Taking Stock January 2023
Cooking: From the Tenderheart cookbook. I got it before Christmas and have decided to cook my way through it.
Sipping: Gin and tonic. The perfect easy summer drink.
Reading: The Call of the Reed Warbler. I had to reborrow this as I didn’t make it all the way through before I had to return it the first time I borrowed it. Very happy to get it out again and finish it this time.
Looking: For worms in the garden. I haven’t seen many, so probably need to work on the soil.
Listening: To the traffic. We live on a fairly busy road and often have the doors open.
Enjoying: Swimming at the beach on hot days.
Appreciating: Hubby’s hard work, getting the no-dig veggie planters ready. Also … sea breezes. We open the doors on the south and east side of the apartment, and the breeze blows down the road from the water, in one door and out the other. We only need to use the air-conditioning on the hottest of days.
Wanting: A bit better sleep.
Eating: Almond butter and banana on toast for breakfast.
Loving: Having some of our artwork hung up.
Buying: Furniture for the apartment. Our stools arrived yesterday, and we have a chair for the living and study, bedside tables and some outdoor furniture on order.
Watching: The Recruit, Kaleidoscope, The Last Kingdom, Andor, The Glass Onion
Hoping: For a solid half-marathon training cycle. (Started last week)
Wearing: Shorts, even though the temperature didn’t hit my short-wearing benchmark because of my scraped knee.
Walking: Riley to Elsternwick P{ark
Noticing: There are always birds calling in the trees around here.
Bookmarking: Articles about ChatGPT. They’ve been coming up all over my various feeds. Fascinating.
4 Comments
NGS
My husband works in higher ed and the ChatGPT stuff is terrifying. I do wonder if the next generation will even be able to think of a coherent sentence on their own! It’s really scary.
Melissa
Yes, I’m sure he’ll be subjected to many banal, generic pieces of writing generated by the AI. It will be interesting to see where education will move over the next few decades. Hopefully though we’ll gain a better appreciation of our humanity … and how we are not machines.
San
I love your kitchen bar and the stools that you picked out.
And yay for half marathon training… which plan do you follow? And when is your race?
Melissa
I use an old plan I have used before from Jason Fitzgerald and modify it to fit where I’m at now. It gives me the bones, so I’m not starting from a completely clean slate. I’m also in a running club, so often, I’ll sub-in those sessions instead of the workout on the plan.