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My nephew Alex Canion doing media on ABC News. His band Voyager are going to be playing Eurovision in a couple of months!

Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: tile

Bohemian Rhapsody, 2018 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…

Watched on Friday March 3, 2023.

My reward for mowing the lawn.

The Edit of Hemispheric Views 078

Here is a screenshot of the edit for Hemispheric Views episode 078. Six audio tracks in play. Lots of edits and adjustments. Ferrite by WoojiJuice makes this possible, combined with a couple of years of editing experience and know-how I have built up.

I’m proud that I have the skills to do this. Not something that generally goes on my curriculum vitae, but maybe it should?

Hemispheric Views 078 edit

This is why I make podcasts. Quote is from Kurt Vonnegut, via Do the Work by @rishabh

My Mom sent me this quote. Much appreciated right now.

Paddington 2, 2017 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…

Absolute heart warmer of a movie. I love it.

Stutz, 2022 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…

Me bring me, I wanted more technical details of application.

The Menu, 2022 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…

A gastronomical delight, with acting to die for.

Hustle, 2022 - β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½

I’m old so I liked cameos by old guys. But this is a movie for the next gen, with a solid development montage.

Today I learned that Siri can identify buffalo grass with its machine learning.

Uncle Buck, 1989 - β˜…β˜…

It’s pretty bad, but it still an iconic 80s movie.

My favourite tree.

Strange World, 2022 - β˜…β˜…Β½

A story of climate change wrapped up in some impressive animation and characters that I didn’t warm to.

Die Hard, 1988 - β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½

Now I have a 64-bit computer. Ho Ho Ho.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, 1992 - β˜…β˜…Β½

1992 really seems a different era, back when you could board a plane because you assumed your parents were on it. Slapstick cruelty is still fun, though.

Oiling the Deck

There are some household jobs that I procrastinate over. Oiling the deck is a new one I can add to the list. Our deck was installed a couple of years ago as part of a backyard renovation. I knew at the time this would be a necessary maintenance job that I would despise. I dutifully entered it into OmniFocus as a task for the future.

Wooden deck before oiling

That OmniFocus task has been deferred for about 9 months. I did the prepartory work of buying the expensive Cutek Extreme CD50 oil and the fancy Deck Boss applicator. The task of actually oiling the deck, though? That sat for a long time. Most of the time because of my own laziness. Sometimes because of the weather. I contemplated outsourcing the job but knew deep down within myself I wouldn’t trust anybody else to care enough to do it right.

Finally, the time came and I went for it. The first step was to clean the deck a couple of days before the oiling. That went well. I used Cutek Quickclean.

A few days after the clean, it was time to oil. The weather was hot - over 32ΒΊC. I had to do the work in two shifts: one in the morning and one in the evening. The morning shift came to an end when I almost vomited from exertion in the heat. I’m too white, too old, and too unfit for manual labour in the burning sun.

This is how I looked after the first shift β€” just a touch pink:

Selfie of Andrew hot after shift 1

I completed the second shift, and the job, with a minimal amount of oil left in the can. Maybe there’s enough to do a second coat on areas that look to need a little more. There is definitely not enough remaining to do a complete second coat. I think I’m okay with that.

Wooden deck after oiling

Now I have to schedule the next maintenance coat into OmniFocus…

Swearing in of Hannah Beazley MLA as Parliamentary Secretary

Andrew Canion, Hannah Beazley, Kim Beazley

Earlier I posted how happy I was that my wife, Hannah Beazley MLA had been made Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Emergency Services; Innovation and the Digital Economy; Medical Research; Volunteering, within the WA State Government.

On 14 December, 2022, Hannah was officially sworn in by the Governor. It was fantastic to share the experience with her, and also with her Dad, former Governor of WA, Hon. Kim Beazley AC. It coincided with his 74th birthday, so it was a great birthday gift from his daughter!

Another average day in Perth.

I taught Benji how sports brackets work. Now he is building his own World Cup version. 😍πŸ₯°πŸ€©βš½οΈ

Elvis, 2022 - β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½

A wonderful telling of the bastardry of Colonel Parker.

On one of Jack Baty’s blogs, I saw a reference to neofetch.

It doesn’t do a lot, but it looks pretty. I’ve run it on my three machines:

iMac

Neofetch imac

MacBook Air

Neofetch ubirr

Mac mini

Neofetch mini

Spirited, 2022 - β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½

I don’t like musicals but I liked this movie.

Thanks, Medibank data breach. I really appreciate you holding onto my details as an ex-customer, allowing it to be shared on the dark web following its theft. Great stuff.

A reminder that now is a great time to sign up to @hemisphericviews at One Prime Plus Dot Com to take advantage of our version of Black Friday/Cyber Monday!

I may need a note taking/writing app intervention.

We set the Christmas tree up today and in doing so crossed some sort of kid threshold. This year, our boys actually helped setup and decorate the tree. They enjoyed unpacking decorations and reminiscing about their associated memories. It was really sweet.

Lunch date at Parliament House, with Hannah and, uh, Benji’s lion.

Tipped 100% for this round of #NBL23. Thanks Shaun Bruce of Sydney Kings for knocking down the end game triple to steal that one.