A lonely man stands outside, on a narrow street. A palatial building is seen in the distance.

  • 😫 A couple of rough nights while taking care of the chickenpox situation. Very rough. For all of us, but of course tinyMovieStar was the one doing most of the suffering, if not all of it. We just missed a few hours of sleep, she spent the whole time feeling so itchy she couldn’t sleep. She cried a lot, and nothing is as painful for us as the sound of the little one crying. It slowly got better, and by the end of Sunday she was almost feeling like herself.

  • πŸ’– This was also the week when we celebrated another year together, if we consider we married on the day we actually signed the papers, versus when we had our day at the chapel in Principe. Feels like a lifetime ago, but only 5 years have gone by. In a good way, as I can’t remember how my life was before this.

  • πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€βš•οΈ Doctor Tour. We had a dentist appointment for both grownups, and tinyMovieStar’s pediatrician had an opening on the morning of the same day. So that’s all we did on Tuesday, as far as daily chores. Driving to the south side of the river, over the coolest bridge in town, with the brilliant morning light keeping us company on this very cold morning (temperatures have been, again, chilly). Everything was checked, and it was time to get back to town, and have lunch. A quick bath for the tiny one, and off we went. She couldn’t wait! She has grown to love these visits, and today we were all very happy, as she’s was over the infectious part of chickenpox, and able to go back to kindergarten. She loves us, and we love her back, but she was missing her school routine a lot already. I fear she finds us boring already.

  • πŸ“· Last Friday I got a call, late in the afternoon, asking if I could cover a concert in town. A B Fachada gig. I drove back to the city, got the cameras ready, and off I went. Lisbon being Lisbon, I walked to the venue. 30 minutes, mostly downhill. It felt great, and odd. I’m not used to this anymore. Loads of people out, mostly foreigners, a TON of new places opened too. This is a route I do often during the day, but it looks, and feels, so different at night. Not so long ago night time was a time when I’d find myself out and about, but not anymore. Felt old.

  • πŸ“± I have a new subscription for Gentler Streak. Saw a post about it on MacStories and, like so many times in the past, I downloaded the app. I liked the idea so much, they were having a 50% discount on the yearly plan, I just signed up. So far I’m enjoying it, the stressless approach works for me. Pretty well designed too, and I’m a sucker for that. I will probably review it in a couple of days.

  • 🍿 Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Salt. That was it as far as movies this week. Not a brilliant one.

  • πŸ“Ί Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Season 3. Also a couple episodes of the new season of Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm. Schitt’s Creek was another one I watched.

  • πŸŽ™οΈ Hemispheric Views, Underworld, Smartless, The Sound, Spy Cast, AppStories, and the new Dynamite Doug, from Project Brazen, where so many of the ones I listen, and like, come from. Maybe I should stop writing these down, as they’re mostly the same, week in, week out.

  • πŸ—žοΈ Reading is something that I (as most people, I suppose), do regularly. Not enough books at the time, sadly, but plenty of things that come to me via RSS, or Mastodon. Some are shared back with one of my Mastodon alter-egos, mrBatsu. All kinds of stuff. I was using GoodLinks to save them, and share later, but, as one does when happy with a service, I went looking for another one. Readwise Reader quickly showed up on my radar, but the pricing is quite expensive for what I need it to do. It’s beautiful, though, and I would love to keep using it past the trial period. That will not happen, I’m afraid, but Omnivore is pretty good as well, and still under very active development. Where will I land? No one knows… In the meantime, since so much of the trial period with Reader went unused, I started another one. 30 days to see how much I use it, for real. Then I remembered Raindrop was something I could use for this same task, and went back looking at it, a day after I had cancelled my subscription! Crazy. In the end it was all for nothing.

  • πŸ“· The March 2023 Photoblogging Challenge Prompts on Micro.blog is upon us, and I thought it would be a good idea to stop relying on the archive this time, and actually go out and get some fresh photos for this one. Not sure how wise that decision was, or how long I will last, but I’m doing it. First entries have already been posted. Days 01, 02, and 03. I’m enjoying the walks, and always find a few stickers as well.

  • 🦣 More Mona themes. I just kept going for a while, and did a couple more. I’m sure others will follow, these are fun to do.