somehow makes things even worse, since I know I can do that real
quick... Just not now.


☕ Here we go! Coffee in hand, let’s wake the girls up. There is another grey day to deal with!


👀 A very random set, while walking from the shoot to kindergarten.

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🍔 Awesome burger (and IPA) at a new place (for me), tons of new stickers
spotted, and on my way to pick my extraordinary daughter up from
kindergarten! Who said right wing governments & dentist days were
bad??


🦷 Back from a very nice visit to the dentist, with some time left before
I have to leave for a quick shoot. Biggest change is that we now have a
right-wing government! It was not so when I sat down on that dentist's
chair.


😔 Here we go. New government.

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😶🌫 On our way to the dentist. That means bridge. Today with fog. Couldn’t pick one, so I’m posting four.

Yeah, it’s that kind of day… Sorry.

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⏲ The fact that one can schedule posts on M.b is really handy, I must say.

My entries to the Photoblogging Challenge (or Photo Fest - tks @Miraz) are all published while I sleep. A couple are already waiting in line!
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📱 I might be about to change service providers again, after a week or so…

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📺 House of Ninjas. Mostly because it’s Japanese.


🍜 #notHongKong

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☔ Still Raining!

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🍕 Lunch Time!

tinyMovieStar left this ready before leaving for the day. Glad she did.

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👀 I had to walk back to kindergarten, a jacket was left behind. Took
that as a sign I should look for
stickers, and even found a specimen of the tiny ones I use as
avatar. Never thought they’d still be around!
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🤡 Went out for groceries, and spotted a
sticker that suits April Fool’s perfectly!
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🐆 No Joke!

Testing yet another mobile provider. 5G speed at home on the phone. Not
too shabby.
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Neat!

"Answer messages without having to write a personal response."

🚀 Reply Cards
 https://reply.cards/


🚌 Happy I don’t have to drive for a week, except to drop off tinyMovieStar (if it’s raining).

I’ve had enough of that in the past couple of days.

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😴 I should sleep a little more, even more so considering we just entered
DST over here.


🏡 Back home. Dead tired. Scheduling a post. Bye.


🐮 Breakfast done. Now getting ready to leave, we’re having lunch at the
farm. Plenty of cows to entertain us, and the grill is already going!


🐰 Very busy Easter weekend, with dozens of family members. Some (quite a
few) hadn’t even met tinyMovieStar! She’s having an awesome time. City
girl, yes, but enjoying all the animals, and the extreme cold.


🪦 The Countryside, Part II

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🌳 The Countryside, Part I

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🥁 Very long day, lots of photos. Those will come later. For now, this. In Spain.

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🏡 Late arrival, so sub-par photo. But we made it. tinyMovieStar refused to sleep, so we had the pleasure of listening to her drunken rambling for close to four hours.

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🌧 Not sure if I’ll be able to shoot during today’s drive, but this is pretty much what the day will look like from my point of view.

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🛎 Lately I’ve been using a Focus mode on the iPhone. No
notifications.

Exceptions are: movieStar, Mom, Dad, brother, best friend (also my
editor at the paper) and, of course, tinyMovieStar’s kindergarten.

Everything else must wait until I check. It feels great!


📋 Today’s Plan

Drive to cousin’s place
Birthday lunch/party for kids
Drive to Mom&Dad
Get Dad’s car
Drive for hours until we reach village
Clean up family house
Drive into city
Have late dinner with cousins
Drive back to village

(by then it should be tomorrow)
Sleep


"I split problems into two groups: muddy puddles and leaky ceilings."

🚀  James Clear via 3-2-1 Thursday… — click.rexbarrett.com
 https://click.rexbarrett.com/post/2024-03-28-yz3xfohe


🍕 Picking up rather expensive pizza at the hip hotel next door. It's
what the girls wanted, so... At least there's a nice IPA to
drink while I wait.


🛶 That’s why we are a country of fearless seafaring people: Our cities are our training ground!

(Warning: Instagram link)
 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5BparroLj4/


🚌 Slight change of plans regarding the Family Easter Weekend: we're
leaving tomorrow, not Saturday. We have a cousin's birthday
lunch/party, and then we're joining my parents, my brother (and his
family), and drive all the way to the highlands. Storm
expected. Should take us 4/5 hours to get there.


🦄 Handmade invitations for tinyMovieStar’s birthday party. Still weeks away, but there’s a lot to do. The three of us are involved in this production!

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🌧 We’re staying in all day, if we can, it’s very unpleasant outside. tinyMovieStar has a cough, and she’s on Easter break. I am on LEGO duty, and movieStar working from home.

Photo, again, from the archives.
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📣 Woke up at 5:30AM. Thank you, heavy rain.


📺 Watching The Convenience Store in a Midwinter Hokkaido Village - Document 72 Hours | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
 https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/4026196/


🍨 Here it is, @odd. Would you like some?

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🕍 Synagogue next door is still heavily secured, two police vans parked outside almost permanently. Not regular cops either, the more muscular kind. It’s been months now.


🧱 Mom drives a very tall house-car, while standing on a lamp (not shown).

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🦄 Picking tinyMovieStar up from kindergarten.

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☔ What a day!

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☎ Seamless migration: I’m now using my new mobile service provider,
with the same number as always. I also moved from the physical SIM I got
on the mail to an eSIM. Painless, and super quick.


🏖 Since Easter vacations are upon us, we asked tinyMovieStar what she’d like to do. More out of curiosity, as the plans are made already. Immediate reply: “We should all go to an hotel. It’s a holiday, right?”

Clever three-year old.


🥕 I was a very loyal user of Carrot Weather for many years. Like many, I
tried other apps. None stuck, until Mercury came along. Today it hit
me: I haven’t launched Carrot in a (very long) while.
 https://mercuryweather.app/


🌧 Fun times ahead. Cold and wet, but fun. I’m almost sure.

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🚌 We’re three days away from the family and, as expected, my father has
called every single day, worried about some detail of the weekend.
“We’ve done this hundreds of times, Dad” doesn’t seem to work.


🧱 LEGO with tinyMovieStar is how I spend around 79% of my free time. Not
complaining, mind you!


📱 Moving cellphone service provider. A company is offering double the
data, for the same price, if I'm under-25. I'm just a tad over that, so
it should work. The migration should happen tomorrow morning.


"It’s genuinely astonishing that this protocol exists today, and seeing it in action is pure magic. I think we should be thinking about how we preserve that and benefit from it, not how we tear it apart before it even has the chance to truly flourish."

🚀 Neatnik Notes · A Fediverse, if you can keep it
 https://notes.neatnik.net/2024/03/a-fediverse-if-you-can-keep-it


🚲 Miss the roaming days. We both do.

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💻 Finally editing the darn photos. Griselda is playing,
so this is taking forever.


📥 Contact form added
to Scribbles blog!

Vincent keeps adding fun
stuff!
 https://notes.maique.eu/page/contact https://social.lol/@vincentritter


💸 Whenever I sign up for an app's trial period, I cancel a minute later.
That way I won't be charged for a full year, if I don't want to. We get
plenty of "Subscription is ending" warnings anyway, if we want it to
keep it going.I forgot this one. I'm now, unwillingly,
subscribed to Fastic. Duh!


😫 Waking up. Not thrilled. The whole week will be spent trying to stop
time. This time around I don't want the weekend to arrive, as it will be
a boring mess.


"With having an invite only system, and making this not a free service, I hope that Scribbles will host good quality content across the internet, whatever small fraction that might be."

🚀 Thoughts on invite only | Scribbles Update Blog
 https://scribbles.page/updates/posts/thoughts-on-invite-only-shxkepru


🐝 Busy Bee

Days go by without a single photo. Archive to the rescue.

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💻 I suppose I'm done for the work day. I have even launched
Photo Mechanic, trying to pick the photos I'll edit, but they are SO
BORING, I just closed it again. In a little while it's kindergarten pick
up time anyway, I might as well just get to the end of Griselda, Episode
2 before that.


Beautiful! Hard to pick one.

"Introducing a collection of vibrant gradient wallpapers to compliment Clear, the minimalist list-making app for iOS."

🚀 Clear Wallpaper Collection — Basic Apple Guy
 https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/clear-wallpapers


🇯🇵 Should be editing photos, but an episode of Tokyo
Vice was waiting. Guess what I'm doing?


🌧 Let’s go, awful weather day! You will not get me down!


🤬 Not entirely sure I’m ready for this week. Can we have an extra weekend day?


Poor Things, 2023 - ★★★ https://maique.eu/2024/03/24/poor-things.html


🙄 We also managed to finish Poor Things, we watched it over a few days, in installments.

While I appreciate the prowess of several aspect of it, it’s not a movie for me. I suppose I’m not that European. Not anymore.


🍿 Managed to watch a movie. A whole one! In one go!


Quiz Lady, 2023 - ★★★½ https://maique.eu/2024/03/24/quiz-lady.html


Yes! (And thank you!)

"I worked on general improvements on handling posts with just images."

🚀 Image previews option and tweaks | Scribbles Update Blog
 https://scribbles.page/updates/posts/image-previews-option-and-tweaks-snjc-pez


📦 I have SOOOO many stickers waiting in line…


⛽ The Old Pastel Gas Station

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⚙ Configuring a rather old electronic device. A scale. Manual is 80
pages long. Why?


"I’m old enough to remember when the quiet carriage on a train was just that. Not a convenient place for Jeremy or Susan to have their conference call, or for little Rupert to be ‘kept amused’ by an iPad playing at full volume."

🚀 Seeking silence – MacPsych
 http://macpsych.me/2024/03/24/seeking-silence/


"This is resonating with me because I’m on a “sick of tools overthink” kick right now, and tools like this simply don’t let you think much about them."

🚀 My second Scribble post, about my first | ~/.unplanned
 https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/my-second-scribble-post-about-my-first-xgnremkt


🔊 Some people are SUPER loud!


🚌 A trip up north is being planned, we’re going for a weekend, with my
parents. I can already tell it’s going to be challenging.


🔥 Safety

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🇹🇷 Benetton Scooter

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🌳 Alternative weekend plans: we’re visiting both of our parental
couples. Grandma & Grandpa Extravaganza.


🇪🇪 Estonia, a long time ago. @TheMacPsych got me thinking about it.

Want to go back, with the movieStars. Both would enjoy the fairytale mood.

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"In recent months I’ve been documenting old school Tokyo barber shops when out and about on photowalks. They are wonderfully dated establishments, with their colours, plants and signage making them an absolute joy to behold."

🚀  A series of old school Tokyo barber shops — www.tokyotimes.org - Mar 08 2024  10 Comments
 https://www.tokyotimes.org/a-series-of-old-school-tokyo-barber-shops/


😳 Woke up way too early, and had received a photo of our friend in the hospital. No idea what happened, just the one photo. Our plans for today were spending the afternoon with her. That will not happen.

Waiting for more news. I’m sure she’s fine.


🐺 Need more episodes of The Gentlemen. Done with season 1.


🍺 Sitting at the usual spot, waiting for tinyMovieStar’s pickup time. Weather is, as I’ve commented, oddly nice. Tourists are out, in droves. English (the American version) is today’s soundtrack.


🏅 Drinking Gold

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🧦 Trying to leave, need to go back home.

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🥰 How cool is this archives page on sticker spotter? @Vincent keeps turning Scribbles into something better every day!
 https://stickerspotter.com/archive https://micro.blog/Vincent https://scribbles.page/


🦚 Made it to the venue of today’s assignment super early, now waiting in a moderately fancy room. They try too hard, though.

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🐤 27C today. We have skipped Spring, we’re now officially in Summer.


🍷 Small assignment for the paper tomorrow morning, early to bed today. See ya.


📚 Flex Much?

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🗺 Maybe all the complaining I did…

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🍺 Back from the children’s party. We had a pretty good time.


🧘♂ Relaxed.


🔫 Ready for a new day, one that will include a children’s birthday party and, at least, one episode of The Gentlemen.

Have a good one too!


👮🏻♂ Vintage

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🌐 Having a bit of extra time on my hands means I can start thinking about the next post on Boo!… I wonder where we’re going now?
 https://boo.maique.eu


🤩 Happy Kids

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🐔 Done with episode 1 of The Gentlemen. Onwards.


🏆 Can’t believe I now have 3 supporters on One a Month Club!

Thank you!
 https://oneamonth.club


😴 9 hours and 3 minutes of sleep today! Starting to feel like myself again.


🚕 Back to the regular programming.

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🍺 Feels Like Summer

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💩 sticker spotter is dead, long live sticker spotter https://maique.eu/2024/03/19/sticker-spotter-is.html


🍰 Happy 5th BIRTHDAY omg.lol!!

(Yup, that’s a 50% promo code right there, in all caps!!)
 https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/maique


👀 Moving sticker spotter to Scribbles today. Things will surely break.
 https://scribbles.page/


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A lot of options, I’m sure everyone will find one that makes them happy.

"If you’ve been on the fence… well… now you have a choice."

🚀 An update on pricing and introducing a yearly | Scribbles Update Blog
 https://scribbles.page/updates/posts/an-update-on-pricing-and-introducing-a-yearly-_ght7hgu


"Content created by others must be attributed, and use of AI must be disclosed. Profiles that only post AI-generated content will not be tolerated."

🚀 Eugen Rochko: “We’ve updated the rules of our…” - Mastodon
 https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112118260677357857?kjy=spring


🦊 Installed Firefox (recent chatter on Mastodon reminded me it's still around). No vertical tabs, not without an extension. Uninstalled Firefox.


😇 So far I’ve managed to do as little as humanly possible. Well past 4PM now, my streak will be broken with tinyMovieStar’s ballet class. Happy to go!


🥰 One a Month Club has new members, and I just got my first supporter (thanks, @pratik)!
 https://oneamonth.club https://micro.blog/pratik


😌 Going for a do-nothing Monday.

Let’s see how long that dream lasts.

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🍀 Lost Leprechaun

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💥 Made It!

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🏃🏻♀ 7AM. Sunday. Only people out on the street are revelers from last night, and marathon runners.

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💍 Long, very long day. Thankfully met the girls at a birthday party. Tomorrow: the Marathon.

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🏃🏻♀ Ready (not really) for a weekend of athletic fun! Marathon weekend, here we are!


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🥰 Marathon job done, time to meet the visitor from the UK, and go get a tiny one from kindergarten!


🧡 Orange Rain

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🏃🏻♀ Back to the soulless hotel, for the Marathon’s press conference. Got here early, still time left for a coffee.

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👟 Yesterday’s rally was pretty fun, all things considered, but today is back to business day. The Marathon is upon us, and there’s a press conference to shoot. Exciting, right? Nope.


👀 Walk home. After the rally.

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🥰 Missed hanging out with this one.

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One a Month Club, another one of Jarrod’s cool ideas. Proud to be a part of the club.

"A collection of blogs and other web projects that make supporting them both simple and inexpensive by offering access to everything for as little as $1 per month."

🚀 One a Month Club
 https://oneamonth.club/ https://heydingus.net/blog/2024/3/one-a-month-club https://oneamonth.club/


💈 Dropped off the little one at school, hanged around with the other parents, got a haircut, walked around, came back home, picked tinyMovieStar from kindergarten. That’s as close to perfect as it gets.

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🎨 Back to my walks around the block, back to my barber friend’s shop, back to the usual faces.

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📺 Shōgun.


Yet another cool update on Scribbles.

"Now you can manage your own domain name in the “Manage Domain Name” blog setting. It’s super easy."

🚀 Domain management | Scribbles Update Blog
 https://scribbles.page/updates/posts/domain-management-yf8yusty


🏋🏻♀ My abs are getting a great workout from all the coughing! If I keep this up, I’ll soon have a six-pa… a 0.1-pack!


😴 To everyone who suggested sleep, here you go. Still feel like poo, but I did get some rest.

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📚 Here we go…

"“history does not repeat, but it does instruct,” he analyzes recent European history to identify conditions that can enable established democracies to transform into dictatorships. The short (126 pages) book is presented as a series of twenty instructions on how to combat the rise of tyranny"

Wikipedia

Thank you for the tip, @ArnoldHoogerwerf.
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💝 Best Birthday Present

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😬 Not an awesome day. On top of everything else, I now have a cold. I just kept going on adrenaline, and that is now over. Feel like poo.I need to get over this soon, though, as we're days away from another Marathon Weekend, and that means work again!


😨

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🫥 Crazy Night

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🤬 Sad day for our country.


🗳 Done!

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🔇 Muted all day.


🗳 General election day, and something else… What was it?


📤 Uploading photos to Flickr, as one does when insomnia strikes at 4:30AM.


Huge Shimokitazawa fan here!

"We wandered for hours and hours exploring the place. We got totally lost in it, in the best way possible. It’s just one of those places that doesn’t have to be that special to leave a mark."

🚀 Lost in Shimokita – mutelife
 https://mutelife.com/2024/02/lost-in-shimokita/


✊🏼 It was a long month, but we made it. Muscles are very sore, but we made it.

Photos by Patricia de Melo Moreira, Tiago Miranda, and Armando França. Thank you.
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👀 It was a VERY odd day. Ate a sandwich in the morning, and a chocolate for dinner. Spent hours in wet, soggy, clothes, after torrential rain came down on us at the worst possible time.

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👀 Not a lot left to post from the photos I’ve been getting for myself, but I’ll try to find a couple of bSides.

We’ve been through a lot. Fancier and shabbier, the district is very diverse.

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Great collection!

"I’ve been building up an arsenal of Apple Shortcuts that I’ve made to work with Micro.blog, and thought it might be good to post them here for folks to find and use."

🚀 Apple Shortcuts for Micro.blog - Developers - Micro.blog Help Center
 https://help.micro.blog/t/apple-shortcuts-for-micro-blog/2656


🤞🏼Rain… Please… Rain…


🥵 Not entirely ready for today (one can never be ready for the dreaded Chiado walk), but here we go. Unless it rains heavily (please, please), we’ll be depleted by 4PM, and still have the closing rally to shoot. See you later.


🍓 Hold Your Strawberries!

At the market, vendor complaining, “You should tell the Minister of Agriculture this and that”.

“Hold on… Here you go, she’s on the phone.”

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🪥 movieStar just called me, she needed help. Couldn’t open a toothpaste. Yeah, we’re normal.


📦 One day left on this assignment, 677,94GB already shot. Busy month.


👀 One Day to Go

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🤩 Gloomy day? Dress accordingly.

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🌧 Good thing I replaced the windshield wipers this week: heavy rain for a couple of days now.

Perfect weather to be outdoors. Damn.


🤪 Two Days to Go

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⚰ Exhausted.


🏁 Counting the minutes!

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🦑 Tell me you’re in Setubal, without telling me you’re in Setubal.

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🗳 Final week, and the hardest one too. The party’s PM head will visit the district three times this week, and that means a huge added mess. Loads of press, enormous entourage. Not as much fun.


🌊 We also saw the sea yesterday! At last! The district has some of the best beaches in beaches in the country, but we’ve been missing them until now.

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🌮 Cover for a Mariachi album.

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💖 Very long day yesterday, but got the movieStars at my side, and my car is back too!

Still on the road all day, but coming home feels normal again. Balance has been restored.


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💖 At the airport. movieStar is landing!


🫥 Flight got a little delayed. I can’t sleep, even though I’m exhausted. It’s now 1:30AM. It’s going to be a fun day at work!


💚 Couldn’t help it, I had to get a couple of photos from the green Celica.

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⏱ Four hours until flight time, and six on top of that to have movieStar back in the country. Can’t wait!

I’m picking her up at 4:40AM, driving her to the little one, and off to work I go. I guess that’s what you guys call “pulling an all-nighter”.


😅 No photos today.

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🌧 One more week to the finish line, and we have a new challenge: water! A week of rain.


🖼 I’m back on Glass, thanks to @pratik. Let’s see how long this lasts…
 https://glass.photo/maique https://micro.blog/pratik


🌉 Ready for Part Two of today, let’s cross the bridge again.


🎸 An hour later, I’m in love with the Hermanos Gutiérrez! Listened to the Miami Beach Bandshell concert while editing this morning’s shoot, and I know I’m not stopping here.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__mjdWEJjA


☀ Sunrise in Corroios

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🎸 8.30AM, getting back home after the first shoot of the day. This one playing on the radio. Thank you, RADAR, great way to cross the bridge into the city.

Hermanos Gutiérrez - Sonido Cósmico.
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☺ Back home, after an extremely busy day. Going back and forth all day, and even came to the city for one of the events. Still photos to edit, and tomorrow work starts at 7AM!


🐴 “Wild West” part of the district. A bit too hardcore for me.

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🗓 Welcome to the extra day.


"Simple Scan is entering a crowded scanning market. Many scanning utilities also help you organize your scans, store them in the cloud, submit expense reports, and more. There are people who need that sort of extended feature set, but somewhere along the way, people with simpler needs have been forgotten."

🚀 Simple Scan: A Scanning Solution for People Who Don’t Scan Often - MacStories
 https://www.macstories.net/news/simple-scan-a-scanning-solution-for-people-who-dont-scan-often/


🥰🥰🥰 Update: the little one jumped when she saw me, pressed her face against mine (after a sweet welcome kiss), and just stayed there for a looooooong time. I’m lucky.


👀 Baixa da Banheira. A classic.

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🥃 Another day, another drink.

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🛸 Some days it feels like we’ve been teleported to an alternative universe. These places are so close to home, and yet so very different.


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👀 Setúbal, Part Two

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👀 Setúbal, Part One

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🍺 Local breakfast, if today shows us something: beer and hashish. Tough crowd, it's not even 10AM.


☕ Coffee time, overlooking the fish market.


👀 Down South, (uninteresting) Part Two

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💍 Today is the day when we officially got married, at the embassy.

Love this woman.

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😮💨 The candidate got my camera, and shot me. Can you tell I’m not getting enough sleep?

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😵 Made it home close to 10PM. Thankfully, I wasn't driving for most of the day today, so I was able to edit and send the photos while someone else took care of the driving part. Batteries are charging, I'll go to bed soon, early rise tomorrow.


👀 Down South, Part One

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🚌 On a packed car. En route to the venue.


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🕵🏻♂ It’s been a while since I posted one on sticker spotter, so…
 https://stickerspotter.com


🚙 Follow that car!

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😳 Monday? There are no Mondays where we’re going, all days feel the same!


😳 Having that feeling that I’m missing out on a lot of online stuff. Again. No idea what people are up to, no new apps to test, no links saved to my read later app.


🧢 MarketMan!

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✏ Sketch me a car, will you?

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🥺 It was not an easy day. Long (well over 14 hours), away from the girls. Still photos to edit before dinner and sleep.


✊🏼 Waiting for the Candidate

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🌐 New car, Maps second chance. Color scheme checks out.

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☀ Good Morning, Corroios.

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🇦🇺 We finally got the package from Australia, the Grannies shades. movieStar made a huge deal out of it, telling the little one she had mail from Australia, Bingo and Bluey had written to her, and sent the shades."Are these really from Australia, mom? Are these the real thing? Not the Disney version??"


👨🏻🔧 So… We’re dropping the little one. One the way over, car battery light turns on. Dashboard having issues. Power steering gone (car is DAMN heavy)! Car won’t turn on again. Dead.

We’re far away from home, thankfully father-in-law has a spare car. My father wanted to come pick as up.

Awesome.


🎯 The Candidate Shoots Back

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🚬 Being locked in a car, for hours, with smoking travel buddies, is not an easy situation for an ex-smoker living stressful days.


🌊 Sines Morning

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🥺 Today (later later today) is also the day tinyMovieStar will be left at my in-laws for a week. Can’t say I’m looking forward to that one.


😎 Going further south today, so I got a ride with someone. Long trips get quite expensive with my fossil fuel guzzler, who also pays a bag of money on each highway toll.


😝 Fancy Meeting Spot

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🥺 7AM. I hate waking up with an alarm!

Good morning.


🎭 Today’s Venue

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🌐 Arc for iOS got a sweet update today, by the way.


🍔 Had a very nice burger (with perfect crispy bacon), made by a gentle Brazilian woman, operating out of a tiny joint.

She’s doing everything on her own, with plenty of orders coming from the delivery apps. Working hard, on a cold, windy, night. I was the only one sitting at the tables. Respect.


🧘🏻♂ Breathe In, Breathe Out

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Test…

"This perk is the result of a special relationship McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have had since 1955."

🚀  There’s a Reason McDonald’s Coke Tastes Better Than All Others — www.allrecipes.com
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