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Jun 2, 2023: ⭐️ The gentleman showed up after I posted the other photos, but I believe he adds something to the composition. So I’m sharing this one as well.

Jun 2, 2023: 🤒 Feeling a little feverish, again. Maybe it's karma, la revanche française...

Jun 2, 2023: One funny thing that never fails with French people: talk to them all afternoon in English, quietly having fun at their expense. They were (very) …

Jun 2, 2023: ⏳ Still Waiting…

Jun 2, 2023: 🥐 Late French, as in “you made me miss the second assignment of the day” late…

Jun 2, 2023: ⏳ Waiting…

Jun 2, 2023: 🥖 Time to meet the French...

Jun 2, 2023: 🛴 It’s nearly impossible to find a scooter in this part of town now. New parking rules, scooters are gone.

Jun 2, 2023: 🪩 MUHNAC

Jun 2, 2023: ☀️ Walk to School Potpourri

Jun 2, 2023: ☕️ Have a great Friday!

Jun 2, 2023: ☕ 8AM: coffee and movieStars time.

Jun 2, 2023: 🐅 Japan vs. Portugal

Jun 2, 2023: 😫 What’s this 5AM thing again!?!?

Jun 2, 2023: Blood & Gold, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Friday June 2, 2023.

Jun 1, 2023: 🇫🇷 Tomorrow I’m on assignment for a French magazine. Oh la la…

Jun 1, 2023: The Avatar In the beginning, there was only me. I would take care of the profile images. For years, that’s what I did. I used photos, most of the time, and …

Jun 1, 2023: Ok… Remember that email I sent last week, regarding the low, LOW, fee a client was willing to pay? Well, he just called back, needs me on …

Jun 1, 2023: 🍝 It’s Feedin' Time!

Jun 1, 2023: 🤔 Deciding if I should go with my pink, or a different pink…

Jun 1, 2023: 🚒 Buildings on the walk back home. That’s it.

Jun 1, 2023: 💈 After Barber Mugshot

Jun 1, 2023: 💈 At The Barber

Jun 1, 2023: ⏰ Just like that, it’s 8AM. Time to get the rest of the gang up and moving.

Jun 1, 2023: thingsThisWeek #51 🛵 GreenDay, my lovely motorcycle, is gone. Sold it, at last. It had been sitting in the garage for way too long, and I really needed the money. So, …

Jun 1, 2023: ✍️ Working on this week’s thingsThisWeek.

Jun 1, 2023: 😵 5AM. Yes, up. Damn.

May 31, 2023: 😬 Another headache! These are so common now, ever since I stopped smoking!

May 31, 2023: ☀️ The Tourist and The Local

May 31, 2023: And the walking page still needs a lot of work!

May 31, 2023: theShop and walkWithMe have been added to the menu again. Not that I’m expecting anything to come of it, but they look good on the new …

May 31, 2023: 🏦 Did not manage to take care of the bank thing, and seems like a visit to a branch will be needed! Can’t even remember the last time I did …

May 31, 2023: 🤬 Boy, I can't wait to pay off my mortgage, and be done with this bank!

May 31, 2023: 🐌 Resending GB, because someone's connection keeps dropping, and can't download big transfers!

May 31, 2023: 🧳 They’re Back. In Full Force.

May 31, 2023: 🎥 A Little Film About… Luis Mendo

May 30, 2023: 🎨 Plenty of street art too. Photos, graffiti, and old school tile panels. It really was a nice walk.

May 30, 2023: 🔑 Gated

May 30, 2023: 😫 All that walking + supermarket run (twice) = pretty tired

May 30, 2023: 🫥 Walked for hours, through familiar, and other places, where I hadn’t been for months. More to come…

May 30, 2023: 🧐 The Model and the Art

May 30, 2023: 🪑 Not Morocco, I swear…

May 30, 2023: 🥰 Long walk, many photos.

May 30, 2023: 🧚‍♀️ Kid has been delivered, work has been done, emails have been sent. I might leave for a while, and try to visit an exhibition before it’s …

May 30, 2023: ✏️ I once tried to make my own avatar, but quickly gave up. Better leave it to the professionals…

May 30, 2023: 📱 I have moved back to Waneella for the day.

May 30, 2023: ☕️ Guess who forgot to check if there was any coffee left in the house?

May 29, 2023: Writing an email to a client/friend. The please-don’t-call-me-for-work-anymore-as-the-money-you-pay-me-is-not-nearly-enough kind of email. Nice …

May 29, 2023: Exporting 49 small videos from Photos.app on the Air, to a folder. It’s been going full steam ahead for over 8 hours now. No, I don’t need …

May 29, 2023: 🚗 Lada

May 29, 2023: 🤬 Not cool. Not cool at all.

May 29, 2023: 🦺 Under Construction

May 29, 2023: I ALWAYS have the AirPods with me. I get two types of messages, every day: A) You’re traveling with someone else’s AirPods, and they can …

May 29, 2023: 🥛 Part of today’s editing session: the visit to the cheese factory.

May 29, 2023: ☕ Coffee + Exporting + Coffee + Exporting

May 29, 2023: 🥰 Loved the “Wait, let me check it it’s safe to go” mood…

May 29, 2023: 🎙️ Almost 5AM. Will try to podcast me to sleep!

May 29, 2023: 🫠 3AM this time.

May 28, 2023: 😥 Head. Aches.

May 28, 2023: Where Have I Been First Manton did it. Then Andreas had a go at it… I’ve had the list sitting around for a while. We haven’t moved a lot lately. …

May 28, 2023: 🏁 She fell asleep 3 minutes before we arrived. Again. Now in the garage, waiting. Again.

May 28, 2023: 🎥 Father-in-law getting ready to watch Avatar. Yeah, I'm not doing that.

May 28, 2023: 🦥 Hope this is a slooooooow Sunday.

May 28, 2023: 🌾 Morning Walk

May 28, 2023: 🤷🏻‍♂️ Leftover from this week. Posting this as a “good morning” photo, still lying in bed and none from today yet.

May 27, 2023: I don’t care about football. At all. But I hate it when a bunch of assholes decide to celebrate victory by blowing up shit 10 meters away from …

May 27, 2023: 🧽 Cleaning Up A small room, my father-in-law’s workshop, got semi-flooded. Almost everyone helped…

May 27, 2023: 🐱🐶 Guess what? A huge storm came, thunders, heavy rain, flooded streets, the whole package.

May 27, 2023: Spent the morning with tinyMovieStar in the Public Library, and it was awesome. We now have a library card too. A pink one!

May 27, 2023: 📰 Somewhat unexpectedly, the story about the bulls made it to the cover. I guess it’s a slow news day in the country…

May 27, 2023: 🛵 GreenDay It’s gone. GreenDay is gone. We had fun. Still remember the day I picked her up from the previous owner. We rode everywhere. And we …

May 27, 2023: 🕵🏼 Undercover Tree

May 27, 2023: Lying in bed, waiting for Saturday to begin. Morning will be a little different, afternoon expected to follow the usual path. movieStar is helping out …

May 26, 2023: 🌙 Sunset See you tomorrow…

May 26, 2023: 🐡 Fishy

May 26, 2023: Work done for the week, photos have been edited and sent (Transmit still rocks, btw!). Next: dinner with friends and kids. Tomorrow: motorcycle sale, …

May 26, 2023: 😅 A couple more of the ugly part of town..

May 26, 2023: ⏳ Waiting…

May 26, 2023: 🕰️ Down Memory Lane

May 26, 2023: 🔑 Hide the gold, the Vikings are coming!

May 26, 2023: thingsThisWeek #50 🎂 Sometimes it feels like we’re always having a party on the weekends. That happened. Again. Both my brother and brother-in-law had …

May 26, 2023: 👺 Done with the shooting part. Guess what's next? Yeah, that. The dreaded editing...

May 26, 2023: 🐮 Also, found out Bob Dylan is coming to town. Playing in a bullring.

May 26, 2023: 😬 Yeah, we have ugly as well… Plenty of it.

May 26, 2023: 🥳 Hello, Friday! One more shoot, and we’re done. One more…

May 26, 2023: 🪵 The Three Chimneys See you tomorrow, it’s getting late. Early shoot tomorrow morning too.

May 25, 2023: 🤌🏼 Picking photos for Saturday’s spread with the paper’s editor.

May 25, 2023: 🧳 Still months away, but sticker spotter will move. Again.

May 25, 2023: 💭 Thinking about what’s coming next: cooking.

May 25, 2023: 🛵 110

May 25, 2023: 🌱 Windows

May 25, 2023: 🏗️ Picking tinyMovieStar up next.

May 25, 2023: ☎️ Is it ringing? Can everyone hear this?

May 25, 2023: ⌨️ Must get away from keyboard...

May 25, 2023: I’m willing to bet it’s a CDN thing. Maybe I should just turn that darn thing off… If I could remember where that setting is …

May 25, 2023: Back home, some photos to post, but I’m not taking my chances until the sun rises in the US.

May 25, 2023: ☎️ Call Me? After yesterday’s post, I had to find both Japanese phones I remembered shooting. Love them, but the pink one? 🥰🥰🥰

May 25, 2023: 😥 Hello, Thursday. Will you please let Friday know we’re waiting? Eagerly? Thanks.

May 24, 2023: 🌴 Back from the meeting. Perfect example of the “This meeting should have been an email” theory.

May 24, 2023: 👩🏻‍🏫 Meeting with teachers, here we go!

May 24, 2023: 👑 King of the Road

May 24, 2023: ☎️ How are these still a thing here?

May 24, 2023: 🚬 Day 17. Still not easy.

May 24, 2023: 🛵 If everything goes according to plan, my motorcycle is sold. Saturday the new owner will pick it up.

May 24, 2023: 🍎 Kindergarten meeting later today. All parents, yearly thing. Should be fun.

May 24, 2023: 🚶🏻‍♂️ Another quick walk around the block, after dropping tinyMovieStar off at kindergarten, before a small editing session.

May 24, 2023: ⏰ Time to put those rad.dad skills to work, and get tinyMovieStar ready for kindergarten.

May 24, 2023: 🤘🏼 I think I’ll start using my new rad.dad email address for all communication with the kindergarten. That will show them!

May 24, 2023: 📰 Mastodon + Bluesky + Pixelfed? Flipboard! Flipboard becomes first app to support Bluesky, Mastodon and Pixelfed all in one place | TechCrunch

May 23, 2023: Today was the day I moved back to Ivory for all my Mastodon needs. Notifications are back on, and off on that other app. Let’s see how we get …

May 23, 2023: Expo 98. Yes, as in 1998. Dos banhos nos vulcões de água às enchentes: as imagens que marcaram a Expo 98

May 23, 2023: ⛈️ Thunderstorm!! It was pretty dark when we left, and full on thunderstorm when we got home. City a mess, traffic lights not working, rush hour. Not …

May 23, 2023: ☀️ Day Off We drove to my in-laws yesterday, picking up tinyMovieStar was the plan. Of course we slept over, and now can’t talk her into …

May 23, 2023: 🥰 Liking it… maique.eu.

May 23, 2023: 🎏 Here you go, new coat of paint… Thank you, Matt, it’s a wonderful theme. Note: some things are still broken.

May 23, 2023: It’s taking me so long to find the time I think I’ll need to handle the blog’s theme change, I might just go ahead and press the …

May 23, 2023: Bolt, 2008 - ★★★½ Watched on Tuesday May 23, 2023.

May 23, 2023: 🥐 Breakfast time! Chocolate croissant, cinnamon bun, or cardamom roll?

May 23, 2023: 🫏 Plenty of animals yesterday as well…

May 22, 2023: Muddy.

May 22, 2023: 😎 It was a long, fun, day… #photography

May 22, 2023: 🦪 It was a very fun day.

May 22, 2023: 🦪 Oysters for breakfast

May 22, 2023: 🤖 Wall-e’s Cousin

May 22, 2023: ☕️ Espresso number two was a fancy one. Also, delicious!

May 22, 2023: Ok, enough of this! Time to get some coffee, double check the bag, and get ready to leave.

May 22, 2023: First night when we’re both away from tinyMovieStar? Woke up earlier than before. Couldn’t stop thinking about her.

May 21, 2023: 🌧️ Rain is Coming

May 21, 2023: ♥️🧡💛🤍 Coloring Time

May 21, 2023: 🌈 Cheap, non MagSafe, but…

May 21, 2023: ☁️ Cloudy Mood

May 21, 2023: 🔍 Find Buddha

May 21, 2023: I have work tomorrow, early in the morning. movieStar can’t escape a day at the office. The little one is still dealing with conjunctivitis, so …

May 21, 2023: 6AM. Like clockwork these days! Sadly, it’s freaking Sunday. I could sleep until noon!

May 20, 2023: If you’re on Bluesky, and would love to use your Mastodon client with it, visit skybridge.fly.dev. Ivory works just fine, Mona not so much. …

May 20, 2023: 🌸 Lazy afternoon. Waiting for dinner party mess. Not looking forward.

May 20, 2023: 🤨 Saturday’s Odd Moment

May 20, 2023: ⛈️ I did not see this coming! Monday’s outdoor shoot just got a lot more interesting.

May 20, 2023: Whenever we do something sweet for tinyMovieStar, she’ll go: “Obrigada, meninos”. It’s the sweetest thing!

May 20, 2023: 🥊 My barber has a very cool place. Got to remember to get some more photos next time…

May 20, 2023: 🥳 Last week I got the “congrats” alert for Sleeping Heart Rate, this time it’s the Walking Heart Rate one. Impressed by how fast …

May 20, 2023: 06:30AM… At least I’m moving in the right direction. Have a great weekend, y’all. We’re having another bDay extravaganza: …

May 19, 2023: thingsThisWeek 49 😔 This week’s post should have started out in the countryside, with a visit to a bio/wellness/holistic thing. Anyway, the assignment was …

May 19, 2023: 🐷🐷🐷 We’ll leave as soon as they load the straw…

May 19, 2023: 👩🏻‍🎨 Yes, You Can Spray

May 19, 2023: 🌴 Had to leave for an hour, for an impromptu fashion shoot. On the way there…

May 19, 2023: Plot twist: tinyMovieStar woke up with a swollen eye! No kindergarten today. Related: I might have to stop calling these “plot twist”, and …

May 18, 2023: One thing I REALLY miss on M.b’s webview? cmd + Enter to post. I will ALWAYS try to do that when I’m done with the reply, or posts. It …

May 18, 2023: As usual, the phone is updated, and now I’ll have to wait around 397 hours for the Apple Watch to do the same. “Preparing… …

May 18, 2023: 16.5. Go!

May 18, 2023: A friend of a friend came over to check my motorcycle. I’m selling it, since I don’t ride it, and could really use the money!

May 18, 2023: Just tested the DM feature on M.b, sending messages back and forth between my account, and Mastodon. Very smooth.

May 18, 2023: 🪷 Yesterday. The ones that will probably never get published…

May 18, 2023: 👨‍🎨 Wall to Wall

May 18, 2023: Right! Let’s do this!

May 18, 2023: And I thought the previous ones had been challenging! Awake at 2:30AM, 4:00AM, 5:00AM, and 6:00AM. How will today work? No idea.

May 17, 2023: 🪨 Old.

May 17, 2023: 🪶 HOMEM-POMBO By superlinox #photography #vsco #streetArt

May 17, 2023: Is there a non-Google alternative to Google Alerts? Those work pretty good too…

May 17, 2023: 🌳 The Strange Pool Oddest pool I’ve ever seen. Barely bigger than a tub, and the pool/deck ratio is just wrong!

May 17, 2023: Back from what turned out to be a really shitty assignment. On to editing, then picking up the little one, and dinner with brother-in-law and family. …

May 17, 2023: 🐚 Ride it, Pilgrim!

May 17, 2023: 😎 Sunshine Day

May 17, 2023: 🚲 Decided to ride a scooter on the way to the meeting point. A route I don’t take often. SO many people riding bicycles on this part of town! …

May 17, 2023: Also, the whole Fallon story on bsky is priceless!

May 17, 2023: Checked the M.b timeline, then my 🦄 list on Mastodon, the social.lol timeline, and a very quick glance at bsky. Time to get up, and start getting …

May 17, 2023: 6AM, awake again. I guess I should get used to this, as it happens almost daily now…

May 16, 2023: Plan has changed! Turns out the postponed assignment from last Friday is still mine, and tomorrow is the day. I will probably not make it to the …

May 16, 2023: ☀️ Needed a new case for the iPhone, and movieStar wanted to enroll tinyMovieStar in ballet classes. We walked for a while. I got my case. …

May 16, 2023: ✌🏼 Almost 9 days later, a lot of anxiety handling it, and a “all I got was this t-shirt” notification. Joking, of course. 2 extra days are …

May 16, 2023: Yummy. Why Portuguese Food is Hiding Everywhere

May 16, 2023: 👹 It was a rather short walk in the end…

May 16, 2023: A really cool street artist got in touch a while ago, about a photo I made of one of his pieces. He wanted me to shoot one of his objects. Tomorrow, …

May 16, 2023: I’ll have to go on a longer walk today. Stuck inside most of the day yesterday, my legs are requesting a stroll.

May 15, 2023: 🏝️ Artificial Paradises

May 15, 2023: 🌸 They’re back!

May 15, 2023: 🇲🇾 From the “Not Quite What I Expected” series…

May 15, 2023: 📺 Finished Sanctuary, and Netflix is now suggesting Giri/Haji. I’ve seen it already, but wouldn’t mind another go…

May 15, 2023: Tweaked sticker spotter’s theme a little. Now with a more familiar color scheme, and my favorite font at the moment. Font also a bit bigger. …

May 15, 2023: ☕️ We’re having Family Breakfast at kindergarten in a little while. How’s your Monday going?

May 14, 2023: Smokers Celebrating my first smoke-free week in 35 years, I present to you one of the many reasons why I’ve been enjoying cigarettes for so long: …

May 14, 2023: 🚂 Made it back home. Two scooter rides, and a bicycle one.

May 14, 2023: Tired. Exhausted. That’s it. That’s the post/toot/skeet.

May 14, 2023: 🏃‍♂️ A few of the runners are already here. Still two hours left until the race starts.

May 14, 2023: 🚶🏻‍♂️ Walked to the venue… #photography #vsco #lisbon

May 14, 2023: Alarm: set for 7:30AM. Me: up by 6AM. 😡😤😩

May 13, 2023: 🚬 Preview… #photography #smoking #tokyo

May 13, 2023: Did this for a while. Miss picking them, while sitting at the newspaper.

May 13, 2023: 😅 Working on a post that will (hopefully) celebrate my first smoke-free week. Dedicated, of course, to all the smokers out there… Mostly …

May 13, 2023: M.b seems to be back on again, and crossposting is happening. Sadly, no photos are being sent over to other services. Now deleting posts on Mastodon, …

May 13, 2023: Trying to figure out if I’m driving back, or riding back. movieStar would prefer driving, I’d rather ride.

May 13, 2023: 🛒 Saturday Morning with FIL

May 13, 2023: ☺️ Saturday. No work today. Yay!

May 12, 2023: 🏈 Packers

May 12, 2023: Done for the day, photography wise. Now let’s go home, gear up, and brace for the wind again!

May 12, 2023: ⭐️ Looking Up

May 12, 2023: 🤪 Unstable Cliffs

May 12, 2023: Picked the motorcycle again, rode to my in-laws. I’ll have lunch, ride back to the city, work, ride back to my in-laws. Spending half the day …

May 12, 2023: So… Got on a moped, rode all the way to the paper (it’s far), and got a call, just as I was arriving, letting me know the assignment had …

May 12, 2023: Here we go: coffee number two, a quick shower, and it’s off to the races. Over 12 hours left before work is done, and I can join the girls.

May 12, 2023: 😩 Waking up away from the movieStars feels odd. More so when I’m home, and they’re not.

May 12, 2023: thingsThisWeek #48 🥳 I’m back! After a crazy couple of months, I’ll try to keep these weekly posts going. Missed noting down what’s going on. This week …

May 11, 2023: Plot twist: rode the bike in the middle of a wind storm, in the night. Scary, I HATE wind! Another assignment showed up, had to come back to the city …

May 11, 2023: 🛵 It’s a deal: I’m taking the motorcycle tomorrow, the car stays behind. Yay!

May 11, 2023: 🐽 Afternoon Fun

May 11, 2023: 🚶🏻‍♂️ Around the block…

May 11, 2023: Crazy days coming up. Figuring things out, work/family wise. I might persuade my father-in-law, and make the trips back and forth to the city on his …

May 11, 2023: 👩🏻‍🎨 Good Morning, y’all!

May 10, 2023: Also, update on the smoke free thing: it’s been 3 days, still going strong… Strong-ish… Hanging on… Barely making it!

May 10, 2023: Editing, editing,… One never knows when one needs to rush to the hospital.

May 10, 2023: Light/Dark/Light/Dark

May 10, 2023: 🌳 Odd Day

May 10, 2023: Back in the city. Just made it home, and it’s time to leave again: picking the movieStars up at the office, and driving them to the hospital. …

May 10, 2023: ☀️ We made it…

May 10, 2023: 😢 05:39. Up.

May 9, 2023: 🌳 Hospital Green Vibes

May 9, 2023: Alarm has been set. 6AM it is.

May 9, 2023: Looks like I might be working tomorrow! Yay!

May 9, 2023: Fact: Day Two is MUCH HARDER than Day One.

May 9, 2023: 😝 Rough Day?

May 9, 2023: tinyMovieStar slept with me, holding me most of the time. Woke up only once, for a minute. She had a wonderful night.

May 8, 2023: ☕️ Very long and odd day. Not a lot of free time. tinyMovieStar is doing great, considering. Sorry if I missed your reply, btw. I have read it, …

May 8, 2023: Tonsillitis AND Gastroenteritis! First time ever in a hospital (quite nice for a 3 year old), but she made a big entrance with a couple of infections …

May 8, 2023: 🏥 They say you should keep yourself busy to forget about smoking, right? We’re doing that.

May 7, 2023: No more cigarettes at home, smoked the final one. Will I run to the shop tomorrow morning? We’ll see!

May 7, 2023: 🚬 I might be on the verge of attempting to quit smoking, after 35 years of doing it…

May 7, 2023: ⚽️ The Match #photography #vsco #football

May 7, 2023: 🤩 Landie #photography #landRover #vsco

May 7, 2023: 🤩 Psychedelic Mother’s Day tune time. Maman

May 7, 2023: 🙂 Hope everyone has a great Sunday. And happy Mother’s Day to those who celebrate.

May 7, 2023: 🚗 This weekend includes a bit of driving…

May 6, 2023: 🐼 PandaDay?

May 6, 2023: Also, found out the RAF won’t fly with adverse weather. I guess they only fly a couple of days a year?

May 6, 2023: Nick Cave was a guest at the coronation. I don’t know how to deal with that.

May 6, 2023: 😻 On Time #caturday #portrait #photography #vsco

May 6, 2023: 🎉 Status Report

May 6, 2023: We made it to the party. tinyMovieStar being tinyMovieStar, fell asleep 4 minutes before we got here. Now sitting in the car, blaring sun, waiting for …

May 6, 2023: 🇮🇪 I would like to thank Ireland for yesterday’s after dinner drink.

May 6, 2023: First two items on the list for today are done, on to the party. And I got to walk home with tinyMovieStar! She said we should do it, and leave mom …

May 6, 2023: Coronation, then lunch, then birthday party. Something will have to be cut short, I believe we’re not getting to the end of the coronation.

May 6, 2023: 😅 Crazy Town #photography #lisbon

May 6, 2023: 💙 Finally, Bluey is in the house!

May 6, 2023: Of course the week wouldn’t be complete without a Friday night meltdown. tinyMovieStar, way past her bedtime, exhausted from all the playing, …

May 5, 2023: 📺 Giving Sanctuary a go.

May 5, 2023: Time to face the outside world, and pick up the little one. Still feeling like shit, but there’s no way around that.

May 5, 2023: 🦠 Sure, but… Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, says WHO

May 5, 2023: 💡 Everyone #photography #vsco #streetArt

May 5, 2023: Hunger, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Friday May 5, 2023.

May 5, 2023: Luther: The Fallen Sun, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Friday May 5, 2023.

May 5, 2023: Alternating between “Hunger”, and “Luther”. If I manage to finish one of them, I’ll count that as today’s …

May 5, 2023: 🛵 Can’t go outside, I guess I’ll just post old photos… again.

May 5, 2023: 🌡️ Also, back at my strangely low temperatures, with 35.6 this morning. Still feeling feverish.

May 5, 2023: According to bsky.jazco.dev, I’m not a part of any specific cluster on Bluesky. Just the BSky English Language MetaCluster. Sounds about right.

May 5, 2023: 🧐 Just figured it’s Friday. On social media! I woke up thinking “Wednesday”, not sure why.

May 5, 2023: Waking up. Brain feels a little better, but still shivering, and muscle pain still a thing.

May 4, 2023: Paracetamol + nasal drops. Let’s see if I can get some sleep.

May 4, 2023: Umami has announced their pricing, now that the Beta period has ended. Fair, and happy to see a free tier that should be enough for me, and I guess a …

May 4, 2023: 🌡 37.7

May 4, 2023: 🤒 Still not feeling 100%. I’d say 40%, 45% tops.

May 4, 2023: 🤠 The Wild North

May 4, 2023: 🌴 Palm Trees & Bluesky

May 4, 2023: 💊 & ☕️

May 4, 2023: 🧟‍♂️ Waking up. Again. Did it a few times through the night. Stuffy nose. Headache. Zombie mood.

May 3, 2023: 🎩 Classy…

May 3, 2023: 👨‍🍳 Cooking for kids is so great! They really enjoy the meals, and nothing beats their smiling faces.

May 3, 2023: 🍺 Another late afternoon spent watching the girls (three this time around) getting muddy, while having a beer with friends. Turns out beer …

May 3, 2023: Here we go, people! Another, smaller, batch of Bluesky invites. Trying not to screw the invite tree, you must promise to be a good citizen.

May 3, 2023: 🦠 Purchased a couple covid tests. Negative for movieStar, so far, but this is a close as we’ve been to feeling sick since last time we got it. …

May 3, 2023: 🧽 Time to do the dishes… #photography #vsco #cambodia

May 3, 2023: 🕊 Fly, little bird, fly away… Take my exported photos with you, and drop them at the editor’s desk.

May 3, 2023: Haven’t opened my feed reader in over a week. I’m afraid to do it by now…

May 3, 2023: Great story. How to win at cards and life, according to poker’s autistic superstar

May 3, 2023: 🚶🏻‍♂️Going Up, Going Down Can you tell I still have photos to edit? Using my favorite procrastination technique: going through my Camera roll… …

May 3, 2023: Tetris, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Wednesday May 3, 2023.

May 3, 2023: 👸🏻 I did the math, and I spend 73% of my day thinking, and talking, about Disney princesses. Their dresses, their hair, their shoes,…

May 2, 2023: 🦖 I was covering a rewilding action, but things seemed pretty wild already! A huge lizard met his maker as we made our way there. Not as sharp as I …

May 2, 2023: 🇨🇭 A Swiss band playing in the park today. In was ok. Not great, but a good surprise nonetheless.

May 2, 2023: Enough of this. Time to go get the little one back home. I miss her.

May 2, 2023: 😶 Hey, there…

May 2, 2023: 👼🏼 Oh, Lord!

May 2, 2023: 🍔 Right about now there’s a burger riding in the back of a motorcycle. Here here, burger. Here here, burger…

May 2, 2023: 📺 Done with The Diplomat. Good that a second season is coming…

May 2, 2023: 🦥 Can you tell I’m trying not to work, when there’s clearly a lot of work to do?

May 2, 2023: ⭐️ Yes, “found” another one! Sticker spotting is SO much easier when there’s a whole crew going around, finding them first… 🤣 …

May 2, 2023: ☕️ Coffee, and editing photos. That’s my plan for today. Not a lot else. Would rather be out and about, but these photos don’t edit …

May 2, 2023: 🛏️ Happy to be sleeping in my own bed again. Thrilled to be back close to the movieStars. See you in the morning.

May 1, 2023: Parenting update: the Terrible Twos are just a warm up to the Totally Insane Threes!

May 1, 2023: 😅 Trying to find time to see what I missed on the timelines. I don’t think I’ll even bother with Bluesky. Just got a new follower over …

May 1, 2023: 🐴 Hi-Yo, Silver! #photography #vsco #horse

May 1, 2023: 🌳 Before We Left Felt great to be back at my parents country… #photography #vsco #portugal

May 1, 2023: ☀️ Busy day yesterday, but still a very pleasant one. Still, can’t wait to drive down today, and meet the movieStars again. #photography #vsco …

Apr 30, 2023: Morning spent with the bulls, and the nice people from Rewilding (loads of Dutch folks), and now lunch with plenty of prosciutto, chorizo, cheese, and …

Apr 30, 2023: 🗺️ On the Road

Apr 30, 2023: 🌈 Pot of gold at the end of the road: our hotel. First week in the business, we got lucky. It’s a very nice, comfortable place. Tomorrow: bulls. …

Apr 29, 2023: More photos arriving from the pool down south, and the road up north feels endless. Bummer.

Apr 29, 2023: 🏊‍♀️ movieStars made it to the beach, and pool. Thankfully my mother-in-law is keeping me updated, as the other two are too busy swimming around.

Apr 29, 2023: 🚗 I guess it's time to go... 🚗 I guess it's time to go...

Apr 29, 2023: 🐂 Girls left already for their extended weekend at the beach in the Alentejo, complete with cousins, and I’m waiting for my time to leave. …

Apr 29, 2023: 🎨 Pastel City

Apr 28, 2023: ☕️ Uneven Coffee

Apr 28, 2023: 🍺 Afternoon Notes #photography #vsco #lisbon

Apr 28, 2023: Beer with friends. We all picked up the kids from kindergarten, and moved to a playground next to a spot selling beer. Perfect. All the kids are …

Apr 28, 2023: 🥳 Photos have been sent, time to pick tinyMovieStar up from kindergarten! YAY!

Apr 28, 2023: 👑 Fancy Day Couldn’t help myself, a couple more while I’m delaying actual work… #photography #vsco #lisbon

Apr 28, 2023: 😅 Out of the palace, on to editing the photos.

Apr 28, 2023: 🎹 Play me a Song Mr. Piano Man #photography #vsco #music

Apr 28, 2023: Nice update to Citymapper. Citymapper CLUB features are now available to all!

Apr 28, 2023: Wed: Groundskeeper at luxury hotel. Thu: Boring conference at regional college. Fri: Ambassador reception at a local palace. Sat: Bulls are released …

Apr 28, 2023: A virtual gathering of the Micro.blog community to share knowledge and make new connections. Micro Camp

Apr 27, 2023: Working again tomorrow, and leaving Saturday on a three day assignment. What is going on?? SOOO much work, I’m not even used to it anymore.

Apr 27, 2023: 🥱 I was not the only bored person in the audience…

Apr 27, 2023: Boy, oh boy, am I bored!

Apr 27, 2023: 🕰️ Told you it wasn’t going to be pretty…

Apr 27, 2023: 🎂 Walked to kindergarten a second time today, carrying a very heavy birthday cake (yeah, still going…). It is getting VERY hot outside. Today …

Apr 27, 2023: 🎩 Those shoes deserve a better motorcycle, sir…

Apr 27, 2023: 8AM, let’s do this again! Coffee, get the little one dressed, kindergarten drop, and drive into the heatwave. 34 degrees today, it’s …

Apr 26, 2023: 🥚 I suppose the food won’t be as delicious either…

Apr 26, 2023: Looks like I’m headed into even hotter weather tomorrow, with another out-of-town shoot. Sadly the place won’t be as cool looking as …

Apr 26, 2023: 🍷 Of course wine couldn’t be too far. Thankfully they also had an incredible craft beer, one only available at that particular hotel.

Apr 26, 2023: 📷 Notes From Today #photography #vsco #hotel

Apr 26, 2023: Back in the city. 33 degrees on the road, Alentejo hell!

Apr 26, 2023: ☀️ Today’s Office View

Apr 26, 2023: 🍦 Ok, so maybe just one before I start the car. Throwback to yummy ice-cream, and better times. #photography #myanmar #iceCream

Apr 26, 2023: Here we go, a day (mostly) away from the internet.

Apr 26, 2023: ☁️ Past midnight, alarm set for 7AM. Hope to see y’all tomorrow. Sleep tight. #photography #cloudPorn

Apr 25, 2023: Tomorrow I’m back on the road. Long drive to the border, shoot a portrait, and drive back to the city. Wish the departure was a bit later, but …

Apr 25, 2023: 👹 HELL

Apr 25, 2023: 💤 The Nap

Apr 25, 2023: Invites are all gone, distributed on Micro.blog and Mastodon. Thought about going back to Twitter with some, but figured that, if people are still …

Apr 25, 2023: 😴 After lunch nap for the little one. We’re going back to the city when she wakes up…

Apr 25, 2023: Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Tuesday April 25, 2023.

Apr 25, 2023: 🍊 Morning Walk

Apr 25, 2023: It’s that time again. Wanna try Bluesky?

Apr 25, 2023: 🎨 The Wall #vsco #photography #streetArt

Apr 25, 2023: 🇵🇹 Apr 25 Liberdade sempre.

Apr 25, 2023: Trying skyline.gay, by @louis02x.com (Bluesky link), makes me wonder what imaginative things might show up later on… Also, great site to try …

Apr 24, 2023: ☀️ Beach Afternoon We drove to the beach. Cockles for everyone except me. Don’t fancy them. tinyMovieStar LOVES them. And ice-cream. And …

Apr 24, 2023: 📷 April 25th We’ve had sad times, in 2019, And many happy times before, and after, that. #photography #photojournalism

Apr 24, 2023: 🦄 How long does a “day after” last? Asking for a friend… #photography #vsco #birthday

Apr 24, 2023: 🏝️ There may be a drive to the beach later today.

Apr 24, 2023: 🌸 Dog has been walked, flowers have been picked, antibiotics have been taken.

Apr 24, 2023: The Nice Guys, 2016 - ★★★½ Watched on Monday April 24, 2023.

Apr 24, 2023: Finally the headache went away. Fingers crossed for a painless Monday 😅

Apr 23, 2023: 😅 A pretty place it is not! #photography #vsco

Apr 23, 2023: 😩 We’re all having a hangover day. tinyMovieStar will not change out of her Rapunzel dress.

Apr 23, 2023: VSCO trial week is over, I’m officially in for a year. Yay.

Apr 23, 2023: After getting used to editing posts on Micro.blog, and Mastodon, being unable to do the same on Bluesky feels very odd.

Apr 23, 2023: 🛑 STOP the madness! #photography #stop #vsco

Apr 23, 2023: Need a Bluesky invite for a personal project, and someone tried to sell me one! Hahahaha… Can’t believe this is something people are …

Apr 23, 2023: Things no one teaches you: how to get your child to take their medicine with no drama.

Apr 23, 2023: 🦶 Best Wishes #photography #japan #vsco

Apr 23, 2023: 😵 Not sure a day will be enough to get our strength back.

Apr 22, 2023: 🥰 What. A. Long. Day.

Apr 22, 2023: ☁️ As good as it gets… #photography #cloudPorn #vsco

Apr 22, 2023: 🥰 Best day of my life. Happy Birthday, tinyMovieStar!

Apr 22, 2023: 🎂 Here we go... Brace! Brace! Brace!

Apr 21, 2023: 👀 Still following people left and right on vsco. So many cool photos.

Apr 21, 2023: 🌴 Palm Love #photography #vsco #palmLove

Apr 21, 2023: ✨ 🥰 Three years ago we were spending our last night as a couple. The little one showed up early in the morning.

Apr 21, 2023: 🧑🏻‍🍳 Full blown industrial kitchen vibe while preparing everything for tomorrow’s party.

Apr 21, 2023: Testing 🦋

Apr 21, 2023: Thanks to the very easy process on Bluesky, and the sweetness of omg.lol’s DNS settings, sticker spotter is now known as @stickerspotter.omg.lol …

Apr 21, 2023: 🧸 From a while back, when I had an actual photo as avatar… Still one of my favorites. Also a few less kilos, and a LOT less white hair.

Apr 21, 2023: 😻 Current Mood Is it too early for caturday? #photography #vsco #caturday

Apr 21, 2023: 🌧️ Great day to be inside… #photography #rain #vsco

Apr 21, 2023: 🚗 Vintage on The Road #photography #onTheRoad #2CV #vsco

Apr 21, 2023: 🌧️ Fingers crossed tomorrow’s plans aren’t derailed by rain.

Apr 21, 2023: 🦩 Good day today, even though tinyMovieStar has her first otitis. First time on antibiotics too. Doctor was surprised we managed so long, considering …

Apr 20, 2023: I’ve been here before, but Medications on iOS seems to be missing an end date for medication. I can pick every day, but how do I let it know …

Apr 20, 2023: 🥰 1 meter. That’s how tall tinyMovieStar is today.

Apr 20, 2023: 📅 Plans for the rest of the day: doctor appointment with tinyMovieStar, and then off to dinner in Cascais, with brother in law.

Apr 20, 2023: 📰 The News Still on a VSCO binge. #photography #vsco #vietnam

Apr 20, 2023: ✏️ Must get back to thingsThisWeek. Past couple of weeks were SO crazy, I couldn’t find the energy to do it.

Apr 20, 2023: ⭐️ Another One! Well played, @jean, well played. Carefully placed, so it’s only visible on the way back from kindergarten…

Apr 20, 2023: 🎙️ It’s gonna be a good day…

Apr 19, 2023: If it was up to me, I’d have VSCO as my one photo sharing app. Curating a collection, and having a link to it, is also pretty cool.

Apr 19, 2023: 🦥 SLOW Two kids, and moms, in the house. My mind is going “Slow Down” full time 😅 #photography #hongKong #vsco

Apr 19, 2023: 🎙️ Catherine Talks To Don For the past 50 years he has proved himself a photojournalist without equal, whether documenting the poverty of …

Apr 19, 2023: ⭐️ Micro.blog in The Wild A memento of @jean’s visit to the city. First spotted by @thedimpause. Lots of community members in town! …

Apr 19, 2023: ☕️ Time for another one, and then it’s off to the races… #photography #vsco #coffee #hongKong

Apr 19, 2023: 🧸 I believe we're having two of tinyMovieStar's buddies from school coming over today. I'm not too sure I'll survive.

Apr 19, 2023: 🛶 It’s a Yin and Yang thing… #photography #vsco #yinYang

Apr 19, 2023: 🏷️ I've gotten so behind on tagging photos, it's anxiety inducing! I'm only tagging tinyMovieStar now, and deal with the rest whenever I can get the …

Apr 19, 2023: 🥼 Doctor appointment for tomorrow. Hopefully there's nothing wrong with the little one.

Apr 19, 2023: 🧮 It's IRS season again, my least favorite part of the year.

Apr 19, 2023: 🌡️ tinyMovieStar had the tiniest of fevers when she woke up. Three days to her birthday, this is not nice.

Apr 18, 2023: 🇯🇵 One more before I get some sleep. #photography #vsco #tokyo

Apr 18, 2023: 🎟️ These invites go pretty quickly!

Apr 18, 2023: 🦄 Unicorn Day: when I walked all the way back to school, with tinyMovieStar on my shoulders, to look for the missing unicorn.

Apr 18, 2023: Bluesky. Who wants in?

Apr 18, 2023: 🍜 Ramen & Beer for lunch do not a productive afternoon make.

Apr 18, 2023: 8,382 photos. That’s what surfaces when searching for “Lisbon” on my Flickr archive. I’m doomed.

Apr 18, 2023: 🍜 On our way to the ramen place… #photography #lisbon #vsco

Apr 18, 2023: 💻 Working on the PhotoWalking page...

Apr 18, 2023: 👑 Update: tiara is in the bag! Actually, two of them, just in case this one breaks as well.

Apr 18, 2023: 🎨 Hello, morning… #photography #streetArt #lisbon #vsco

Apr 18, 2023: 👑 Today I have to find a tiara. This game is fun.

Apr 17, 2023: 🥵 Of course I had to pick the hottest day in the year to do all this stuff today. Of course.

Apr 17, 2023: VSCO Next up on the back to the photo editing apps we used in the past and are now trying again series, I revisit an old, dear, friend: VSCO. We go WAYYY …

Apr 17, 2023: 😩 Still running. Looks like the finish line is at the kindergarten. Then the other race starts. Endurance.

Apr 17, 2023: ⏰ Of course I had to get to the shop before it opens…

Apr 17, 2023: 🥵 Out looking for that dress, then it’s off to mom&dad’s… Busy busy.

Apr 16, 2023: Added my vsco profile page to omg.lol. Not certain I’ll use it a lot, but it’s been there for ages, so why not just include it?

Apr 16, 2023: 👗 Tomorrow’s mission: find a Rapunzel dress.

Apr 16, 2023: 4:30PM, still groggy. I’m getting too old for late nights.

Apr 16, 2023: Die Hart, 2023 - ★½ Watched on Sunday April 16, 2023.

Apr 16, 2023: ☕ How many today?

Apr 16, 2023: 👸🏻 Back to Regular Programming…

Apr 16, 2023: 🥰 My favorite: tinyMovieStar walking past the dancing drunk men to get to her papi. The music was blasting, but she was just missing me too much, I …

Apr 16, 2023: 😩 Hangover 4: Aveiras de Cima.

Apr 16, 2023: 🎉 Party Day at Aveiras We had fun. It’s a good day to be in town. #photography #streetPhotography

Apr 15, 2023: 🐈 Shady #photography #vsco #caturday

Apr 15, 2023: 🪑 We made it! Ready to party, there’s over 20 people in the house, and we’re going out soon. More are expected, from our side.

Apr 15, 2023: ☀️ Before we head out to the party… #photography #vsco

Apr 15, 2023: 🤩 It was not a dream, we really met them! The photo finally made it to Lisbon. It’s gorgeous! #photography #donMcCullin

Apr 15, 2023: 🐤 We just saw one like this on a cartoon show. Had to find this photo to show tinyMovieStar they are real! #photography #airplane

Apr 14, 2023: 🇸🇹 Turns out VSCO is still fun too… #photography #saoTomeEPrincipe #vsco

Apr 14, 2023: 🧺 Old Town #photography #hipstamatic

Apr 14, 2023: 🐣 Time to pick you tinyMovieStar!! Happy.

Apr 14, 2023: The week is pretty much done. Tomorrow we’re heading out to the countryside, and there’s, again, a party: this time it’s dedicated …

Apr 14, 2023: First draft, if anyone wants to chime in…

Apr 14, 2023: 🥘 Out for lunch with a couple of friends.

Apr 14, 2023: Working on the new photowalking project page. Coming along just fine, but finding the right words is always trickier than picking the photos.

Apr 14, 2023: SO many mentions after yesterday’s lovely meetup and walking tour. Having trouble finding the time to reply to all of them!

Apr 13, 2023: Somehow unsurprisingly, I am the one with the least photos of the meetup. Spent the whole time talking, not a lot to show…

Apr 13, 2023: 🧔🏻‍♂️ Back from the meetup. Wonderful time and, yes, beard tugging was accomplished! @jean

Apr 13, 2023: ⭐️ Let’s get going…

Apr 13, 2023: ⭐️ Off to the meetup.

Apr 13, 2023: The Courier, 2020 - ★★★½ Watched on Thursday April 13, 2023.

Apr 13, 2023: 🍿 Watching The Courier while editing some more photos. All this spy business would be impossible today, since most of it seems to revolve around …

Apr 13, 2023: ☀️ A few hours to the meetup… Feel free to join, if you’re around.

Apr 13, 2023: 📱 Of course I had to be reminded Umami was a thing. 2:30AM, adding scripts to the sites!

Apr 12, 2023: 🥵 Sunday and Monday should be fun!

Apr 12, 2023: ☀️ Weather Damaged #photography #hipstamatic

Apr 12, 2023: Looking at Substack again, mostly on the reader side, not so much as a publishing platform. Who has an account there, and is using it to publish …

Apr 12, 2023: 🔋 Charging missQ's battery. She's going out with us on the walk tomorrow. 🔋 Charging missQ's battery. She's going out with us on the walk tomorrow.

Apr 12, 2023: 🚶🏻‍♂️ I might start hosting photowalks in town. Revenue streams (or revenue streets), right?

Apr 12, 2023: 💙 Dark Blue Day #photography #car #blue

Apr 12, 2023: 🗺️ Planning the meetup itinerary.

Apr 11, 2023: ☁️ Should be editing other photos, but can’t stop playing with Hipstamatic Classic. #photography #hipstamatic #lisbon

Apr 11, 2023: 💈 Question of The Day: should I get my usual haircut, or go for the more extreme one I had a few months back? Decisions, decisions,...

Apr 11, 2023: 💤 Will try to finish this particular podcast episode before nodding off. It’s my sixth attempt.

Apr 10, 2023: 📺 Succession, episodes 2 and 3. No words!

Apr 10, 2023: Almost a week later, here we are, back in the city. Hopefully it’s smooth sailing until next weekend.

Apr 10, 2023: 🚶🏻‍♂️ Back in The City #photography #hipstamatic #lisbon

Apr 10, 2023: 🇯🇵 Art & Books #photography #japan #tokyo #hipstamatic

Apr 10, 2023: Canceled the Hipstamatic X subscription. Still months left on the free trial, but the app is almost unusable, and updates that fix the most basic …

Apr 10, 2023: 🛑 Walking the dog… #photography #hipstamatic

Apr 10, 2023: 👨‍✈️ Crew #photography #hipstamatic

Apr 10, 2023: ⭐️ maique-cro Meetup Plans Jean is in town, and we’re having a meetup this week. Date: Apr 13th Time: 1:30PM Location: Largo do Carmo, Lisbon The Plan Subject to change, …

Apr 10, 2023: What a weekend we’ve had! Nonstop partying for days. Now we get to rest for a couple of days, and next weekend will be fun filled again.

Apr 9, 2023: ☕ Second shot of the day. Must be awake for Easter lunch.

Apr 9, 2023: ☕️ I could use one of these right now… #photography #hipstamatic #coffee

Apr 8, 2023: 🛶 Final one for today… #photography #hipstamatic

Apr 8, 2023: 📷 This is fun… Still playing with the app, testing filters on old photos. #photography #hipstamatic #lisbon

Apr 8, 2023: Updated the Hipstamatic post. Classic is the way to go. Thanks @jasonekratz 🙂

Apr 8, 2023: 🛵 Classic Meetup Woke up to this. They get together and speed on the roads around my in-laws village. #photography #motorcycle

Apr 8, 2023: 📺 People mentioned it a few times, so I’m watching Beef. Quite nice.

Apr 8, 2023: We’re having another party today, after the one on Thursday, yesterday’s holiday, and tomorrow’s big Easter day. Diet is on a break.

Apr 7, 2023: 🏖️ I see a beach in our future…

Apr 7, 2023: 📷 Hipstamatic & Hemispheric Views On the latest Hemispheric Views episode there’s Photography Corner. Hipstamatic X came up, and the nice gentlemen (Hi, guys! 👋) wondered how I …

Apr 7, 2023: 🍺 Beauty and the Beast Special @cliffordbeshers Caturday edition. Is Gaspar posh enough on this one? 🤣

Apr 7, 2023: Kill Boksoon, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Friday April 7, 2023.

Apr 6, 2023: 🎮 Oculus Night.

Apr 6, 2023: 🍷 One Too Many #photography #caturday

Apr 6, 2023: ☁️ Ready to test…

Apr 6, 2023: 🥵 Good morning…

Apr 5, 2023: 🌱 After a few rougher days, it feels great to be able to get back to the routine: working from home, editing photos and, most important, being here …

Apr 5, 2023: ⛪️ Church Day The tiny church where I was baptized, ages ago. The cathedral, during yesterday’s service.

Apr 5, 2023: 🔫 Yep, it’s that part of the country…

Apr 5, 2023: The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to …

Apr 5, 2023: Finally editing both assignments, for the same client. I still love Lightroom, and the fact that I can leave the city and go on editing stuff on the …

Apr 5, 2023: 😞 It was a long day, but we’re back home. #photography #hipstamatic

Apr 4, 2023: 🚌 I’m quite happy with the bus service, in fact. Really nice, helpful, staff, at the bus station, and very clean, modern buses on the fleet. The …

Apr 4, 2023: 🚌 11:11. Bus driver has turned the radio on; my seat neighbors are a couple with a kid. The father has the most annoying voice, and won’t shut …

Apr 4, 2023: 🚌 10:15, bus left on time. We now have four hours of sitting and waiting to look for.

Apr 4, 2023: 🚇 08:23, subway. The trip begins.

Apr 4, 2023: Of course I’m unable to sleep when I have to get on a bus in a couple of hours. 4:30AM now, and my only thought is I should probably be charging …

Apr 3, 2023: 🥣 Words are funny. Today, at work, it was all about Soil and Soul. Tomorrow, at the funeral, the same words will apply. #photography #food #soul

Apr 3, 2023: ✈️ Da Plane, Boss, Da Plane…

Apr 3, 2023: ❤️

Apr 3, 2023: Obrigado. Thank you so much for all the messages. Long day of work today. And even longer tomorrow, with the trip up north for the funeral service.

Apr 2, 2023: 😢 My favorite uncle (and I have a few), and godfather, passed away. This will take a while to process.

Apr 2, 2023: Not even sure I want to try Bluesky, but the fact that invites are so hard to find… kinda makes me want one 😅

Apr 2, 2023: 😻 Sunday is my Caturday. #photography #caturday

Apr 2, 2023: 🤡 April’s Fool Shots #photography #hipstamatic #lisbon

Apr 1, 2023: 🍬 Afternoon spent with family, at a birthday party. Lots, LOTS, of sugar for tinyMovieStar. Should be a fun evening.

Apr 1, 2023: 📷 Let’s start the weekend with a photo shoot. No work all week, of course it had to happen on a Saturday.

Mar 31, 2023: 🤒 Play date cancelled, the girl who invited tinyMovieStar is probably sick, and we’ve had enough in the past month.

Mar 31, 2023: I’m still following a couple of accounts on the bird thing via Feedbin and, now that they lost their API access, I added all of them via nitter, …

Mar 31, 2023: 🤑 Finally got around to Succession S4E1!

Mar 31, 2023: 🚶🏻‍♂️ Hey, I’m Walking Here! Big walk today, a few photos were taken… #photography #hipstamatic #streetPhotography #lisbon

Mar 31, 2023: 📷 Photo report from the walk coming up. Plenty of HipstaShots.

Mar 31, 2023: 🎵 No podcasts today as well. Walking with an impressively sweet Spotify radio, based on Bright Lights, by Gary Clark Jr. Loving it!

Mar 31, 2023: 🚶🏻‍♂️ tinyMovieStar in kindergarten, movieStar working from home, I guess I’ll go out for a bit. Take the subway to the end of one line, and …

Mar 31, 2023: thingsThisWeek #47 ☀️ Celebrating the fact that tinyMovieStar has battled, and won, the fever (she now has a cough and running nose, yay), we had lunch at my parents, …

Mar 31, 2023: Practice : @hollie mbmar day31 #photography #mbmar

Mar 30, 2023: 🍫 After hearing about these a week or so ago, I found them in my local supermarket! They’re good, but I still prefer the yummy M&M’s …

Mar 30, 2023: I don’t think we’ll make it to 9PM today. Sleeeeeepy…

Mar 30, 2023: I don’t remember an app as buggy as Hipstamatic X. The number of times it crashes is almost as big as the number of times I open it.

Mar 30, 2023: Found out Arc browser for iOS is not actually a browser, more like a companion to the desktop version, and you need the big brother installed on the …

Mar 30, 2023: So many cool photos on this years Micro.blog Photo Challenge! It’s been a real pleasure to look at all the photos people have posted.

Mar 30, 2023: Mirror : @Rori mbmar day30 #photography #mbmar

Mar 30, 2023: tinyMovieStar on my shoulders to kindergarten, dance class, an hour walking, and a huge stairway at the end. Gentler Streak is telling me I have to …

Mar 30, 2023: ☕ Dance class with tinyMovieStar in a little while, and we have no coffee at home!!

Mar 29, 2023: 🕺 Tomorrow morning we're taking part in a parents&kids dance class at kindergarten. 🕺 Tomorrow morning we're taking part in a parents&kids dance class at kindergarten.

Mar 29, 2023: Drove to the church with tinyMovieStar to pick up the bigger movieStar, and we, oddly, ended up having a great time there. Met an old friend, one …

Mar 29, 2023: movieStar has to attend a memorial service for a friend’s family member, I’m picking up the little one today. I’ve been tasked with …

Mar 29, 2023: Slice : @meandering mbmar day29 #photography #mbmar

Mar 29, 2023: 💖 Love Times Two #photography #love

Mar 29, 2023: 📊 Busy Office Day #photography #streetPhotography #lisbon

Mar 29, 2023: I knew it! tinyMovieStar woke up and said she thinks she’s still a “little bit sick, maybe it’s best if we all stay home …

Mar 28, 2023: ⭐️ Micro Meetup time! @jean is coming to town, and we’re getting together. If you’re in the neighborhood, and want to join, feel free. Thursday, April …

Mar 28, 2023: Another AppStories episode, another app subscription? Maybe I should just stop listening to them. This time: TV Forecast.

Mar 28, 2023: 🎉 Micro.blog’s app AND Gluon get updated on the same day!

Mar 28, 2023: Prompt : @moonmehta mbmar day28 #photography #mbmar

Mar 28, 2023: 🤔 Still no “Prompt” photo for today’s prompt. I guess today is the day when I fail the challenge.

Mar 28, 2023: 📷 Hipstamatic Fun

Mar 28, 2023: 🦷 Visit to the dentist, and that means driving on the cool bridge!

Mar 27, 2023: ☀️ Summer time, as soon as DST arrived. Cool. #photography #lisbon

Mar 27, 2023: 📱 Updating…

Mar 27, 2023: 😊 Happy child, happy papi.

Mar 27, 2023: 🥵 24C. Feels like summer.

Mar 27, 2023: 🤞🏼 Almost time to pick the little one up from kindergarten, hoping her time there has lifted her spirits a bit.

Mar 27, 2023: 🤭 Having some HipstaFun after all…

Mar 27, 2023: 😅 Looks like today is still not the day when she wakes up in a good mood.

Mar 27, 2023: Support : @JohnAN mbmar day27 #photography #mbmar

Mar 26, 2023: tinyMovieStar: “I’m hungry” Me: “Ok, give me a minute” Walk to the kitchen, get dinner from fridge, into the microwave, …

Mar 26, 2023: 😶 Turning into a crazy Sunday…

Mar 26, 2023: Instrument : @UnfocusedWanderlust mbmar day26 #photography #mbmar

Mar 25, 2023: Using Fiery Feeds, and enjoying it. Subscribed for a year. If someone gets me to stop using Reeder, this one might be it. On the desktop I’m …

Mar 25, 2023: 😻 Hello, it’s Caturday! #photography #caturday

Mar 25, 2023: 🍿 If you’ve ever been to Georgetown, these will feel even cooler… Mickey Go Local | Animated Shorts (YouTube link)

Mar 25, 2023: Spice : @cygnoir mbmar day25 #photography #mbmar

Mar 25, 2023: 🌶️ Just like that, a cartoon we were watching turned into today’s photo for the challenge!

Mar 25, 2023: 🚌 Can’t wait to get in the car and drive.

Mar 24, 2023: 😩 TGIF isn't nearly enough, it feels like TGWAMITF, as in Thank God We Actually Made It To Friday! What. A. Week!

Mar 24, 2023: 🌁 Another foggy day with the bridge, a while back. Miss going to this spot. #photography #lisbon

Mar 24, 2023: 🥸 Sticker fun. These books are awesome!

Mar 24, 2023: thingsThisWeek #46 🌻 We had planned on changing our weekend routine, but ended up in the same spot. There’s some construction work going on at my in-laws, and …

Mar 24, 2023: PAW Patrol: The Movie, 2021 - ★★★ Watched on Friday March 24, 2023.

Mar 24, 2023: Court : @thisis mbmar day24 #photography #mbmar

Mar 24, 2023: No time to find photos during the day, the only way to keep doing this is dumpster diving in the archive at 2AM. Sorry about that, here goes…

Mar 23, 2023: So… called the national health hotline (Saúde24). I think every country should have this service, with the kind of care, and all around …

Mar 23, 2023: 🥜 Peanut M&M’s are SOOOOOO addictive! 🥜 Peanut M&M’s are SOOOOOO addictive!

Mar 23, 2023: 💤 Trying to get the little one to sleep, while playing with the Hipstamatic app… #photography #sleepy

Mar 23, 2023: 📬 Edited. On to the FTP part of the job, and we're done! 📬 Edited. On to the FTP part of the job, and we're done!

Mar 23, 2023: 📚 Second day in a row visiting publishing houses. Great places for photos. #photography #reading #illustration

Mar 23, 2023: 🥘 Back home, just in time for lunch. Had some time left to get some stuff we were missing at home too.

Mar 23, 2023: Chance : @V_ mbmar day23 #photography #mbmar

Mar 23, 2023: 🔮 It’s almost as if she knows when I’ll have to leave for work! Whenever I’m shooting an assignment, she gets a little feverish.

Mar 23, 2023: ☕ Getting ready to leave. Photos must be taken!

Mar 23, 2023: 🤞 Hoping the little one is feeling better today, the night was still a feverish one.

Mar 22, 2023: 💻 Little one finally asleep, time to edit the photos from today's shoot.

Mar 22, 2023: 🌡️ A whole day of fever. tinyMovieStar didn’t have one of these for a long while. Other than that, she’s feeling fine. Hanging in there.

Mar 22, 2023: 🛗 Ground Floor #photography #architecture

Mar 22, 2023: Insect : @alexink mbmar day22 #photography #mbmar

Mar 22, 2023: ⏱️ The week is turning into “Last Minute Call”. Another shoot today, in a couple of hours.

Mar 22, 2023: 🔍 Yesterday’s Fun

Mar 22, 2023: 🧑‍🏫 tinyMovieStar is skipping school today, we’re spending the day at home. Plenty of coughing going on.

Mar 21, 2023: Going to bed exhausted, feeling like I’ll be coming down with a cold soon, and having absolutely no idea what I’ll post tomorrow on the …

Mar 21, 2023: ✌🏼 The Gang is Back Together

Mar 21, 2023: 🫖 Fortnum & Mason afternoon. Tea and biscuits. Yummy.

Mar 21, 2023: 🪑 Let’s go, Part II #photography #redRules

Mar 21, 2023: 👀 Lunch Break Crazy number of tourists in Belém, the line at the Monastery was unbelievably long. #photography #lisbon

Mar 21, 2023: 🍔 Highlight of the day so far: burger & beer in the park. It’s sunny, there’s a breeze, and music in the air from a nearby restaurant. 🍔 Highlight of the day so far: burger & beer in the park. It’s sunny, there’s a breeze, and music in the air from a nearby restaurant.

Mar 21, 2023: 🤪 Morning part is done. At 2PM.

Mar 21, 2023: 💬 Made it. Same place as last week, totally different subject today. #photography #architecture

Mar 21, 2023: 🛺 And we’re on the move… On my way to the venue. Long day ahead, but meeting a few friends I haven’t seen in a while.

Mar 21, 2023: 🥰 An hour later, it’s time to wake up the movieStars. The day starts… now!

Mar 21, 2023: 🤨 It’s a Mickey Mouse operation! #photography #mickeyMouse

Mar 21, 2023: 🌞 Bom dia, everyone!

Mar 21, 2023: Tiny : @jasonmcfadden mbmar day21 #photography #mbmar

Mar 20, 2023: ☎️ 10PM call, tomorrow I’m working. Full day. Good.

Mar 20, 2023: 🍳 Let’s cook!

Mar 20, 2023: 📺 Vice Principals. Haha.

Mar 20, 2023: Afraid to listen to this one… Mac Power Users #684: 20 Mac Apps Under $20

Mar 20, 2023: 😅 Late Father’s Day present, got it this morning on our way to kindergarten.

Mar 20, 2023: 🌻 Hey there, Spring. Welcome.

Mar 20, 2023: 👮🏻‍♂️ At the police station with my father, trying to collect his backpack from the lost and found. All documents on it, thankfully someone found it …

Mar 20, 2023: 🥕 Bronze anniversary with Carrot Weather. 8 years!

Mar 20, 2023: Houseplant : @jensands mbmar day20 #photography #mbmar

Mar 19, 2023: 💴 Thinking about print price lists… Not something I should be doing on a Sunday evening.

Mar 19, 2023: 😴 Sleeping baby in the car. Waiting to go upstairs, but we can’t pick her up, she’d wake up.

Mar 19, 2023: So… asked ChatGPT a simple question, it failed. I then corrected the thing, and asked again. ChatGPT apologized and, when asked again, said …

Mar 19, 2023: 🥰💐 I’m a VERY lucky Papi.

Mar 19, 2023: 🤞 Rest of the night was quiet. Hoping today we have it easy as well. I’d say tinyMovieStar is at 75%.

Mar 19, 2023: Analog : @skarjune mbmar day19 #photography #mbmar

Mar 19, 2023: 🤮 Yes, again. A lot of excitement today, and now this. Thankfully it’s not the middle of the night yet, and the little one seems fine.

Mar 18, 2023: 🥰 One hour to Father’s Day, and I have plenty to be proud about, I believe. But this one just surfaced, and it made me smile. Proud Father (and …

Mar 18, 2023: 😋 Dinner was delicious. And too much of it.

Mar 18, 2023: 🥩 Watching a Brazilian grill master on YouTube. Things I only get to experience when I’m with my father-in-law.

Mar 18, 2023: Vagabundo.co is an intentionally simple Blogging-Platform with beautiful templates aimed at backpackers. Vagabundo

Mar 18, 2023: tinyMovieStar Says, Father's Day Edition On top of stellar art work, the usual sweet text. I love dad because he’s sweet. Dad plays “shop” with me, I give things to my dad, …

Mar 18, 2023: ⛺️ Indoor Camping #photography #parenthood

Mar 18, 2023: Portico : @annahavron mbmar day18 #photography #mbmar

Mar 17, 2023: 🫣 While trying to cook dinner for the kids, one of them peed her pants, and the other two are jumping around in giant bouncy balls. Hashtag Chef’s …

Mar 17, 2023: 😰 Three kids under 4 in the house. I’m dying!

Mar 17, 2023: PLUG: Shop Soft Opening I am opening a print shop, where people will be able to purchase prints of some of my photos. I’ve settled on the platform, but I’m still …

Mar 17, 2023: And… I’m working on the Store… finally. Any requests?

Mar 17, 2023: Ok. I need a job.

Mar 17, 2023: 😳 Rough Night?? #photography #lisbon

Mar 17, 2023: 👰🏻 Second wedding date was today. Yay for us.

Mar 17, 2023: 🍦 Welcome to Friday! Not an easy one, but we made it to the end! Enjoy.

Mar 17, 2023: thingsThisWeek #45 🎂 Birthday celebrations extended into Saturday. At my parents (late lunch due to work), and then at my in-laws (late due to late lunch at my parents). …

Mar 17, 2023: Early : @krisfredrick mbmar day17 #photography #mbmar

Mar 17, 2023: 👎 Today was not the day I managed to find out what I’m doing wrong with the shortcut. Trying again tomorrow.

Mar 16, 2023: 🛝 I should remember to add playtime with tinyMovieStar to Go Gentler. It’s quite the workout!

Mar 16, 2023: 🤬 Can’t figure out with this is failing! The hard part works, the easy one does not!

Mar 16, 2023: Might add these to the site. Not By AI Badges — A Badge for Your AI-free Content

Mar 16, 2023: Giving Petey a go while watching an episode of F1: Drive to Survive earlier today. Siri, btw, gave me the usual web search links. Win for Petey.

Mar 16, 2023: Today’s prompt is one of my favorites so far, lots of awesome photos for road. Here’s one I considered, but was left behind: #photography …

Mar 16, 2023: 🧰 Still messing with the shortcut…

Mar 16, 2023: 📺 Quiet day so far, time for some... Schitt's Creek!

Mar 16, 2023: Wunderbucket sounds like a nice idea.

Mar 16, 2023: 🚗 Picking up our car today. 25 years old, aced the inspection!

Mar 16, 2023: Road : @dejus mbmar day16 #photography #mbmar

Mar 15, 2023: 💖 The Way Back Home It was a good day.

Mar 15, 2023: 🤑 Trying to find a way to sponsor a photo project on the island... A grant would be awesome. Not an easy task.

Mar 15, 2023: 🎙️ Here we go. Just wish all the episodes were out already… Dynamite Doug. Well worth a listen.

Mar 15, 2023: 🔍 One last look at the photos, and a couple more added to the pack. Sent.

Mar 15, 2023: 💖 Let’s go to Kindergarten! tinyMovieStar’s commute is our gym class. #photography #parenthood

Mar 15, 2023: 💬 Et Tu, Carrot Weather?

Mar 15, 2023: 💖 I can see Clearly Now… A friend took this yesterday, after tinyMovieStar had messed up my hair, and covered it with Chunky Monkey dust. I was …

Mar 15, 2023: Patience : @amit mbmar day15 #photography #mbmar

Mar 14, 2023: 💖 The movieStars walking around. #photography #love #motherhood

Mar 14, 2023: 😭 C'mon, Schitt's Creek, you can't do this on every single episode!

Mar 14, 2023: 🌊 If you love the ocean, and photography, you’ll love this. Ray Collins: Patagonia Journal Spring 2023

Mar 14, 2023: ☕ Time for coffee number 3, the last one of today...

Mar 14, 2023: 📱 Edited and sent what I hope were the last photos of the assignment.

Mar 14, 2023: 🔩 Messing with now and profile pages... some.pics as well.

Mar 14, 2023: New prompts from @challenges have arrived, it’s time for another walk around the block.

Mar 14, 2023: Horizon : @crossingthethreshold mbmar day14 #photography #mbmar

Mar 13, 2023: Not terribly busy today, just as I planned. Still recovering from the marathon coverage + birthday party weekend. Car is in the shop, so today …

Mar 13, 2023: Schitt’s Creek S4E6, Open Mic. I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying!

Mar 13, 2023: I have to say that Feedbin + @sod’s new experimental feeds are an awesome way to read Micro.blog. Brilliant! Sign-in workaround worked as well. …

Mar 13, 2023: Connection : @agilelisa mbmar day13 #photography #mbmar

Mar 13, 2023: 🍿 Netlix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, AppleTV+, HBO Max! And not a single one has Everything Everywhere All at Once available to stream yet. I’d have …

Mar 13, 2023: 🏗️ The Flight of the Cranes #photography #fog #weatherPorn

Mar 13, 2023: 👨‍🔧 Dropping the car off at the mechanic, it's time for the yearly check & inspection. 👨‍🔧 Dropping the car off at the mechanic, it's time for the yearly check & inspection.

Mar 13, 2023: 🏃🏻‍♀️ Marathon bSides #photography

Mar 12, 2023: 🥵 What a weekend! We’re all exhausted, just waiting for sweet Monday.

Mar 12, 2023: 🥇 Thrilled to be working…

Mar 12, 2023: Running, running, running! Done with the marathon, picked up the girls, now trying to get back to the city for a birthday party. 4PM, still no …

Mar 12, 2023: 👮‍♂️ One way to cross the bridge. Not a bad one. #photography #police #motorcycle #lisbon

Mar 12, 2023: 😶‍🌫️ Let’s Get This Party Started! #photography #fog #lisbon

Mar 12, 2023: Here we go. It’s 06:25AM. Have a good Sunday, y’all.

Mar 12, 2023: Shiny : @odd mbmar day12 #photography #mbmar

Mar 11, 2023: 💤 22:22. Shutting down.

Mar 11, 2023: 😻 Yeah, I Know How You Feel #photography #caturday

Mar 11, 2023: 🖼️ From yesterday… #photography #artGallery

Mar 11, 2023: Gimcrack : @jafish mbmar day11 #photography #mbmar

Mar 11, 2023: Work done for today. Now off to lunch at my parents, dinner at in-laws, rush back to the city, sleep, go shoot the marathon, go back to in-laws, pick …

Mar 11, 2023: On my way to today’s part of this multi-day assignment. Very much looking to Monday, when all this will be behind me.

Mar 11, 2023: I’ll wait a while before posting today’s photo for the challenge, as I’m VERY curious about what people will share for …

Mar 10, 2023: 😍 Turned out to be an ok day.

Mar 10, 2023: thingsThisWeek #44 🎙 Dana Carvey on Smartless. What. A. Funny. Episode! Craig Mod on Japan Eats! is also a good episode. I wasn’t even aware of the podcast but, …

Mar 10, 2023: Ritual : @ drewbelf mbmar day10 #photography #mbmar

Mar 10, 2023: 👨‍🎨 Art On The Way #photography #streetArt

Mar 10, 2023: 😴 The apps know how I’m feeling this morning…

Mar 10, 2023: ☕️ As I feared, no more sleep. Time to hit the pot. Repeatedly.

Mar 10, 2023: 🤕 Almost 7AM, both movieStars finally sleeping. I, on the other hand, am not.

Mar 10, 2023: 🤮 Why is 4AM the official hour for kids to throw up?

Mar 10, 2023: 😶 02:20

Mar 10, 2023: ☀️ Round and round we go.

Mar 9, 2023: 😅 Another downside of working: no time for Mona themes, Drafts actions, stickerspotter, or anything else! Work gets in the way of sooooo much!

Mar 9, 2023: 🥰 When this is the view while you wait for an Uber… #photography #lisbon

Mar 9, 2023: 🥓 Back home.

Mar 9, 2023: 📍 Made it to the venue of my assignment. Still not feeling great about it. #photography #architecture #streetArt #lisbon

Mar 9, 2023: 🏢 On My Way New things popping up everywhere. #photography #architecture

Mar 9, 2023: 🤘🏼 Current Mood

Mar 9, 2023: 🔋 Batteries charged, belly full. Almost ready to leave. Still not looking forward to it.

Mar 9, 2023: 🧘🏻‍♂️ Breathe In, Breathe Out… Short walk around the block. #photography #streetArt

Mar 9, 2023: 🥵 Working later today. Can I complain about not enough work AND working too much??

Mar 9, 2023: Credit where credit is due, Micro.blog is feeling snappy today!

Mar 9, 2023: The amount of energy we spend, every single morning, trying to get this girl ready for school! We could surely power a small city with it!

Mar 9, 2023: ☕ Did not sleep as much as I wanted. Increasing coffee intake… NOW.

Mar 9, 2023: Together : @sherif mbmar day09 #photography #mbmar

Mar 9, 2023: Drafts ❤️ weblog.lol Today I woke up with something on my mind. I wanted to build an action for Drafts. TL;DR Get the action here: omg.lol weblog. Why? weblog.lol is a …

Mar 8, 2023: 📷 Had some work for the agency scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday. They added a silly press conference on Friday, at lunch time. I guess …

Mar 8, 2023: Thought about using this one today, but it was left behind, as a bSide. #photography

Mar 8, 2023: 🧹 Vacuuming the car next. Should be fun.

Mar 8, 2023: Walking : @lwdupont mbmar day08 #photography #mbmar

Mar 7, 2023: I have to give maique.lol another go. Gotta find the time to tweak it a bit more, and use it. The question is: what should I do with it?

Mar 7, 2023: 👀 Today’s random collection. #photography #random #lisbon

Mar 7, 2023: Whole : @val mbmar day07 #photography #mbmar

Mar 7, 2023: Back from a long walk, I had to get some stuff for the house, and try to find today’s photo for the challenge. Turned out to be a “whole …

Mar 7, 2023: 📺 My go-to show when I want to relax these days? Schitt's Creek. 📺 My go-to show when I want to relax these days? Schitt's Creek.

Mar 6, 2023: 🚗 On my way to the photo… #photography #onTheRoad

Mar 6, 2023: Engineering : @ridwan mbmar day06 #photography #mbmar

Mar 6, 2023: 👀 Let's try to get that photo for today's challenge.

Mar 6, 2023: Something different all the time. Today, the little one wanted to ride in the car halfway to the school, and then walk the rest of the way there. Of …

Mar 5, 2023: 🍿 Tried watching a movie, a whole movie, but of course tinyMovieStar’s nap lasted way less than the time we needed.

Mar 5, 2023: Tomorrow’s prompt for the photo challenge is one I’m struggling with, being locked inside today… Thanks, @ridwan! 😅

Mar 5, 2023: 🍄 Some of yesterday’s bSides. #photography #random

Mar 5, 2023: 🌈 Batman! #photography #batman

Mar 5, 2023: Raining today, all day long. This will make getting a photo for tomorrow’s challenge… well… challenging!

Mar 5, 2023: Tile : @thedimpause mbmar day05 #photography #mbmar

Mar 5, 2023: 🏖️ Beach Day A friend had her birthday this week, and thought it would be a great idea to get some of us together at the beach. We’re lucky to live very …

Mar 5, 2023: Back home, after a quick stop at our local beer place. Tonight is their final day. So many memories, lots of happy days. They had a closing party, had …

Mar 4, 2023: Plenty of photos coming later… Sunset just happened. Lovely.

Mar 4, 2023: 🏖️ Yes, this kind of afternoon. #photography #beach #portugal

Mar 4, 2023: We made it to the beach, but tinyMovieStar fell asleep on the way. So now I’m sitting in the car, looking at the sand, while she rests in the …

Mar 4, 2023: 💔 Micro.blog seems to be having some issues again…

Mar 4, 2023: 🌧️ Rainy days ahead. We did not need this.

Mar 4, 2023: ❄️ Feeling chilly #photography #plantLife

Mar 4, 2023: Zipcodes : @Miraz mbmar day04 #photography #mbmar

Mar 4, 2023: Footpath and Gentler Streak go well together.

Mar 3, 2023: Great photos from the community for the first couple of days. Incredible landscape spots for “weather”, and “solitude”.

Mar 3, 2023: 🍺 Here we go, with a quick stop to pick up some beer on the way.

Mar 3, 2023: Playdate later today, and birthday party at a beach cabin tomorrow. Weekend should be a little different from the usual routine.

Mar 3, 2023: 🇵🇹 This is Us, Portugal edition. Two espresso cups, an empty wine jar and two glasses, a broken wall, and some tiles. Portugal in a photo. …

Mar 3, 2023: 🎖️ Yep. She’s awesome 😍

Mar 3, 2023: 👩‍🏫 Next: meeting with kindergarten teacher.

Mar 3, 2023: 🥐 With the usual stop for Pastéis de Nata, I must keep movieStar happy…

Mar 3, 2023: 🚶‍♂️ Big walk, looking for tomorrow's M.b Photo Challenge. Found it. 🚶‍♂️ Big walk, looking for tomorrow's M.b Photo Challenge. Found it.

Mar 3, 2023: thingsThisWeek #43 😫 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 …

Mar 3, 2023: Solitude : @circustiger mbmar day03 #photography #mbmar

Mar 2, 2023: 🐇 Spent the whole day jumping around, from place to place. Almost no time for the interwebs…

Mar 2, 2023: Saw Hasan Minhaj on The Daily Show and noticed the whole crew was not wearing masks, even when Hasan was yelling on someone’s face. The audience …

Mar 2, 2023: Reading and Readers For the past couple of weeks I’ve been going back and forth, trying to decide where I’ll save (and hopefully read later) the incredible …

Mar 2, 2023: Weather : @pcora mbmar day02 #photography #mbmar

Mar 2, 2023: 🔧 DNS, DNS, DNS...

Mar 2, 2023: 🚕 Today our morning drive will take us to the other side of town. Hope there’s a weather themed photo on the way.

Mar 2, 2023: 💤 I have fallen asleep while trying to get tinyMovieStar to sleep. Again. 1:30AM, I'm up!

Mar 1, 2023: 💸 Account migration is done. We have Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, and Disney+. For now.

Mar 1, 2023: 😍 Classic: as soon as tinyMovieStar goes back to school, we miss her immediately.

Mar 1, 2023: While I waited for a photo you’ll see in a couple of days, two others presented themselves. Probably nicer than the final one too… …

Mar 1, 2023: Walking about. Trying to keep Gentler Streak happy, look for stickers, find photos for mbmar,… Random photos as a result. #photography #random …

Mar 1, 2023: 📷 Plenty of photos from today's walk, while looking for stuff that could fit the M.b prompts... 📷 Plenty of photos from today's walk, while looking for stuff that could fit the M.b prompts...

Mar 1, 2023: tinyMovieStar's Tales: Dinner at Aunt Marta's Another talk tinyMovieStar had with her teacher was turned into a story. Yesterday I went to Aunt Marta’s for dinner, and then Grandpa ZéZé …

Mar 1, 2023: Of course, now that I’m testing Reader with attention to details, and just cancelled my Raindrop.io subscription, I can see that Raindrop could …

Mar 1, 2023: Secure : @mandaris mbmar day01 #photography #mbmar

Mar 1, 2023: Woke up and the first #mbmar photos are already up on the timeline! Got to get out and find mine for today. First, dropping the girls off!

Mar 1, 2023: ☕️ A few days in advance, my first birthday present has arrived! From Cambodia!

Feb 28, 2023: Giving Readwise Reader another go, I’ve got March to decide.

Feb 28, 2023: 🏝️ Another one just arrived by email! Already one of my favorite photos with tinyMovieStar… Thank you, SO MUCH, Jonathan 🥰

Feb 28, 2023: ☺️ Out looking for ugliness? #photography

Feb 28, 2023: 🎉 All clear, tinyMovieStar has successfully battled chickenpox, and can go back to kindergarten tomorrow! Everyone is happy.

Feb 28, 2023: 🦷 Dentist done, now let’s try to get the “Free to go Back to School” card for the little one…

Feb 28, 2023: 🚑 Here we go: The Medical Tour is ON!

Feb 27, 2023: 👨‍⚕️ Tomorrow is Doctor Day: dentist in the morning for us, pediatrician in the afternoon for tinyMovieStar.

Feb 27, 2023: Birthday coming up, and I’m thinking about gifting myself a subscription to one app. One I don’t really need, but will splurge on for this …

Feb 27, 2023: 😢 Found my favorite photos of Senhor Leandro. One of the many visits to his room. #photography #portrait

Feb 27, 2023: 🛒 Grocery shopping, there’s nothing at home after a week away.

Feb 27, 2023: 🌡️ Itchiness is mostly gone, now the spots are the only sign she has chickenpox. Back to her usual mood too.

Feb 27, 2023: 😢 RIP Senhor Leandro A gentleman I photographed many times, master weaver, responsible for many many beautiful works of art. It was a privilege …

Feb 27, 2023: 🏙️ We go back to the city today!

Feb 27, 2023: 👰🏻 We celebrate next month, but today was actually the day when it happened. We drove to the embassy on the island, and got legally married. Happiest …

Feb 27, 2023: 📺 We made it to the end of Jack Ryan!

Feb 26, 2023: 🦄 tinyMovieStar should be asleep in a little while. Emphasis on “should”.

Feb 26, 2023: 🇯🇵 Walking is something we love, and here we had amazing, and long, walks. Miss it. #photography #tokyo #japan

Feb 26, 2023: 🥕 tinyMovieStar and Carrots Lunch time, almost screaming: NOOOO, NO carrots on my soup!! Dinner time, as soon as soup arrives: YAY, I LOVE carrots!

Feb 26, 2023: 🥸 No one ever said this is a beautiful town. #photography #walking

Feb 26, 2023: 🇯🇵 Tokyo A/B #photography #tokyo #japan

Feb 26, 2023: 🇲🇲 Since we’ve been locked inside, here’s a classic from the time when we were free to roam… #photography #myanmar #motorcycle

Feb 26, 2023: 🌡️ I believe the worst is now behind us. After yesterday’s four hour nap, tinyMovieStar is getting back to her usual mood.

Feb 26, 2023: ☕ tinyMovieStar: two things, please, papi. Coffee for mom, and the tv remote.

Feb 26, 2023: 😶 01:40AM. Gone.

Feb 26, 2023: Salt, 2010 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday February 26, 2023.

Feb 25, 2023: 😊 Subscribed to Gentler Streak, taking advantage of a 50% discount.

Feb 25, 2023: Where’d You Go, Bernadette, 2019 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday February 25, 2023.

Feb 25, 2023: 😴 tinyMovieStar asleep, we’re enjoying a lazy afternoon with a lazy movie.

Feb 25, 2023: ☕️ Driving on a grey day, wishing I was back already. The coffee reminder did not help. #photography #onTheRoad #coffee

Feb 25, 2023: Also, in unrelated news, I checked Readwise Reader on the web, and boy is that a pretty app!

Feb 25, 2023: Back with the girls. Plenty of fog on the way over. And cold as hell again.

Feb 25, 2023: 😍 Getting ready to drive back to the movieStars!

Feb 25, 2023: 🌓 Something I don’t do often these days, walking at night. Back in the day I was out a lot, nowadays it almost feels strange. #photography …

Feb 24, 2023: 🚕 Coolest driver name ever goes to… Lovedeep! Real name too, I asked.

Feb 24, 2023: 🔋 Charging camera batteries. A quick charge.

Feb 24, 2023: Last minute call, I’ll have to go back to the city and shoot a concert today. Racing back.

Feb 24, 2023: I often think of Dominik, and wonder how he’s doing.

Feb 24, 2023: Sad that microanalytics has deprecated the free tier, and even sadder that Plausible is so darn expensive. Microanalytics now costs the same amount.

Feb 24, 2023: Grey day, and fireplace. Letting us know that a nap would be a great idea. Who’s not feeling it? tinyMovieStar, of course.

Feb 24, 2023: Tried one of Meta’s VR handsets just now. An older model, no idea which one, played Angry Birds. Feeling a little seasick now.

Feb 24, 2023: 💖 About Last Night #photography #love

Feb 24, 2023: 🚲 Ride It! #photography #cycling #bicycle

Feb 24, 2023: 🥴 Rough night, full of “It’s itching!!!”, and crying. Poor girl.

Feb 23, 2023: Next Up: Tokyo Night. Looks pretty cool.

Feb 23, 2023: 🤩 I bought this for tinyMovieStar. I promise it’s for her… #helloKitty

Feb 23, 2023: 😻 A Caturday Love Story #photography #caturday

Feb 23, 2023: The Mona themes page is now also available at my blog, on top of the GitHub page I shared yesterday. Amber was added. I’m using it.

Feb 23, 2023: thingsThisWeek #42 🤡 Carnival weekend started with dinner on Friday, with friends coming over, and their daughters. All dressed as princesses. All girls, all daughters …

Feb 23, 2023: 🎨 One from the beach visit a couple of days ago, when we found out about the chickenpox! This was probably a warning sign I missed at the time 😅 …

Feb 23, 2023: 🧴 Back from the pharmacy, a couple of soothing lotions were purchased.

Feb 23, 2023: 🐔 A few more pox on the little chicken.

Feb 22, 2023: 🌴 Got this one today, taken a few weeks back, on our last day on the islands. Miss those days.

Feb 22, 2023: 🌳 Back in the countryside.

Feb 22, 2023: Four Mona themes already, I thought I might as well put them all together in a page. Hope you like them.

Feb 22, 2023: 🍲 Hunting for food… Meaning take away from our usual place. We’re staying in today.

Feb 22, 2023: 🧮 Report: a few more on the tummy, back, and one on her chin. Not a lot. She’s in a great mood as well.

Feb 22, 2023: 🔍 Waiting for tinyMovieStar to be up, and see how much the rash has spread.

Feb 22, 2023: 🎨 While at the beach today, an art piece I hadn’t seen before, at this very familiar place. #streetArt

Feb 21, 2023: Omnivore does what it says in the box, and quite well. So… why do I keep looking at Readwise Reader’s pricing?

Feb 21, 2023: 🥁 And now… drumroll… chickenpox!

Feb 21, 2023: 🏖️ At the beach. Things are looking a little better.

Feb 21, 2023: 🤡 It turned into The Carnival From Hell tinyMovieStar didn’t get enough sleep last night, her mood was not fit for a party. #photography

Feb 21, 2023: 👹 Carnival party was not as fun as expected. Will update later.

Feb 21, 2023: Here we go… Carnival day, the actual day, is upon us. After days of rehearsals, today we’re going to a proper Carnival party, but one for …

Feb 21, 2023: ☕ ☕️☕️☕️☕️

Feb 21, 2023: 🥱 02:30AM, again. Still not sleeping, again.

Feb 21, 2023: The Flying Sailor, 2022 - ★★½ Watched on Tuesday February 21, 2023.

Feb 21, 2023: 📺 Started Jack Ryan Season 3

Feb 20, 2023: We saw a father and daughter at the playground today. Playing “Shop”. She goes “Can I have some water, sir?”. The reply? …

Feb 20, 2023: 📺 PJ Masks

Feb 20, 2023: 🥰 Back home after a stop at the playground. tinyMovieStar happy = we’re happy. #photography #portrait

Feb 20, 2023: 🇵🇹 Classic Lisbon #photography #lisbon

Feb 20, 2023: 🤔 Planning our day. We have tinyMovieStar at home, and cold and dark weather outside.

Feb 20, 2023: 🦥 Long weekend in the country, slowly waking up.

Feb 20, 2023: 🇲🇾 Slow Monday #photography #cycling #malaysia

Feb 20, 2023: 🤡 The most depressing Carnival photo ever. In my opinion. Disclaimer: I do not like this holiday. #photography #carnival

Feb 19, 2023: 😻 Another late entry for Caturday, before we head back home. #photography #caturday

Feb 19, 2023: 📺 Finished Collateral. Nice one.

Feb 19, 2023: 🇲🇾 Happy, food-wise, would easily mean this for me: chicken skewers, peanut sauce, and Asahi. I’d wouldn’t mind having this more often. …

Feb 19, 2023: 🇲🇾 Will You Lowe Mee Forever? #photography #windowShopping #love #malaysia

Feb 19, 2023: Two days to decide where we stand with Netflix. The two brothers-in-law are really pondering leaving the service. We still need it.

Feb 19, 2023: 😻 My in-laws place is an endless playground for the phone’s camera. #photography #caturday

Feb 19, 2023: 🔥 Coffee by the fireplace. Not a bad way to start the day.

Feb 18, 2023: Mother-in-law, bless her, is playing with tinyMovieStar for almost two hours now. We appreciate the downtime we’re getting but, instead of being …

Feb 18, 2023: 🥑 Thought about guacamole today, and my father-in-law asked me if I’d like to do it. Spooky much?

Feb 18, 2023: 💳 No cash, please

Feb 18, 2023: 💀 Whenever Carnival rolls in, I’m back on the island, with the kids, having fun. Also, not a huge fan of this particular holiday. #photography …

Feb 18, 2023: 👵 First set of grandparents? Done. On to the second one!

Feb 18, 2023: Tangled Ever After, 2012 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday February 18, 2023.

Feb 18, 2023: 🇸🇹 Looking Back #photography #fishing

Feb 18, 2023: 🗑️ Time to take out the bottles from last night. I’ll probably need a trailer for that…

Feb 18, 2023: ✉️ Stamps for sale. #vintage #lisbon

Feb 18, 2023: 🔮 I wonder what today will bring…

Feb 18, 2023: 🥵 Dinner party over. Feels like I was hit by a train, but it was just three kids!

Feb 17, 2023: 🧚‍♀️ tinyMovieStar had a blast today. First Carnival that she could understand what was going on. She was too little last year.

Feb 17, 2023: 🎌 One of the guests got us giant cans of Asahi. Bless her.

Feb 17, 2023: 🧑‍🍳 Dinner for 9, and I just found out!

Feb 17, 2023: 💖 Pink Overdose! #photography #pink #windowShopping

Feb 17, 2023: 🍜 Vietnamese for lunch. It has been a while.

Feb 17, 2023: ☕ Number three? Check.

Feb 17, 2023: Has anyone used darkroom.tech for gallery/printing? Seems like it might be dead, with their “©2020” at the bottom of the site, and podcast …

Feb 17, 2023: 🙄 Researching online gallery/printing services. This shouldn't be this hard to find.

Feb 17, 2023: thingsThisWeek #41 😎 The weekend was very different from our usual programming. We didn’t visit my in-laws this time, as I had a work event in the city. And the …

Feb 17, 2023: 🤎 This is most certainly a 4-5 coffee day.

Feb 17, 2023: 😴 Ouch!

Feb 17, 2023: 🦉 Close to 4AM, still up. Today will not be a fun day…

Feb 17, 2023: 🥴 TGIF! Just 00:11, but… we made it!

Feb 16, 2023: Thinking about setting up a site to sell prints of some photos.

Feb 16, 2023: 🧹 A cleaning company that must be having some trouble finding customers.

Feb 16, 2023: ⏳ Slowest week in a while...

Feb 16, 2023: ☕ Time for coffee number 3

Feb 16, 2023: 🇻🇳 Remember to take it easy, when you can… #photography #vietnam

Feb 16, 2023: ☀️ Good morning! May it be a sunny one.

Feb 15, 2023: After reading yet another post about hackintoshing it, I’m feeling the urge to install Ventura on my old Air. Thing is… it’s my …

Feb 15, 2023: 🥗 Dinner with brother-in-law in a little while. First, though, another round of "Let's pick up the movieStars"! 🥗 Dinner with brother-in-law in a little while. First, though, another round of "Let's pick up the movieStars"!

Feb 15, 2023: 📐 Corners. That’s what I saw while walking today. Sorry about that 😅 #photography #lisbon #architecture

Feb 15, 2023: 🐌 Updating WatchOS while Lightroom exports a few photos. The race is ON!!

Feb 15, 2023: Back from a short walk. Got pasteis de nata, again. Now I’ll have to edit a couple of photos, and then I’m done for the day. Yay.

Feb 15, 2023: 🇻🇳 Carry on, carry on… #photography #streetPhotography #vietnam

Feb 15, 2023: 🐪 Here we go, Wednesday!

Feb 15, 2023: 🎨 Two from today, while walking about.

Feb 15, 2023: 📺 Collateral.

Feb 14, 2023: 🍝 Back in the kitchen, the little one must be fed.

Feb 14, 2023: 💖 Valentines Day

Feb 14, 2023: 👸🏻 Our kind of van… #photography #disney

Feb 14, 2023: Margaritas have been had… taken.. drank…

Feb 14, 2023: Impressed by the number of people who can’t spell “Mastodon”, and keep writing “Mastadon”!

Feb 14, 2023: 🌮🍹 Guess where we’re heading for lunch?

Feb 14, 2023: 📚 Short walk around the block, getting some steps into the app, I need to test the Shortcut/Bot thing… #photography #lisbon

Feb 14, 2023: 🇲🇲 Yellow Wedding Happy Valentines Day! #photography #myanmar #valentinesDay

Feb 14, 2023: 🦚 Almost three years later, tinyMovieStar still loves to open the window as soon as she wakes up, and say “Hello” to the peacock across the street.

Feb 13, 2023: 🍷 A few of the people attending the party decided to get a tattoo while there. Most were getting the same one: a small glass of wine. Fitting, as the …

Feb 13, 2023: 🌴 Another entry to the palmLove project, today on our way to kindergarten. #photography #palmLove

Feb 13, 2023: 🤖 Trying to turn a Shortcut into a Mastodon bot. Plenty of stuff to keep me entertained.

Feb 13, 2023: 🤔 We're halfway done with Monday already??

Feb 13, 2023: 🍳 Two minutes before we have to leave, tinyMovieStar wants scrambled eggs for breakfast. Of course she does… Anyway, scrambling is ongoing.

Feb 13, 2023: 🇲🇲 Everything will be fine, I’m sure. #photography #myanmar #portrait

Feb 13, 2023: 🌻 Hello, Monday. SO nice to see you…

Feb 13, 2023: 🥵 That was a long, hard, Sunday!

Feb 12, 2023: 🇹🇭 Hello, Mickey! #photography #thailand #portrait #mickeyMouse

Feb 12, 2023: 🐟 What’s cooking?

Feb 12, 2023: 🇲🇲 Rowing into the sunset #photography #myanmar #xMarksTheSpot

Feb 12, 2023: 🍰 Mini Cakes, that's what we're watching on this grey Sunday morning. Could be much worse.

Feb 11, 2023: 😡 Full blown meltdown when the time came for tinyMovieStar to leave her friend's birthday party.

Feb 11, 2023: 😭 So many children on the news from Turkey and Syria. SO many. Being a dad makes these impossible to watch. It’s too painful from this distance, …

Feb 11, 2023: Boy, oh, boy! I’m going to spend SO much time going through the list and adding stuff to Feedbin! Why, Comics RSS, why??

Feb 11, 2023: So… Netflix is playing dirty in Portugal already. Just got the warning.

Feb 11, 2023: 🥳 Next: work & party! 🥳 Next: work & party!

Feb 11, 2023: 🍨 Mom made her special ice-cream for dessert. Me happy. Me very happy!

Feb 11, 2023: 🍄 Morning at the Farmers Market. Party later. #photography #farmersMarket #lisbon

Feb 11, 2023: 🎉 Working later on, but at a party. And some friends are joining, including one that’s flying in from the Azores.

Feb 11, 2023: ☀️ Sunrise over Angkor. Disclaimer: not my actual location 🤣 Wishing you all a great weekend! #photography #angkorWat #sunrise

Feb 11, 2023: 🥰 Waking up on a Saturday is SO good. We get to spend a lot of time snuggling with tinyMovieStar.

Feb 10, 2023: Back from dinner. tinyMovieStar feels so comfortable at this place she’s the one ordering the food, chatting with the staff, paying with the …

Feb 10, 2023: 🇱🇦 Time for some food #photography #laos

Feb 10, 2023: 😫 We’re so tired today we don’t even want to think about dinner. Out we go, to the restaurant around the corner.

Feb 10, 2023: 🕵🏼 Triple Mystery Who is leaving this all over the place? #streetArt

Feb 10, 2023: 🏁 Waiting for the week to end…

Feb 10, 2023: 🇯🇵 Zen Moment #photography #japan #zen #portrait

Feb 10, 2023: thingsThisWeek #40 ☀️ Weekend programe was accomplished. We got to relive, yet again, the weeks in Príncipe, as my parents needed to hear the stories from us. Well, …

Feb 10, 2023: 🎙 Today’s walk had two episodes of The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome as soundtrack. That was interesting. #photography #lisbon

Feb 10, 2023: 🚶 Walking

Feb 10, 2023: 📺 Trakt.tv. Pro or Not?

Feb 10, 2023: 🥳 Again: down by 9PM, up by midnight. Here’s to another fun night!

Feb 9, 2023: 🇲🇽 Ready to Party! #photography #mexico

Feb 9, 2023: 💍 Running around, trying to find a ring for tinyMovieStar. She NEEDS one just like ours. Like NOW.

Feb 9, 2023: 🇲🇲 The Ice Cream Man, reminding me to get some for tinyMovieStar. She’ll want one as soon as we’re home. #photography #portrait #myanmar

Feb 9, 2023: Did not get much accomplished so far today. Not at all. Feeling good though…

Feb 9, 2023: 🇻🇳 From the same series as the previous post, a security guard outside the venue for the gymnastics show. #photography #streetPhotography #vietnam

Feb 9, 2023: My journey with Midjourney Maybe I shouldn’t call this a “journey”, as I’ve played with it a couple of days before my trial ended, but… I’ve …

Feb 9, 2023: 🎨 It had to happen, my trial has ended. Not paying for a subscription now, but one I can easily see myself getting in the future. This is fun.

Feb 9, 2023: 🇻🇳 Just before the show began, we were able to go in. A couple of photos later, it was on. #photography #streetPhotography #vietnam

Feb 9, 2023: Search has been improved at every level, with new features, software, and hardware. Oh, and it’s about 10 times faster. Well done, Feedbin, well …

Feb 9, 2023: 🎙️ It’s @HemisphericViews Day! Party!

Feb 9, 2023: 💌 On the other hand, woke up with a super nice email on my Inbox! Great news.

Feb 9, 2023: 😭 Just found out I'm actually on the Ivory macOS beta, but my laptop is so old I can't install TestFlight. Extra sadness points for me.

Feb 9, 2023: 😳 Guess who fell asleep at 9:30PM, again, woke up just before midnight, and is now unable to get back to sleep?

Feb 8, 2023: I have 39 apps on TestFlight. Darn.

Feb 8, 2023: 🇹🇱 The Banana Seller, in the same market as the previous one. #photography #photojournalism #portrait

Feb 8, 2023: 🥐 Went to the cafe, with friend and daughter, movieStars as well. We ate so much I believe no one will have dinner.

Feb 8, 2023: 🇹🇱 The Carrot Man, and I might be done for today. Time to get back to movieStars duty. #photography #photojournalism #portrait

Feb 8, 2023: 👀 Off I go. If I'm lucky I'll find a sticker on the way there.

Feb 8, 2023: 🇵🇹 Not sure if this will turn into a series of portrait photos, but this one also fits the bill. #phtotography #photojournalism #portrait

Feb 8, 2023: 💈 Getting ready for my appointment at the barbershop. I believe I'm going for the Crazy (Tanned) Viking look again...

Feb 8, 2023: 🎥 I’ll try not to post any more of these, but I had to try Miyazaki style. Who wouldn’t love being a character in one of his movies, …

Feb 8, 2023: 📺 Spent a while browsing Disney+, HBO Max, and Netflix, trying to find a movie to watch. Gave up, back on YouTube.

Feb 8, 2023: 🇵🇹 Going through the archive again, landed on a photo taken during a boar hunting trip. I was working, hunting is really not my thing. Or guns. Still, …

Feb 8, 2023: ⏰ Being a human alarm clock for the movieStars is still one of my favorite activities of the day.

Feb 8, 2023: 🐣 Bom dia. おはようございます. dzień dobry.

Feb 7, 2023: 👨🏼‍🎤 Do me, do me, Midjourney… #ai #midjourney

Feb 7, 2023: 💖 Stepped outside into another one. #photography #loveProject #lookDown

Feb 7, 2023: ❌ Lunch was cancelled, again. Damn you, people with proper jobs. Your work is getting in the way of our fun.

Feb 7, 2023: 🇸🇹 And I guess that’s it. Farewell to the bSides for now… Time to move on. #photography

Feb 7, 2023: Reading most of Micro.blog via RSS these days, it feels good. Much harder to reply this way, but easier to keep up with the posts.

Feb 7, 2023: 🇸🇹 Going through the camera roll, trying to find whatever bSides might still be left in there… #photography #loveProject

Feb 7, 2023: 📺 I was today years old when I found out The Daily Show now has a group of hosts, not a single one. How long has it been since I watched the show?

Feb 7, 2023: 🎌 Paolo from Tokyo time.

Feb 7, 2023: 📍 movieStars have been dropped off at their venues for the day

Feb 7, 2023: 🥴 Waking up. You know how that goes…

Feb 7, 2023: All apps should have a custom font setting. All of them.

Feb 6, 2023: 🍼 Dinner, bath, and play are done. On to the “Let’s get her to sleep” circus…

Feb 6, 2023: 📰 Today is one of those days when I’m happy I’m not editing the newspaper anymore. Thankful for not having to look at thousands of photos …

Feb 6, 2023: 🛠 Awesome work by the city hall. On Thursday I emailed them, letting them know there was a broken piece of equipment on our neighbourhood’s …

Feb 6, 2023: 😍 It's "Pick Up tinyMovieStar Time", always my favorite part of the day! 😍 It's "Pick Up tinyMovieStar Time", always my favorite part of the day!

Feb 6, 2023: ✈️ Yesterday was not the day when I finally got the photo I want. We were 200 meters late. One day we’ll be there just as one flies above us! …

Feb 6, 2023: 🏡 Back home.

Feb 6, 2023: 🚗 Running errands

Feb 6, 2023: 🥩 Lunch with friends later today. Counting down the minutes already.

Feb 6, 2023: 🛍️ tinyMovieStar and Shops Mom, I’d like to get a Rapunzel, one that makes noises… Maybe we go to a Princesses Shop, and see if they have it. We had a dog …

Feb 6, 2023: 🗑️ Musical Trash Can Also a good band name? #photography #music

Feb 6, 2023: ☕ Happy Monday, y’all!

Feb 5, 2023: Bao, 2018 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday February 5, 2023.

Feb 5, 2023: 💈 My awesome barber texted me, on a Sunday, to let me know I can get a haircut on Wednesday. He’s the best!

Feb 5, 2023: 🤍 Love white, even if the whole scene reeks with ugliness. #photography #architecture

Feb 5, 2023: 💻 Managed to watch another Disney movie before turning on the laptop, and moving on to photo editing. Not a bad afternoon.

Feb 5, 2023: Tangled, 2010 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday February 5, 2023.

Feb 5, 2023: 📺 Watching an episode of The Love Boat with Michael J. Fox. How's your Sunday going?

Feb 5, 2023: 😢 Time to go back to the city. Bye bye fireplace…

Feb 5, 2023: 🛵 Rode my father-in-law’s motorcycle to the next town over, and got bread and cakes. Win win. #photography #motorcycle

Feb 5, 2023: 🔥 Fireplace Time

Feb 5, 2023: 🇸🇹 Printed corrugated metal, the new thing in town. Cheaper than wood, but sooooo ugly. Also, a photographer’s shop. #photography #architecture

Feb 5, 2023: 🇸🇹 No fancy restaurant for us today! #photography #restaurant #architecture

Feb 5, 2023: 😖 Waking up, and wishing I could stay in bed for a little while longer. 5 hours worth of “little while longer”.

Feb 5, 2023: 😴 Trying to talk myself into sleeping.

Feb 4, 2023: 🍽️ Childhood memories Everyone’s grandma in the country had a set of these. At least every grandmother I have known!

Feb 4, 2023: No yadda yadda yadda! Through the Fediverse magic, if you follow @maique@social.lol with the Pixelfed app, you’ll get all the photos, and none …

Feb 4, 2023: 🐰 + 🌈

Feb 4, 2023: 🎩 Getting some serious Musk vibes from this one…

Feb 4, 2023: 📺 Finished Fauda, season 4. What an ending!

Feb 4, 2023: Awww, The Island Edition As it happens when tinyMovieStar is back in the kindergarten after a couple of weeks away, the teacher keeps her ears open, and writes down her …

Feb 4, 2023: ☀️ Welcome to the weekend, may it be an incredible one.

Feb 3, 2023: 🌅 Sunset just after getting into town. #photography #sunset #streetPhotography

Feb 3, 2023: 🚗 The drive home… Made it back. Now time to join the movieStars at a friend’s place for dinner. #photography #streetArt #vespa

Feb 3, 2023: 💧Stopping for water on the way back. Gotta love some of these rest areas on the highway. #photography #architecture

Feb 3, 2023: thingsThisWeek #39 🏙️ Back in the city. Can’t say I’m too happy. It’s always hard when we return from the island, this time it’s no different. I …

Feb 3, 2023: 🍲 Same restaurant, two very different rooms. How can one be so cool and classic, and the other so kitschy? Food was delicious, by the way. …

Feb 3, 2023: 🧼 Don’t forget to wash your hands…

Feb 3, 2023: 🍷 We made it. Let’s work. #photography #onAssignment #wine

Feb 3, 2023: ☕ Two espressos on the way to the meeting point. I’m set for the morning.

Feb 3, 2023: 💖 A loveProject early in the morning… #photography #loveProject

Feb 3, 2023: 🚇 Going to the rendezvous point. #photography #dailyLife

Feb 3, 2023: 😴 Up

Feb 2, 2023: 🇸🇹 Living in the forest. #photography #hotel

Feb 2, 2023: We arrived not a week ago, but of course movieStar is already planning the next trip. We shall visit the Azores! Again 🙂

Feb 2, 2023: 🚚 Not Good at Asking Permission #photography #streetArt

Feb 2, 2023: Tomorrow I’m waking up before sunrise. Not something that happens often, thankfully.

Feb 2, 2023: Reading about all the bots that will soon stop working with the new API rules at Twitter reminded me I still have a bot going over there. One that has …

Feb 2, 2023: 🥢 I’m back at my fasting routine. 17hrs and 30mins today (and counting), but thinking about lunch for hours now…

Feb 2, 2023: I’m always surprised by how nice Feedbin feels on the browser. Most of the time I’m using Reeder to catch up the feeds, but try it once in …

Feb 2, 2023: 🇸🇹 I guess it’s time for yet another “Wish I was there” post… #photography #fishing

Feb 2, 2023: ☀️ Morning walk to kindergarten. Cold as hell. #photography #lisbon

Feb 2, 2023: 🇸🇹 Good morning, wishing you’re all doing what you love. #photography #palmLove

Feb 1, 2023: Had to turn down a last minute assignment today, so I got rewarded with another one on Friday. And, yes, it’s another visit to a winery! …

Feb 1, 2023: 🍲 Cooking again. Let’s see if we actually get to eat it today…

Feb 1, 2023: 😍 movieStars have been collected.

Feb 1, 2023: 🇸🇹 The Palm Couple #photography #palmLove

Feb 1, 2023: ☁️ Uploading photos from the trip to the Flickr cloud. Again, hundreds of them.

Feb 1, 2023: You People, 2023 - ★★ So many of my faves in the cast, and such a long, boring, movie.

Feb 1, 2023: 😒 So many actors I love, such a boring movie...

Feb 1, 2023: 🇸🇹 Praise Him. #photography

Feb 1, 2023: 🍿 Watching You People, after taking care of laundry and dishwashing.

Feb 1, 2023: Now that I’m back home, and with access to the laptop, it was also time to install Atkinson Hyperlegible on this machine, and get it as my …

Feb 1, 2023: 🇸🇹 Good morning, everyone! Disclaimer: not my current location. #photography #palmLove

Feb 1, 2023: 😶‍🌫️ Time for a fluffy pillow.

Jan 31, 2023: Chef duty. Cook dinner and, by the time it’s ready, the little one is falling asleep, she keeps asking movieStar to take her to bed. I’m …

Jan 31, 2023: 🇸🇹 It kinda feels like we’re always walking, or driving, or swimming, in a garden. #photography #palmLove

Jan 31, 2023: 🚕 Time to go, the movieStars must come home!

Jan 31, 2023: 🇸🇹 Not sure what was in the bottles, but the jackfruit looked yummy. #photography

Jan 31, 2023: 🥶 On my way to my MrLandlord duty today, I met a few colleagues waiting for a local politician. One of them, Miguel A. Lopes, was kind enough to shoot …

Jan 31, 2023: 🍔 Lunch is already behind us, now time to wait for the usual drive to pick up both girls...

Jan 31, 2023: 🇸🇹 Still a few more bSides from the islands. #photography #motorcycle

Jan 31, 2023: ☕ MrLandlord duty almost done, time for (another) coffee.

Jan 31, 2023: 🗝️ Here I go... Maybe I'll get lucky and find a sticker, or two, on the way over.

Jan 31, 2023: ⏰ No time to spare this morning, we’re running…

Jan 30, 2023: 🎩 Tomorrow I'll have to be MrLandlord for a couple of hours. Do not like.

Jan 30, 2023: 🇸🇹 Fishing with Don. #photography #fishing

Jan 30, 2023: 🥰 Almost time to pick up the little one!

Jan 30, 2023: 🥶 Still trying to get used to this damn cold

Jan 30, 2023: Hashtags I’m aware hashtags are not really a thing on Micro.blog, but they are on Mastodon, and interaction is happening a lot more over there at the …

Jan 30, 2023: 🎄 It might be time to let the Christmas tree go... It's probably the last one standing in the world.

Jan 30, 2023: One feeling that never changes: overwhelmed by the choice we have at our supermarkets, when I go in for the first time after spending time on the …

Jan 30, 2023: 🥲 tinyMovieStar is going back to kindergarten today. It’s been a while, but I will miss spending the whole day with her.

Jan 30, 2023: 🇸🇹 From our first day, while driving around the big island, looking for surfers. #photography #loveProject

Jan 29, 2023: 🌴 Just testing hashtag support, please disregard. #photography #beachLife #landscape

Jan 29, 2023: ❓ Trying to decide when we should get back to the city

Jan 29, 2023: 🇸🇹 The saddest palm tree in the country.

Jan 29, 2023: 🎂 Had too much cake. Definitely too much.

Jan 29, 2023: 🇸🇹 Roça Água-Izé, the old hospital building.

Jan 29, 2023: 🥰 tinyMovieStar now says some words with the islands accent! It's adorable.

Jan 29, 2023: 🇸🇹 Mr Panda, the taxi van keeper. We saw him twice that day.

Jan 29, 2023: 🇸🇹 Another one from MRDHEO’s incredible wall in Santo António.

Jan 29, 2023: ☕️ Coffee, Toast, and Fireplace. That could also be the name of my band.

Jan 29, 2023: 🇸🇹 The workshop day. A butterfly was the subject of this photo shoot.

Jan 29, 2023: 🍰 Mother-in-law’s birthday today! Yay, party time!

Jan 29, 2023: The Lake House, 2006 - ★★★ Watched on Sunday January 29, 2023.

Jan 28, 2023: 📺 We waited a couple of weeks, but finally got to the end of The White Lotus, Season 2.

Jan 28, 2023: 🇸🇹 Like?

Jan 28, 2023: 🇸🇹 Traveling with style.

Jan 28, 2023: 🦦 Being as lazy as I’m allowed to

Jan 28, 2023: 🇸🇹 It worked! A few minutes later Elias got our first catch, which he used as bait for the remainder of the time we spent there.

Jan 28, 2023: 🇸🇹 Elias prepping the line for our fishing expedition.

Jan 28, 2023: I need to update my São Tomé guide. So much has changed in the past couple of years, some parts are a bit outdated…

Jan 28, 2023: 🇸🇹 Jockey’s Cap in the distance, seen from Nova Estrela. One of the nice viewpoints on the island.

Jan 28, 2023: 🇸🇹 Welcome to the lost city of Ribeira Izé…

Jan 27, 2023: 🇸🇹 Final one today, kids having fun on a very rainy day.

Jan 27, 2023: Rio 2, 2014 - ★★★ Watched on Friday January 27, 2023.

Jan 27, 2023: 🍝 Lasagna for dinner. Missed it.

Jan 27, 2023: 🇸🇹 Time to play some Tic Tac Toe with the plane ride.

Jan 27, 2023: 🇸🇹 The cool kids in town. Taking a break from school.

Jan 27, 2023: 🇸🇹 Back to basics. This is a room at a new b&b out in the south of the island. Lovely place.

Jan 27, 2023: 🌴 Room with a view. Apologies for the spam, but thrilled to have high speed internet again.

Jan 27, 2023: 🔥 A day later, fireplace is on. We’re SO tanned, and SO cold. Feels odd!

Jan 27, 2023: 🇸🇹 Fishing time.

Jan 27, 2023: 🪑 The Office, STP Edition.

Jan 27, 2023: 🥶 It's VERY cold! Not used to it anymore.

Jan 27, 2023: 🇸🇹 Let the bSides begin! A #loveProject on the road…

Jan 27, 2023: thingsThisWeek #38 💰 Money on the island is still a messy thing. There are no ATM to get it, and some people have not been warned about that fact. That should be easy to …

Jan 27, 2023: 04:20AM. Landed. We’re back home, I need some sleep.

Jan 27, 2023: The Judge, 2014 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday January 27, 2023.

Jan 26, 2023: Lucky me, I’m sitting next to THE most annoying old French woman. And we know how annoying old French women can be!

Jan 26, 2023: Partial upgrade on the flight, both movieStars got business class, I’m flying in the back. Good thing there were two available seats.

Jan 26, 2023: 🚗 Driving around the south of the country. Final day here. Leaving now.

Jan 26, 2023: Almost time to leave. We have to be at the airport three hours (!) before the flight takes off. That’s how messy check-in is here.

Jan 26, 2023: ☀️ Another one from yesterday’s sunset, while I wait for the girls to wake up. Car should be at the hotel reception soon, and we still need to …

Jan 26, 2023: tinyMovieStar is under the impression that we’re going back to Portugal for a couple of days, just enough time to see her grandparents, and then …

Jan 25, 2023: 🍕 After a couple of weeks of palm trees and beaches, here’s a controversial post! I just had pizza with pineapple (delicious one from the …

Jan 25, 2023: Seems like our final day will be spent driving around the big island, showing some of the hot spots to nice Jonathan, the journalist from NY. Love it, …

Jan 25, 2023: 🌴 Sunset about to happen.

Jan 25, 2023: 🐜 I don’t think I’ve ever seen ants as big as the ones we get here.

Jan 25, 2023: Always a special pleasure when I see old photos being used by the hotels.

Jan 25, 2023: Leaving the small island, and arrival at the big one. We were lucky, and some friends were flying as well.

Jan 25, 2023: ✈️ Here we go. Pick a plane.

Jan 25, 2023: 🍏 Some cool Apple gadgets I haven’t found anywhere else are available here. I wonder what the specs are on this one?

Jan 25, 2023: 🧳 Bags are packed, phones are charged. All that’s left to do is wake up the little one, get her fed and dressed, and be on our way.

Jan 25, 2023: ☀️ Sunrise in Santo António. The last one, while getting coffee.

Jan 25, 2023: Two hours left, then Filipa will pick us up and drive us to the airport. Can’t say I’m very happy.

Jan 24, 2023: Lovely dinner with friends, and a walk home with a dozen dogs following us. If you’ve ever been here, you wouldn’t find that strange. …

Jan 24, 2023: Almost time to leave for our final dinner on the island. Then packing. A lot of packing. Tomorrow we’re leaving early in the morning, and then …

Jan 24, 2023: 📷 Workshop done.

Jan 24, 2023: Yup, Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots is now available. Yay. Don’t forget to subscribe as well. It’s worth it.

Jan 24, 2023: On my way to the workshop.

Jan 24, 2023: 🏝️ Amadeu drove us to Praia Margarida and, of course, tinyMovieStar loved it.

Jan 24, 2023: 🏖️ Getting in the car. Away we go!

Jan 24, 2023: We’ll try to go to the beach before the workshop. Saying farewell to these beaches is important, and we still haven’t made our way to …

Jan 24, 2023: 🏠 The house António loves. We joke he’ll be running a cafe/restaurant there in 10 years.

Jan 24, 2023: View from our morning coffee spot, Mira Rio, overlooking Rio Papagaio.

Jan 24, 2023: On my free time still going around with the bunny shortcut. Not working yet 😇

Jan 24, 2023: 📷 Quick walk around the city to get some memories into the phone. More later, photo uploads take forever.

Jan 24, 2023: Pretty used to having no power from midnight to 7AM by now.

Jan 24, 2023: 🎉 When we got to the restaurant for dinner, a birthday party was starting. Luisa turned 4, and the restaurant, usually already full of kids playing, …

Jan 24, 2023: ☀️ Up for our final full day on the island. Tomorrow we’re flying to the one next door in the morning.

Jan 23, 2023: Seems like the strike was cancelled, we should be able to get on the flight. That’s it.

Jan 23, 2023: 🗺️ Still adding places to Gowalla. If someone else using the app ever visits the island, I’m sure they’ll be surprised to see the spots …

Jan 23, 2023: Tomorrow I’m finally doing my “workshop”, and I’m using "" because it’s a couple of hours only, and most of my …

Jan 23, 2023: 👀 Bom Bom islet, as seen from Roça Belo Monte.

Jan 23, 2023: ☀️ Feels like 35C

Jan 23, 2023: Trying to get my head around bunny.net, with all the new jargon… Pull zones, CDN, Storage, Edge or not 🤯

Jan 23, 2023: 🧺 Mr Leandro, the basket weaver. Another old acquaintance, he’s been there since the first time I came to the island. He has a new room, but …

Jan 23, 2023: 😴 After lunch nap for tinyMovieStar, I’m trying to do the same

Jan 23, 2023: The rest of the morning: city tour, and ruins of the lost city.

Jan 23, 2023: ☕️ Picking which beans will make the best coffee. We thank her for her job.

Jan 23, 2023: 🛒 The local general store. Cigarettes available, but no lighter. My fancy ones are ending, so had to get regular ones. And 10 match boxes, since those …

Jan 23, 2023: A couple more days here, and then it’s time to move on, we’re heading back home. Still unsure about flight availability, and whether …

Jan 23, 2023: ☕️ Morning walk to get my coffee fix, and bring another one back to movieStar.

Jan 23, 2023: 🛟 Yesterday was a good day. A very good one.

Jan 22, 2023: 🍔 Next: dinner. Fingers crossed they have burgers, I’ve been waiting for a week and a half.

Jan 22, 2023: “Don’t you miss school and your friends?” “I’m sure they have teachers for me here…”

Jan 22, 2023: Back from a day at the beach. Rumbling of thunderstorms all day long, heavy rain for a while too. Still an incredible day.

Jan 22, 2023: 🏝️ Sunday with tinyMovieStar

Jan 22, 2023: movieStar left for the morning, she’s taking the press corps around the island. No place for tinyMovieStar and myself, so we’re waiting …

Jan 22, 2023: thingsThisWeek #37/3 😊 We found Henry, at last! He’s the one of the few that we haven’t met yet, the man spends his days at his workshop and comes out at night …

Jan 22, 2023: 🎵 6AM Sunday Mass, with lots of singing, right next door, keeping me awake

Jan 22, 2023: ⛈️ Thunderstorm woke me up

Jan 21, 2023: Not gonna tell you it was a long day, just saying it’s 9PM and we’re off to bed.

Jan 21, 2023: 🌴 Wild country, lovely country.

Jan 21, 2023: 🏝️ Can you spot tinyMovieStar?

Jan 21, 2023: 🥥 Before, time for the best iced coconut water ever.

Jan 21, 2023: ⛵ Getting ready to board, and we’re off to the “Beach Tour”

Jan 21, 2023: Don has left the building. I managed to hold back the tears. movieStar could not 😔

Jan 21, 2023: Up since 6AM. We have another boat ride today, and Don’s leaving. A little sad, if I’m honest.

Jan 20, 2023: 🇸🇹 Príncipe coolness.

Jan 20, 2023: Repeating myself, but it was a LONG day!

Jan 20, 2023: “Time takes too long” was tinyMovieStar reply when we told her we have to wait a little longer to leave.

Jan 20, 2023: 🍌 We’re going down to Banana Beach today. Photo from a previous trip, as we haven’t been there this time yet. I think tinyMovieStar will love it.

Jan 20, 2023: Up. I’m doing the tour of the island with movieStar’s friends, and have an assistant riding along with me: tinyMovieStar.

Jan 19, 2023: We just met, by chance, two of movieStar’s friends from high school, on the island for two days. Tomorrow I’m back to my Tour Guide days, …

Jan 19, 2023: Airline strike seems like a done deal, that will probably force us to be left on the bigger island for another week. We’re lucky, as movieStar …

Jan 19, 2023: 💛 Back from fishing trip, had lunch with a big group, then off to Nova Estrela, my favorite part of the island. Now it’s time for dinner, …

Jan 19, 2023: 🌴 A couple others from the trip.

Jan 19, 2023: 🛶 On my way to the fishing trip…

Jan 19, 2023: 🐟 I’m pretty certain this is the only time in my life I can use this expression, so here goes… “Gone Fishing!”

Jan 18, 2023: 🥘 Back from dinner. We have been looking for the President for a while now, just ran into him at the restaurant. Solved.

Jan 18, 2023: 💤 Hour and a half nap. Not bad.

Jan 18, 2023: Getting ready for my fishing expedition tomorrow. Never been, don’t really want to go, but here we are… 6AM pickup time, the late shift.

Jan 18, 2023: 🚪 Waiting for our ride. tinyMovieStar getting a little restless.

Jan 18, 2023: movieStar left early in the morning, we’re staying behind an extra hour, catching a ride to Roça later on.

Jan 18, 2023: 📚 Still reading Don’s autobiography. Quite strange to do that when you’re spending time with him. I can skip some parts, as I know the …

Jan 18, 2023: 🌚 Up since 5AM. Power is still out, but my new data plan means I can have internet even so.

Jan 18, 2023: thingsThisWeek #37/2 😎 Sunday was, as it’s supposed to, lazy. We went to the hotel that’s furthest from the city, and spent the whole day lounging around, …

Jan 17, 2023: 🍺 Before dinner, a few of these. Nice, light, Angolan beer. Friends talking.

Jan 17, 2023: 🍫 Today, for dinner dessert, one thing that’s very hard to find on a cocoa producing country: a chocolate bar! We brought them over, as you do …

Jan 17, 2023: 🥳 Waiting for the party to start

Jan 17, 2023: There had to be one on the island, and we have found him, eight years in. Behold, an asshole in Príncipe!

Jan 17, 2023: 🌴 Possible location for a crime novel set in a tropical paradise. Dark beach.

Jan 17, 2023: 🌱 Morning ride, and tinyMovieStar on yet another pool day. Today is a national holiday here, so party is expected later on.

Jan 17, 2023: At the end of our stay we might be stranded on the island, our flight out is with a company that has a strike scheduled for our date. Sad, right? 🤣

Jan 17, 2023: ☕️ Before a day in the pool/beach. Having a good time.

Jan 16, 2023: 🌈 Another very long one, with pool, beach with the warmest water ever, and a marvelous ending with godmother and tinyMovieStar’s cousins from …

Jan 16, 2023: The oddest group of people, and not even close to whatever might be second? Birdwatchers.

Jan 16, 2023: 🍲 Lunch is over, baby is sleeping, we're trying to get a ride to the pool

Jan 16, 2023: 👸🏻 tinyMovieStar like a boss, at our favorite hotel on the island. The one where we got married. Feels like an aunt’s home.

Jan 16, 2023: Text stuff always works great, but uploading photos is slow. Doesn’t matter if I’m using Wi-Fi, 3G, it’s always a pain. Would love …

Jan 16, 2023: ☕ Went out for coffee, now ready to leave

Jan 16, 2023: 😎 06:38, I’m up!

Jan 15, 2023: It was a long, wonderful, day. Got to spend hours in the pool with tinyMovieStar, had lunch with Uncle Don (the man is a god to me and the little one, …

Jan 15, 2023: Before dinner, walked to the fairground. A simple one.

Jan 15, 2023: Back home, after almost a whole day at the pool!

Jan 15, 2023: 🌴 Drive to Sundy Praia, and the awesome pool at the end of the forest.

Jan 15, 2023: thingsThisWeek #37/1 💺 Flying to the other island. Still feeling sick. A pill didn’t help. I did make it through with the extra luggage, at a cost of €40. Arrived at …

Jan 14, 2023: 🦜 Afternoon in the city. Lunch at the new place, and the rest of the day with friends and their kids, at their home.

Jan 14, 2023: 🏝️ Today was the day tinyMovieStar was taken to the beach where mom & dad met. She loved it 🥰

Jan 14, 2023: 🥥 Cool! I can add coconut water to WaterMinder. Now… how many ml was that coconut?

Jan 14, 2023: 🕸️ Let us ruin paradise a little more. I went ahead and added a data plan on top of the usual SIM card we get for our local number. 3G, but …

Jan 14, 2023: 09:00AM. The power is back 🙂

Jan 13, 2023: 💡 Trying to charge everything before the power goes out. Still a daily, scheduled, event on the island. Gone from 00:00 until 09:00.

Jan 13, 2023: First day. Meeting old friends, trying to get our house into working order, meeting more friends for dinner at a new, nice, place. The city is so tiny …

Jan 13, 2023: ✈️ Made it! Still sick, but made it. Back in Príncipe!

Jan 13, 2023: 🌴 See you soon, Omali. Or maybe in a couple of hours, if the health authority doesn’t let me in on the flight.

Jan 13, 2023: Fingers crossed I’ll do fine on my thermometer test at the airport. Still feeling like s*%t.

Jan 13, 2023: Status Report: Ice cubes wrapped in a towel, on my forehead.

Jan 13, 2023: 🇯🇵 Craig Mod is doing it again! Yay! Walking TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO² — Winter Edition

Jan 13, 2023: 🇸🇹 bSides from Day One. While driving around the south part of the country for a couple of hours.

Jan 13, 2023: thingsThisWeek #36 🏝️ The week (for this purpose weeks start on Saturdays, btw) begins with our minds on the trip, as it’s getting close and we will be on our way, …

Jan 13, 2023: Girls left for their flight, I’m staying back until the afternoon, with a ton of stuff to carry. Nice.

Jan 12, 2023: 🧼 Today tinyMovieStar learned how to do the laundry in the river.

Jan 12, 2023: Killing time by the pool before our ride comes for the trip south.

Jan 12, 2023: 🛵 My classic “first day photo”, outside the hotel. Been doing the same one since 2015. Internet, btw, is slooooooow.

Jan 12, 2023: 🌴 Good morning. If there’s one hotel in the whole world that feels like home to us, this one is it. Welcome to Omali.

Jan 12, 2023: 🤧 Four hours later, up already, and the cold has not gotten any better

Jan 12, 2023: War Dogs, 2016 - ★★★½ Watched on Wednesday January 11, 2023.

Jan 11, 2023: ✈️ Our Executive Class Toddler Note: no toddlers were hurt in the making of this photo. Belt was removed before take-off.

Jan 11, 2023: So.. not really one to get easily star struck, but just spent hours drinking beer, having dinner, and talking with Don freaking McCullin! I’m …

Jan 11, 2023: We Made It!

Jan 11, 2023: No turning back now…

Jan 11, 2023: Upgraded!! SO happy.

Jan 11, 2023: 🛫 Boss… the plane, the plane!

Jan 10, 2023: 🚗 A friend will loan us her car while we’re on the island. Caveat: there is no gas in the only gas station.

Jan 10, 2023: 🥓 Final trip to the supermarket, because there’s no bacon on the island, so we’re taking that as well… Bacon, in checked baggage!

Jan 10, 2023: ✅ Ticking stuff off in Things

Jan 10, 2023: ☀️ Couldn’t decide, so you get two of them. Asked a couple of photographer friends who came to say goodbye, and both picked the same one. What …

Jan 10, 2023: 📺 We’re still trying to get to the end of The White Lotus today, after everything is packed

Jan 10, 2023: 🌴 Short walk today, on my way to the assignment.

Jan 10, 2023: 💻 Back from the shoot, time to edit

Jan 10, 2023: 📷 Getting ready for that last minute assignment. Still TONS of packing left to do.

Jan 10, 2023: 💺 Check-In: Done

Jan 10, 2023: 🇸🇹 Tomorrow!

Jan 10, 2023: ☺️ Reeder now treats Mastodon feeds like Twitter feeds, pulling the linked URL’s text. Lovely

Jan 10, 2023: 🤧 Final day in town, woke up with a cold

Jan 9, 2023: 🧑‍✈ Fingers crossed we’ll get bumped to the front rows. Eight and a half hours would certainly go smoother.

Jan 9, 2023: 🇸🇹 Another sure sign we’re going to the island? The “dumb” phone is getting charged, almost four years since that last happened.

Jan 9, 2023: A friend, and daughter, seriously considered coming along with us to the island. In the end, it’s just too much trouble, and too darn expensive.

Jan 9, 2023: So… Took off the Watch, first time in months, back to one of the mechanicals, testing the waters. Feels nice, and odd.

Jan 9, 2023: 📺 Downloading... Downloading...

Jan 9, 2023: Getting new Covid vaccination certificates. Thankfully this is a super streamlined service, not even 5 minutes to get them on the phone.

Jan 9, 2023: Still have another year of discounted 1Password to go, but now looking at Bitwarden again, for when the time comes. I’ve been enjoying 1P for a …

Jan 9, 2023: Of course someone needs photos on the day before we leave. Of course! It’s been weeks since anyone has called, and it had to happen when …

Jan 9, 2023: 🪑 On our way to kindergarten today, a #beSeated / #loveProject collab presented itself.

Jan 9, 2023: 🇸🇹 Two days to go. He’ll be waiting at the end of the road, as usual.

Jan 9, 2023: Episode 1 of Treason, British spy show, and what3words made an appearance. Such a great concept, sadly not a lot of people I know use it.

Jan 9, 2023: 😴 Let's try this sleep thing, people keep telling me it's great

Jan 8, 2023: 😵 Three days with little sleep a grumpy maique make

Jan 8, 2023: 🚌 Getting ready to drive back home. No grandma and grandpa for a couple of weeks.

Jan 8, 2023: 🎊 Extended family lunch

Jan 8, 2023: 🧸 tinyMovieStar made this today, with a little bit of help from grandma. A little. Guess who that is?

Jan 8, 2023: 💖 I may be stressing a bit with the trip, but I’m super thrilled to go back to where it all started… howWeMet.

Jan 8, 2023: 🪑 Unrepeatable #beSeated, the hotel is undergoing renovation, pool will look different.

Jan 8, 2023: ☕️ Another caffeine heavy day ahead

Jan 8, 2023: 🇸🇹 With 3 days left before we leave, no time for a visit to the barber. That means I’ll probably call on Lindinho to do it…

Jan 8, 2023: 🥴 Looooooooong night

Jan 8, 2023: The one downside of weekends in a house with many people? Noise. There’s always someone doing something, walking somewhere, closing a …

Jan 7, 2023: 🍿 The Adjustment Bureau

Jan 7, 2023: The Adjustment Bureau, 2011 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday January 7, 2023.

Jan 7, 2023: 😩 Looooooooong day

Jan 7, 2023: Not sure if I’m taking the Apple Watch on the trip. Regular power cuts, and lack of internet access for hours, means it’s not as …

Jan 7, 2023: 🪑 Today’s #beSeated is a wink to friends who might be in Vietnam, even if they don’t like Saigon that much!

Jan 7, 2023: 🌧 The rain is back too, the day just keeps getting better…

Jan 7, 2023: Usually, when traveling, I’ll have a relaxed attitude. I’ll pack everything I know I need, and just buy whatever I might have missed when …

Jan 7, 2023: 🇸🇹 Closer, and closer. Four days away.

Jan 7, 2023: Unsurprisingly, woke up with a headache. That’s what I get from staying up late, and waking up too early.

Jan 7, 2023: Much later, and after a lot of reading, here it is, omg.lol pastebin. A Drafts action that will create a new paste on paste.lol. Hope you enjoy it.

Jan 7, 2023: With (very) close to zero coding skills, but an incredible talent for copy/paste, I have managed to get a Drafts action working! I can now send text …

Jan 6, 2023: 🤮 There’s always a first time: tinyMovieStar puked all over me 🤣

Jan 6, 2023: 📺 YouTube Premium trial activated, we shall have Bluey on the airplane!

Jan 6, 2023: Her Christmas This was the first year when tinyMovieStar was, somewhat, aware of the whole Christmas time. Not the religious part, of course, but the other one, the …

Jan 6, 2023: Found an e-motorcycle, rode it to kindergarten, grabbed tinyMovieStar, and took her home, piggybacking. She’s ok.

Jan 6, 2023: 🦄 Looking good, Mona.

Jan 6, 2023: 🚨 Call from kindergarten, the fever is back

Jan 6, 2023: 🛒 Errands time

Jan 6, 2023: 🤣 This is SO good, the “I use Arch, btw” of the omg.lol community… Before Hacker News

Jan 6, 2023: thingsThisWeek 35 🌞 Hello, 2023. Dinner with friends, stayed up late, slept in, drove to in-laws. Nothing else. I do not like NYE, for a long time now, and it’s …

Jan 6, 2023: 🇸🇹 5 days away. tinyMovieStar, a huge beach bum, will surely love this one.

Jan 6, 2023: 🚶‍♂ Walked tinyMovieStar to kindergarten, at her request. She did not want to drive today, and I was the one she wanted to do it with.

Jan 6, 2023: ☕ I wonder how many of these will it take to get me up to “normal”

Jan 6, 2023: 🪑 Good morning, and welcome drinks for two, for this morning’s #beSeated.

Jan 6, 2023: 🥴 tinyMovieStar feeling better, and she slept a lot more than we did…

Jan 6, 2023: 🌡 The tiny one has a fever, 39C now.

Jan 5, 2023: 🎉Time for some tv

Jan 5, 2023: 🪑 A table set for two, the second #beSeated of the day. It was a memorable meal.

Jan 5, 2023: 🥔 Every single time I’m peeling potatoes I get this image of doing it in the army, even though I have not peeled a single potato there. Movies, …

Jan 5, 2023: 💨 Day flying by…

Jan 5, 2023: 🇸🇹 Almost time to hug and kiss friends and family again. Soon we’ll be there…

Jan 5, 2023: 🪑 Back in Huế for today’s #beSeated. A place where we spent many happy hours, talking and drinking.

Jan 5, 2023: 🥵 Trying to clear my head by installing something, but git always gets me... Giving up. For now.

Jan 5, 2023: ☕ Here we go, a fresh new day has been delivered

Jan 5, 2023: Death of an Instance maique.lol is dead, long live maique.lol! A couple of months ago, I thought about having my own Mastodon instance. I was very happy at social.lol, …

Jan 5, 2023: Wish someone would port Molly White’s static timeline generator to Micro.blog. It’s a great theme.

Jan 4, 2023: Now we wait…………. She’ll eventually fall asleep, and we can watch a couple more episodes of The White Lotus!

Jan 4, 2023: Not sure how long I can keep this charade going on, but hearing these sounds coming out of my baby’s mouth, when she’s eating something I …

Jan 4, 2023: 👨‍🍳 Chef’s hat is back on!

Jan 4, 2023: Walking back from kindergarten is fun. Much better than driving.

Jan 4, 2023: ✈️ movieStar is booking internal flights for our trip. We had the international ones already, these were missing.

Jan 4, 2023: ☕ One more espresso (number 3), and it's time to get in the car and pick up the movieStars

Jan 4, 2023: 🪑 It’s fancy #beSeated day!

Jan 4, 2023: 🍫 Having a HUGE cup of hot chocolate. We needed that.

Jan 4, 2023: 🇸🇹 One week to go. I hope we recognize all the kids, they must be huge by now!

Jan 4, 2023: The energy it takes to get her out of bed, dressed, and fed, is so much, some days I’m exhausted by 9AM.

Jan 4, 2023: 😢 tinyMovieStar’s best friend bumped her head in school, a couple of stitches were necessary (she’s ok). She was standing next to our baby …

Jan 3, 2023: Just saw “Escape”, from Bluey. For the 100th time. It’s always SO fun 🤩

Jan 3, 2023: 🥂 Photos have been uploaded, girls have been picked up. Next up: chaos!

Jan 3, 2023: 🕊 Uploading a few hundred photos to Flickr

Jan 3, 2023: One service I don’t praise nearly as often as I should: Feedbin! It is, as they say, A nice place to read on the web Now that I’m off …

Jan 3, 2023: 🪑 One of the most recent #beSeated photos, from an assignment at KovaDaMoura.

Jan 3, 2023: 🇸🇹 T-8. Getting close! Say hello to Clara.

Jan 3, 2023: Dropped the girls off at their respective venues, and now on to part II: walking to both locations and drop whatever they forgot to take with them in …

Jan 3, 2023: 🐌 She’s. Taking. Her. Time. Today.

Jan 3, 2023: ⏰ Setting the alarm for tomorrow morning. It’s been a while since I’ve last done it.

Jan 2, 2023: While our microwave is getting fixed we got one on loan from friends of my in-laws. It’s a Japanese model, probably over 20 years old. I love …

Jan 2, 2023: The Passport We needed two passports. One for tinyMovieStar, and another one for me. Mine expired during the pandemic, and she never had one. There’s no way …

Jan 2, 2023: Getting ready to drive back to the city one more time. tinyMovieStar skipped school today, but she has to attend tomorrow. xMas vacation is officially …

Jan 2, 2023: 🥵 Stress levels going up…

Jan 2, 2023: stickerspotter/#beSeated collab coming up… 👀🤣

Jan 2, 2023: 🇸🇹 9 days to go, no progress has been made regarding travel arrangements…

Jan 2, 2023: 🪑 Today’s #beSeated is a party waiting to happen…

Jan 2, 2023: Almost fell asleep at 9PM, so it’s only natural that I can’t do it now, at 2AM, right??

Jan 1, 2023: 📺 Decided to stick with The White Lotus. Glad we did.

Jan 1, 2023: 🔥 Spending the day by the fireplace, doing as little as possible

Jan 1, 2023: 🪑 Island #beSeated

Jan 1, 2023: 🇺🇦 New Year FaceTime call. Stay safe!

Jan 1, 2023: First day of the year, another Weather Alert: Heavy rain, thunderstorms, and extreme wind phenomena. Nice.

Jan 1, 2023: 😵‍💫 Today will not be an easy day

Jan 1, 2023: ⏰ 11AM. Up.

Jan 1, 2023: 2AM, finally home. We all made it to this ungodly hour without sleeping. Tired. See you in the morning.

Dec 31, 2022: 💖 The one thing that makes it all worthwhile.

Dec 31, 2022: I’ll probably still be around later on but, if I don’t, and for those who are already in 2023, thank you SO much for the company in 2022, …

Dec 31, 2022: Went to the supermarket, needed all the ingredients to prepare guacamole. Came back home, and an hour later movieStar noticed I forgot one of those …

Dec 31, 2022: ☕ Loading up on caffeine

Dec 31, 2022: 🪑 A #beSeated with lots of memories.

Dec 31, 2022: NYE is my least favorite celebration of the year.

Dec 31, 2022: 📖 1AM, finally time to read a little. Also, sleepy.

Dec 30, 2022: 🍼 Will she sleep?

Dec 30, 2022: 🧟 Zombie Mode engaged

Dec 30, 2022: Girls are away for a couple of hours, I have so many things on my To-do list for a time like this, but end up just watching TV because I’m so …

Dec 30, 2022: 💖 A comment on Mastodon reminded me of this series. While movieStar was pregnant, and we were in the first months of covid lockdown, friends and …

Dec 30, 2022: 🚗 Errands Time

Dec 30, 2022: Happy City

Dec 30, 2022: 🪑 A sea of yellow #beSeated!

Dec 30, 2022: thingsThisWeek 34 🎄 We made it! We made it to the other side of Christmas! Not before a lot of packing, another batch of cookies (told you!), and a whole day of …

Dec 30, 2022: 🥴 Waking up, but would easily sleep for another couple of hours

Dec 30, 2022: 📺 Incredible series = getting to bed at 2:30AM

Dec 29, 2022: 🇸🇹 In two weeks I’ll be able to see my godmother again. She’ll meet tinyMovieStar!

Dec 29, 2022: 💝 #loveProject Gift

Dec 29, 2022: ⚽️ RIP Pelé

Dec 29, 2022: 🎄 Christmas, and the Grinch

Dec 29, 2022: A friend is having a birthday party later on. She’s tinyMovieStar’s best friend’s mom. Guess who’s not taking a nap in …

Dec 29, 2022: 🍝 Penne!

Dec 29, 2022: 🦥 Turns out it’s going to be this kind of day…

Dec 29, 2022: Today’s assignment, the one that made us come back to the city, was postponed. Again.

Dec 29, 2022: 🪑 Lovely riverfront #beSeated

Dec 29, 2022: 💤 zZzZZzZZZzzzZZzZZzz

Dec 29, 2022: 📺 Watching, and liking, Causa Própria. Well done!

Dec 28, 2022: Someone just tried to charge €230 to one of my cards. I guess I’ll have to cancel that one… 😔

Dec 28, 2022: 🪑 💛💛💛💛 #beSeated

Dec 28, 2022: 🚗 Driving home on a cloudy day

Dec 28, 2022: 🎅🏼 The latest stickerspotter post is also my last Christmas gift, courtesy of the nice people at Hemispheric Views! Thank you so much @Burk, @canion, …

Dec 28, 2022: 🚚 Loading the car with Christmas gifts, thinking we might need a bigger car

Dec 28, 2022: 💬 Also… IRC!

Dec 28, 2022: 📚 Brushing up…

Dec 28, 2022: 🤩 One awesome thing about this upcoming trip to the island is that I’m probably meeting a true photography legend while we’re there!

Dec 28, 2022: 🪑 Coffee? Please #beSeated.

Dec 28, 2022: 🛑 I believe today is the day when we get back home

Dec 28, 2022: 🌼 Country Girls

Dec 28, 2022: 🍿 Now I want a lot more movies with Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc

Dec 27, 2022: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Tuesday December 27, 2022.

Dec 27, 2022: 🇸🇹 A couple of weeks away…

Dec 27, 2022: 🍿 Glass Onion while tinyMovieStar sleeps in my arms. She’s doing it for close to two hours, and the movie isn’t even close to the end.

Dec 27, 2022: 🏝️ In other news, it seems like we are in fact going to the island, in January, for a couple of weeks. The three of us. First time for tinyMovieStar!

Dec 27, 2022: Sooner or later we’ll have to get back to the city. I have some photos I need to do for a client this week, and there aren’t many days …

Dec 27, 2022: 👨‍🍳 Cooking for my in-laws is always a huge stress, but my carbonara was extra tasty today!

Dec 27, 2022: 🚶🏻‍♂️ Walking to the cigarette shop and back.

Dec 27, 2022: One thing I love about the Shrek collection is the fact that there are so many songs by the Eels! And Nick Cave / Tom Waits playing in the seedy bar.

Dec 27, 2022: Shrek the Third, 2007 - ★★★½ Watched on Tuesday December 27, 2022.

Dec 27, 2022: 🍿 tinyMovieStar is a true Shrek fan, so we're starting the day with Shrek 3

Dec 27, 2022: 🌞 The sun is shining. That’s strange…

Dec 27, 2022: 🪑 One of the oddest #beSeated I’ve found so far.

Dec 27, 2022: 🪑 Red & Lonely, today’s #beSeated:

Dec 27, 2022: 💚 Shrek evening!

Dec 27, 2022: Shrek 2, 2004 - ★★★★½ Watched on Monday December 26, 2022.

Dec 26, 2022: Shrek the Halls, 2007 - ★★½ Watched on Monday December 26, 2022.

Dec 26, 2022: 🥩 Dinner time. Yeah, we’re doing it…

Dec 26, 2022: 🍿 Watched The Queen.

Dec 26, 2022: The Queen, 2006 - ★★★★ Watched on Monday December 26, 2022.

Dec 26, 2022: The Queen, 2006 - ★★★½ Watched on Monday December 26, 2022.

Dec 26, 2022: WebSSH is not as good looking as Transmit, but it works. Problem solved.

Dec 26, 2022: 😤 Looks like I'll have to find a new tenant

Dec 26, 2022: Help spread the omg.lol love. If you registered for omg.lol because you heard about it in one of my MANY rambling posts, feel free to say so. …

Dec 26, 2022: 🚀 tinyMovieStar: “Mom, we’ve never been to space” “We’re going to space tomorrow” “We’ll go there on a …

Dec 26, 2022: The Monitor sidor.lol is live! Yay!! Adam, bless him, keeps coming up with awesome toys. With all the things he has launched so far, of course he needed a monitor …

Dec 26, 2022: 😩 Is it over? Is it??

Dec 26, 2022: 🇺🇦 Best friend on his way to Ukraine, again. Godspeed.

Dec 25, 2022: 👩‍🎤 tinyMovieStar had time for another guitar lesson with Uncle João. She’s been getting them since before she was born.

Dec 25, 2022: 📰 Got a Washington Post subscription as an unexpected gift right now. Cool.

Dec 25, 2022: 🌈 tinyMovieStar’s first tattoo! She picked a cool one!

Dec 25, 2022: NO MORE FOOD! NO MORE FOOD!

Dec 25, 2022: Lunch is ready, and no appetite at all. Still pretty full from last night.

Dec 25, 2022: 🪑 Today’s #beSeated, unexpected maintenance stop for Santa, his sled broke down during his round the world trip.

Dec 25, 2022: On a yummy note, I believe I have found my favorite cookies in the whole world! Farmhouse Biscuits, Toasted Coconut & White Choc. Best. Ever.

Dec 25, 2022: Assembling a small fruit stand for tinyMovieStar, one that makes a full IKEA bedroom look easy. How’s your Christmas going?

Dec 25, 2022: 🎄 We are certainly not ready, but here we go: Christmas Day about to start! Hope you all have a good one too! 🥰

Dec 25, 2022: 🌝 01:41AM, finally in bed

Dec 25, 2022: 🏡 Back home. Not home home, but close enough.

Dec 24, 2022: Dinner Number Two. Exhausted by now.

Dec 24, 2022: Trying to keep a two and a half year old interested in food, while there’s a pile of presents taller than herself right next to her, is, I tell …

Dec 24, 2022: 🍭 Let the feast begin!

Dec 24, 2022: Getting ready to leave for Dinner Number One. Apologizing in advance if replies take a while. Posting stuff from Drafts, will check M.b and Mastodon …

Dec 24, 2022: 🔮 I can see a LOT of eggs and sugar in my future…

Dec 24, 2022: Today I even have an update on the Hello Kitty series, with this one. Found by my mother-in-law in the attic, tinyMovieStar was thrilled.

Dec 24, 2022: 🍱 Light lunch, bracing for what’s coming later on!

Dec 24, 2022: Waterproof headphones would be awesome, at least for this week. With everything that’s going on, and everyone around us, it’s impossible …

Dec 24, 2022: ☔️ Just in time, Severe Rain warning

Dec 24, 2022: 📺 Disney was super quick, already on the Mastodon train.

Dec 24, 2022: 🌟 🪑 Wishing every single person on the planet a great day. Happy Holidays.

Dec 24, 2022: 🎄 We made it!! Well… we made it to the beginning of the day!

Dec 24, 2022: 🎙 Picking the podcast that will take me to slumber land

Dec 23, 2022: 💤 Napped. An hour before sleep time. GRRR!

Dec 23, 2022: 💘 Keep adding to the projects almost daily…

Dec 23, 2022: 🍪 Unsurprisingly, and deliciously, cookies have been baked

Dec 23, 2022: Pink & Parked

Dec 23, 2022: 🎄 Depressing Christmas Mood

Dec 23, 2022: A whole day of doing next to nothing, and still have no time to do anything. Odd.

Dec 23, 2022: 💻 So many things to test, so little time

Dec 23, 2022: 🐕 Today I’m Pluto, according to tinyMovieStar

Dec 23, 2022: A simple website or web service monitor neatnik/website-monitor: A simple website or web service monitor Another treat from Adam.

Dec 23, 2022: 🪑 The “mob” #beSeated This is the one that made me think I should gather all the photos, and get a page for the project.

Dec 23, 2022: thingsThisWeek #33 🤧 Common Cold. The whole week with a stuffy nose. Certainly not the way I wanted to end the year, and hopefully I will not, but it’s been more …

Dec 22, 2022: I can see myself getting, easily, addicted to these shots 😅

Dec 22, 2022: Can’t remember where I came across this one, but it’s handy, and beautiful. Carbon | Create and share beautiful images of your source code

Dec 22, 2022: Some of the most entertaining emails I get every month are definitely the ones from EyeEm, letting me know I have sold a photo. I’m sure the …

Dec 22, 2022: 🌳 Countryside!

Dec 22, 2022: 🛵 Lunch ordered, and on the way. No will to anything after packing half the house into a handful of backpacks.

Dec 22, 2022: 🎒 Packing!

Dec 22, 2022: 🦠 4th dose of vaccine is now available for us 50+

Dec 22, 2022: 🪑 Today’s #beSeated is a postcard one. I needed the energy boost after a rough night.

Dec 22, 2022: 👮 Odd, crazy, stupid night.

Dec 22, 2022: 😩 02:20, still here

Dec 21, 2022: In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment. Cinemateca Portuguesa – Lisbon, …

Dec 21, 2022: 🍚 Dinner prep, the girls are hungry

Dec 21, 2022: 💥 Back of a building in one of the busiest streets in the city. Shameful.

Dec 21, 2022: 🚕 It's time, the girls are coming home!

Dec 21, 2022: 🇵🇹 As “Tuga” as it gets.

Dec 21, 2022: Walking around in this season ALWAYS beats driving. Traffic is a mess. And I get to find a few more stickers!

Dec 21, 2022: 🛷 Time to do my part, and go print some tinyMovieStar photos that will be Christmas presents

Dec 21, 2022: 🪑 Under Cover #beSeated

Dec 21, 2022: ☁ Cloudy. Coughing.

Dec 21, 2022: 👾 Wonderful piece by Frederico Draw + ErgoBandits, at the Cape Verde Cultural Center. Seen from the Chinese shop where we were buying a Pikachu hat, …

Dec 20, 2022: If you’re looking for a spot on Ivory’s Beta, new ones are coming.

Dec 20, 2022: “You’re so big, tinyMovieStar” “I’m still little, papi, I can’t reach the moon yet!”

Dec 20, 2022: It will be hard to top Ivory, though. Even the notifications look awesome. Waiting for Mona, but this is it for now.

Dec 20, 2022: New one! Wooly! Join the Woolly for Mastodon beta - TestFlight

Dec 20, 2022: 🪑 Not every single one is glamorous. That applies to everything.

Dec 20, 2022: 🛍 Almost done with Christmas shopping. Not me personally, as I haven't done any of it, but movieStar is almost done...

Dec 20, 2022: 🪑 beSeated One of the series I’ve been shooting for longer, and probably the one that has the most photos by now, beSeated is part of the crazy personal …

Dec 20, 2022: 🪑 Part of the #beSeated series, one I might start sharing more often…

Dec 20, 2022: On the happier side of life, notifications on Ivory! 🎉

Dec 20, 2022: On another episode of “It’s Working Just Fine, so let us Screw This Up”, I’m testing IVPN + NextDNS. Works fine, until the iPhone …

Dec 20, 2022: 🏊 We’ll need some sort of floatation device to take tinyMovieStar to school today

Dec 20, 2022: 🌧 No need for alarm clock today, the rain took care of that

Dec 19, 2022: 🎸 tinyMovieStar’s music teacher getting ready for the Christmas party concert.

Dec 19, 2022: 💊 I would gladly accept a sponsorship from a paracetamol maker

Dec 19, 2022: Today is 404 Day. Hang in there, Micro.blog staff!

Dec 19, 2022: Busy busy day. No photos at all too 😔

Dec 19, 2022: 🎄 Tree from last week’s assignment trip

Dec 19, 2022: Show was a success. Movie crew tripods weigh a ton. On to lunch.

Dec 19, 2022: 🎙️ Dropped the girls at the party, came back home to pick some stuff up, and drop the car. On the way I’m listening to “The …

Dec 19, 2022: On somewhat related news, this just came in. Flooding will probably happen again.

Dec 19, 2022: 🎄 time to get ready for that kindergarten Christmas party. Will be back after lunch.

Dec 18, 2022: So… bird network related shenanigans account for 49% of the timelines today, with football responsible for another 49%! Yay for those remaining …

Dec 18, 2022: Kindergarten Christmas party tomorrow morning. Last year, with covid raging, we had a concert outdoors. This time they’re holding the party at …

Dec 18, 2022: Back in the city, tinyMovieStar just fell asleep for her after lunch nap. I guess that means no one is going to the darn amusement park. Also, we …

Dec 18, 2022: Heading back to the city. The movieStars are meeting friends, and heading to a Disney-esque Christmas park thing. I think I’m going to stay …

Dec 18, 2022: 🧔🏻‍♂️ Still from last week’s visit to the tattoo studio…

Dec 18, 2022: Randomly in Spain, Gran Canaria. Enjoy your Sunday.

Dec 18, 2022: 📺 Looney Toons taking care of our morning

Dec 18, 2022: tinyMovieStar got an Advent Calendar. tinyMovieStar did not get how Advent calendars work. It was a Paw Patrol themed calendar, what did we expect? …

Dec 18, 2022: 👃 Looking forward to having a full functioning nose again. Seems like today is still not that day.

Dec 18, 2022: 😵‍💫 04:39! Must. Go. Back. To. Sleep. Please.

Dec 17, 2022: 🤓 ntfy.sh is kinda neat

Dec 17, 2022: Weekend random. Some years ago, during the Bons Sons music festival.

Dec 17, 2022: 🍪 Another batch has left the oven. Most didn’t even have time to cool down.

Dec 17, 2022: This week’s #Caturday photo actually arrived on the correct day!

Dec 17, 2022: 😳 NOT California “California Building”, on what is probably the least California of all the buildings in the city. So ugly it hurts!

Dec 17, 2022: 🔥 By the fireplace

Dec 17, 2022: 🥘 Lunch time! "Yay" for mom's food!

Dec 17, 2022: ❌ COVID-19 ❌ Flu ✅ Cold

Dec 17, 2022: 🚗 Getting ready to leave for the "weekend routine"

Dec 17, 2022: omg.lol. Yes, again. Yesterday I replied to a mention on Micro.blog, a fellow community member wanted to know why they should get an omg.lol account, since they already …

Dec 17, 2022: 🏄‍♂ Weeeeeeeeeekend

Dec 16, 2022: Letterman + Zelenskyy = Must Watch

Dec 16, 2022: thingsThisWeek #32 🎄 There’s no other way to start the weekly report: Christmas preparations are very much ongoing! movieStar’s parents are going full force, …

Dec 16, 2022: Tattoo Day My best friend was getting his first tattoo, I went along for the ride, and a tiny tattoo as well. The tattoo artist is the best in the …

Dec 16, 2022: 161222, the day I got a Pastel de Chaves tattoo with a typo. Voluntarily.

Dec 16, 2022: ✅ Tattoo, lunch, tinyMovieStar pickup. All done. What's missing? Editing yesterday's photos! ✅ Tattoo, lunch, tinyMovieStar pickup. All done. What's missing? Editing yesterday's photos!

Dec 16, 2022: Tattoo done, now rushing to pick up the tiny one. News, and photos, later.

Dec 16, 2022: ☕️ Number three, with the smallest breakfast possible. Only eating this early because getting tattooed is the next appointment on my calendar.

Dec 16, 2022: AirPods noise canceling stress test: a metro car filled with small children on a school day trip. It, mostly, works 😅

Dec 16, 2022: ☕ Coffee number 2, and we’re off to the tattoo studio!

Dec 16, 2022: 🌱 No driving today, but yesterday was beautiful. Green Alentejo is awesome Alentejo.

Dec 15, 2022: 👨‍🎨 Tomorrow, hopefully, is tattoo day. Again.

Dec 15, 2022: 🌝 Night is coming, and so is the sickness feeling…

Dec 15, 2022: 🛻 It was worth for the ride, and a couple of personal photos

Dec 15, 2022: The iPhone went along for the ride as well.

Dec 15, 2022: Q, 30 mins in Évora

Dec 15, 2022: Made it to Évora, two hours earlier than scheduled. Good thing too, the gentleman I was supposed to shoot had a car issue, and I managed to do my job …

Dec 15, 2022: ☕️ On the road, back to paper cup coffee on a gas station.

Dec 15, 2022: Looks like the @hemisphericviews crew heard I was setting up a playlist for today’s drive, and decided to do this just when I’m about to …

Dec 15, 2022: 💊 Waking up, and already know this will be "Pill Day"

Dec 14, 2022: The latest The Underworld Podcast episode is about all about Japanese schoolgirl gangs, Kamikaze bikers, Yakuza and an assassin’s sword This …

Dec 14, 2022: 🤧 Just what I needed: scratchy throat

Dec 14, 2022: Tomorrow’s assignments have a perk: they’re in the Alentejo. That means two hour drive there and back. That means, finally, time for some …

Dec 14, 2022: Yeah, this is where we’re at now… Google Maps knows what’s going on, of course.

Dec 14, 2022: Broadband is back, and two assignments for tomorrow. It’s raining hard again, but I don’t care.

Dec 14, 2022: 🦣 Following Japanese photographers on a daily basis: one of the things I’m enjoying on Mastodon.

Dec 14, 2022: Nice surprise of the day. Had a support ticket with Porkbun, very minor thing. They replied quickly, solving the issue. I wrote back, thanking them …

Dec 14, 2022: 🐢 Photos are edited, but no way to send them. Almost time for my “Uber” duty too, the girls need to come back home.

Dec 14, 2022: Lunchtime has come, and gone. Internet? Still gone. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 NOS

Dec 14, 2022: I have my phone on mute most of the time, only turning the sound on when I’m away from movieStar and need the extra “help” if she …

Dec 14, 2022: 😩 Still raining, still no internet at home, and now I have to edit Monday’s photos! Will this ever end?

Dec 14, 2022: 🤖 Of course a Sidor domain (or two) has been purchased already. sidor.life

Dec 14, 2022: tinyMovieStar is on a “let’s pretend” streak and she started calling me “Sidor” (she’s Lena, btw). While I have no …

Dec 14, 2022: 🌵 Beauty everywhere, even if it’s thorny. “Random” for today.

Dec 14, 2022: It’s time to perform my Morning movieStar Routine(™): gently waking both of them up, bearing coffee in one hand, and a yoghurt on the other one.

Dec 14, 2022: 🤬 Unsurprisingly, NOS hasn’t fixed our Internet access. It’s been 24 hours.

Dec 14, 2022: Guess who went to bed at 9PM with tinyMovieStar, and just woke up almost 9 hours later, thinking it was somewhere around midnight?

Dec 13, 2022: Hmmmm. Freeform. I do want to check that one out…

Dec 13, 2022: 1.17GB over cellular connection, since my incredible incompetent internet provider hasn’t managed to fix our issue in over 12 hours. I believe …

Dec 13, 2022: 💧 What a crazy day, and still so far from over!

Dec 13, 2022: tinyMovieStar picked up, almost back home. Still no Internet. My father-in-law decided to drive over today, of all days, and help with some work …

Dec 13, 2022: Love?

Dec 13, 2022: 🕸 Home internet still down

Dec 13, 2022: 🚨 Red Alert in place. We’re in for a crazy afternoon. Picking tinyMovieStar up from school right after lunch too.

Dec 13, 2022: On the other hand, with people from outside the city unable to drive into town, traffic level is similar to the one we have on the weekends. Sorry for …

Dec 13, 2022: 💖 Yup, another one! charms.lol

Dec 13, 2022: 🤖 The storm took out our internet connection at home. Great!

Dec 12, 2022: Coming along… Now with a new and improved posting workflow, complete with Shortcut! I just have to find a reason to actually post. Micro.blog …

Dec 12, 2022: 🌧 I suppose it really is December

Dec 12, 2022: Never. Ending.

Dec 12, 2022: Never ending day. That’s what today is feeling like.

Dec 12, 2022: On the way, and the destination. Surprise, surprise, it’s a… winery! Yet. Again.

Dec 12, 2022: Found a partial Hello Kitty, sheltering from the rain.

Dec 12, 2022: 🎅🏼 Looks like Santa is in town!

Dec 12, 2022: Randomness of the morning: two newly minted Portuguese from Sephardic heritage needed help navigating the metro lines. I was their guide for a few …

Dec 12, 2022: ☔️ Yeah, that kind of day...

Dec 12, 2022: Leftover photo from last week, and a good week to y’all.

Dec 12, 2022: Feels like a stormy day again, dark as night. Lovely day to go out across the river for a shoot. Hope to be back soon too, plenty of stuff to do on …

Dec 12, 2022: 🎧 No Stereo For Me “Funny” story, I got an alert when we got home, and told movieStar that it was silly, as I could feel the charging case …

Dec 12, 2022: 📺 Finished The Bear, again. Boy, is this an AWESOME show! Glad I talked movieStar into watching this one, one show I would really hate if we …

Dec 11, 2022: Assignment for the paper tomorrow morning, learning about it at 10PM. Sometimes I do miss the unpredictability.

Dec 11, 2022: 🪁 Getting ready to drive back to the city. We’ve been “getting ready” for over an hour.

Dec 11, 2022: Tweak, tweak…

Dec 11, 2022: 🍽 Lunch time. Would trade that for a nap.

Dec 11, 2022: 🍪 Final result! Looking good, smelling even nicer.

Dec 11, 2022: 🍪 Time to call the pros! tinyMovieStar is rescuing us, teaching everyone who it’s done! We have cookies!

Dec 11, 2022: 🏗️ Tweaking my weblog.lol theme

Dec 11, 2022: 🎵 Listening to Deer Tick. No reason why I shouldn’t do this more often, I love them.

Dec 11, 2022: Game On! Today’s random photo, from across the proverbial pond.

Dec 11, 2022: 🚶 An hour later, on my way to the shop… Also, smells like burnt something in the kitchen.

Dec 11, 2022: Late #caturday again, the TV Edition! I was kinda expecting it, the characters on the show were not.

Dec 11, 2022: 🍪 Baking with my father-in-law. Fear not, we can always get some from the shop down the road later…

Dec 11, 2022: ☕️ First things first!

Dec 10, 2022: 🎄 Preparations still ongoing…

Dec 10, 2022: Hmmm… prose.sh – a blog platform for hackers

Dec 10, 2022: It doesn’t get more random than this: that one time I was a wedding photographer. Friends we’re getting married, the only reason I did it.

Dec 10, 2022: 😅 Getting tinyMovieStar ready to leave. Picking up mom on the way to our weekend fun.

Dec 10, 2022: ☕️ Good morning, and wishes of a great weekend. Enjoy your coffee too!

Dec 9, 2022: 🦣 Ivory is great already. Hard to believe it’s still Alpha.

Dec 9, 2022: 🪑 Weekend can’t come fast enough

Dec 9, 2022: It’s settled, I’m getting a small tattoo next Friday! Arranged an appointment for my best friend, and the tattoo artist, when speaking to …

Dec 9, 2022: thingsThisWeek #31 📷 The workshop! Classes were great, and I actually had a lot of fun walking around the city with a group of people who had never thought about …

Dec 9, 2022: 🏁 Done! Maybe even time left for lunch before we have to pick up the little one!

Dec 9, 2022: 🪛 Structure, and one drawer, assembled. Three more drawers to the end! I’ll be done before nightfall! Yay!

Dec 9, 2022: Pro cras ti nating.

Dec 9, 2022: Tried to deploy Tanzawa, again, and failed miserably! Will give it another shot later, maybe next year, when I have a TON of free time.

Dec 9, 2022: Another Christmas, another photo sale and exhibition. This time around 70 photographers are taking part. Picked a classic, football in the Moroccan …

Dec 9, 2022: 🦺 Dropping tinyMovieStar at kindergarten, and then… IKEA Part II, The Missing MALM!

Dec 9, 2022: 💸 No idea why I bought another SSH app, when I have no servers…

Dec 8, 2022: Today’s Hello Kitty was shot at home!

Dec 8, 2022: ⛈️ Here we go again… Let’s be careful out there!

Dec 8, 2022: So far, this is what I have… Custom emoji list for maique.lol

Dec 8, 2022: 🗺 We’ll probably go for an after lunch drive, if we can find a road that’s not flooded

Dec 8, 2022: 👨‍🍳 Time to feed the movieStars

Dec 8, 2022: 🥰 Put on my Ramiro sweatshirt today and tinyMovieStar goes: “WOW! That little boy has so many stickers!”

Dec 8, 2022: Tried watching The Little Mermaid, tinyMovieStar requested it. She gave up after 15 minutes. Not enough singing, and plenty of scary stuff going on.

Dec 8, 2022: There’s no way to escape the random of the day…

Dec 8, 2022: 👋 Slooooowly waking up

Dec 7, 2022: ⛈ Thunderstorms. Tonight will be a lot of fun.

Dec 7, 2022: 🍝 Back from the supermarket, ready to cook! No stopping today!

Dec 7, 2022: 🚣‍♂ Supermarket run under heavy rain

Dec 7, 2022: 💞 Time to pick up the movieStars!

Dec 7, 2022: Today’s random is not entirely random, as I still miss this…

Dec 7, 2022: 🧑‍🔧 One down, one to go. I believe the “one to go” will have to wait another day.

Dec 7, 2022: 🇸🇪 IKEA really is the gift that keeps on giving. We’re done with lunch, guess what’s next? Yeah, assembling stuff! Not nice to meet you, …

Dec 7, 2022: Every night I get milk for tinyMovieStar, when she’s already in bed. She’ll call me, ask for milk, get up, follow me to the kitchen, and …

Dec 7, 2022: 📦 Done with IKEA! Yay!

Dec 7, 2022: Car has been returned to Dad, and ours is back! On to IKEA!

Dec 7, 2022: Same Same, but Different Tiny change only, but something has moved out of the folder.

Dec 7, 2022: 🦘 Busy day ahead, gotta ru… jump!

Dec 7, 2022: 🕛 00:00

Dec 6, 2022: 🙄 Waiting for the little one to fall asleep. Again! It’s 11PM, for crying out loud!

Dec 6, 2022: Next Friday we’re meeting the tattoo artist/friend. He’s tattooing my best friend, and I’ll try to get him to do something really …

Dec 6, 2022: 🍿 El Pepe: A Supreme Life. Nice.

Dec 6, 2022: El Pepe: A Supreme Life, 2018 - ★★★½ Watched on Tuesday December 6, 2022.

Dec 6, 2022: 🍎 The Apple and The Tree

Dec 6, 2022: Again late for #caturday, but couldn’t let this one go without a photo. Or two.

Dec 6, 2022: Sad, and discounted, Hello Kitty.

Dec 6, 2022: ☕ The one thing that will, eventually, make me get up from this cozy bed…

Dec 6, 2022: 🎨 LEGOlove

Dec 6, 2022: Ok, maybe not sleeping so soon after all… It’s 11:30PM, and tinyMovieStar is singing, while walking (maybe more like marching) up and …

Dec 6, 2022: 😴 Must. Go. Now.

Dec 5, 2022: 🤗 Testing new apps is fun!

Dec 5, 2022: Impressive how details are so important. Changing my M.b notifications from the official app to Gluon makes them SO much nicer. Love the comment emoji …

Dec 5, 2022: The suggested photographers list for the workshop, so far. Will add more later, when I find the time to keep going down the feed. Finding paste.lol a …

Dec 5, 2022: We needed one of these: doing nothing all day long, sitting in front of a fireplace, watching movies. Feeling great.

Dec 5, 2022: 🍿 A Man of Action, while the little one takes a nap.

Dec 5, 2022: A Man of Action, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Monday December 5, 2022.

Dec 5, 2022: Sing, 2016 - ★★★★ Watched on Monday December 5, 2022.

Dec 5, 2022: 🍿 Watching Sing in small installments, whenever tinyMovieStar lets us. We’re enjoying it a lot, she’s not.

Dec 5, 2022: Assembling a list of photographers with Instagram accounts to share with the workshop participants. Something I should have done before the workshop, …

Dec 5, 2022: Back home, back to random photos. Would feel great to be in a warmer place…

Dec 5, 2022: Looking forward to a quiet day or two, so I can check all the goodies Adam has launched already, and what is still coming down the line in the 25 days …

Dec 5, 2022: 🌴 Waking up in non-negative temperature town! Yay!

Dec 4, 2022: Missing it already.

Dec 4, 2022: After 5 days of gloves, scarf, and wool hat, it feels great to be back to a place where I can ditch two of those. Also, yay for fireplaces.

Dec 4, 2022: 🚗 Done with lunch, prepping out drive back to the city. 5 hours of fun in the car!

Dec 4, 2022: In the end we’re cutting our stay a little shorter, and moving to the in-laws. Keeping tinyMovieStar happy in such cold, and rainy, weather is a …

Dec 4, 2022: Hang in there!

Dec 4, 2022: Waiting for my class. Not a lot to do today, except walk around and shoot.

Dec 4, 2022: thingsThisWeek #30 🥘 Brother-in-law, and his wife, joined us for Sunday lunch at my in-laws. We didn’t get to see them so often before, but they have been trying …

Dec 4, 2022: Final Walk It’s so cold I couldn’t even get four photos! I’m sure the reading on the thermometer is very wrong, but adds a lot of …

Dec 4, 2022: Good morning. Ready for the final day of the workshop.

Dec 3, 2022: The festival is full of friends, as usual, we consider them family. But, this time around, both the illustration teacher, and the screenwriting …

Dec 3, 2022: Every time I open the app, there are hundreds of unread posts. I’m afraid I’ll never be able to go through everything I’m missing these days.

Dec 3, 2022: 😓 Nap Time. Sadly, tinyMovieStar doesn’t feel the same way…

Dec 3, 2022: Loving the city in the winter. Chaves is awesome!

Dec 3, 2022: Walking to DayThree of the workshop. Some people are obviously crazier than I am!

Dec 2, 2022: 🥶 1C

Dec 2, 2022: 🍺 Also beer time

Dec 2, 2022: DayTwo is done, the workshop part. On to dinner. Meals are always the best part, with a table full of artists from different areas talking about …

Dec 2, 2022: Almost done 🙂

Dec 2, 2022: 🍔 Lunch time. “School” starts right after that…

Dec 2, 2022: Less than a minute to complete, standing up, holding the notepad in one hand, and a pencil on the other. Impressed!

Dec 2, 2022: Decided to spend the rest of the afternoon attending a friend’s illustration workshop. He’s BRILLIANT! Time well spent.

Dec 2, 2022: Siza’s Palace

Dec 2, 2022: Welcome to Chaves, Winter Edition -2C waking up, will probably be a very cold day until the end. Have fun.

Dec 2, 2022: 🥶 Waking up to this…!

Dec 1, 2022: 🤪 Tired!

Dec 1, 2022: No time to write, just random shots today…

Dec 1, 2022: Love the smell of a thousand fireplaces going on at the same time. The whole city smell of burning wood. The good kind.

Dec 1, 2022: Done with DayOne! Exhausting. Went pretty well, but still…

Dec 1, 2022: Workshop about to start. There will be a live interview for a local news channel, as if the whole thing without it wasn’t stressful enough!

Dec 1, 2022: Back in Time

Dec 1, 2022: 🦉 Up at 4AM. Why?!!??

Nov 30, 2022: 😩 Too tired to scroll

Nov 30, 2022: Today’s mood.

Nov 30, 2022: Halfway there. Rain and fog most of the time. Also, will reply to everyone when I have the chance. Can’t really do it while driving 😅 Sorry!

Nov 30, 2022: 🏃 Running around like a crazy person, trying to leave on time

Nov 30, 2022: Yup! Another day, another Maserati. Same place as yesterday. I must be doing something wrong with my life!

Nov 30, 2022: Classic Hello Kitty for today.

Nov 30, 2022: 🚌 Travel day has arrived!

Nov 30, 2022: 💤 Going, going, gone.

Nov 30, 2022: 🥨 Tying up some loose ends...

Nov 29, 2022: 🎒 Packing for a week in the cold takes 759 times longer than doing it in the summer

Nov 29, 2022: 🥓 When I thought it wasn’t possible to love this child any more, she says “Bacon is sooo good”!

Nov 29, 2022: My ‘98 car was getting very depressed every time we were entering the garage in the building. Finally figured out why!

Nov 29, 2022: No idea what I’ll do with it yet, but I’m trying PencilBooth.

Nov 29, 2022: Winter Morning Light

Nov 29, 2022: Right after the barber appointment, went to lunch with a friend at the Ramen place close to our old home. Still good, I’m happy to report.

Nov 29, 2022: 🍜 Spiciest ramen ever! Felt SOOOO good!

Nov 29, 2022: It’s everywhere already. Getting close, it seems.

Nov 29, 2022: 💈 It's that time again

Nov 29, 2022: A few dozen new quotes added to my PhotoQuotes bot. Finally! @PhotoQuotes@botsin.space

Nov 29, 2022: 🥶 Checking the forecast for Chaves. Rain could really screw up a workshop where we’re spending most of the time outside. So far we’re …

Nov 29, 2022: 💖 My favorite Hello Kitty in the world…

Nov 29, 2022: 🦠 Haven’t heard the word “Wave” yet, but we should be dead in the middle of one. SO many people getting Covid at the moment, …

Nov 29, 2022: ☕️ Girls still sleeping, time for a quick run to the supermarket (I like to think it’s a 7-11, or Lawsons). Must get coffee before movieStar is …

Nov 29, 2022: 🌞 Here we go again…

Nov 29, 2022: Done for today! Selection is almost done, tomorrow I should be able to finish it. No need to stay up later than this. 166 so far, probably more than …

Nov 29, 2022: Well past midnight, still renaming photos and getting them into some sort of order. Probably I’ll wake up and find out the order makes no sense …

Nov 29, 2022: 🗂 Organizing

Nov 28, 2022: Oceanic+ is, finally, available! Yay!!

Nov 28, 2022: Oh, the teenage years…

Nov 28, 2022: 🤣 tinyMovieStar getting acquainted with the famous hills in town, after telling us she wanted to walk, no pram. She’s EXHAUSTED!

Nov 28, 2022: Random #2 for today, two things I miss dearly: the islands, and riding a motorcycle.

Nov 28, 2022: 🔎 116 photos have been picked, time to pause for now. Tomorrow is another day.

Nov 28, 2022: One thing I’m definitely showing at the workshop, even though it’s not strictly mobile-only, is the Personal page on the website. I feel …

Nov 28, 2022: After months when we stopped going out for an afternoon beer, we’re doing it again today. Twice in as many weeks. Is there a trend here?

Nov 28, 2022: ❄️ Time to start checking the news again… Friend might be heading back there, time to fire up the back-office one more time.

Nov 28, 2022: 🧮 84 photos, and counting...

Nov 28, 2022: 🥢 Picking photos out of the archive. Had to do it, three days before workshop starts...

Nov 28, 2022: There should be a “Piggyback” Workout activity on the Apple Watch.

Nov 28, 2022: Today’s first random is from around here, very close to home. Let’s get going!

Nov 28, 2022: At the time we thought about getting this one for our captain cousin, but didn’t in the end. It was pretty cheap too!

Nov 28, 2022: T-3 for workshop. Gotta remember to pack all the wool we’ll need: gloves, scarf, a hat…

Nov 27, 2022: 🥛 9.30PM, drive to the gas station and get some milk

Nov 27, 2022: 🥰 There’s nothing better than having my daughter asleep in my arms

Nov 27, 2022: Sleepy #caturday… It’s been a while since I managed a somewhat decent photo of this one. Anyway, here goes…

Nov 27, 2022: Looks a bit like that other bird…

Nov 27, 2022: Crowded! A lot of them, and my most used one (Metatext) isn’t even in this folder!

Nov 27, 2022: 🧑‍🍳 In the oven

Nov 27, 2022: 🍰 I believe we’re having cake today… Yummy!

Nov 27, 2022: 📝 Fired up Drafts, and a new thingsThisWeek post is already in the works. Thank you for the push, @jamesvandyne. Again.

Nov 27, 2022: 🤖 Note to self: Must add more quotes to photo quotes tooting bot

Nov 27, 2022: 🌞 Goooood morning!

Nov 27, 2022: 💤 Gone

Nov 27, 2022: Help her become whatever she wants to. That’s the motivation.

Nov 26, 2022: 📷.omg.lol is a thing. No idea what, but it is.

Nov 26, 2022: Passkey login with omg.lol feels so magical I have probably logged out and in more often than I had to.

Nov 26, 2022: 🐾 Time for some “Bluey”

Nov 26, 2022: One thing I’m enjoying immensely with Mastodon is changing apps multiple times a day, and the one responsible for the notifications.

Nov 26, 2022: 💖 Still love the stamp we had made in Vietnam.

Nov 26, 2022: If Santa was REALLY cool, this would be his sled.

Nov 26, 2022: Family affair…

Nov 26, 2022: 🍖 Lunch at mom’s ALWAYS means “No dinner”!

Nov 26, 2022: tinyMovieStar, meet the Little Prince.

Nov 26, 2022: 🔥 Already dreaming about the fireplace I’ll get going as soon as we get to my in-laws

Nov 26, 2022: I made the commitment to complete this challenge, and I’m trying hard to do it! But I’m REALLY looking forward to the end of …

Nov 26, 2022: Squeaky Clean

Nov 26, 2022: I hate subscriptions that renew without as much as a simple warning email a couple of days before, letting me know I’m about to be charged. …

Nov 26, 2022: Cloudron installed, Pixelfed running, but confirmation emails are not going out, and this is not the time to figure this one out. Sleep in… …

Nov 26, 2022: 🚧 Friday Night Fever: Cloudron

Nov 25, 2022: 🐧 + 🎅🏼 = 🥰

Nov 25, 2022: The news, offline…

Nov 25, 2022: Sometimes M.b takes a while to fetch the feeds, so I added a ping to the end of the sticker spotter shortcut. Maybe that will help.

Nov 25, 2022: 🎄 The tree is up!

Nov 25, 2022: 🥰 tinyMovieStar just made my day! She got home from school, I opened the door to let her in, she looked at me, smiled, and said: “You look so …

Nov 25, 2022: Four people, lasted two hours. Still, not great news coming from the islands. Sao Tome and Principe government thwarts overnight coup attempt | …

Nov 25, 2022: Today’s random photo, theMusicMan.

Nov 25, 2022: Alfredo Marceneiro.

Nov 25, 2022: 💻 Testing terminal apps on iOS. Yeah…

Nov 25, 2022: 🌴 Even came across a new one for the palmLove series! And a TON more at Flickr!

Nov 25, 2022: Short photowalk today, but the sun is finally out, I had to go for it. A few stickers, a couple of not so great photos, but a nice walk anyway.

Nov 25, 2022: 🔭 Out looking for stickers

Nov 25, 2022: Rough night, with tinyMovieStar coughing and complaining about ear pain, until she finally fell asleep at 3AM, holding my hand, in our bed. She looks …

Nov 25, 2022: Ritual: Microblogvember entry before turning in for the day.

Nov 25, 2022: list of great apps made by indie developers or small teams for Apple platforms Indie Friday Deals

Nov 24, 2022: 📺 Almost done with FIFA Uncovered. It’s disgusting.

Nov 24, 2022: Our little Minnie Mouse is really pushing it today! Being a piece of work since she got home! 😤

Nov 24, 2022: Cars honking on the street! I guess it’s either gas prices coming down, or something with the football match.

Nov 24, 2022: tinyMovieStar woke up and said she wanted to go to school dressed as Minnie Mouse. Mom: “Should she?” Me: “Why not??”

Nov 24, 2022: Best time to go to the supermarket? While our National team is playing in the World Cup.

Nov 24, 2022: 🚌 It’s “Pick up the Girls” time again

Nov 24, 2022: I have lost all hope that I’ll be able to retain any control of my schedule. movieStars are in charge now.

Nov 24, 2022: Power and Gas company had an inspection scheduled for today and, of course, they had to get here right in the middle of lunch time.

Nov 24, 2022: Super high speed Hello Kitty. Kawaii bullet train, how much better can it get?

Nov 24, 2022: 🦥 Me right now

Nov 24, 2022: After yesterday’s winding post, maybe it’s time to finally get down to picking the photos, no? This is, unexpectedly, taking way longer …

Nov 24, 2022: Feeling tiny.

Nov 24, 2022: ⏲ Still two days to go before the weekend. Phew…

Nov 24, 2022: Flexibits is having a 50% off Black Friday & Cyber Monday sale. They say it’s the lowest price ever. I took advantage of the offer.

Nov 24, 2022: The Workshop Our friends from Chaves, the ones who put together the wonderful N2 festival every year, are now getting ready to launch Bilhó, a new event in the …

Nov 23, 2022: One of my favorite photographers. Always a thrill. Cars, bars and burger joints: William Eggleston’s iconic America – in pictures

Nov 23, 2022: Sold Out! A day later, the workshop is sold out! And I still have to think about a ton of stuff… Good thing I still have a week to go.

Nov 23, 2022: Turned out to be quite the intense day! I wasn’t expecting it, but didn’t even have time to keep up with Mastodon (and that moves FAST!), …

Nov 23, 2022: On our way to drop the microwave at the repair guy.

Nov 23, 2022: 🥰 The new logo for shoutouts is LIVE! It’s SWEET! Well done, @vincent, well done!

Nov 23, 2022: 🦃 Family Thanksgiving dinner canceled. And that's a reason to be thankful for!

Nov 23, 2022: Some umbrellas are just cooler than others!

Nov 23, 2022: New Home, New Landlord Moved to maique.lol, everything is running smoothly. Painless process, mostly because @vincent was the one dealing with the …

Nov 23, 2022: The weather was not perfect. But still a pretty great day. 🇻🇳🌧

Nov 23, 2022: ☕ But first: coffee... hmmm... coffees.

Nov 23, 2022: It’s “Take the Microwave to the Repair Person Day”! Yay!

Nov 23, 2022: 📏 Welcome to the middle of the week

Nov 23, 2022: I should have used the word “update” on my last status update. That would have counted as the Microblogvember update for today, and this …

Nov 23, 2022: Moved earlier than expected, tonight I’m already sleeping at the new place. Looks comfy!

Nov 23, 2022: 🔐 2FA enabled on the new home

Nov 23, 2022: 📦 Moving...

Nov 22, 2022: Randomly moving around, today we stop at Pico, Azores. 🇵🇹 🎉

Nov 22, 2022: Burger (and beer) were delicious. I could just go to sleep now. Other news, it’s time to pick tinyMovieStar from kindergarten.

Nov 22, 2022: On Our Way…

Nov 22, 2022: 🍔 Going out for a burger at the best burger joint in the city. It feels like Christmas!

Nov 22, 2022: Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, and a tab on Safari with Instagram messages! That’s what I have open at the moment to be able to talk to five people …

Nov 22, 2022: People are already signing up for the workshop, and I still have to go find the photos I’ll use! One week to go…

Nov 22, 2022: Covid is gone, Hello Kitty is back!

Nov 22, 2022: 🖕 Ciao, Covid, see you next time!

Nov 22, 2022: Good morning. Waiting to see what comes up… 🇮🇹🕴️

Nov 22, 2022: C’mon, Micro.blog, you can do it… We trust you! Be strong…

Nov 22, 2022: 💯 ? Hard to tell

Nov 22, 2022: 📺 Watched two episodes of Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? on Netflix. A crazy, wild, story I was not familiar with. The whole time we’re going …

Nov 22, 2022: Enough for today. Tomorrow life should resume, back to a more normal posting rhythm… 🇧🇷🏝️

Nov 22, 2022: 🧠 Brain says no!

Nov 22, 2022: Wondering if dealing with VPS + YunoHost + Mastodon while still a bit brain foggy was the best decision… Finding it challenging to deal with …

Nov 21, 2022: 💻 Hetzner: GO!

Nov 21, 2022: I wish today’s word was “snow”. I know what I’d do with that one. Ice? No idea. Maybe a cocktail?

Nov 21, 2022: 🍳 Thinking about dinner. It’s 5:40PM!

Nov 21, 2022: Friends. In the rain. 🇹🇱🐶

Nov 21, 2022: Guess where we did end up? “No, you can’t go down to the sand” “No, you can’t take off your shoes” “No, you …

Nov 21, 2022: tinyMovieStar: where are we going? Me: we might see the sea. tinyMovieStar: ok. movieStar arrives. tinyMovieStar: Mom, we’re going to the beach. …

Nov 21, 2022: Breaking the sandy spell with Chef Ants Uustalu, from (at the time) Ööbiku Gastronoomiatalu. 🇪🇪🐷

Nov 21, 2022: Done with lunch, let’s try to drive a little. Maybe that will persuade tinyMovieStar to take a nap. It’s been two days without it, and …

Nov 21, 2022: I can’t get away from the beach/sand theme! These are looking a lot less “random” than I hoped for 🤨 🇪🇸 ⏳

Nov 21, 2022: Couldn’t sleep last night, so made a shortcut I couldn’t find available. One to post to Mastodon from the Apple Watch (or iPhone for that …

Nov 21, 2022: Macanese Beach Day Not the most inviting water, or sand, or weather. You get what you can, I guess. 🇲🇴 🏖️

Nov 21, 2022: 😅 I’m afraid we’re still on Random Photos (and the occasional Covid update) Mode! Hope you enjoy…

Nov 21, 2022: 🐢 Not perfect, but slowly getting there

Nov 21, 2022: 3AM, my night is on ice. Will try to sleep, not sure about the success of this project. With any luck, it’s the last you hear from me today.

Nov 21, 2022: 🙄 2AM. Had a coffee too late in the day, so now I’m building a Shortcut that I “needed”.

Nov 21, 2022: Long day about to end, and we believe the little one won’t be able to attend kindergarten for a couple of days longer. Should make for an …

Nov 20, 2022: This One Time, at Band Camp… Today a friend was going through some old magazines, pre-pandemic magazines, and found this. At the time, another …

Nov 20, 2022: 🧸 Also, entertaining a healthy child, locked at home, while both adults are sick, is not that easy.

Nov 20, 2022: 🧽 The amount of dirty dishes the three of us are responsible for is impressive!

Nov 20, 2022: Still in a beach mood, randomly going south, to the islands. First time I went there. 🛶 🏝️

Nov 20, 2022: A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear One I never remember to suggest, when people are looking for exactly what says …

Nov 20, 2022: The randomness goes on, now at the beach, for a little set photography. It was a funny show. 🎥 🏖️

Nov 20, 2022: 🍛 Must eat something

Nov 20, 2022: Back from a very quick supplies run, and time for another random photo. Morocco, kids playing football without a care. As it should be. 🇲🇦 ⚽️

Nov 20, 2022: 🎙️Jake Adelstein, of Tokyo Vice fame, has a new podcast coming out. Looking forward to it.

Nov 20, 2022: The poll has ended, random photos it is… Mexico was a trip of discovery. Much more, and very different, than I expected. 🇲🇽 ☀️

Nov 20, 2022: Before tinyMovieStar came along, my days were seldom alike. Babies like routine, so now we’re mostly on constant repeat.

Nov 20, 2022: 🦠 Feeling a lot better. This covid has nothing on January's covid!

Nov 19, 2022: In other news, on account of tinyMovieStar, we’re now having dinner at 6:30PM, risking our own citizenship along with it.

Nov 19, 2022: movieStar and the Azores A while back we visited the Azores (one thing everyone should do), and I decided to document the whole trip with movieStar, …

Nov 19, 2022: 🥰 Sorry about the image spam on my next post, but I’m sick and in love.

Nov 19, 2022: Can’t say this enough: if you need to do any image uploading to Micro.blog, Mimi is as painless as it gets!

Nov 19, 2022: I wonder if I can upload 23 images to Micro.blog in one go… I guess I’m about to find out!

Nov 19, 2022: 🍵 movieStar made tea for us, and, still hallucinating, I was taken back to the tea plantation.

Nov 19, 2022: Both Masto.host and Fedi.monster are not accepting more registrations. That only leaves hosting offers that are out of my reach on the table. Still …

Nov 19, 2022: 🛌 Still here…

Nov 19, 2022: Glad that replies editing is now available on the latest beta of the M.b app. It will soon (already?) become my most used feature.

Nov 19, 2022: Tweaking Hugo partials on the iPhone is SOOO much fun. Not!

Nov 19, 2022: Dreaming… Hallucinating… Lying in bed, looking down at my covered legs and feet, picturing this instead. 🇰🇭 🏝️

Nov 19, 2022: Old school, analog, Hello Kitty.

Nov 19, 2022: 💅🏼 Here We Go! Locked at home, let the festivities begin!

Nov 19, 2022: 🦠 Ready for a day of Sickness & Stickers

Nov 19, 2022: There is enough material for a novel, but I’ve always been a non-fiction kind of guy.

Nov 19, 2022: Disabled crossposting to Twitter. I’m sure I’ll still check from time to time, but I’m not adding to the network.

Nov 18, 2022: 🌡 As expected, night comes with a slight fever…

Nov 18, 2022: 🥶 Shivers, and muscle pain. Also thinking tinyMovieStar has been infected already.

Nov 18, 2022: 😴 Nice covid side effect: 3 hour nap!

Nov 18, 2022: Today would be the perfect day to get started with the instance, since I’m already locked at home, feeling less than ideal. My judgment is …

Nov 18, 2022: 🦠 Always together! 🥰😅

Nov 18, 2022: 🧪 Next up: Covid test. Positive it's nothing, just making sure.

Nov 18, 2022: A bit like myself today, past our prime. It’s not all glamour in Hello Kitty’s life 🙂

Nov 18, 2022: 💊 Today’s coffee comes with a side of Paracetamol

Nov 18, 2022: 🤷‍♂ Sleep at 2AM, up by 5AM. What could go wrong?

Nov 18, 2022: I will never tire of hearing tinyMovieStar calling out “Minki Winki” from the bedroom, when the time comes for her milk at bedtime.

Nov 18, 2022: We will be fine! Craig Mod is now also on Mastodon. Let’s keep walking.

Nov 18, 2022: 💥 Should be sleeping, but can't turn away!

Nov 17, 2022: True to form, I’ve also been postponing going through thousands of photos, and picking the ones I’ll use at the workshop in December. …

Nov 17, 2022: 🌴 As close to the island as I think I’ll get this time.

Nov 17, 2022: Not happy to announce that flu season has begun for us. Here we go…

Nov 17, 2022: Island Trip We had planned a month on the island, for January. And now I’m seriously considering staying behind with tinyMovieStar. Instead of staying a …

Nov 17, 2022: 🛸 Beaming up the photos...

Nov 17, 2022: 📺 Not a football fan, but I do LOVE a good mafia story! It’s only natural that I’m enjoying FIFA Uncovered a lot.

Nov 17, 2022: Memories… memories… 16GB worth of memories.

Nov 17, 2022: OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!! 🥰💖

Nov 17, 2022: Here we go! Final stretch, help me out here, guys! Episode 71 of Hemispheric Views, with the usual gang and Adam(!) will easily take me across the …

Nov 17, 2022: Thankfully this just showed up! Just in time for the dreadful work ahead! Thanks @hemisphericviews!

Nov 17, 2022: Today is the day I finish editing these. Today is the day I finish editing these. Today is the day I finish editing these. Today is the day I finish …

Nov 17, 2022: 🐌 Last week flew by. This one? Not so much…

Nov 17, 2022: In a surprising event, yesterday I left the movieStars at home and went out for a beer with someone I hadn’t seen in 35 years. We stopped short …

Nov 16, 2022: Had a beer with my closest from from when I was a baby-teenager. I hadn’t seen him in decades. It was great! Like we had kept in touch all …

Nov 16, 2022: Today’s lunch venue, a pan-Asian restaurant, had some really cool art on the walls. Nice food as well. Dessert was an amazing Ice Lolly, …

Nov 16, 2022: Doors

Nov 16, 2022: 💕 Lunch date with movieStar...

Nov 16, 2022: Quick walk to the barber to pick up a new tin of Reuzel pomade, and back home. On the way I found my old friend, the poo emoji, that is still sticker …

Nov 16, 2022: Whenever it’s “Go Time”, Hello Kitty joins us for the ride.

Nov 16, 2022: Also, how’s Poland? Still there? 😔

Nov 16, 2022: 🚀 So… Missed Artemis launch while I slept.

Nov 16, 2022: There’s no way we’ll open a franchise of tinyMovieStar. This is a single location brand.

Nov 15, 2022: Last one, pinky promise. I wasn’t going to post any more of yesterday’s photos, but got this one right now, and couldn’t help it. …

Nov 15, 2022: Just saw Ted Lasso, feel good Ted Lasso, on a McD ad, for the Qatar World Cup. I guess I’m not watching Ted Lasso again.

Nov 15, 2022: This week I’m having a beer with my best friend from school, when we were 3 to 16 years old. I haven’t seen him since.

Nov 15, 2022: While waiting for the door to open for yesterday’s show, Marta (barber who works with Miguel at Belarmino), sat down in a parked Harley for a …

Nov 15, 2022: The rain keeps falling, no stop at the playground for tinyMovieStar today. Sad face.

Nov 15, 2022: Glitch!

Nov 15, 2022: 😝 As expected, mom thinks the haircut is a "bit too much"

Nov 15, 2022: Break for Kitty After yesterday’s rougher post, I thought it would be a good idea to get back to normal. Here I am, with my dear friend Hello …

Nov 15, 2022: 😩 One day of fun and games must be followed by one sitting at the computer, editing photos. Stupid rule!

Nov 15, 2022: 🐎 Sometimes I really feel like a Toddler Wrangler…

Nov 15, 2022: Aluminium is my Microblogvember kryptonite.

Nov 15, 2022: 😴 Sleepy sleepy

Nov 14, 2022: Reckless eating during the weekend is messing up my intermittent fasting plans. I had dinner just a couple of hours ago, and I could eat again …

Nov 14, 2022: 🔥 Microwave is no more, heating milk in the stove, like my grandparents did.

Nov 14, 2022: 📺 Relaxing…

Nov 14, 2022: Carrying my Yubikey around with me all day long, just in case Masto.host opens the floodgates when I’m not home, and I need to make some DNS …

Nov 14, 2022: Done!

Nov 14, 2022: 💈 About to start. New haircut in a few moments…

Nov 14, 2022: Before Lunch Rehearsal, prepping, here we go…

Nov 14, 2022: The way over photo dump… Quick metro ride, and a short walk. Arrived.

Nov 14, 2022: Slept in tinyMovieStar’s bed, after she finally gave in and fell asleep. I would gladly spend the whole day with her, but we both have to leave. …

Nov 14, 2022: 🤨 How do you tell a 2 1/2 year old that midnight is not a proper time to sleep at her age, when she’s been doing it for the past two days at her …

Nov 13, 2022: 🧈 You’re obviously entitled to your own opinion, but you haven’t really tried butter until you’ve tasted butter from the Azores!

Nov 13, 2022: I will rarely visit Discover on Micro.blog and not follow someone.

Nov 13, 2022: 🪅 Refreshing Masto.host, hoping candy will fall down…

Nov 13, 2022: 🛣 Time to go home…

Nov 13, 2022: Tomorrow I’m taking the subway. Haven’t done that in a while, as we usually walk everywhere, and the trip is not challenging at all. Our …

Nov 13, 2022: For you? For me? One of movieStar’s birthday gifts has my name on it… Inside North Korea, by Oliver Wainwright.

Nov 13, 2022: Dry

Nov 13, 2022: Of all the people (a lot!) that came over for the party yesterday, guess who stayed for a sleepover, and breakfast? Yup, that cousin! Extra coffee …

Nov 13, 2022: ☕️ Still need one of these. Or two.

Nov 13, 2022: Not all of them are from far away places, Hello Kitty is also found really close to home.

Nov 13, 2022: Adjust! Adjust! That could be our motto now, or the advice we’d give new parents if they ever ask for some: “Love, and adjust!”

Nov 13, 2022: Looking forward to tomorrow. I’m joining my barber at a barber show. His using me to show off his skills, and I might get an even crazier look …

Nov 13, 2022: 11:30PM, looks like the party is finally winding down. I’ve been up since 3AM, so I’m (more than) ready to get some sleep. It was a fun …

Nov 12, 2022: Pink World!

Nov 12, 2022: There’s this one cousin, though, that gets on my nerves! I have to work REALLY hard to keep my cool the whole time he’s around. And he …

Nov 12, 2022: null

Nov 12, 2022: 😝 Already waiting for the end of the party, and it hasn’t even started

Nov 12, 2022: Tom Waits - Closing Time. The whole drive over. Still one of my favorite albums of all time.

Nov 12, 2022: After yesterday’s smaller dinner, today we have a full blown party at my in-laws. Dozens of guests, just like in pre-covid times. Should be fun, …

Nov 12, 2022: 🏎 Time to get in the car and drive to tinyMovieStar!

Nov 12, 2022: 5AM. Up for a couple of hours now. Not the way I expected this to unfold.

Nov 12, 2022: ⏲ Counting the minutes until the night is over.

Nov 12, 2022: While I have the time, I might as well say that I have a strong suspicion tinyMovieStar might be having one of the greatest nights of her life, with …

Nov 12, 2022: Speeding along…

Nov 12, 2022: So… what should I do with the extra time, while movieStar is out with her friends… maybe an extra sticker? One more Hello Kitty series …

Nov 12, 2022: Excellent dinner, incredible IPA to go with it, and a side of worry, wondering how tinyMovieStar is doing without us. First night alone in two and …

Nov 11, 2022: 🎄 Christmas ornaments bigger than a tall statue? Sure, we have those too!

Nov 11, 2022: Today tinyMovieStar will sleep at her grandparents, without us. First time she’ll be away from us for the night, and I might be the one …

Nov 11, 2022: 🥰 I’m the luckiest man alive! No doubt about that.

Nov 11, 2022: A little tweak to the shortcut @gr36 kindly arranged, and sticker spotter on Mastodon now supports alt text. Glad @manton got this working as well, …

Nov 11, 2022: 🍹 It’s Margerits for lunc… Margaritas for lunch tay… Day!

Nov 11, 2022: Downtown

Nov 11, 2022: ☕️ iSeeFaces, the Portuguese edition

Nov 11, 2022: 😍 Funny enough, we actually met on her birthday as well, 7 years ago!

Nov 11, 2022: 💖 Happy birthday, movieStar!

Nov 11, 2022: Yesterday we watched an amazing display of style, and fashion sense, by tinyMovieStar. And that duck bathrobe never expected to see a restaurant too!

Nov 11, 2022: Yeah! Apple Frames 3.0: Completely Rewritten, Support for iPhone 14 Pro and Dynamic Island, New Devices, Multiple Display Resolutions, and More - …

Nov 11, 2022: Semiphemeral is your friend.

Nov 11, 2022: Move along, move along… Just testing to check if alt text makes it all the way to Mastodon 🤞🏼

Nov 10, 2022: 10PM doesn’t sound like an acceptable time to have a demonstration, but that’s exactly what’s going on outside just now. Sadly it …

Nov 10, 2022: 👑 Hoping we can find the time to watch another episode today. Will you be a dear, and sleep, tinyMovieStar?

Nov 10, 2022: 🦆 Back from dinner. tinyMovieStar decided to wear her duck bathrobe to the restaurant. She looked awesome.

Nov 10, 2022: ⚡ Week almost gone, went by in a flash…

Nov 10, 2022: Afternoon spent walking around with friends visiting from the north, no minutes added to my working time in the afternoon. Not a bad way to spend a …

Nov 10, 2022: Update: with some help from Hello Kitty, stickers, coffee, chestnuts, Micro.blog, and Mastodon, I have managed to work exactly 7 minutes this morning. …

Nov 10, 2022: Very Day Hello Kitty Love

Nov 10, 2022: ❌ 💩

Nov 10, 2022: 🌰 Delayed editing: buying chestnuts

Nov 10, 2022: ☹ Not sure I'll find time to walk today. Lightroom keeps yelling my name, that needy bastard!

Nov 10, 2022: Some days with tinyMovieStar I feel like a minister preaching to a tinyDevil.

Nov 10, 2022: 👋 Welcome to Thursday. May it be a good one.

Nov 9, 2022: CiderDiver Going home!

Nov 9, 2022: Still at it… Not too bad, just away from the movieStars 😔

Nov 9, 2022: Here we go… The way there: The venue:

Nov 9, 2022: 🚀 Time to get this show on the road!

Nov 9, 2022: Today’s walk photo dump, pretty boring to be honest. Went out looking for another street art piece, after yesterday’s disappointing hunt, …

Nov 9, 2022: ✈️ Quick bonus post, how we got around. Fly me to the moon… Spoiler: we flew.

Nov 9, 2022: 😒 Very uninspired walk

Nov 9, 2022: 🇭🇰 Done! Made it! The final post of the honeymoon is now live, feel free to visit Hong Kong with us.

Nov 9, 2022: Gotta pick up the speed with the photo picking. Assignment later on, and it’s a long one. Would love to finish this today, but starting to doubt …

Nov 9, 2022: 😻 Yeah, I’m serious about this whole Hello Kitty business!

Nov 9, 2022: 🔍 Going through the photos... Hundreds of them... Must... Choose...

Nov 9, 2022: ⏰ WHAT?? Already???

Nov 9, 2022: Almost… Done with the text (I’m almost positive), and about to dive into the hundreds of photos from HK. I will probably leave that for …

Nov 9, 2022: 🏗 Still working on that Hong Kong post, but it's close to 1:30AM!

Nov 9, 2022: Nothing is certain! Nothi… Unless we’re talking about ALL Microblogvember posts being about our parenting woes.

Nov 9, 2022: The Apartment Building

Nov 9, 2022: I might have started the process of getting my own Mastodon instance…

Nov 8, 2022: 👻 Ghost renewal. Ouch!

Nov 8, 2022: 😱 Rough night in the movieStars lair. The tiny one is awake again!

Nov 8, 2022: tinyMovieStar is having a meltdown. Not nice.

Nov 8, 2022: 🛒 Back home, after a quick supermarket run (Peppa Pig strawberry ice-cream)

Nov 8, 2022: So, Lidl has Paw Patrol toys. Guess where we’re going?

Nov 8, 2022: Couldn’t help it! Writing on dinkiwinkiminkiwinki reminded me I had not bought that handle on omg.lol, so I went ahead and did it. Breaking my …

Nov 8, 2022: ⌨ Raining for hours, getting busy with the Hong Kong post for DinkiWinkiMinkiWinki.

Nov 8, 2022: 🍲 Wondering if I should have lunch, or just skip this one as well. Not THAT hungry anyway...

Nov 8, 2022: 🍩 Yummy Kitty One of my favorite Hello Kitty ever!

Nov 8, 2022: 📱 Back from the walk, editing, editing…

Nov 8, 2022: The River Edition Walked to the river, trying to find another sculpture by SUPERLINOX, but it wasn’t there anymore. Bummer. Got a bit of rain on …

Nov 8, 2022: I find it extremely amusing that my bank sends me notifications about investment funds and other opportunities, somehow specifically tailored to …

Nov 8, 2022: 🌦 Rainy. Must walk anyway.

Nov 8, 2022: I can’t reach a consensus with myself on many subjects.

Nov 7, 2022: 2000 nit!

Nov 7, 2022: A fresh take on the whole copyright infringement situation.

Nov 7, 2022: 🧐 Pondering… Pondering…

Nov 7, 2022: I’m afraid I might just be waiting for masto.host to open up registrations again. I have the domain all ready (I had no idea this was it’s …

Nov 7, 2022: Much nicer than the one Rolls Royce has, as far as I’m concerned.

Nov 7, 2022: Going Up

Nov 7, 2022: 🍺 Well done, BrewDog, well done…

Nov 7, 2022: 🛻 Drive to Mom&Dad’s, and back: accomplished!

Nov 7, 2022: Impressive review and photos, as usual. Best camera app around, developed by a great photographer as well. iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, …

Nov 7, 2022: 🎨 Pants Down! Short walk today, and almost exclusively so I could get to this piece by SUPERLINOX I saw yesterday while driving home. Too lazy to pick …

Nov 7, 2022: 🌅 Wishing y’all a great week

Nov 7, 2022: One of the most counterfeited characters, I’m sure. Here spotted in one of the counterfeiting capitals of the world.

Nov 7, 2022: Two and a half years of this, and still so little insight into the whole parenting thing. One minute you feel you’re on top of everything and, a …

Nov 7, 2022: I knew I needed my own instance 😇

Nov 6, 2022: ⌛ Endless Sunday

Nov 6, 2022: I knew the nap tinyMovieStar took at 4PM, for HOURS, would come back to haunt us. Sadly, but surely, I was right.

Nov 6, 2022: Matryoshka Kitty I’m slowing down right after this one, but I’ve been digging in the archive, and it’s one after another. So many of …

Nov 6, 2022: 🧭 Found our way back home

Nov 6, 2022: This is the kind of thing that, sometimes, makes me want to have my own instance again… Love what you can do when you own the place.

Nov 6, 2022: One of many musical Hello Kitty you can find, and the guitar I’d like to own, if I knew how to play the guitar.

Nov 6, 2022: The only Twitch notifications I get, guaranteed to get a smile out of me…

Nov 6, 2022: Hello, Hello Kitty Triggered by a conversation I had on Mastodon, I’m starting a new category on maique.eu: Stuff with Hello Kitty I find all …

Nov 6, 2022: Kitty Poker anyone?

Nov 6, 2022: 😻 And the final one… Happy Caturday!

Nov 6, 2022: 😹 And how is THAT going, you ask?

Nov 6, 2022: 😼 Trying to get the cat to do something for Caturday, even though it’s already Sunday

Nov 6, 2022: 🔥 Fireplace: ON

Nov 6, 2022: 😡 A week later, the DST change is still playing games with my wake up time

Nov 6, 2022: Trying to find an easy way out for today’s Microblogvember word only led to hearing it, over and over, echoing inside my very empty brain.

Nov 6, 2022: 🌛 Going soon…

Nov 6, 2022: Here’s to the next year of sticker spotter! My card was just charged by the good people at Micro.blog, the awesome company where it’s …

Nov 5, 2022: Me@Mastodon The wonderful Adam has enabled social.lol for all the usernames one has on omg.lol, his wonderful suite of internet fun, so I went ahead and activated …

Nov 5, 2022: On The Road People seem to have a hard time finding the bin at the gas station. Actually, they seem to struggle everywhere. Always impressed by the …

Nov 5, 2022: A cousin came over, and I was looking at his AirTag. They look nice enough, but I struggled to find a way to use one in my life. I ALWAYS put stuff in …

Nov 5, 2022: Hygge

Nov 5, 2022: 🪅 Coco

Nov 5, 2022: 🍕 Pizza Time!

Nov 5, 2022: 🎒 Packing, again

Nov 5, 2022: Evening Supermarket Run

Nov 5, 2022: 🌻 Beautiful morning, enjoying it

Nov 5, 2022: tableForOne Coffee time, and wishes of a great weekend.

Nov 5, 2022: 🦉 Figuring out what I'll use yet another account for...

Nov 5, 2022: Temporary exemption yesterday, but still feeling I shouldn’t have done it. I’ve cut down my sugar consumption to zero, or as close as I …

Nov 4, 2022: Today’s Leftovers Walking for a longer time, more photos are bound to show up. Some are left behind.

Nov 4, 2022: 😮‍💨 Waiting for a certain someone to fall asleep

Nov 4, 2022: Strong contender to the Ugliest Corner in the City award:

Nov 4, 2022: 🍩 21 hours of fasting, then two doughnuts. Doing great, sir!

Nov 4, 2022: Shoutouts is live. Really fair pricing, for a simple, nice, and cool service. Go check it out, and subscribe if you think you might use it. I know I …

Nov 4, 2022: Firenza/Triumph

Nov 4, 2022: Back home, after another trip to the dentist on the other side of the river. Everything going according to plan. tinyMovieStar home soon, and we can …

Nov 4, 2022: 🌳 Looking forward to getting out of the city

Nov 4, 2022: Here you go, Adobe, take my money. Again.

Nov 4, 2022: Today’s Walk A little over 5K, visiting a few different neighborhoods, some I don’t go to often. Finding you can tell the coolest from the …

Nov 4, 2022: 😌 Walking

Nov 4, 2022: 🦘 Final hop, this week felt looooooong

Nov 4, 2022: My admiration and respect for movieStar is limitless. We had two girls for a few hours. Uff! I can’t fathom how people do it. Really. I …

Nov 3, 2022: 🥵 Exhausted

Nov 3, 2022: 💪 Half my Activity Rings are closed doing stuff around the house: dishes, cleaning up, laundry, …

Nov 3, 2022: Daydreaming Again Throwback to a very fun afternoon. Beer (lots of it), beach, karaoke. How could that go wrong? 🇰🇭 🍺

Nov 3, 2022: 🤪 Babysitting Mode: ON

Nov 3, 2022: movieStars trying to find a pair of boots, I’m waiting for them. There is always time for a photo, don’t even have to step outside the …

Nov 3, 2022: 🚌 Getting ready to pick up tinyMovietStar. This concludes the "quiet" part of the day, let the games resume!

Nov 3, 2022: I was this close to purchasing another omg.lol address yesterday, just because I had a great avatar for it! In the end reason prevailed, and I just …

Nov 3, 2022: Soooooooooo… Just found out we’re babysitting a friend’s daughter today! The kid is super nice, but still………..

Nov 3, 2022: Thinking about lunch… this fasting thing is fine, but after almost 19 hours I could definitely eat something.

Nov 3, 2022: 100m Apart

Nov 3, 2022: Amore! Walking in the rain, still a pleasure.

Nov 3, 2022: 🚶‍♂ Walking in the rain. I might be singing as well…

Nov 3, 2022: 🌡️ We’re good to go

Nov 3, 2022: 🧑‍🏫 School day, or not? Let’s look at the thermometer…

Nov 3, 2022: 🎙️ Just in time, there’s a new Smartless episode! And, yes, it’s the one where President Joe Biden talks to the guys.

Nov 3, 2022: Spent the whole day acting as a doctor, nurse, cook, and child care professional. All of this without holding a single license! Usually I also play …

Nov 3, 2022: So far I’m having fun with Microblogvember. I’m well aware I’ll probably run out of gas in a few days but, until then, I’ll …

Nov 3, 2022: Long day close to the end. tinyMovieStar spent almost two hours trying to sleep with her mom. She couldn’t. I gave it a try. Took me three …

Nov 2, 2022: 💊 Fever goes up, fever comes down. Up, down, up, down...

Nov 2, 2022: Shoutouts are things you want to shout out about on your website Introducing shoutouts.lol // Vincent Ritter A cool new service from @vincent that …

Nov 2, 2022: It’s Dramatic Light Day! While on my sticker spotting mission…

Nov 2, 2022: Hey, I’m walking here!

Nov 2, 2022: ✌ Successful hunt. Now a quick supermarket run, and then a full day of taking care of the little one

Nov 2, 2022: 👀 Out, hunting for stickers

Nov 2, 2022: 🏃‍♂ Quickly checking online world before waking up the movieStars

Nov 2, 2022: 😴 Time to go

Nov 2, 2022: It’s past midnight, so I guess I can use the word already. What a feast we had yesterday! Through fever and medicine, with no afternoon nap, our …

Nov 2, 2022: 📺 The Playlist, again

Nov 1, 2022: 🏁 Made it to the end of the day!

Nov 1, 2022: I really put the scrambled in scrambled eggs!

Nov 1, 2022: the erratic right-wing populist was holed up in his presidential residence consumed by anger, despondency and disbelief Bolsonaro breaks election …

Nov 1, 2022: Obviously not counting this one as diving, but I had to check tinyMovieStar’s bath temperature, so why not use the watch? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Nov 1, 2022: 🩺 Trying to control a fever

Nov 1, 2022: tinyMovieStar: “I want that thing to hear everything, and to hear nothing” She meant the headphones 🎧

Nov 1, 2022: Afternoon at Uncle John’s tinyMovieStar got to play with a ton of cool stuff… I was stuck at the register!

Nov 1, 2022: 🙌 Relaxing…

Nov 1, 2022: Help

Nov 1, 2022: tinyMovieStar with a little fever, off to the pharmacy I go…

Nov 1, 2022: Here We Go Holiday means more time together 🥰

Nov 1, 2022: A tech bro here, a tech bro there, OMG tech bros everywhere! The city is full of WebSummit attendees, it’s time to move to Cascais for the day!

Nov 1, 2022: No kindergarten today, National holiday. We’ll have to figure something out…

Oct 31, 2022: 🍝 Pasta Time!

Oct 31, 2022: Probably some President or other, in town for WebSummit. Or not.

Oct 31, 2022: First time at this tattoo studio as well. Fiasco. That’s the name of the shop.

Oct 31, 2022: 🎈 Picking up tinyMovieStar

Oct 31, 2022: 🩹 A really small one, but the one that means the most to me already. Well under an hour with Vicky Monté (Instagram link), and I now have a permanent …

Oct 31, 2022: 🩹 Tattoo accomplished!

Oct 31, 2022: 🤪 Told you it was a strange part of town, didn’t I?

Oct 31, 2022: 🩹 Pick a size…

Oct 31, 2022: Waiting for the artist. I did get to the studio WAY earlier than I should have.

Oct 31, 2022: It made him rich and famous—but tragedy, as Oscar Wilde knew, can sometimes stem from getting everything you want, rather than from failing to. A …

Oct 31, 2022: Sad Got (very) early to the tattoo place. The area around it feels sad and desolate. A 15 minute walk, and I’m back in the car. The gloomy …

Oct 31, 2022: 💥 Be right back, getting a tattoo

Oct 31, 2022: 👏 Lula!

Oct 30, 2022: 🗳 Fingers crossed for Brazil

Oct 30, 2022: It was an incredibly busy weekend, with family and friends. Full table at every meal, well over a dozen people all the time. Fun, happy, and loud.

Oct 30, 2022: Can’t escape! Even when I’m off work, I can’t get away from the grapes!

Oct 30, 2022: 🏙 City, we’re back.

Oct 30, 2022: Family Stuff It’s been a while with no family photos, so here goes… Took tinyMovieStar to the playground, then back home to get lunch …

Oct 30, 2022: 🪅 Tomorrow is tattoo day! Can’t wait.

Oct 30, 2022: Late, as usually, but here is my contribution to the Caturday fun… Managed to get three this time around!

Oct 30, 2022: Colors, by tinyMovieStar The kindergarten teacher was impressed by the neat circles, instead of the usual mess. We were too! And, related, she likes …

Oct 30, 2022: ☕ Number 2 now, didn’t have the strength to post while having number 1

Oct 30, 2022: 🎁 A new omg.lol address you say?

Oct 29, 2022: 💭 It’s quiet again, I can hear myself thinking

Oct 29, 2022: The Watch, a few Weeks Later So… how do I feel a month after spending a small fortune on the new Ultra? Happy. And there’s actually one thing that didn’t cross …

Oct 29, 2022: 📷 Screenshooting

Oct 29, 2022: 13 adults, 4 toddlers. Crowded lunch, noisy lunch. 5:30PM, still going.

Oct 29, 2022: 🥩 Ate TOO much

Oct 29, 2022: A sample, and Caturday!

Oct 29, 2022: 🌶 Chili Challenge

Oct 29, 2022: Walking the dog, and tinyMovieStar Just before the rain came back, hard. We were having fun, and then I had to carry her all the way home 🤣

Oct 29, 2022: 🔒 Enabled 2FA on my social.lol account. It’s something I do whenever the option is available, but somehow missed this one. Guess I was having …

Oct 29, 2022: ⛈ One of those days

Oct 29, 2022: 🤔 Up late again

Oct 28, 2022: 🐶 Walking the dog

Oct 28, 2022: For those mildly interested, here it is: Mini Maria, the elusive cookie. We will always have this photo, even if we never find another one again.

Oct 28, 2022: If anyone still remembers the Cookie Saga, my mother-in-law found them! tinyMovieStar is HAPPY 🍪

Oct 28, 2022: 🎃 Seems like we’re also doing this now…

Oct 28, 2022: 🧘‍♂ Weekend Mode engaged

Oct 28, 2022: Am I wrong, or the new Medications thing on the Health app doesn’t allow for a specific end date? Let’s say I should take medicine X at …

Oct 28, 2022: Saw the first 10 minutes of Bullet Train on YouTube, now I want the rest…

Oct 28, 2022: 🎒 Getting ready for the weekend

Oct 28, 2022: 📺 Finished The Playlist.

Oct 28, 2022: Tips and advice for getting started with Mastodon. Especially if you’re used to Twitter. A Brief Mastodon Guide for Social Media Worriers

Oct 28, 2022: A remake of this photo would thrill me for two reasons: I would be diving again, and in a place where we’re very happy: the island. Bonus: no …

Oct 28, 2022: Crossing the bridge again.

Oct 28, 2022: 🚙 Driving

Oct 27, 2022: dismal view of the go-kart tours held by a large number of locals, many of whom find the modified vehicles to be noisy, annoying and dangerous. …

Oct 27, 2022: The new sticker setup is making me post a lot more frequently than usual. I hope this will settle down in a few days 🙂

Oct 27, 2022: Next: Pick up brother -> Pick up movieStar -> Pick up tinyMovieStar-> Mom’s birthday tea party 🎉

Oct 27, 2022: Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn, 2022 - ★★½ Watched on Thursday October 27, 2022.

Oct 27, 2022: 📺 Pausing for a bit, watching Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn. Read about it in the past, glad this one also made it to Netflix.

Oct 27, 2022: Now that everything is working with the sticker thing, it’s time to pick a theme, and tweak it. I’ve got a busy day ahead.

Oct 27, 2022: One very cool and sweet side effect of the Ultra: tinyMovieStar loves swiping left and right between the Minnie and Mickey faces, and touch the screen …

Oct 27, 2022: 🍰 Mom’s Birthday

Oct 26, 2022: 🛑 That’s it, time to sleep.

Oct 26, 2022: Wild Hair Day On assignment: At the paper:

Oct 26, 2022: I Saw Faces. Again.

Oct 26, 2022: 🥴 So. Tired.

Oct 26, 2022: Out and About It was a long day, with great conversation on the way there and back, and not a lot of photos. Today’s photo dump…

Oct 26, 2022: Yay! @manton is awesome, and I managed to import hundreds of photos to sticker spotter’s new home with a script he made! Still need to pick a …

Oct 26, 2022: 💻 Back home. Editing in a rush.

Oct 26, 2022: 👀 Looking for lunch

Oct 26, 2022: The move has been made! All I needed was a painless way to post, and I thought about a Shortcut. Before I could even open the Shortcuts app, Greg …

Oct 26, 2022: 🌳 Oh, the countryside!

Oct 26, 2022: Early Morning City Life On the road. Loving it.

Oct 26, 2022: 😭 It’s too early to be up!

Oct 26, 2022: Solution: a Shortcut! I’ll need a Shortcut that allows me to pick a photo, asks for a caption (usually a single word), and posts that full size …

Oct 25, 2022: There are 549 photos already on the old one. Hope I can import them somehow to the new version.

Oct 25, 2022: Got a new Micro.blog account, changed the DNS for sticker spotter. The old one is dead, long live sticker spotter. Trying to get things working as …

Oct 25, 2022: 🤿 Diving head first, as usual!

Oct 25, 2022: 🤔 Decisions, decisions…

Oct 25, 2022: Tomorrow I’m back in the Alentejo, on assignment. Rain is expected, not great when the whole thing we’re doing is outdoors. Anyway, happy …

Oct 25, 2022: 🥘 Juggling pots & pans

Oct 25, 2022: It’s here!! Thanks to “Someone”, the Ocean Band made it home. Now I just need to find a diving buddy willing to face the freezing …

Oct 25, 2022: 🎉 Delivered!

Oct 25, 2022: RGB

Oct 25, 2022: 📦 Incoming…

Oct 25, 2022: Morning drive to the dentist, always thrilling to go over this bridge.

Oct 25, 2022: 🦷 Dentist visit next

Oct 24, 2022: Maybe, just maybe, sticker spotter will move to Micro.blog. Just saw @manton’s post and, while I personally have no use for the Premium account, …

Oct 24, 2022: Had the pleasure of meeting a couple of friends today. I missed both, but one is a very dear friend, and it was truly a treat. Meet Rui (Instagram …

Oct 24, 2022: Guess who has a daughter? 💅🏼

Oct 24, 2022: 🐌 Updating

Oct 24, 2022: 😎 Happy day with friends

Oct 24, 2022: 🍪 Cookie Quest on hold, no one seems to have them anymore

Oct 24, 2022: 🕵 Show me the cookies!

Oct 24, 2022: Stuff to do today: Go out and look for those damn cookies! Again! Visit Mom&Dad Lunch with an old friend who lives in an island and is never in …

Oct 24, 2022: ☕ Coffees made, and drank. Have a great week, everyone.

Oct 23, 2022: 🌆 Driving back to the city

Oct 23, 2022: One page I keep checking, almost daily. Keeping my hopes up, dreaming this will be the service that replaces blot, and sticker spotter will have a new …

Oct 23, 2022: 🍛 Family lunch

Oct 23, 2022: Keeping an eye on the camera bag, I guess it’s safe. No one would try to take it away from her. Again late for caturday, but here we are 🐈

Oct 23, 2022: Getting Started Here we go, been looking forward to this day for a while now 🔥

Oct 23, 2022: 🔥 Fireplace on! First time this year.

Oct 23, 2022: 🐌 Sloooooow Sunday, please…

Oct 22, 2022: I got this piggy bank when I was born, from the bank where my father worked at the time. My mom is using it now, for tinyMovieStar. Every month, on …

Oct 22, 2022: 🤩 Surprisingly unusual, and happy, day coming to an end. Thank you all 🙂

Oct 22, 2022: I’m just a pillow now… Caturday, what else?

Oct 22, 2022: 🍔 Binging Somebody Feed Phil, as you do on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Oct 22, 2022: Ordered! Thank you again! 🥰

Oct 22, 2022: I can’t believe this!! Added a thing to test the wishlist feature on buymeacoffee, and a sweet soul just funded the whole darn thing!! Ten …

Oct 22, 2022: 🏗 Adding offers on BuyMeACoffee…

Oct 22, 2022: Just like Peppa Finally, after months of dryness, we get puddles! tinyMovieStar can, at last, jump on puddles! These are small, true, but we’ll …

Oct 22, 2022: Still on the weight thing, I’m glad I weighted myself before lunch with my parents 😅

Oct 22, 2022: Also, sugar is WAY harder to let go than beer!

Oct 22, 2022: Three weeks have gone by since I started the intermittent fasting and walking. Down 7Kg. Still a bit more to go, but happy with it so far.

Oct 22, 2022: I promised my barber I wouldn’t trim the beard, or touch my hair, until Nov 14th, for an event he wants me to be a part of. I look like a hermit …

Oct 22, 2022: 🔦 Sky got so dark it feels like nighttime again

Oct 22, 2022: Buymeacoffee now has integrated wishlists. Testing…

Oct 22, 2022: 🧸 I should be in bed

Oct 21, 2022: Even if you are not sure you need a snippet repository, you might pick up a few things about workspaces, actions, and other Drafts tools that you can …

Oct 21, 2022: 😩 Waiting for tinyMovieStar to fall asleep to watch something on TV. It's taking FOREVER!

Oct 21, 2022: Orange Out to dinner. The usual corner, unusual sky.

Oct 21, 2022: Haruki Happiness We have a friend that has a dog. I love him. I guess he loves me too. Every time we meet he starts howling. First time seeing this …

Oct 21, 2022: 👓 Red glasses have been delivered, no longer using backup pair. tinyMovieStar will be thrilled when she gets back home.

Oct 21, 2022: Cookie Run Photo Dump Still managed a few postcard photos while looking for the missing cookies.

Oct 21, 2022: Cookie Run Long story (and walk) short, I couldn’t find the damn cookies! Visited 8 supermarkets. Why can’t tinyMovieStar just eat the …

Oct 21, 2022: 🔎 On a mission! Need to find a particular brand of cookies, only available at a specific supermarket.

Oct 21, 2022: 💅 Getting my nails done. Purple this time. tinyMovieStar picked the color.

Oct 21, 2022: The week is not over yet, but we’re getting there!

Oct 20, 2022: 🏁 Home at last

Oct 20, 2022: Road Day As I spent most of the day on the road, guess what photos I got today? Yes. Again.

Oct 20, 2022: ⏳ Waiting for the time to leave again

Oct 20, 2022: First part of the “ambulance” service done. Walk also done. Probably skipping lunch, and then it’s “ambulance” duty …

Oct 20, 2022: Lucky me! Both Hemispheric Views and Missing Crypto Queen have new episodes!

Oct 20, 2022: ☕️ Need this even more today, raining and the wind is blowing

Oct 20, 2022: 😅 Here I go, ready for a day on the road

Oct 19, 2022: One of the apps that I love using, even though I’m barely scratching the surface so far, is Grocery. Great watch app as well. Have to dig …

Oct 19, 2022: Back to ambulance duty tomorrow, with added rain on the forecast. Maybe I’m lucky and I have new episodes of some podcast to keep me …

Oct 19, 2022: 🥩 Cooking

Oct 19, 2022: 👨‍🎨 Playtime!

Oct 19, 2022: Today we drove tinyMovieStar to kindergarten, as the rain wouldn’t stop. She said she needed boots for the rain. She’s was right. …

Oct 19, 2022: 🍜 Vietnamese for lunch

Oct 19, 2022: 📺 Watching “The Playlist”

Oct 19, 2022: Vehicle Also spot a variety of transportation modes… Gloomy gloomy.

Oct 19, 2022: Color Walk Trying to find some color on a gloomy, and wet, day.

Oct 19, 2022: ☔ Walking in the rain

Oct 19, 2022: ⛈ Stormy day ahead

Oct 18, 2022: LOL Extravaganza A few days ago I went ahead, took advantage of a Porkbun promotion, and registered a new domain: maique.lol. The sole purpose of this move was to …

Oct 18, 2022: movieStar noted, and rightly so, that tinyMovieStar doesn’t wear diapers anymore. As a result, I had to change my occupation across social …

Oct 18, 2022: 👓 Broken glasses, wearing backup pair.

Oct 18, 2022: Walking With David Today I had the pleasure of meeting David (@crossingthethreshold), and his wife, and walk a bit around town with him. I do go on, and on, and on, and …

Oct 18, 2022: 🤝 Back from a lovely walk with a fellow microblogger

Oct 18, 2022: Tiny Micro.blog meet coming next 🥰

Oct 18, 2022: tinyMovieStar had a meltdown before heading to kindergarten. There was no red sweater, and she REALLY wanted a red sweater. In the end a red fleece …

Oct 18, 2022: ⏰ It’s _that_ time again ⏰ It’s that time again

Oct 17, 2022: 🧠 Shutdown

Oct 17, 2022: Driving, driving, driving… Spent most of the day in the car. When I was finally getting home it dawned on me that I had taken 0 photos. Fixed …

Oct 17, 2022: ⏳ Never ending day

Oct 17, 2022: 🛣 On the road. Again.

Oct 17, 2022: movieStar and her mom picking up the little one, I’m standing by, waiting for the hospital call that lets me know my package is ready for pick …

Oct 17, 2022: 😫 SOOOOOO tired!

Oct 17, 2022: Father-in-law was dropped outside the hospital. Part I is complete. Now waiting for the end of the surgery, at home.

Oct 17, 2022: Parked Waiting for customers. 🇲🇲🛶

Oct 17, 2022: 🚑 Ambulance duty

Oct 17, 2022: ⚙️ Tweaking some more

Oct 17, 2022: Added a couple more years to my test omg.lol account ❤️

Oct 17, 2022: 💩 Feeling like…

Oct 17, 2022: 5AM, still up. In a few hours I’ll be picking up my in-laws, and dropping my father-in-law at the hospital, for minor surgery. Then I’ll …

Oct 17, 2022: 🕺 3AM: Insomnia

Oct 16, 2022: Drove to a friend’s house, had a lovely tea party. Not a lot of photos, we were busy with three toddlers. Found another vintage car.

Oct 16, 2022: 🌇 Back home. Finally.

Oct 16, 2022: 🌧️ Watching the rain roll in

Oct 16, 2022: 🍵 Tea Party time

Oct 16, 2022: Measuring tinyMovieStar’s temperature. Where we go next depends on the outcome of this move. Home? Or tea party?

Oct 16, 2022: watch.lol Woke up today, and figured I had to reach for the phone to update status.lol. There was no way to do it from the watch! Can you imagine?? …

Oct 16, 2022: 🥨 Testing

Oct 16, 2022: 🎉 It works!!

Oct 16, 2022: Yay!!! The shortcut works! A bit rough around the edges, but it works!

Oct 16, 2022: 🔩 Building a shortcut

Oct 16, 2022: 📺 Paw Patrol time

Oct 16, 2022: Just noticed I have no way to update status.lol from the Apple Watch! Drafts would be my pick, but can’t find a way to run actions from the …

Oct 16, 2022: ☕️ First one

Oct 16, 2022: 📖 Reading. Still in bed.

Oct 16, 2022: Yesterday’s Photo Dump We spent the day at my in-laws, didn’t leave the house all day.

Oct 16, 2022: 😠 Up. Too early for that.

Oct 15, 2022: 🍰 Dinner

Oct 15, 2022: Full house again. Most of the people who attended the triple birthday party yesterday crossed the street and are now having dinner at my in-laws.

Oct 15, 2022: Started reading: Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright 📚

Oct 15, 2022: Gamification It works for me, I’ll admit. Count the steps, close those rings, how many cups of water still left? Settled on this face.

Oct 15, 2022: Lazy Saturday We’re both feeling extra lazy today. I couldn’t find the energy to get up and look for her, she found me. Happy Caturday 🐈

Oct 15, 2022: Regarding the Ultra and tattoos, I’m finding this works much nicer than older models, despite everything. Locks a LOT less than my previous …

Oct 15, 2022: A skill has been added to the list of things I must master: hair braiding.

Oct 15, 2022: Pray for us 🇻🇳 🙏🏼

Oct 15, 2022: Coffee #1 done, the tiniest of breakfasts as well. Ready to face Saturday.

Oct 15, 2022: 🦥 Slowly waking up

Oct 15, 2022: Birthday parties side effect: it’s now past midnight, and tinyMovieStar is SOOOO excited! It’s going to take a while to get her to sleep. …

Oct 14, 2022: 🎂 Not one, not two, but three birthday parties at once!

Oct 14, 2022: 🌳 Countryside for the weekend

Oct 14, 2022: A Day in the Life, the _Making of_ Today was, in the end, a rather unusual day for me. I left home and walked to meet a friend, we then drove to the beach, where we met another friend, …

Oct 14, 2022: 11:36AM, Carcavelos Beach, Portugal. For A Day in the Life. More coming later.

Oct 14, 2022: Morning walk done, closed two rings. I’m sure the other one, the standing up one, will take care of itself. Also, plenty of photos for the …

Oct 14, 2022: 🌊 Going out to lunch with friends. By the sea.

Oct 13, 2022: Updating a few apps, as one does, noticed something: Twitter’s iOS app is now 250.1 MB in size. Spring, the one I use, 50 MB.

Oct 13, 2022: 📑 Reading TFM

Oct 13, 2022: ECG: done. The things you can do with this gadget!

Oct 13, 2022: 🥘 Dinner prep

Oct 13, 2022: Just got the email reminder for the A Day in the Life Photo Challenge. It’s starting in 30 minutes, but I think I’ll have to wait until …

Oct 13, 2022: On the way to kindergarten, shooting while driving. Safely, waiting for the traffic lights to turn green.

Oct 13, 2022: List of things I hadn’t done in a while: Close all three rings before 5PM Pay for stuff with an Apple Watch Go grocery shopping without the …

Oct 13, 2022: 🚌 Next up: picking up the movieStars. Office, then kindergarten.

Oct 13, 2022: Hey, I’m walking here! First outing with the health monitor strapped to my wrist. A simple walk, close to an hour. The workout paused around 6 …

Oct 13, 2022: 👣 Back from today’s walk

Oct 13, 2022: Out of curiosity, checked Apple’s store. Let’s say I’d like to order a simple band for a product they launched recently. I …

Oct 13, 2022: Listening to a couple of @monday episodes. So far it’s @sod and @Denny. 🎙️

Oct 13, 2022: 🌞 Waking up. Good morning.

Oct 12, 2022: First Impressions After all these years, Apple watches and tattoos are still not friends. Sad, really. The thing is BEAUTIFUL. It’s not THAT …

Oct 12, 2022: Trying to configure a new gadget that arrived at the same time as tinyMovieStar did, back from school. Not. Easy. Bath, dinner, laundry, so much to do …

Oct 12, 2022: Forget everything that was said yesterday. Twitter did it’s thing, and a friend managed to find one for me. It’s done. Welcome to the …

Oct 12, 2022: About to disappoint someone on Micro.blog. Sorry.

Oct 12, 2022: Not a lot of love for the asshole in the city.

Oct 12, 2022: 🦿 Wishing I had an exoskeleton

Oct 12, 2022: Back to It Managed a two-hour walk, shooting like a tourist, and listening to podcasts and music. Tomorrow I’ll be back for more. I’m sure …

Oct 12, 2022: 🚶 Out for a walk

Oct 12, 2022: I have set up Yay, it’s ok to be Gay. It just redirects to ILGA now, let me know if there’s a better site to point things at. …

Oct 12, 2022: 🦄 Getting the little one ready for kindergarten

Oct 12, 2022: Happy National Coming Out Day 🏳️‍🌈 Free .gay domain by the good people at Porkbun. Get it here.

Oct 11, 2022: Done with editing. It was a long day, but is now finished. Tomorrow I’ll do nothing!

Oct 11, 2022: All day long we waited. The delivery company sent a message at 8AM, saying they be here by 7PM. They were not. 11 hour wait, and nothing. Called them …

Oct 11, 2022: 🛌 Must. Sleep.

Oct 11, 2022: The Ukrainian response to Musk’s Twitter peace proposal was succinct – one diplomat told him to “fuck off” Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting …

Oct 11, 2022: 📦 Waiting for a delivery. No, not that one.

Oct 11, 2022: In China, people have perfected this kind of language play online as a way to discuss an ever-lengthening list of banned or controversial topics How …

Oct 11, 2022: Back There Editing means non-walking and non-shooting days, so here we go, back to the past. Hoi An is a treat, wouldn’t mind being there, even …

Oct 11, 2022: Ate a bunch of grapes for lunch.

Oct 11, 2022: The longer it’s taking Apple to get the Ultra stock back up, the more I think about canceling the order. I want it, but don’t need it. …

Oct 11, 2022: Taking a very short break from this ordeal. My eyes thank me.

Oct 11, 2022: 💻 Editing... sad face emoji

Oct 11, 2022: 🥛 Quick supermarket run before the girls are awake

Oct 10, 2022: We watched Luckiest Girl Alive today. Not what we were expecting when movieStar asked for “something light”, that’s for sure. 🍿

Oct 10, 2022: Luckiest Girl Alive, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Monday October 10, 2022.

Oct 10, 2022: 🍿 Movie time

Oct 10, 2022: Still raining. The time has come to get tinyMovieStar into her comfy bed. She doesn’t seem very interested. I, on the other hand, would fall …

Oct 10, 2022: 🛒 Getting supplies

Oct 10, 2022: Sleepy Mountain Couldn’t help it, @cliffordbeshers 🙂

Oct 10, 2022: Forecast said occasional short showers. In fact it’s been raining non-stop for hours.

Oct 10, 2022: Can’t say I’m a fan. 🌧️ 🚗

Oct 10, 2022: Found another one, @pcora. 💛

Oct 10, 2022: 🌦 A bit of rain

Oct 10, 2022: Not record braking, but tinyMovieStar matched her previous best. Sleep time: 14 hours! She needed a good night to fully recover. She got it.

Oct 10, 2022: Bazofo Three months later, it’s finally out. The story about Vitor, and Bazofo, was printed on today’s edition. Cool dude, cool project.

Oct 10, 2022: 🤨 Still coughing

Oct 9, 2022: Porkbun + omg.lol = FUN. Now have a few subdomains working. No big deal, but still a fun way to spend a few minutes while tinyMovieStar doesn’t …

Oct 9, 2022: Watched Cuba and the Cameraman for the second time. Enjoyed it for the second time. 🍿

Oct 9, 2022: Cuba and the Cameraman, 2017 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday October 9, 2022.

Oct 9, 2022: I had to do it. $1.50 later, maique.lol is now under my control.

Oct 9, 2022: ⌨ New domain, you say?

Oct 9, 2022: Scary moment just now: tinyMovieStar grabs the tv, and tries to turn it. If the one at her grandparents swivels, why shouldn’t this one do the …

Oct 9, 2022: 🏬 Ah, the big city…

Oct 9, 2022: The Garage Grandpa has a car, tinyMovieStar has a car. Everyone gets a car!

Oct 9, 2022: 🚗 Heading back home

Oct 9, 2022: Mastodon is getting busier by the day. Lovely to see so many familiar faces over there.

Oct 9, 2022: A week ago I started using WaterMinder again, to track my water intake, in preparation for the total gamification of my health status that is coming …

Oct 9, 2022: 🍛 Leftover curry mode

Oct 9, 2022: 22 days left for my tattoo.

Oct 9, 2022: Emoji, please?? Wouldn’t mind if this truck was the one used as model for the emoji…

Oct 9, 2022: ZzzZzZZzZz I know how you feel, sir, I get it. 🇻🇳😴

Oct 9, 2022: ☕ Let’s go!

Oct 9, 2022: Living right above a small supermarket on a small town has a few perks, but one huge disadvantage: they open VERY early, even on Sundays. Thankfully …

Oct 9, 2022: 🥱 Up, but still VERY sleepy

Oct 9, 2022: How come it’s almost 2AM and I’m still awake, mostly watching videos? Go. To. Sleep, maique!

Oct 9, 2022: It’s the gift that keeps on giving! The Dent - I’ve Been OMG’d ❤️❤️❤️

Oct 8, 2022: 🏆 I guess that’s it for today

Oct 8, 2022: 🌶 Thai Green Curry in the making

Oct 8, 2022: Getting late, but still Caturday! 🐈

Oct 8, 2022: Cuteness Overload Where is she truly happy? By the sea 🥰

Oct 8, 2022: Foz do Arelho We drove out to Foz do Arelho, took advantage of the sea/lake, had lunch on the beach, and drove back. The weather is not brilliant, but …

Oct 8, 2022: 🛶 Back from the lake

Oct 8, 2022: Not sure about if the outfit is adequate for the current weather, but she looks cute anyway. She’s feeling better, that’s what matters.

Oct 8, 2022: The dog has been walked, time to get ready to leave. tinyMovieStar, still recovering, is not being easy. Let’s see how the whole thing turns …

Oct 8, 2022: Feeling a little better. Enough to consider a little Saturday drive. We’re getting the crew into the car soon, and heading out. With luck …

Oct 8, 2022: Spent the whole day trying to get better. Pills and cough medicine. Feel pretty much the same as when I woke up, minus the fever, that seems to have …

Oct 7, 2022: 📦 Ordered

Oct 7, 2022: News from DC are not great. No Ultra available. Now I’ll have to figure if I want to order it from Apple, pay the extra money, and wait 2/3 …

Oct 7, 2022: 💊 On a pill diet

Oct 7, 2022: Testing a new page for affiliate links… Lying in bed, not a lot else to do.

Oct 7, 2022: Back in Time Coffee Time

Oct 7, 2022: ✨ Feeling like poo

Oct 7, 2022: 😵 Rough night again

Oct 6, 2022: Even though she has a temperature, and some tummy trouble, this was one of the few moments when she stood still. Full of energy, even sweeter than …

Oct 6, 2022: 🤒 Coughing for hours

Oct 6, 2022: Back from the vineyard Quick trip with two stops, home after lunch. Had no lunch, by the way.

Oct 6, 2022: 💉 Starting my shift as Dr. maique

Oct 6, 2022: Incredibly, my camera bag, and the cameras, still smell like a forest fire!

Oct 6, 2022: 🍷 Back into wine country, two movieStars left behind, one sick

Oct 6, 2022: Unfortunate timing tinyMovieStar had a rough night. A bit of fever and all that usually comes with it. Probably something she ate yesterday. I …

Oct 6, 2022: The plot thickens! movieStar took her back to her own bed, with milk. I heard them talk. And talk some more. Over 40 minutes. And then …

Oct 6, 2022: 🍼 Papi duty

Oct 6, 2022: And… just as both of us finally fell asleep, tinyMovieStar waltzes into the room, and asks for some hot milk. Brilliant timing, love of my …

Oct 5, 2022: Godmother Lucky us, tinyMovieStar’s godmother visited again. Always a very sweet moment.

Oct 5, 2022: 🎙 Having fun with auto tune, filters, delays, and stuff I don’t understand

Oct 5, 2022: Eggleston has Untitled (Cocktail On A Plane), I have Untitled (Sangria On A Trash Can)

Oct 5, 2022: As expected, plans have been totally derailed already. Barely past noon.

Oct 5, 2022: 🤪 A whole day of “doing nothing”. Usually they are the busiest ones.

Oct 5, 2022: The day when we said “enough with this kings and queens nonsense”. Happy holiday.

Oct 5, 2022: 🐩 Enjoying Old Man. Favorite character: the dogs.

Oct 4, 2022: Cousin in Washington with father-in-law. A trip to the Apple Store is mandatory anyway, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed they have an Ultra …

Oct 4, 2022: The international community will never accept the invasion and annexation of territories that belong to a sovereign country Putin and East Timor - …

Oct 4, 2022: Talk to anyone who lives in or has spent time in Japan and they’re also likely to wax poetic about combini That Combini Life: Convienence Stores in …

Oct 4, 2022: 😎 National Holiday mood

Oct 4, 2022: Done with all seven seasons of Veep. For a second time. Maybe that’s one of the reasons why I need to walk a lot more.

Oct 4, 2022: 🦥 Taking it slow for a few hours now…

Oct 4, 2022: Had an errand up the hill, so I walked there and back. Really looking forward to getting back to a regular walking schedule, and the photos I’ll …

Oct 4, 2022: 🚶 Walking

Oct 4, 2022: I don’t use swear words online often, but “FUCK YOU, Musk”!

Oct 4, 2022: ☕ Wakey Wakey

Oct 4, 2022: 🫥 Sleep...

Oct 3, 2022: 🧟 Zombie mode engaged

Oct 3, 2022: tinyMovieStar knows a couple more words in English. Sadly the words she has somehow learned are the ones we need to use when we’re trying to …

Oct 3, 2022: Anyone aware of a good alternative to Pythonista? It’s been two years since it was last updated, and can’t find a good replacement for it.

Oct 3, 2022: 📺 News time

Oct 3, 2022: 🐤 tinyMovieStar has been picked up from kindergarten

Oct 3, 2022: 🍿 Watching a documentary on Xinjiang and the Uighur people

Oct 3, 2022: 🤗 Back from a visit to Mom&Dad

Oct 3, 2022: I thought about walking a bit, but that walk would take me to an authorised reseller, and I know they are out of the thing, so there really is no …

Oct 3, 2022: Not sure when, or if, we’ll ever go back, but it’s good to read about friends who are walking these same streets right now, and be able to …

Oct 3, 2022: 🐌 Four. Weeks. Delivery. Time. Did not order. 🐌 Four. Weeks. Delivery. Time. Did not order.

Oct 3, 2022: IRS return has happened! What a great way to start the week. Took the long enough this time around…

Oct 2, 2022: Perhaps the real revelation here is that the shallowness you see is the shallowness you get. Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius - …

Oct 2, 2022: 👀 New week ahead

Oct 2, 2022: Watched Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga What. A. Ride. 📺

Oct 2, 2022: 🌇 Hello, city.

Oct 2, 2022: tinyMovieStar refuses to take a nap (how silly is that??), so we’re getting ready to drive back home.

Oct 2, 2022: I will re-learn enough Python to code a simple app to update status.lol!

Oct 2, 2022: Tea before lunch 🍵

Oct 2, 2022: 🐔 A chicken is trying to kill me

Oct 2, 2022: 🤖 Tinkering. Not working.

Oct 2, 2022: Ongoing Caturday 🐈 💖

Oct 2, 2022: ☕ You know how it is…

Oct 2, 2022: Thrilled! It’s been ages since this has happened, and I wasn’t expecting to see it ever again. Our story about the charcoal process made …

Oct 2, 2022: 🗞 Great way to start the day

Oct 1, 2022: 🥱 Time to go

Oct 1, 2022: Under Construction House next door, actually a part of the one where my in-laws live, is being renovated. Auntie is moving in before Christmas.

Oct 1, 2022: What’s for dinner? Not forgotten, aware it’s Caturday. 🐈 🥘

Oct 1, 2022: Thinking about these times a lot lately. We’d go out almost daily, before heading to work.

Oct 1, 2022: 🌳 Out of town

Oct 1, 2022: First stop on the tour: lunch and playtime. My brother’s family joined us as usual. Happy times, even though tinyMovieStar is still a bit cranky …

Oct 1, 2022: Another thing that October won’t have is a haircut. I have to leave it alone (beard as well), until Nov 14. That’s when I’ll be …

Oct 1, 2022: We have added Bluey to our list of cartoons on rotation. 🐶 🇦🇺

Oct 1, 2022: Starting our grandma&grandpa tour soon, as it’s Saturday again. We’ll do all four of them, and also go for a cool Caturday.

Oct 1, 2022: 🍺 October will be beer-free for me

Oct 1, 2022: Luckiest man alive? I am.

Oct 1, 2022: 🧮 Adding and subtracting

Sep 30, 2022: Ultra news: I’m adding “exercise more” and “lose some weight” to the Reasons Why I Should list. I’m aware they …

Sep 30, 2022: Yay! New pop-up photography newsletter by Craig Mod coming in October. Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Hantō

Sep 30, 2022: 🤐 Skipping dinner

Sep 30, 2022: We went to England! Joking, of course. The wedding happened in Cascais.

Sep 30, 2022: 🥴 Back from the wedding

Sep 30, 2022: 💥 So. Much. Food.

Sep 30, 2022: Waiting

Sep 30, 2022: 💍 Getting them married

Sep 30, 2022: Change of plans: tinyMovieStar is skipping kindergarten today, and she’s coming with us to the wedding. She wasn’t supposed to, but I …

Sep 30, 2022: ☕ Wedding day. Doing a double espresso right now.

Sep 29, 2022: Watching the Oceanic+ videos is not helping!

Sep 29, 2022: 👰 Thinking about tomorrow’s wedding

Sep 29, 2022: For one 24-hour period, we challenge you to post a single photo that provides a glimpse into what life is like where you are. A New “Day in the …

Sep 29, 2022: ⏳ Waiting for tinyMovieStar’s bedtime

Sep 29, 2022: 🧑‍🍳 After taxi driver, and doctor, it’s now time to play the cook part

Sep 29, 2022: On the way back from the barbershop, one of the coolest buildings in the area.

Sep 29, 2022: 👨‍⚕ Trying to get cough medicine down tinyMovieStar’s throat

Sep 29, 2022: Just discovered you can have a macro button on the default camera app, and turn off that annoying macro on/macro off dance whenever you get too close …

Sep 29, 2022: Why, oh why, am I still watching Ultra review videos on YouTube??

Sep 29, 2022: 🚌 About to start my route. Picking up the girls next.

Sep 29, 2022: Two domains renewed. One was due today, the other close to a year away. I had to take care of the first one anyway, so why not do both? I’m not …

Sep 29, 2022: NextDNS was accidentally turned off, and boy what a mess that was! TONS of ads suddenly showed up.

Sep 29, 2022: Where did all this rain come from??

Sep 29, 2022: 🍔 It’s burger day! Yay!

Sep 29, 2022: Barber: done. Back from Belarmino, where Miguel did his thing again. Happy with the result, as always. They have a ton of stickers there, and found one from Marta, …

Sep 29, 2022: 🦄 Looking like a million bucks! Well, maybe 10 bucks…

Sep 29, 2022: The mess I miss. The weather is also getting colder, I miss the sticky hot of Vietnam too. 🇻🇳🍜

Sep 29, 2022: 💈 Getting a haircut, finally

Sep 29, 2022: As cool as they come! 😻

Sep 29, 2022: There’s a visit to the barber, a photo exhibit that opens today, and a friend that come down from Porto for that show that I’d love to …

Sep 29, 2022: 😩 New day already??

Sep 28, 2022: 🌜 Bedtime

Sep 28, 2022: Just noticed Old Man is already available on Disney+. A couple of episodes, that is. I believe we have found our next series to watch. LOVE Jeff …

Sep 28, 2022: The week turned out to be a little busier than expected. Thankfully there’s still time to keep my barber appointment tomorrow, otherwise …

Sep 28, 2022: 🧑‍🏫 Enjoying how tinyMovieStar mispronounces words

Sep 28, 2022: 👨‍🍳 I guess it’s dinner time

Sep 28, 2022: 🛒 Grocery shopping. Mostly because we were out of coffee.

Sep 28, 2022: 🪅 Still playtime…

Sep 28, 2022: 🧸 Playtime!

Sep 28, 2022: Felt good to spend a couple of days with a colleague I’ve known for decades, with whom I spent SO many days out on assignment. It was really a …

Sep 28, 2022: 🍛 Done with lunch. Waiting for tinyMovieStar pick up time.

Sep 28, 2022: 💻 Editing

Sep 28, 2022: Back home, and actually looking forward to edit these. That hasn’t happened in a while, but I think I might have some nice ones today. Still …

Sep 28, 2022: 🌇 Back in town

Sep 28, 2022: 🚘 Driving

Sep 28, 2022: Waking up in the woods. A simple bungalow, nice enough for one night. On to breakfast.

Sep 28, 2022: None of us slept very well. I, for one, expected it to be a good night, since I’m sleeping in a bungalow in the woods, but had a bit of …

Sep 28, 2022: ☎️ FaceTime with the movieStars

Sep 27, 2022: Like everyone else in the world, people in Iran deserve privacy. Signal » Blog » Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to …

Sep 27, 2022: 💤 Time

Sep 27, 2022: Thank You! Long overdue, I have included a colophon at my about page. This blog would look, and function, very differently without the work of these …

Sep 27, 2022: 🏕️ Back at the bungalow

Sep 27, 2022: Every technological innovation puts more power in the hands of surveillance capitalists who prosper by solving our everyday problems. China’s …

Sep 27, 2022: 🍺 A few beers later, it's time for some meat

Sep 27, 2022: Traffic on the way to the hotel. Cool bridge.

Sep 27, 2022: 🍲 Wondering how long before dinner time

Sep 27, 2022: 🥺 Homesick

Sep 27, 2022: You guessed it, already counting the minutes until I’m back with the movieStars. Still have to wait until tomorrow, not going to be easy.

Sep 27, 2022: 📱 Editing. In bed.

Sep 27, 2022: Snaps from today Smelling like burnt wood, one of those smells that will take weeks of showers to wash off.

Sep 27, 2022: 📷 Shooting, shooting, shooting

Sep 27, 2022: 🍛 Lunch break

Sep 27, 2022: 🛣 On the road…

Sep 27, 2022: 💰 Getting a bag of money to fill up the car

Sep 27, 2022: Camera bag almost ready, backpack with a change of clothes as well. Another coffee next, and then I’m off. Get some gas for the car, and we hit …

Sep 27, 2022: 💨 Running around, getting ready to leave in a little while

Sep 27, 2022: 🏄‍♂ Sliding into the new day

Sep 27, 2022: ⏰ I suppose I’m waking up

Sep 26, 2022: 😴 That's it: zZzZzzzZZz

Sep 26, 2022: 🎒 Packing for a night out. Tomorrow I'll miss the girls. ARGHHHHH.

Sep 26, 2022: 😵‍💫 Trying to talk tinyMovieStar into sleeping

Sep 26, 2022: We had our suspicions, but can now confirm: we are dead in the middle of “Why?” country. Every single time we say something, we get a …

Sep 26, 2022: Plan B We ended up missing the demonstration, and had ice-cream instead. Playground, and ice-cream. It is what it is. We wanted to go, tinyMovieStar …

Sep 26, 2022: 🪫 Charging batteries. Camera batteries.

Sep 26, 2022: Tomorrow I’m going on a very short assignment with the same guy I spent a month in East Timor, back in ‘99, and another month a few years …

Sep 26, 2022: 🍽 Taking care of dinner.

Sep 26, 2022: 🛝 At the playground

Sep 26, 2022: 🍦 But, first, ice-cream!

Sep 26, 2022: 👶🏻 Picking up tinyMovieStar, and taking her to the demonstration

Sep 26, 2022: 😎 Relaxing a little before we head out into town

Sep 26, 2022: Later today we’re attending a demonstration supporting the ongoing protests in Iran. It will be tinyMovieStar’s first demonstration!

Sep 26, 2022: 🥘 Back home, time to start thinking about lunch

Sep 26, 2022: Love how the new status.lol service can get integrated everywhere. My omg.lol page gets it, also on my M.b blot, and it’s own dedicated page for …

Sep 26, 2022: 🚚 Running errands around town

Sep 26, 2022: High Ceilings Almost ready to leave for another country in my memory tour… 🇲🇲🚶🏻‍♀️

Sep 26, 2022: ☕️ Number two

Sep 26, 2022: 🦺 Some more tweaking...

Sep 26, 2022: 🚕 Doing an "Uber", dropping the girls off

Sep 26, 2022: 🛎️ Waking up the girls

Sep 26, 2022: Chasing the cats around… Busy weekend away from home, filled with laughs and good fun. As they all should be.

Sep 26, 2022: ☀️ Morning already? Nooooooo!

Sep 26, 2022: 🛌 The time has come: sleep!

Sep 25, 2022: 🤢 I'm so sorry, Italy

Sep 25, 2022: 🤔 Wondering what this week will bring

Sep 25, 2022: Looking forward to the new week. There’s a wedding at the end of it.

Sep 25, 2022: 📰 Catching up on what's going on

Sep 25, 2022: 🔩 Tweaking stuff

Sep 25, 2022: 🏡 We made it back home

Sep 25, 2022: 🧳 Must. Pack. Soon.

Sep 25, 2022: Enjoying the final moments at my in-laws, before we head back to town. Today we were also joined by my brother-in-law and wife. She is one of …

Sep 25, 2022: 😴 Seriously considering a HUGE nap after this LOOONG family lunch

Sep 25, 2022: 🍺 Talk later, it is now Beer O'clock

Sep 25, 2022: 🥩 Picanha ready to go

Sep 25, 2022: Praying Time One of many beautiful temples in Mandalay. Dozens are worth a visit. 🇲🇲🙏🏼

Sep 25, 2022: If you’re a omg.lol user (and why wouldn’t you?), and you love the new status.lol feature (brilliant, right?), while still adoring Drafts …

Sep 25, 2022: 🚗 Driving home

Sep 25, 2022: 🛒 Getting supplies for lunch.

Sep 25, 2022: 🥘 Lunch prep coming up.

Sep 25, 2022: Pizza Party! First time for tinyMovieStar, she had a LOT of fun! 🍕

Sep 25, 2022: 🧇 Breakfast time.

Sep 25, 2022: 🧪 Testing...

Sep 25, 2022: ⏰ Waking up…

Sep 25, 2022: Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday September 25, 2022.

Sep 24, 2022: 📺 Maybe I’ll still get to the end of the Wirecard documentary.

Sep 24, 2022: 😴 Almost time to go…

Sep 24, 2022: Coming soon… Adam knows how to make great things that look incredible.

Sep 24, 2022: 🩹 Tattoo is 37 days away.

Sep 24, 2022: 🍿 We can, hopefully, find time for a movie. Fingers crossed.

Sep 24, 2022: 🐶 Next up: walking the dog.

Sep 24, 2022: 🏝️ This place is paradise!

Sep 24, 2022: 🍕 Pizza in the oven!

Sep 24, 2022: 🍕- My two year old daughter is cooking us pizza. Real pizza!

Sep 24, 2022: 🥳 Can this be a thing?

Sep 24, 2022: No Silence Long gone are the days of silent toys. These days we have a new keyboard, a hair dryer, a juice blender, a crazy chicken, a keychain with …

Sep 24, 2022: “Already?? Can we do this tomorrow? I’m sooooo sleepy!”

Sep 24, 2022: I should start a buymeacoffee campaign for an Apple Watch Ultra. If each of my readers pitches in 1€, I’ll soon have… 2€! …

Sep 23, 2022: Walking Around Had to run some errands, a chance for a couple of photos downtown.

Sep 23, 2022: It wasn’t a particularly challenging week, but I’m strangely looking forward to the weekend. Glad this one is over.

Sep 22, 2022: Mustang Not a common sight in the city.

Sep 22, 2022: Blues Morning Nice surprise. Kid Koala, 7 Bit Blues.

Sep 22, 2022: Still Going?

Sep 22, 2022: Drafts + Runestone + Working Copy = Fun Time

Sep 21, 2022: Finally! The post from Japan has been published. Took a while, but dinkiwinkiminkiwinki is back on… 🇯🇵💖

Sep 20, 2022: We Survived Fun party, tons of kids. Spent a good amount of time at the window, shooting.

Sep 20, 2022: Correction! Birthday party is bigger than expected, we now have 6 toddlers! P. A. N. I. C.

Sep 20, 2022: Next up: birthday party. Three couples, three toddlers. The fun times never stop.

Sep 20, 2022: I have to start prepping a workshop I’ll do at the end of the year, and I’m already feeling a little anxious.

Sep 20, 2022: Finished Saving the King. Crazy stories from the kingdom next door. 📺

Sep 20, 2022: Fun Times With Greg’s post still fresh on my mind, this is what we got this morning. Greg is SO right.

Sep 20, 2022: Morning Coffee ☕️

Sep 19, 2022: Stuck in Traffic

Sep 19, 2022: Leftovers from Caturday It’s as if she can taste my arm already… Right before she strikes! 🐈 🤤

Sep 19, 2022: Extremely slow morning. Should brighten up during the afternoon: tinyMovieStar’s godmother is in town, all the way from London! Yay!

Sep 19, 2022: Rise and Shine Happy Monday, hope there’s a great week ahead. 🇲🇲😴

Sep 18, 2022: I was aware there were a few, but was still surprised by the list. Glossary of Japanese words of Portuguese origin - Wikipedia

Sep 18, 2022: U-Bein Blues Another highlight of the Myanmar part of the trip: the U-Bein bridge. 🇲🇲💙

Sep 18, 2022: For those of you waiting for a report, the Pad Thai was delicious, in the end. Really great lunch.

Sep 18, 2022: We have reached peak sneaker status. tinyMovieStar is ecstatic.

Sep 18, 2022: Still regarding father-in-law antics: today we’re cooking Pad Thai for lunch. A staple of Thai cuisine, one you can get in 3 minutes from a …

Sep 18, 2022: See you next week… Caturday is no more. New photos in a week, if she behaves and stops trying to kill me.

Sep 17, 2022: Focus Finally decided to sort this one out, and this is what I ended up with: At least for now. During the day, nothing changes. Set up a Night Mode …

Sep 17, 2022: The Rum Diary, 2011 - ★★½ Watched on Saturday September 17, 2022.

Sep 17, 2022: Carurday Plot Twist! Kitten got carried away while playing, my hand was nearly maimed. NOTE: might be overreacting, but got to use the medicine from …

Sep 17, 2022: After lunch, time for a nap…

Sep 17, 2022: My father-in-law wants us to brew beer. Not sure if this is one of the projects that never gets off the ground, or if we’ll be drinking our own …

Sep 17, 2022: It wouldn’t be Caturday without a shoot in the Laundry Room, right? Top Model Chiquinha. 🐈

Sep 17, 2022: A tiger sitting high up on a tree in the jungle. I can be whatever I want to… Welcome to Caturday! 😻

Sep 16, 2022: Second episode of Chef’s Table: Pizza. Rome. Predictably, dinner is decided: slices of pizza from the Roman shop down the road, and ice-cream …

Sep 16, 2022: Because nothing says familial togetherness like failing to explain “non-fungible” to your meemaw before she embarks on her well-deserved nog nap. …

Sep 16, 2022: I had to leave, and laugh when I was out of reach. Yesterday, during tinyMovieStar’s bath, she went “Fuuuuuuuck. Fuuuuuuuuuck. What is …

Sep 16, 2022: Getting ready for the weekend. Today’s reminiscing still in Myanmar. 🇲🇲

Sep 15, 2022: We started watching Chef’s Table: Pizza on Netflix and, 30 minutes into the first episode, I already know we have to visit Phoenix, AZ. 📺 🍕

Sep 15, 2022: So… I was mildly looking forward to a game, turns out it only comes out next year! 🤣🤣🤣 I guess it’s time to get back to my game-free …

Sep 15, 2022: “What would you like for breakfast, tinyMovieStar?” “Spaghetti.” “What would you like for lunch, tinyMovieStar?” …

Sep 15, 2022: If there is one site I know I can’t visit, because I’ll spend a stupid amount of time before I’m able to leave, that has to be …

Sep 15, 2022: Girls at their respective offices, I’m facing another day of photo picking. Also, bright side, some receipts to issue, gotta keep that money …

Sep 15, 2022: Good Morning A very serious look, by a very serious boy. 🇲🇲 🧐

Sep 14, 2022: One thing I sometimes have trouble with, is keeping my cool at meal times, when tinyMovieStar starts acting up, finding excuses for not eating. If it …

Sep 14, 2022: Myanmar. Asked movieStar to name one of the countries we visited during our honeymoon (still needs updating), and this is the one she picked. Adding a …

Sep 14, 2022: Uneventful The rest of the day flew by. Picking photos, lunch, pick up tinyMovieStar. Stop at the playground, and back home. That’s it. A normal …

Sep 14, 2022: DALL-E 2 and Ronald McDonald? Sure! Starring Ronald McDonald

Sep 14, 2022: Saudade While taking care of my non-paying client’s request, I came across a photo from the island we miss so much. It’s been too long …

Sep 14, 2022: movieStar forgot to tell me she was having a home office day today, so we drove all the way to the actual office, rain and crazy traffic included. …

Sep 13, 2022: Boots

Sep 13, 2022: Extended Family Children at tinyMovieStar’s kindergarten are requested to bring a family photo, to be tapped to a wall. This year our little one …

Sep 13, 2022: The feature has been available for a while in 1Password (I use it with my omg.lol domain on top of that), but it’s good that now it’s also …

Sep 13, 2022: Miss the Convenience Still none of these around here. Sadly. 🇭🇰🛒

Sep 13, 2022: Danielle, Day Two Managed to drop tinyMovieStar at school, then the bigger movieStar at the office, right before Danielle showed up. 30 minutes of …

Sep 13, 2022: Today is the day I pick the photos for the non-paying “client”. Today is the day I pick the photos for the non-paying …

Sep 12, 2022: Why are we in iOS 16, and I can’t have Maps in Light mode during the day, if the phone is set to Dark Mode? Why is that every other mapping app …

Sep 12, 2022: Pouring Of course the day when I have to spend the morning running errands is the day when a tropical storm hits! Traffic is a mess and, predictably …

Sep 12, 2022: City Mess It was messy, hot, noisy, chaotic. Loved it! 🇭🇰🏢

Sep 12, 2022: I know we’ve been asking for rain for a while, but did it have to come all at once? Thank you Tropical Storm Danielle, move along now…

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Sep 11, 2022: Final One? Tropical Storm Danielle is supposed to arrive today, with massive thunderstorms, heavy rain, and wind as we’ve never seen. While …

Sep 11, 2022: Slow Down 🇭🇰💨

Sep 11, 2022: She’s making it impossible to stick to official Caturday only…

Sep 11, 2022: I try. I do. But Maps is still WAY behind everything else…

Sep 11, 2022: I swear to God, no other town is as proud as this one about their damn exhaust pipes! It’s 2AM, for crying out loud!!

Sep 10, 2022: Shitty band playing tonight at my in-laws town. This is enough to have a ton of imbeciles drinking too much, yelling in residential areas close to …

Sep 10, 2022: Currently reading: Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels 📚

Sep 10, 2022: Caturday, Laundry Edition A few moments later, we’re in the laundry room, Chiquinha following us.

Sep 10, 2022: We have arrived, just in time for Caturday.

Sep 10, 2022: PhotoQuotes Bots I thought about writing a post about the bots I control, on Twitter and Mastodon, and decided to do a quick search to check if I’d done that …

Sep 10, 2022: The weekend is here. The Mammas & The Pappas tour is about to begin.

Sep 10, 2022: III III Same beach, different mood. 🇰🇭🏝️

Sep 10, 2022: it is impossible to imagine a future in which we can grow the economy and at the same time live in a sustainable manner without fundamentally changing …

Sep 10, 2022: Finished Elvis. Oscar for Mr Austin Butler, please.

Sep 9, 2022: Elvis, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday September 9, 2022.

Sep 9, 2022: My goal is to help you work safely and help you do whatever it is that you’re trying to do in a safe way. Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt …

Sep 9, 2022: Managed to watch about half of Elvis during lunch break, hoping we’ll get to the end of it after the little one is asleep. So far, enjoying it a …

Sep 9, 2022: After yesterday’s Overcast update with Lock Screen widgets, another one (Dark Noise) is also including that feature on the latest update.

Sep 9, 2022: Despite the time he puts in, he says that he almost never gets any feedback from his daughter. Dad’s Offbeat Bentō Creations Puzzle and Delight …

Sep 9, 2022: Love Beach Now is probably not the time to think about this, but can’t help it. We just came back from vacation, but vacation is what we need. …

Sep 9, 2022: Fast, ok. Modern? Hmmmm… I get multiple crashes every day, whenever I try to start it, or change server. 11 months since last update, feels …

Sep 9, 2022: Another funny first from tinyMovieStar: fake snoring when the time came to wake her up. As soon as we walked in the room, she was off! We played …

Sep 8, 2022: tinyMovieStar is two and a half, and she knows about the Queen already. RIP 🇬🇧👸🏻

Sep 8, 2022: Why the Long Face Don’t get this kind of vehicle for the city, and don’t think that face is justified!

Sep 8, 2022: Why did the chicken…? 🇯🇵🐔

Sep 8, 2022: The excellent service and convenience customers receive from conbini has throttled advances in more automated solutions, such as vending machines. …

Sep 8, 2022: Another thing I’ve been trying to avoid: tag all the photos uploaded to Flickr in the past two months. Vacation, music festival, trip around the …

Sep 8, 2022: Survived the night, no trip to the hospital. There’s a bump, but it’s really tiny. I’m alive! 🙂

Sep 8, 2022: Catwalking

Sep 7, 2022: It’s been 0 days since I’ve been hit in the head with a hammer. Thanks, tinyMovieStar, love you too 🤣

Sep 7, 2022: The only thing I was waiting for is here. Downloading.

Sep 7, 2022: Pink Truck Land 🇯🇵 🚚

Sep 7, 2022: Pick up tinyMovieStar, meet friends for beer, go get some mail still delivered to the old place. Those are the plans for the afternoon. See? No Apple …

Sep 7, 2022: Sticker Spotter, Thinking Out Loud... This is a project that I still enjoy, but I have to find an alternative to the current situation. At the moment it’s working perfectly, in the …

Sep 7, 2022: One of the hardest part of being a parent has to be this! We’re trying to get tinyMovieStar out of bed, but she wants to stay in, cuddling with …

Sep 7, 2022: Game Change, 2012 - ★★★½ Watched on Wednesday September 7, 2022.

Sep 7, 2022: Started watching Game Change, a movie about the McCain/Palin campaign. Julianne Moore plays Palin. In real life I dislike Palin, very much. And I …

Sep 6, 2022: Appointment with tinyMovieStar’s doctor after school, another opportunity for us to know that, thankfully, everything is ok with her. …

Sep 6, 2022: DNS issues seem to be solved, hope no email was lost. Site downtime is a nuisance, but no email for 8 hours can be a pain.

Sep 6, 2022: Matchy-Matchy Good morning, kids! 🐆

Sep 5, 2022: Started watching North Korea From the Inside with Michael Palin earlier today, while tinyMovieStar was away. We’re now hoping she’ll fall …

Sep 5, 2022: What is this? Water falling from the sky??

Sep 5, 2022: Just a couple of days ago I was complaining about the police probably doing nothing to enforce laws regarding scooters… Today I came across …

Sep 5, 2022: Sleepy, but there’s no way around it: it’s editing day!

Sep 5, 2022: 3AM, and that coffee I had late in the afternoon came back to haunt me! The little one finally fell asleep a couple of hours ago, movieStar as well, …

Sep 4, 2022: Guess who had a late nap today, and is acting like the two year old she is, close to midnight? Yeah, it’s one of those nights…

Sep 4, 2022: Sunday. We ate. Family and friends came over. We ate again. We napped. We ate.

Sep 4, 2022: Paw Patrol is on most of the time on weekends. tinyMovieStar isn’t even watching, it’s mostly my father-in-law and me.

Sep 4, 2022: And it’s also more fun to just edit some of movieStar’s portraits

Sep 4, 2022: I should be editing these… But we’re getting ready for Sunday lunch at the in-laws. Hopefully no one will need them before tomorrow.

Sep 3, 2022: On Caturday News, tinyMovieStar now knows what kitten claws feel like 😔 The kitten was sleeping, and tinyMovieStar does not, as we are all very aware, …

Sep 3, 2022: But you’re only as strong as your weakest link, and for many of us that means our family members. Your Loved Ones Are Betraying Your Privacy — The …

Sep 3, 2022: Wait, what? Is it Caturday again?

Sep 3, 2022: When the wind comes, hair becomes princess tinyMovieStar

Sep 3, 2022: tinyMovieStar expects the tv to be controlled by touch. Why wouldn’t she?

Sep 3, 2022: Syncing a bunch of photos to Lightroom, just in case I need to edit and send during the weekend. Not taking the laptop, but can easily manage that on …

Sep 3, 2022: Just like that, it’s Saturday again. Grandparents, cat and dog. We love the weekends.

Sep 2, 2022: Lock screen widgets are also going to be helpful. Can’t wait to see what some apps do with them, but already enjoying how handy Drafts widgets …

Sep 2, 2022: It’s the little things… One day into my iOS 16 test, and I could already talk about a couple of things I like. Being a daily user of the …

Sep 2, 2022: Scoot! They’re everywhere. Both scooters, and tourists.

Sep 2, 2022: Following up on yesterday’s “Nothing accomplished” post, I’m happy to say I’m NOT on track. Still at the same exact …

Sep 2, 2022: Me Time, 2022 - ★★ Watched on Friday September 2, 2022.

Sep 2, 2022: Shibuya is offering visitors a chance to experience some of the nation’s top architectural creations while they relieve themselves. Tokyo Toilets: …

Sep 2, 2022: Super “Dry” 🇯🇵🐟

Sep 1, 2022: Survived! Beta installed, and the banking apps are working! Yay!

Sep 1, 2022: This is going to be fun… Fresh, and exciting, news from omg.lol… Thanks @jeannie!

Sep 1, 2022: Doing It. Hopefully no regrets in a little while.

Sep 1, 2022: I’ve finally reached a point where I could install iOS 16 beta, and deal with any apps that might stop working, but the release date is so close …

Sep 1, 2022: Nothing was accomplished today. Tomorrow I’ll have to start editing yesterday’s photos, go through all the music festival shots again, and …

Sep 1, 2022: Tipsy Tiger 🇯🇵🐅

Sep 1, 2022: I have to say Vero looks like a really nice experience altogether, from what I can tell so far. If you’re there, feel free to hit me up… …

Sep 1, 2022: Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee, 2022 - ★★½ Watched on Thursday September 1, 2022.

Sep 1, 2022: Off she went. Enjoy another year at kindergarten, tinyMovieStar 😘

Aug 31, 2022: Off I Went First day back home, already out the door, and into wine country again. Drove to the nice restaurant owned by the vineyard, and shot a …

Aug 31, 2022: Miss only getting a tiny fraction of what’s going on… 🇯🇵 🗣

Aug 31, 2022: Still Going… I was already standing outside, waiting for the Bolt car that would drive me to work, when I remembered this was still a thing. …

Aug 31, 2022: Hello, Pants! Can’t say I’m happy to see you again, I’ve had a wonderful month with your cousin Shorts. BTW I was also doing fine …

Aug 31, 2022: Alarm set for 8AM, I’m (very) needlessly up by 6AM. Classic.

Aug 30, 2022: We Made It! There’s no real cause for celebration, millions of others do what we just did, millions more do way harder things, millions, and yet I …

Aug 30, 2022: Barely made it home before the call arrived: an assignment for the paper, tomorrow morning. Let the games begin!

Aug 30, 2022: tinyMovieStar was sleeping upstairs, and we kept looking at the (unsafe for kids) stairs, waiting for her to show up at the top. We shouldn’t …

Aug 30, 2022: Enjoying the final days before getting back to kindergarten… Lucky us, we have a cool cousin who lives in a place with a nice pool. Thanks, …

Aug 29, 2022: What do you do when you find yourself with free time? Smoke a cigarette, if you’re into it, or edit a couple of photos. 🇯🇵 🚬

Aug 29, 2022: I’m feeling a “Down Memory Lane” mood… I might start going through these again. 🇯🇵🤖

Aug 29, 2022: Tomorrow we’re leaving the village, heading on home. Still another stop before we get there, but only for the day. Sidenote: can’t wait …

Aug 29, 2022: Taking a day off from Caturday, with Rosinha…

Aug 29, 2022: More Doors New, and old. People do have the strangest ideas…

Aug 29, 2022: on that first visit I also discovered several of the island’s many faded towns and settlements A photo journey through eastern Hokkaido

Aug 28, 2022: Doors over here.

Aug 28, 2022: Morning at the Cat Place I was too close to get the framing just right, but it is what it is…

Aug 27, 2022: Seems like I was right when I picked the tattoo design. Today she showed me I was right about the placement as well! It’s the exact spot where …

Aug 27, 2022: Kitten has a necklace, made by tinyMovieStar. Just another episode of Caturday…

Aug 27, 2022: Slow day for everyone. Minnie Mouse is the exception, she tumbled around for a while.

Aug 27, 2022: Saturday means lunch with Mom&Dad, so we’re driving to the city to meet them. They haven’t seen tinyMovieStar for a month, …

Aug 26, 2022: Ongoing Caturday…

Aug 26, 2022: A new book of robot faces in Tokyo’s architecture Tokyoids. – Present&Correct Added to my wishlist. Christmas is not too far out, right?

Aug 26, 2022: The incredible Momo drew my new avatar (and was extra kind to send an svg on request), and I went and changed the avatar in as many places as I could …

Aug 26, 2022: Life Goals

Aug 26, 2022: My favorite mug while we’re staying with the in-laws. Two of these set me up for a day of doing as little as possible.

Aug 26, 2022: Queen of Hearts

Aug 25, 2022: DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a free email forwarding service that removes multiple types of hidden email trackers Protect Your Inbox: DuckDuckGo …

Aug 25, 2022: The marketing strategy was successful enough that news of the furore prompted many to remark that they were surprised that the brand was in fact …

Aug 25, 2022: Is it (hashtag) Caturday already?

Aug 24, 2022: We left the city, hot and sunny. An hour later we arrived at our destination with cloudy skies, windy. You could even say cold.

Aug 24, 2022: And… I was wrong about not having to load/unload the car again for now. We’re on the move again: in-laws it is…

Aug 24, 2022: Giving BeReal a try…

Aug 24, 2022: She never runs out of ideas to entertain herself 🎨 We’ll deal with the cleanup, until we can train her to do it herself 🤷🏻‍♂️

Aug 24, 2022: Would rather still be looking at this, instead of the city view we now have.

Aug 24, 2022: For our Return to TV, now that are back to our routines, we picked Industry. Not bad at all.

Aug 24, 2022: This is a longtime problem of Leibovitz’s. The photographer has dropped the ball many times in her depictions of other powerful Black women Annie …

Aug 24, 2022: Sponsoring a football club — proper football, that is — is more than just a business transaction. How football shirt sponsor deals for Barcelona, …

Aug 23, 2022: Where did it find the time to write those longer posts? It was just last year, and things seem sooooo different now.

Aug 23, 2022: It shows how humankind acts as a catalyst to natural processes and dangerously accelerates global warming and desertification. This ice cube necklace …

Aug 23, 2022: First day at home. I do wish we’d keep going. Still a week until kindergarten starts, and it feels like there’s nothing to do in the city.

Aug 22, 2022: Back in the city. Hot. Good thing about arriving? I’ve unloaded the car for the last time.

Aug 22, 2022: Final Dip Saying goodbye to the Algarve, see you next year! Thank you for the good times.

Aug 22, 2022: Tattoo Time It’s been four years since I’ve had a tattoo done. In the past two I’ve been thinking often about it. I’d love to get a tattoo …

Aug 22, 2022: tinyMovieStar was, in the end, even more exhausted than we were. She fell asleep when we left the beach yesterday, in the car. She slept for 14 hours …

Aug 22, 2022: It’s the night before the drive up. Of course I’m wide awake at 3AM.

Aug 21, 2022: There’s a TV at the place we’re staying. No one turned it on.

Aug 21, 2022: Algarve, DaySeven Leaving tomorrow. Back to the city, after three weeks on the road. tinyMovieStar misses her home, I would gladly go on. It’s …

Aug 21, 2022: Final day at the beach. Even though I’m not the biggest beach fan, I can’t help feeling a little sad. tinyMovieStar LOVES it, and the …

Aug 21, 2022: Congratulations, tinyMovieStar, you managed to go almost two and a half years without falling down from a bed! 🎉

Aug 21, 2022: Algarve, DaySix We skipped our trip to Seville (too hot), and to the beach (too lazy). Spent the whole day at home, in the pool. Also took a giant nap. In the evening …

Aug 20, 2022: After three weeks on the road, today was the first time tinyMovieStar said she misses our home, her room, her stuff. She was very sleepy, way past her …

Aug 20, 2022: Algarve, DayFive Unusual day, a birthday party for an uncle taking the biggest slice of our time. We drove over, partied, drove back, pool, and went …

Aug 19, 2022: Inspired by omg.lol, again, I just ordered a doodle from Hey Hey Momo. Momo drew the cutest heart I’ve seen for them, and I’d love to get …

Aug 19, 2022: The Coolest Car Citroën Méhari. Orange, of course.

Aug 19, 2022: Ulysses has been acting up in ways that I cannot understand. Posts disappear while I’m writing them, after spending minutes getting all the …

Aug 19, 2022: Slower morning today… Taking our time before the birthday party begins. Girls at the pool, I’m enduring the sunburn in bed 🤣

Aug 19, 2022: Getting a lot of small videos, on top of the usual photos, and I can’t wait to edit them, and get an overview of tinyMovieStar’s vacation …

Aug 19, 2022: Family member birthday party today, we’re skipping beach until much later in the day. Happy coincidence, as yesterday I stayed in the sun WAY …

Aug 18, 2022: A python never loses interest or goes away of its own accord. You must make it do so. Underestimating China on Taiwan: What Comes Now? | JAPAN …

Aug 18, 2022: Algarve, DayFour The day started with dogs and bagels, and then we were off to the beach. Family joined us a bit later. We spent the whole day there, enjoying the …

Aug 18, 2022: Getting a table for dinner is impossible, booking a table is close to that. Darn, Algarve.

Aug 18, 2022: Tried SUP, fell down a couple of times. Not as easy as it looks from the outside.

Aug 18, 2022: 6:28, the sun is rising. I guess I won’t get any more sleep now. Time to start thinking about that first coffee… ☕️

Aug 18, 2022: Algarve, DayThree movieStar’s family joined us at the beach. Long day, with games, food, drink, running around, and no nap time for …

Aug 16, 2022: Not everyone crosses the border by car…

Aug 16, 2022: Algarve, DayTwo Pool in the morning, beach before lunch time, and the usual hop across the border to Ayamonte, for the afternoon and early dinner. We …

Aug 15, 2022: Algarve, DayOne After a three hour drive, highway full of people, we made it to our little paradise. I picked up some supplies while the movieStars …

Aug 15, 2022: Mel is here as well!

Aug 15, 2022: Welcome Party We made it. Our hosts for the week are the sweetest, and we found a small purse on the bathroom. “Clara’s Stuff” 🥰 The …

Aug 15, 2022: Poo Time I could never imagine poo time would be one of my favorite parts of the day. Not mine, mind you, but tinyMovieStar’s. Whenever she announces she …

Aug 14, 2022: It starts tomorrow, but already got an email from Craig Mod’s TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO. It’s going to be a great week!

Aug 14, 2022: Eggs Add bacon and I turn into happyMaique.

Aug 14, 2022: Caturday, Still Going… Couch and kitten. Perfect Sunday.

Aug 14, 2022: Laaaaaaazy Sunday. Recharging, tomorrow we’re back on the road.

Aug 13, 2022: Nap Time See you in a bit.

Aug 13, 2022: From Kabul to Kyiv, Lynsey Addario has documented conflict worldwide, with an emphasis on women’s issues, for 20 years. Photojournalist Lynsey …

Aug 13, 2022: Caturday Entertainment for the whole family, the new kitten at my in-laws… 🐈

Aug 12, 2022: This past couple of weeks, thanks to being on the road (working and vacationing), I haven’t listened to a single podcast episode. I’m …

Aug 12, 2022: Happy Baby tinyMovieStar loves animals, and adores water. Today was a good day for her.

Aug 12, 2022: Unpopular opinion: I don’t think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; I think it’s okay to just wander through life …

Aug 12, 2022: Final Selfie at the Village Just before we left for the drive south. Took us almost four hours to get to the new stop, but we’re here already.

Aug 12, 2022: See You Soon Today we’re saying farewell to our friends that have been with us for two weeks, and driving south. Weekend stop at the in-laws, then off …

Aug 11, 2022: The Kitchen This is where all the meat is grilled at the restaurant. Tons of it.

Aug 11, 2022: Au village on parle que Français. Tout le jour.

Aug 11, 2022: Reason 357795 to love the countryside: All-you-can-eat meat lunch, with beer, wine, salad, coffee, and ice-cream: €16.50.

Aug 10, 2022: Before the Storm Just before the rain came pouring down, with sound effects. We were in the middle of a huge glass of beer and a ton of fries.

Aug 10, 2022: Sunny day turns into thunderstorm. Awesome.

Aug 10, 2022: Tradition, Part II After last week’s post, another tradition is born at the village: tinyMovieStar and her moody TV watching. 2021 2022

Aug 10, 2022: I might have missed following someone on Mastodon while moving to social.lol. If you’re active on Mastodon, feel free to leave your username, …

Aug 10, 2022: Moody Sunset Leftover from yesterday’s trip to the beach by the lake. We might go back today.

Aug 10, 2022: Vacationing with photographers is great. The two friends we’re spending these first two weeks of August are both great ones, and the amount of …

Aug 10, 2022: Another thing about the village: trash pickup happens at 7:30AM. The huge truck rolls in the morning, and not late in the night as in the city. I can …

Aug 10, 2022: One thing about the village: church bells ring on the hour, and 7AM is too early to be woken by them when you’re vacationing.

Aug 9, 2022: Lake Beach Back from a lovely afternoon at the lake beach. tinyMovieStar had a great time, we did as well.

Aug 9, 2022: Spain Crossing the border into Spain, and just going as far as Ciudad Rodrigo, or maybe Salamanca, still gives me the same warm feeling I got when I was a …

Aug 9, 2022: There’s no cell coverage in the village, at least not for my provider. We do have fast Wi-Fi at home, but no cell when we’re away from it. …

Aug 8, 2022: Welcome to the Village Night shot, but that’s when I remembered to do it. More tomorrow.

Aug 8, 2022: Made it to the village, after a very long farewell lunch, and three hours on the road.

Aug 7, 2022: all of these features create a place that should no longer exist, and yet does exist, exists largely for the pleasure of the Giant Suitcase People …

Aug 7, 2022: Truth is, we spend a great deal of time thinking about our week here, and we miss it even before we leave.

Aug 7, 2022: See You Soon A week later we’re back on the road. Tomorrow we’re leaving our friends behind, and moving on. We had the most wonderful time, attended a …

Aug 7, 2022: That feeling of walking around without a huge camera bag: bliss.

Aug 7, 2022: Exporting the last batch. I’ll take another long look when we’re back home, and send a few more photos. For now it’s done, ready to …

Aug 7, 2022: Trying to keep up with the timeline on Feedbin, but wishing I had more time to spend on M.b.

Aug 7, 2022: Legendary Best show of the festival. He had us crying. Amazing performance by The Legendary Tigerman.

Aug 6, 2022: The Man Plenty more later, I’m sure.

Aug 6, 2022: The band I’ve been waiting for this whole festival is starting their sound check in a couple of minutes! Thrilled to see The Legendary Tigerman …

Aug 6, 2022: So… Sunday will be super busy, I’m doing the random bit of the giveaway in a couple of minutes! Winners coming up… 🏆

Aug 6, 2022: Ready for DayThree! Done with breakfast, time to edit some photos. Girls, as usual, will be at the pool with our friends.

Aug 6, 2022: DayTwo, the Bass Another day is done. A photo of a bass, two of one of the bass players (because they’re the coolest), and that’s about it. It’s too …

Aug 5, 2022: Fact: bass players are always the coolest member of the band.

Aug 5, 2022: The Gang The little ones were left out of this one, but here we are. The group that made the trip to the festival.

Aug 5, 2022: During sound checks we were told we could use the beer tap, for free, until it ran out. Hours later it’s still going. We’re happy.

Aug 5, 2022: Also, as usual, plenty more on (sorry) Instagram. Mostly Stories.

Aug 5, 2022: N2 2022, DayOne It was a long, hot, day. And I’m not particularly proud of any of the photos from yesterday. Still trying to find my way around the …

Aug 5, 2022: Crashed tinyMovieStar kinda woke up, tried following mom into the bathroom, and just gave up. The room is not even THAT big, but she couldn’t make it …

Aug 5, 2022: Up, but not fully awake. A lot of photos to edit, 25 minutes left until breakfast is no longer available at the hotel, and the movieStars are still …

Aug 4, 2022: Shine Bright Day One underway.

Aug 4, 2022: Starting… Now! The festival starts in under an hour. Here we go… Little sleep for a few days.

Aug 4, 2022: My Commute Eating and sleeping on one side of the river, concerts take place on the other one. Full disclosure: this is not the only way to cross 🙂

Aug 4, 2022: Yearly reminder that PhotoSync is one of my most used apps, and one that I never seem to remember to mention. Use it every single day to transfer …

Aug 4, 2022: 00:00. Time to sleep. Tomorrow the festival starts, days will turn into very looooong ones.

Aug 3, 2022: A Tradition is Born Chaves, the city where we are right now, is the place where tinyMovieStar was conceived. She is from here. We came back last year, …

Aug 3, 2022: Help is Here! Time to go out and have one, maybe?

Aug 3, 2022: So. Hot. Not a lot to report. It’s too hot. Woke up, late breakfast, a dip in the pool at the hotel, lunch, and then we sat, eating ice cream after …

Aug 3, 2022: Driving These Days There’s always someone looking over my shoulder. Hey, Skye!

Aug 3, 2022: Stroll, and Haircut Out of bed by 8AM, small stroll to the barbershop, and time for my yearly haircut in Chaves. Love this barber. Up to date on city …

Aug 3, 2022: 9AM, ready for my traditional Chaves haircut. Gotta look nice for the festival 😆

Aug 2, 2022: Chaves, DayOne We made it to the wonderful Chaves. At last. We were welcomed by our friends, the best hosts in the land. On the way we picked up …

Aug 2, 2022: Road Day We spent the whole day on the road, with a tiny stop for lunch and to pick up a friend who’s coming along for a few days. Photos from …

Aug 2, 2022: Would you like to try omg.lol, and all the cool things that come with it? Landing page, email, DNS, Mastodon instance, make the world a better place, …

Aug 2, 2022: Feeling Lucky? Adam keeps adding stuff on top of more stuff, and omg.lol is now even more incredible than before. Pastebin, Mastodon instance, IRC, …

Aug 2, 2022: On Our Way Let’s get the cars on the road.

Aug 2, 2022: Ended up with a little over 3 hours of bed time, today’s drive will be a painful one. One the flip side there will be a Francesinha about …

Aug 2, 2022: 03:10AM. Just remembered the iced coffee I had at 4PM. Thanks a lot, caffeine! ☕️

Aug 2, 2022: Mastodon Times Two. For Now. A new Mastodon instance shows up, and I knew I had to join this one. It’s hosted by Adam, from omg.lol fame. Of course I had to try it. Welcome …

Aug 1, 2022: Dozens! It’s only Day Two of our tour, but I already have way too many photos waiting to be edited!

Aug 1, 2022: Tomorrow we’re on the move again. Porto, then Chaves. Of course tinyMovieStar is still very much awake, it’s 10:30PM.

Aug 1, 2022: Water Another very hot day. We found a nice restaurant for lunch, and a cool place for an after lunch dip. Let’s call this day a success.

Aug 1, 2022: All Good Now 10:30AM, everyone is up now. The movieStars managed to get three more hours of sleep. Good.

Aug 1, 2022: Rough night. Changing beds every night can be tricky for some, and we all seem to suffer from it. One more to go, and then we’re getting the …

Jul 31, 2022: Long, Crazy Day Driving for a while, fires everywhere. Then party. Party was long. Food. Drink. Tired.

Jul 31, 2022: Leg 2 done. Small drive, but tinyMovieStar was so sleepy that it turned the whole thing into a screaming hour. Of course she fell asleep when we had 5 …

Jul 31, 2022: Done with lunch, done with packing (again). Ready to go. Leg 2 is a small one, one and a half hours at most.

Jul 31, 2022: The People Have Spoken I rode. It was fun. Certainly more so than driving there. Also, as people are leaving town in droves today, much quicker.

Jul 31, 2022: Here at omg.lol, we’re not interested in re-inventing social media. We are however deeply interested in supporting kind, fun, lighthearted social …

Jul 30, 2022: So… my father forgot his phone in the car, and I’ll have to go back to the city to return it tomorrow morning. The question now is: drive …

Jul 30, 2022: First stop: grandparents. All of them. Before heading north, we’re spending a day saying “See you later” to the four of them. Lunch …

Jul 30, 2022: Bags packed: 3. Coffees taken: 2.

Jul 30, 2022: Still a lot of packing to do, but we leave today. Three weeks of wandering around the country. Hopefully I’ll have some photos to share, but I …

Jul 29, 2022: Best. DJ. Name. Ever.

Jul 29, 2022: Packing.

Jul 29, 2022: Well, the internet runs on advertising. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry that relies on mass surveillance. Vodafone & Deutsche Telekom to …

Jul 29, 2022: The Gray Man, 2022 - ★★½ Watched on Friday July 29, 2022.

Jul 29, 2022: Let’s start the day slowly, please… Coonskin by Ayatollah

Jul 29, 2022: Today is the last day of tinyMovieStar’s first year in the school system. We (the three of us) are really happy with her kindergarten, and she …

Jul 28, 2022: Growing Up Today tinyMovieStar had fun helping out. I had fun getting my nails done. movieStar had fun with help preparing one of tinyMovieStar’s …

Jul 28, 2022: All You Need Lovely afternoon.

Jul 28, 2022: One more day at kindergarten, and then we have tinyMovieStar all for ourselves for a month. Tomorrow is the last day of school for her. It’s …

Jul 28, 2022: Cedar Rapids, 2011 - ★★★ Watched on Thursday July 28, 2022.

Jul 28, 2022: Down the Street Left home and went left instead of right. In a street covered with jacaranda I was surprised to find the last flowers. The only ones …

Jul 28, 2022: Late, but got to @val’s participation on @monday. I love opening Overcast and seeing a new episode. Always a thrill when I get to know members …

Jul 28, 2022: NewsBlur Sadness I noticed Feedbin updates feeds much faster than NewsBlur, and I think I might have found a reason why that is happening. Congratulations on your …

Jul 28, 2022: Good Morning Legibility wise, this one is on a different level when compared to the stealth version. Perfect. Still no coffee around, so went down to …

Jul 27, 2022: If oil exploitation takes place in these areas, we must expect a global climate catastrophe, and we will all just have to watch helplessly Congo to …

Jul 27, 2022: Pick Up Walking to kindergarten twice a day is great. Shop windows keep changing, life goes on, always something new to shoot. Even old places have …

Jul 27, 2022: Let’s go! What You Do To Me by BlakRoc, Billy Danze, Jim Jones & Nicole Wray

Jul 27, 2022: Traveling leaves you speechless, then it turns you into a story teller Seen on a t-shirt.

Jul 27, 2022: Mirror Life Walking back home, after dropping tinyMovieStar at kindergarten. Drank coffee #2 just before this one.

Jul 27, 2022: Coffee Run We ran out of coffee, again, so I had to go to the tiny restaurant next door and ask the lady to fill these two with our morning espressos.

Jul 26, 2022: It’s an Instagram link (and I’m sorry about that), but found it funny and wanted to share. Brilliantly Literal Norwegian Words That Say …

Jul 26, 2022: Anyone on iOS 16 beta can check if Lightroom is working? Asking for a friend…

Jul 26, 2022: Last Vegas, 2013 - ★★★ Watched on Tuesday July 26, 2022.

Jul 26, 2022: I’m so happy with NewsBlur, have been for such a long time, so why am I testing Feedbin? Grrrrrrr!

Jul 26, 2022: Less than a week away… In a few days, here we go. I know I’m repeating myself, but can’t wait to get on the car and drive away…

Jul 26, 2022: Some construction work should be happening on our street right now. The city hall tweeted about it, it would last 4 days. Waze got updated and shows …

Jul 26, 2022: Biggest scare of my life. Yesterday tinyMovieStar swallowed a hair clip, and it got stuck in her throat. Instinct kicked in for me, apparently I did …

Jul 25, 2022: I can go anywhere and everywhere with this watch and not worry about a scenario where I might get pushed into a deep body of water (you just never …

Jul 25, 2022: Almost done with the editing, then I’ll start, slowly, taking care of the preparation for August. A lot of road lies ahead, work and vacation …

Jul 25, 2022: Parking Spot The place where we spent the night while on assignment had a huge tree providing shade for our horses. Well, not exactly our own, that …

Jul 24, 2022: Beach & Food Incredibly hot day at the beach today, with friends and father in law. After a long time there, roasting, we moved to a nearby …

Jul 23, 2022: Too damn hot again.

Jul 22, 2022: Tigerland, 2000 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday July 22, 2022.

Jul 22, 2022: Meeting with the teacher at kindergarten went pretty good. tinyMovieStar is a totally different person when she’s over there, but we knew that …

Jul 22, 2022: helloYellow Ready for my summer vacation, counting down the days with pacMan. Just delivered.

Jul 22, 2022: Of course I found a thousand ways to postpone editing the photos already, and it’s not even lunch time yet. Yellow item still “Out for …

Jul 22, 2022: Something yellow is “Out For Delivery”, and hundreds of photos from the past couple of days to look at and start editing. How convenient. …

Jul 21, 2022: Back home. Fell asleep shortly after having dinner. tinyMovieStar, still very much awake, took matters in her hands, and woke me up. She missed me. I …

Jul 21, 2022: Alentejo, Day Two Early rise, and back on the road. Olives (and olive oil) producers, vegetable growers, and ended up at the second location of the …

Jul 21, 2022: 6AM, getting up for Day Two of The Alentejo Food Adventure. It’s WAY too early, I can tell you that. On the brighter side, the day will end back …

Jul 20, 2022: What. A. Dinner. We’ve been eating for three hours now, each dish more delicious than the previous one.

Jul 20, 2022: On The Road, Alentejo Edition Bread makers, cheese makers, wine makers, meat products makers, we visited them all. Great stories, great food, and the …

Jul 20, 2022: Ready to hit the road again, with my favorite client. I shouldn’t even call her “client”, she’s more like a friend. Hardest …

Jul 19, 2022: Cool, so… Arc does not work with my old Air. Long wait, for such a disappointment. Back to Safari and Vivaldi, I guess.

Jul 19, 2022: Came home a little later than I should have, and still have to pack everything for tomorrow. Of course the “invite arrives tomorrow” meant …

Jul 19, 2022: In a few more days kindergarten closes for summer vacation, and we’re spending a month with tinyMovieStar all for ourselves! We’re doing …

Jul 19, 2022: Queenpins, 2021 - ★★½ Watched on Tuesday July 19, 2022.

Jul 18, 2022: Email from The Browser Company. Subject: Your invite to Arc arrives tomorrow! Actually excited 🙂

Jul 18, 2022: Mandatory Park Visit Weekends are spent out of town, and this one with me away from the movieStars. I missed them, missed picking tinyMovieStar from …

Jul 18, 2022: Beer Me! A few days after the good news, here’s the good beer. Thank you, Dois Corvos, not a bad way to start the week! Unpacking, in photo format: …

Jul 18, 2022: movieStar: “What is Papi’s job?” tinyMovieStar: “Send photos”. She’s right, of course. She’s not there when …

Jul 17, 2022: bSides From the Weekend

Jul 17, 2022: Back with the movieStars. Not yet home, but with them already.

Jul 17, 2022: Sunday Morning Waking up in Chaves. Breakfast with Roman ruins under my feet, and getting ready for the trip back to the movieStars. Miss them.

Jul 16, 2022: No Time to Die, 2021 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday July 16, 2022.

Jul 16, 2022: Saturday The drive up was sad. Miles and miles of burnt forest. Close to the end, a deer crossed the highway just in front of me. I almost cried. Then …

Jul 16, 2022: Here I go.

Jul 16, 2022: True to form, on the night before I have a huge drive ahead, I’m having trouble sleeping. Past 2:30AM, still awake.

Jul 15, 2022: The Pool, Part II Sorry about the spam, but both movieStars were just too cute not to post. Also, as I’m going north tomorrow, I won’t have new photos …

Jul 15, 2022: My blot.im blog (sticker spotter), keeps going down, and up, and down, and up, and… Over 20 times today! Anyone else having issues with blot?

Jul 15, 2022: The Pool Back at her grandparents, back at the inflatable pool. “Papi, the girl is peeing!”

Jul 15, 2022: I adore my car, but sometimes it’s fun to drive one with all the nice, modern, touches.

Jul 15, 2022: My cable is scheduled for today, money from an assignment was deposited in my account, and No Time to Die is available to stream. The air temperature …

Jul 15, 2022: I came to believe that Africa’s troves of natural resources were not going to be its salvation; instead, they were its curse. in The Looting Machine: …

Jul 14, 2022: Chaves Going on Saturday, for a day. Can’t wait for August, when the three of us go together for a week. One of the highlights of our year.

Jul 14, 2022: Tomorrow I’m dropping my car at my brother-in-law’s, and getting his. That way I’ll save a ton on gas & highway tolls, and also …

Jul 14, 2022: Somehow I lost the Lightning-SD cable, the one that it’s been with me for years, and the one I need this Saturday. Hope Apple’s next day …

Jul 14, 2022: If you’ve ever been to a major city in Japan, you’ve seen modern pachinko parlors. They’re almost impossible to ignore. Modern Pachinko: The Game …

Jul 13, 2022: A couple more episodes of Tehran, and it’s off to bed. Still too hot, but we have to get some rest.

Jul 13, 2022: Here we go, time to go get tinyMovieStar. Time to face the oven outside.

Jul 13, 2022: Pet Friendly The bookstore where we have to stop almost daily on the way back from kindergarten, is a really nice one. They are very pet friendly, and …

Jul 12, 2022: We just came home from a long dinner with friends, and tinyMovieStar is in the bathtub, with cold water. That’s what she wants to do at 10PM. On …

Jul 12, 2022: Beginner’s Luck First time trying one of those like-tag-share-comment things on Instagram. The prize was beer, so why not?? What do you know, I …

Jul 12, 2022: Music Fan She was this big last year, when we went up to the festival. It’s incredible how much she’s grown in a year. Can’t wait to go…

Jul 12, 2022: Maybe a stint at the beach would be a better move next time. Aw, billionaire space travelers couldn’t handle their assigned workload

Jul 12, 2022: News from the latest features for Micro.blog in podcast format? Sure, @jean and @manton have you covered on this week’s @monday episode.

Jul 11, 2022: She keeps learning new words every day, but today I was thrilled to hear something for the first time: tinyMovieStar said “Ok, Papi”. Just …

Jul 11, 2022: tinyMovieStar picked up from kindergarten, and two assignments were edited and sent. Feeling very accomplished, and taking the time to write this down …

Jul 11, 2022: And, true to the crazy heat we’re getting, today on the news there are reports that we might get thunderstorms and rain, but the rain will never …

Jul 11, 2022: The festival date is getting close and, as in previous years, I’m making the trip north for the presentation of this year’s festival. …

Jul 11, 2022: We forgot some stuff at my in-laws, and some of their things in our car. So I’m driving all the way to their place to make things right.

Jul 11, 2022: Potatoes and Sand In the morning, a small assignment. Another incredible story one of my colleagues found. I’ll have to write a longer post, as I’m enjoying these …

Jul 10, 2022: Sunday morning, temperature is still bearable. Out for my assignment, then off to the beach to meet the movieStars and extended family. There’s …

Jul 9, 2022: Walking the Dog One of tinyMovieStar’s favorite activities, while at Grandma&Grandpa’s, is walking Rosinha, their sweet dog. I go along for the …

Jul 9, 2022: PoolLife Doing whatever we can. Tomorrow everyone is going to the beach, I’ll join them after I’m done with my morning assignment.

Jul 9, 2022: Driving On the way over to my in-laws we saw two unusual things: A vintage car driving on the highway. A sad man rescuing whatever he could get his …

Jul 9, 2022: Here. We. Are. Nothing helps. Nothing.

Jul 9, 2022: Sleepy As soon as everyone was up, it was time to get Peppa (and family) to sleep. Looks comfy!

Jul 8, 2022: 11.30PM. Both of us grownups are falling asleep. Obviously the little one is playing a whole range of different games. We tried asking …

Jul 8, 2022: Naughty Bread Maybe I shouldn’t share this one, but this is the bread people have on the table at the restaurant I had a shoot in. My life isn’t easy.

Jul 8, 2022: Oh, Sweet Lisbon You should bring comfortable shoes, and maybe get some hours in the gym before coming over…

Jul 8, 2022: Can’t say I’m looking forward to stepping outside. There’s a minimum of clothing I have to wear in public, and today that sounds …

Jul 8, 2022: American Made, 2017 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday July 8, 2022.

Jul 8, 2022: Back to Japan It’s taking WAY longer than I wanted, but I’m finally back to the post on Japan for dinkiwinkiminkiwinki. The post keeps getting longer, …

Jul 8, 2022: One. Day. Left. Hotter than yesterday. And one last assignment for the paper left, late in the afternoon, before the weekend arrives. Can’t …

Jul 7, 2022: 11PM, 29C, 84.2F. Slight breeze. Feels nice. We needed this after a day in hell.

Jul 7, 2022: Despite Everything, 2019 - ★★ Watched on Thursday July 7, 2022.

Jul 7, 2022: The Heat is On First day of the heat wave. Should last a week or so. Today: 36C (that’s 96.8F). It’s HOT.

Jul 7, 2022: Today, hopefully.

Jul 7, 2022: It’s tattoo anniversary day. A few years ago I got Neko Stamp. We were in Hoi An at the time.

Jul 7, 2022: Rough night, tinyMovieStar woke up at 5AM saying she had enough sleep. Took us over an hour to talk her into sleeping again. But then, when the time …

Jul 7, 2022: Today is haircut day. One of the highlights of every month.

Jul 7, 2022: It’s Festival Season in town, a new one every weekend. Can’t say I miss attending. Anyway, our festival is less than a month away, and …

Jul 6, 2022: myLove Beautiful tinyMovieStar, my love.

Jul 6, 2022: A post by @pimoore, with a ton of replies, got me thinking. I should have a light version of the blog, as many seem to dislike dark mode. I picked …

Jul 6, 2022: Strolling Not a wide sidewalk, and impossible to get tinyMovieStar’s stroller across, without going into the actual street, where cars are going. Not …

Jul 6, 2022: Took me long enough, but finally got around to 1917. Glad I did.

Jul 6, 2022: 1917, 2019 - ★★★★ Watched on Wednesday July 6, 2022.

Jul 6, 2022: Jennifer Lopez: Halftime, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Wednesday July 6, 2022.

Jul 5, 2022: This is going to be fun… ☀️ 😓

Jul 5, 2022: On The Way Home Everyday now, when we pick tinyMovieStar from school, there’s a set route: playground, ice-cream shop, bookstore, and home. Finally. …

Jul 5, 2022: Glad to find @cliffordbeshers on the latest @monday episode. I enjoyed his Micro Camp presentation, happy to hear his voice again.

Jul 5, 2022: Finished The Terminal List. Nice series, filled with great performances. I do believe I enjoyed the book a little more. Well worth a watch, anyway.

Jul 4, 2022: It was a really nice weekend, even with half a Saturday lost to work. The girls went to the beach while I was away. Truth be told, the assignment was …

Jul 4, 2022: tinyMovieStar is having a Diva Day. Not easy.

Jul 4, 2022: 4th of July You’re a little battered, but it’s still your birthday. Happy 4th of July.

Jul 4, 2022: Editing day. The one good thing about it? I spend a lot longer sitting in front of a computer, and that means more time for micro.blog.

Jul 4, 2022: What is paste.lol? The internet didn’t ask for another pastebin, and it certainly didn’t need one, but here we are. Another service from the …

Jul 3, 2022: Finished season 6 of the Peaky Blinders. Would love a few more.

Jul 2, 2022: loveProject Back on the road, back to finding more photos for loveProject.

Jul 1, 2022: Papi Obstacle Course Feeling a little better, tinyMovieStar made it to the beach with her little friends from kindergarten. Real fun, however, begins …

Jul 1, 2022: The weekend is upon us. Going out of town again, and there’s work for me tomorrow as well. Not a perfect weekend, but should be good.

Jul 1, 2022: Started watching The Terminal List. Book felt much faster paced than the series so far…

Jun 30, 2022: Spending the day with tinyMovieStar, and the in-laws. movieStar needs to work. I do too, but can do it later, into the night.

Jun 28, 2022: A mix that reminds you, no amount of architectural, infrastructural, and urban brutality can strip humans of their soulfulness and natural generosity. …

Jun 28, 2022: Imaginary bruises need very real band-aids, but the kind with little animals (or Peppa) on them. Five pharmacies later, I have secured three different …

Jun 27, 2022: Longish day, with incredible lunch with movieStar, a visit to Mom&Dad, and still time to edit and send the photos that I had to deliver. Done.

Jun 27, 2022: The Man from Toronto, 2022 - ★★½ Watched on Monday June 27, 2022.

Jun 26, 2022: Sunday afternoon, back home, looking at the photos from Friday’s assignment. Must. Send. Tomorrow.

Jun 26, 2022: Weekends Saturday is “wash your car” day. And, on Sunday, you cook family lunch. Busy busy…

Jun 26, 2022: Happy Sunday After a relatively quiet Saturday, and an very relaxing sleep holding tinyMovieStar (or was it the other way around?) for hours, it’s …

Jun 24, 2022: Nice Day It’s was a lovely day. Plenty of yummy food, and we drove to four different vineyards. Appetizers were incredible, main dishes as well. No …

Jun 24, 2022: Off I go again. And, surprise, it’s another visit to a winery! This time, though, not for the usual client, I’m doing it for the paper.

Jun 23, 2022: Uploading, sorting, and tagging photos on Flickr, when you have so many of tinyMovieStar, is a full-time job.

Jun 23, 2022: The Takedown, 2022 - ★★ Watched on Thursday June 23, 2022.

Jun 23, 2022: Too lazy to post anything, except new stuff on sticker spotter. Have things I want to post, but too many photos need to be picked for that to happen, …

Jun 22, 2022: Solar Happy with the solar feature. Don’t care that much about Bluetooth, but not worrying about batteries is a big plus. How’s yours, @helgeg? …

Jun 22, 2022: Finally managed to listen to @sod’s @monday episode. Great one, as usual. Thanks for keeping this up, @jean.

Jun 21, 2022: Keeping Up with the Joneses, 2016 - ★★½ Watched on Tuesday June 21, 2022.

Jun 21, 2022: Stuber, 2019 - ★★½ Watched on Tuesday June 21, 2022.

Jun 21, 2022: Turning the laptop on. It’s been weeks since I’ve done that, and I didn’t miss it a bit.

Jun 19, 2022: Back home. Again. This time we can’t leave again, tinyMovieStar has skipped enough days at kindergarten already.

Jun 18, 2022: tinyMovieStar seems very comfortable in this pool/beach lifestyle.

Jun 16, 2022: South 12 hours after getting home, we drove three hours. tinyMovieStar wanted a beach and, even though we have them next to town, the Algarve is SO …

Jun 16, 2022: Still sick, both of the grown ups, and tinyMovieStar is feeling great. Woke up a couple of hours ago, went to the supermarket, and already thinking …

Jun 15, 2022: Trip Day First leg: boat ride to the mainland. Here we go.

Jun 15, 2022: Here. We. Go. Long day ahead. See you back home.

Jun 14, 2022: Tech I had no idea I’d love, but works incredibly well and makes life SO much easier: eSIM.

Jun 14, 2022: Problem averted, we now have a ride to the pier. Only thing left to do: get bus tickets.

Jun 14, 2022: Both feeling miserable, and already stressing a little about tomorrow. Full day of traveling, still no bus tickets, and it’s impossible to book …

Jun 14, 2022: Another day, another trip to the pharmacy. This time: Zyrtec.

Jun 13, 2022: Someone who’s not a coffee drinker made coffee for us today. 9 hours later I’m starting to wonder how much coffee did she actually use!

Jun 13, 2022: Incredible day today. Friends of our amazing host (who’s not on the island) invited us for lunch, and spent the whole afternoon showing us …

Jun 13, 2022: Small change of plans: we’re staying an extra day on the island, and then doing Boat + Bus + Uber + Plane in one go! Leaving the island at …

Jun 11, 2022: Happy Not easy, with fever, cough, and a splash of the infamous “Terrible Twos”, but sometimes everything aligns.

Jun 11, 2022: Was running out of data on my roaming allowance, couldn’t find a single SIM card on the island. The I remembered: eSIM! 5 minutes later I had …

Jun 11, 2022: Cycling, piggyback riding, cycling, piggyback riding… tinyMovieStar is having a blast. We’re just tired. It’s like going to gym, …

Jun 9, 2022: Left the hotel. Ubers hard to find, only one available. Demonstrations all over town. Crazy traffic. Kamal did manage to get us to the bus station …

Jun 9, 2022: Next: bus ride (provided we can find tickets), and a boat trip. Then we’ll finally be on the island. Fever seems to have gone away. Hopefully …

Jun 8, 2022: Two days in, already exhausted. The little one woke up with a fever, so today I spent a fair amount of time at the pharmacy. Four trips there. We did …

Jun 7, 2022: Here we go, on se voit de l’autre côté.

Jun 6, 2022: Good Morning, Vietnam, 1987 - ★★★★ Watched on Monday June 6, 2022.

Jun 6, 2022: No time to watch WWDC today, with all the preparation going on. I’ll catch up later, I’m sure a lot of posts will show up on the …

Jun 6, 2022: One Day to Go The part that’s ready. That’s all. Bags still unpacked.

Jun 6, 2022: One day to go. Can’t say I’m not a little nervous.

Jun 6, 2022: Kingsman: The Secret Service, 2014 - ★★★★ Watched on Monday June 6, 2022.

Jun 5, 2022: Turning Red, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday June 5, 2022.

Jun 5, 2022: One year of Disney+, starting… now!

Jun 4, 2022: Honeymoon with My Mother, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday June 4, 2022.

Jun 4, 2022: Priorities while planning the trip: find the beer place that’s closest to the hotel, and decide which watch will go along for the ride. Pleased …

Jun 4, 2022: It’s raining, it’s Saturday. Of course this is the ONE time tinyMovieStar wakes up early! Every single day we have to wake her up for …

Jun 3, 2022: A few days before our flight. In the old days I loved airports, and the whole flying part. Now I just want teleportation to be a thing.

Jun 3, 2022: Lovely A sweet story. Heads up, it’s a link to Twitter.

Jun 3, 2022: The Perfect Family, 2021 - ★★½ Watched on Friday June 3, 2022.

Jun 2, 2022: Stamped! @paulopinto had the lovely (crazy) idea of using the silly drawing I made for him on a custom batch of stamps, official stamps. He was kind …

Jun 1, 2022: Oops! It wasn’t.

Jun 1, 2022: The Old Guard, 2020 - ★★★ Watched on Wednesday June 1, 2022.

Jun 1, 2022: jacarandaGirls Both movieStars are great fans of jacaranda flowers.

May 31, 2022: Getting to the end of this ordeal! Should be done with the editing in an hour.

May 30, 2022: Lovely lunch, delicious food, and now back at it. Still a few thousand photos to go through.

May 30, 2022: Editing is on pause for lunch, we’re meeting an English friend who’s having a layover in town, after spending a few days in the Azores. …

May 30, 2022: Danger, Croco… oops, Fish ahead! Or “Why did the fish cross the road”?

May 29, 2022: And here I find myself again: Sunday afternoon, and I have to rush through the editing part. Deadline is VERY close, and I’m nowhere near the …

May 29, 2022: Stripes Waiting…

May 28, 2022: Fair Today we visited Feira da Ladra, another first for tinyMovieStar.

May 28, 2022: Today: Feira da Ladra. Should be good.

May 27, 2022: Another first: tinyMovieStar triggered the alarm at our place. That was fun. And LOUD!

May 27, 2022: Had to leave the city, and back, during rush hour. I have no clue how people go through this, every single day, without serious mental issues as a …

May 27, 2022: Incredibly enough, another week has gone by, and no photos were edited. How did that happen?

May 27, 2022: Written Good advice, can’t go wrong…

May 27, 2022: Almost done with the Fat Leonard podcast. Now I’d like to see this in movie format, please.

May 27, 2022: Tickets to France have been purchased. Yay.

May 26, 2022: Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★½ Watched on Thursday May 26, 2022.

May 26, 2022: Top. Gun. Day.

May 26, 2022: Schedule Whenever I hear the word, I think of two things: trains, and watches. Both of those words take me to a place: Japan. Nowhere have I …

May 25, 2022: Mountain Not sure if it qualifies as a mountain, but it’s the craziest peak I know of… Pico Cão Grande, in São Tomé.

May 25, 2022: First for everyone: tinyMovieStar got to school, and she had no shoes on! So eager to go, she jumped into my lap, and we left. I failed to notice, mom …

May 24, 2022: Toscana, 2022 - ★½ Watched on Tuesday May 24, 2022.

May 24, 2022: Sicario: Day of the Soldado, 2018 - ★★★½ Watched on Tuesday May 24, 2022.

May 24, 2022: Added a new link to my omg.lol profile. Months later, still love the service!

May 24, 2022: Tomorrow is Top Gun day, so I better get down to work today! Can’t remember the last time I was actually in a movie theatre.

May 23, 2022: Crypto, when it comes down to it, relies on greater fools. As assets without any intrinsic value, the way to make money from crypto is to find a …

May 23, 2022: Procrastinating Can’t get enough of this one. And, of course, trying to find every excuse I can to delay the work I should be doing…

May 23, 2022: Back to the movies… at home. Today, Sicario, while editing another batch of boring photos.

May 23, 2022: Sicario, 2015 - ★★★½ Watched on Monday May 23, 2022.

May 22, 2022: Textile Waiting for lunch. We’re going out, I picked pink for today. Shirt, socks, and boots. Feeling great.

May 22, 2022: Weekends with the in-laws always have an assortment of random moments. Right now my father in-law is attempting the Braveheart soundtrack on a flute. …

May 22, 2022: Luckiest Girl Alive Hello Kitty + Pink + Converse All Star? Sure!

May 21, 2022: Second vomit cleanup of the day? Check!

May 21, 2022: Almost symmetry Not perfect, but close enough, hopefully.

May 20, 2022: She eats everything. She eats nothing. She eats everything. She eats nothing. I never know what I’m getting into at dinner time. Same item: …

May 20, 2022: Traveling Buddies These are my co-pilots nowadays…

May 20, 2022: Beverage Had the usual cups of coffee in the morning, and decided to skip photographing those, hoping I’d meet a beer in the afternoon. Sadly, that …

May 20, 2022: 32C. May.

May 20, 2022: Weekend plans: after a week without the usual visit to all the grandparents (I was working during the weekend, and my in-laws went to Brazil), …

May 20, 2022: Edited yesterday’s trip photos. It was a quicker visit than usual, to a jail. The wine is made by the inmates. The prison is located in one of the …

May 20, 2022: 10 Years Later Seems like not a lot has changed. Those in power are still the same, the misery remains. Wishing you all the best, Timor.

May 19, 2022: Back from the wine producing prison. This one surely wins the “Most Out of the Ordinary” award on this series of visits.

May 19, 2022: Just in Case I’m taking this one with me today, might need it later.

May 18, 2022: Time to pick up tinyMovieStar, and have a beer. Tomorrow I have to work again, this time in a different venue: a prison. Should be fun.

May 18, 2022: Great idea, again, by @sod. Tap here, and you’ll be taken to a random entry in the photoblogging challenge. I saved the link on Drafts, and use …

May 18, 2022: Looks like this time we’re really going! Not our island, but an island anyway. First time on a plane for the tiny one, we should be heading to …

May 18, 2022: Random Speed through the Recents folder on Camera Roll, all 125 460 photos, and pick one. That’s as random as I can get.

May 16, 2022: No work today. Feels great to say that. Time for some “Tokyo Vice”!

May 16, 2022: Standing Still Love it when time does that.

May 15, 2022: Best. Moment. Ever. Got home after days without seeing the girls, tinyMovieStar jumps up and I pick her and there’s a tight, long, hug. …

May 15, 2022: Final Day This ends today, and I’ll finally be able to spend some time with the girls. Missing them SO much, on top of the whole exhaustion thing. …

May 14, 2022: Too tired to post.

May 13, 2022: Third day in. SOOOOOOO fed up.

May 12, 2022: Scary: corrupted card on the camera, half the photos from today are missing. Thankfully it’s a two card camera, so there’s a jpg version …

May 12, 2022: Made it home before 11PM! Yay! tinyMovieStar, just before sleeping, said she was sad she couldn’t kiss Papi. Broken heart for both of us.

May 12, 2022: Tranquility For Mr @vincent’s prompt, an old classic I return to often. We still haven’t made it back to the island, still missing it.

May 12, 2022: Home by 1AM, quick edit and send a couple of photos. In good company, as tinyMovieStar couldn’t sleep without Papi. Sleep at 2AM, up by 7AM. …

May 11, 2022: Working Boy Mr Márcio, chief electrician, is a cool photographer as well. He was kind enough to shoot me while I shot him. Double shot!

May 11, 2022: Lucky me, today’s shoot starts at 1130! Late enough to still have time to drop the little one at kindergarten! 🥰

May 11, 2022: mickeyMouseOperation Toddler’s shades. Maybe I should get a pair…

May 10, 2022: Family We left home before lunch, headed to a nearby restaurant with a cousin. Had some food. Came home for a couple of minutes, left again with said cousin, …

May 10, 2022: Final day before assignment starts. Already feeling the sadness that comes from knowing I’ll leave before the girls are up, and arrive after the …

May 9, 2022: I might have a separate Instagram account just for watches. I also might be spending way too much time reading Hodinkee, and similar sites. I might …

May 9, 2022: 11 Years My in-laws have moved back to their hometown, a village outside Lisbon, maybe an hour away if one drives slow enough. We have been going there weekly …

May 8, 2022: So I put together a shortcut — Push To Overcast — that lets me download a video from YouTube, convert it to an audio file, and then easily upload it …

May 8, 2022: A very long Sunday, but we went to the beach (lunch included), and cousin’s pool in the afternoon. tinyMovieStar, a water and sand lover, was …

May 7, 2022: parked movieStar’s great-grandfather’s old automobile, parked for good. Sitting behind a warehouse, she found it this weekend.

May 7, 2022: There’s a post coming, and it will be a long one. But I’ll leave that for another day. For now, a photo. It’s now past 1:30AM, and we’re finally home, …

May 6, 2022: If she makes it that late without falling asleep, tinyMovieStar will attend her first concert today. Not pushing it, of course, but this one would be …

May 6, 2022: Silhouette Sitting at home, avoiding work for as long as I can manage, the prompt comes up on my calendar (thanks @Burk): Silhouette. A postcard …

May 5, 2022: Automatically delete your old tweets, except for the ones you want to keep Handy service by Micah Lee. If you’re a fascist, or fascist …

May 5, 2022: Lynx I wondered how the blog would look like in a text browser now that Alt Text is being implemented, so I went ahead and installed Lynx. It works …

May 5, 2022: Managed to edit the entire assignment I had left. I guess I can call today a success already, and we didn’t even have lunch yet!

May 5, 2022: Earth Although I’m not taking part of this year’s May Photoblogging Challenge, I had to give it a go today. The Richat Structure, AKA Eye of Africa. …

May 5, 2022: What Now?? Is everything alright, @HemisphericViews? 😂

May 4, 2022: 5 days of shooting set photography coming up next week. Mixed feelings, as usual. Money will be ok, but I’ll miss seeing the girls the whole …

May 4, 2022: Lunch Time Met two of my oldest (and dearest) friends at the paper, and we walked to the restaurant. Still time to meet another one by chance, while …

May 4, 2022: Lunch date in a little while. Can’t seem to stay home and, you guessed it, there’s an assignment waiting for the editing part. I wonder if …

May 4, 2022: Moving We went to a different supermarket yesterday, and tinyMovieStar quickly found her way to the usual spot on the cart. Before that she tried the …

May 3, 2022: Alt Text From this day forward I’ll make an effort to always add Alt Text to the photos on my posts. Jean was kind enough to share @sod’s …

May 3, 2022: Testing… Will this work, @sod? Using Ulysses as usual, it would be brilliant if it did…

May 2, 2022: There, and Back Left early in the morning, with my parents, drove four hours north, attended a funeral, went to Spain for gas, had lunch with family, …

May 2, 2022: Here we go. See you later.

May 2, 2022: Up since 4AM. Getting ready for the drive up north. Long drive, and pretty cold up there. It’s not going to be nice, but we’ve had plenty …

May 1, 2022: A little sad that I won’t be taking part of this May’s Micro.blog photo challenge, but I knew from the start I wouldn’t be able to …

May 1, 2022: Sunday, Back Home After the wedding extravaganza, we made it back home today. Not before working this morning and afternoon. A visit to a winery so, …

Apr 30, 2022: Party Animal What. A. Day! tinyMovieStar surprised us all, and danced like a crazy person until well past one. 1AM! With her own bodyguard detail! …

Apr 29, 2022: Petal duty, and a drive to the winery to pick up a few bottles. That’s it for the wedding day morning.

Apr 29, 2022: WeddingDay (sold)

Apr 28, 2022: Wedding day tomorrow and, as usual, I’m not looking forward to it. Happy those two are finally doing it, but I’m not a fan of the actual …

Apr 27, 2022: Khaki Field Mechanical New watch day is always an exciting day.

Apr 27, 2022: Finally got to the end of the ordeal, and a jacket has been acquired! The Outfit Quest is finished, I’m ready. Predictably, as we were in the …

Apr 27, 2022: Well past noon, jacket situation still not solved… On the other hand, I saw a watch I really loved.

Apr 27, 2022: Break in Case of Emergency

Apr 27, 2022: Pick This is the one I picked in the end. If everything works according to plan, it should go into a show, where it will be sold. Proceeds will be …

Apr 27, 2022: Two days to brother-in-law’s wedding, and I might need a cardigan yet. Trying to take care of that after my hair gets fixed today…

Apr 26, 2022: In hindsight I should have used that nap time to pick a photo that should have been sent a week ago! How do I pick ONE photo? One single photo from …

Apr 26, 2022: Happy to say I managed to nap a little before picking up the little one. Not a huge achievement, I’m aware, but sometimes it’s the little …

Apr 26, 2022: Thank God it’s Tuesday! After four days of partying, I really need a work day.

Apr 23, 2022: Getting ready to leave. Why does it feel like we went out yesterday and somehow were beaten pretty badly along the way?

Apr 23, 2022: Long Day It was a long, but very happy, day. tinyMovieStar is now two. Friends came over, she was excited, and so were we. Loved seeing them. Today …

Apr 22, 2022: Regular A regular “customer” on our street, even when it rains non-stop, like today.

Apr 22, 2022: Is this the day tinyMovieStar becomes miniMovieStar?

Apr 21, 2022: Володимир Зеленський is addressing the Portuguese parliament in 20 minutes 🇺🇦

Apr 21, 2022: It’s been a while now, and I’m still using Overcast. Not perfect, but still using it.

Apr 21, 2022: Helium has been acquired! Only need to fill up one balloon, I’ll have to find a use for the rest of the tank… 🤣

Apr 20, 2022: Happy 4/20, for those who celebrate it.

Apr 20, 2022: Simone Woke up today and saw a post on a lovely hyper local newspaper we have in town, about a street art piece by mano.jmk. Simone de Oliveira is one …

Apr 19, 2022: G-Shock will soon be releasing an updated and improved version of its contemporary cult classic, the “CasiOak.” Solar power, one of my …

Apr 19, 2022: Long Morning Drop tinyMovieStar off at school, drive to El Corte and sort the outfit out, next to the hospital and get movieStar fixed. Lunch was planned for Time …

Apr 19, 2022: Odd statistics of the morning: Went to El Corte Ingles, took care of the outfit. Friends I met there: 0. Came to the hospital, been here for 10 …

Apr 18, 2022: movieStar, bless her, sees me with eyes full of love. She got me the coolest outfit, but thinks I’m way skinnier than I really am 🥰 I’ll …

Apr 18, 2022: Outfit search has (hopefully) ended. movieStar found everything I might need, and got it. What would I do without her? Not much, I can tell you …

Apr 18, 2022: Slow Horses day. 📺

Apr 18, 2022: Ugly It used to be a nicer place. Now I find it ugly, messy, and harder to find the old character by the day. Nazaré.

Apr 17, 2022: Easter Sunday Another trip to the beach. Windy, no sun, and a little cold. No problem for tinyMovieStar, she has a lot of fun anyway 🥰

Apr 16, 2022: Summer Breeze Courtesy of Mansinho, just back from Ukraine. Also Tropical Swift, and Silver Selection.

Apr 16, 2022: Something that’s admittedly hard to define, and yet along with the obvious element of nostalgia, they also seem to posses a kind of quiet dignity. A …

Apr 16, 2022: Mansinho is finally back from Ukraine. Just in time for Easter.

Apr 15, 2022: We were not the only ones who had the brilliant idea of driving to the beach, I can tell you that!

Apr 15, 2022: Virtual Coffee After a couple of real ones, I come across this one. I’ll take it as well, thank you. Need all the help I can get to get through this …

Apr 15, 2022: Good Friday. Editing. I guess I’ll just call it “Good” Friday this year.

Apr 15, 2022: Go, Duck, Go… Finally got my invite to test DuckDuckGo’s new Mac Beta browser. First impression: that tab bar and search bar take up an enormous …

Apr 15, 2022: Maximum temperature for today: 29°C. 29? 29?? Where did we hide the summer clothes? Are they even at home, or at some storage facility?

Apr 14, 2022: When cash was a thing…

Apr 14, 2022: Today we’re visiting another wine producer. Thankfully this winery is closer to home.

Apr 13, 2022: CODA, 2021 - ★★★★★ Watched on Wednesday April 13, 2022.

Apr 13, 2022: CODA. Cried and cried and cried and cried. Also laughed a lot, but boy did I cry! Loved it.

Apr 13, 2022: I had forgotten how many Spaniards come to town for Easter break. Damn! Where should we escape to?

Apr 13, 2022: One day later, still no outfit purchased. Also ran out of beer, and the brewery is on the other side of town. I did get the bank task sorted, so …

Apr 13, 2022: Mr Leandro One of the coolest characters on the island, Mr Leandro. He’s a basket (and other items) weaver, and he’s also known for hand-rolling …

Apr 13, 2022: Coffee #1: done. ☕️

Apr 12, 2022: The Place I Miss Still no idea when we’ll be back. Postponed twice already this year.

Apr 12, 2022: “Papi, I’m cooking dinner for you. With mushrooms, beer, and carrots” 🥰

Apr 12, 2022: Update on The Outfit Quest: didn’t even left the house. I’m one step closer to what everyone is fearing: I’ll attend the wedding …

Apr 12, 2022: Yaksha: Ruthless Operations, 2022 - ★★ Watched on Tuesday April 12, 2022.

Apr 12, 2022: Project for today: find an outfit for brother-in-law’s wedding in a couple of weeks. It won’t be an easy task.

Apr 11, 2022: tinyMovieStar is off diapers for the afternoon. I’m pretty sure I’ll have to clean up something later in the day…

Apr 11, 2022: Just finished season 4 of Drive to Survive. Boy, do we hate that Dutch driver and his British boss!

Apr 11, 2022: Sunday Drive On the way home today we drove by the place where my brother-in-law is having his wedding reception in a couple of weeks. Seems like a …

Apr 10, 2022: Exporting. After editing. Before lunch. On a Sunday.

Apr 9, 2022: thingsThisWeek #29 💨 This one flew by. 🥘 Covid seem to be under control at the in-laws, so we joined them on Sunday, and had a really nice meal at a nearby restaurant. …

Apr 8, 2022: In Sintra today. What’s the opposite of “This city grows on me with every visit”?? Every single time I come here I vouch never to …

Apr 8, 2022: Today I’ll start working a little later, at 6PM. Rest of the day at home with the girls. The little one woke up with a bit of fever, but the …

Apr 8, 2022: Almond Day We spent 15 hours yesterday on a story about almonds. Ended up getting home knowing more than when I left, so I’ll put the day down as a …

Apr 7, 2022: 15 hours later, I’m home. Left before sunrise, arrived after sunset. That’s it.

Apr 7, 2022: 6:30AM, leaving. Up since 5.30AM. It’s going to be a LOOOOOONG day.

Apr 6, 2022: Today I visited a refugee center in town. Pretty calm. Some of the refugees said they picked this particular country because it’s the one in …

Apr 6, 2022: Giving Overcast a new try.

Apr 6, 2022: Back from the refugee center, lunch, and edit the photos (meh!) really fast. It almost time to pick up the little one, and that’s the most …

Apr 5, 2022: Apple Maps is still very much unusable around these parts. I don’t know where the hell they get their data from, but forbidden u-turns abound! I …

Apr 5, 2022: Not entirely a surprise (at all), but today’s issues with the VAT&IRS office were totally my fault. Money is already on the way, so I should …

Apr 5, 2022: With all the timers available, I still can’t find a more practical way to time stuff in the kitchen (and elsewhere) than a plain old diving …

Apr 5, 2022: I need a crash course on taxes and stuff. “IRS and Other Taxes for (extreme) Dummies” sort of thing…

Apr 5, 2022: It was painful enough to drop tinyMovieStar off at kindergarten and not even getting a “goodbye” from her, but today she outdone herself …

Apr 4, 2022: With fascinating characters and vivid urban ambience, Tokyo Vice is a visually stunning crime drama that’ll have you hooked from the start. Review: …

Apr 4, 2022: Aloha, 2015 - ★★★ Watched on Monday April 4, 2022.

Apr 4, 2022: Old School Surfer Old old van on our way to kindergarten this morning. Shot while driving, sorry about that 🙂

Apr 3, 2022: We did make it to the in-laws after all! Covid is under control, and we were getting hungry anyway 😅😂

Apr 3, 2022: As far as Sunday mornings go, nothing beats lying in bed with tinyMovieStar, reading a book. Hope you have a great one too.

Apr 2, 2022: El Camino Christmas, 2017 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday April 2, 2022.

Apr 2, 2022: Back from lunch with my parents, on to the rest of the afternoon. Little one asleep in the back of the car, as she usually does after these lunches.

Apr 2, 2022: thingsThisWeek #28 🍜 And what a Sunday it was! We felt marginally better from the stomach bug that’s keeping us on our toes lately and, since the usual trip to the …

Apr 2, 2022: The dinner party happened in the end. Only two couples, but very fine with that. We had fun.

Apr 1, 2022: Turns out dinner party is no more. One of the couples is down with covid, we rescheduled.

Apr 1, 2022: tinyMovieStar off to the petting zoo, we’re on our way to the dentist, a meeting, and prepping a dinner party for kids and grownups later on. …

Mar 31, 2022: Ice Cream Crazy Another visit to the supermarket, en route to the brewer, and another ice cream box that didn’t make it to the end of the (short) …

Mar 31, 2022: Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Thursday March 31, 2022.

Mar 31, 2022: Time to pick the little one from kindergarten. Still one of my favorite parts of the day, even if she now wants to stay there a little longer…

Mar 31, 2022: Yesterday we finally managed to finish Ted Lasso’s second season. Now we want season three. Tomorrow!

Mar 29, 2022: Suica Pointless at this time, and probably for a long time as well, but somehow my phone felt incomplete without this one…

Mar 28, 2022: Street Artist

Mar 28, 2022: Ready for you, Mr @Gaby 🙂

Mar 27, 2022: Are the people who decide to keep this Daylight Savings Time thing going all childless?? Or do they have to go through this mess twice a year with …

Mar 27, 2022: Yesterday evening tinyMovieStar placed some of Peppa’s friends facing the wall on the doll house. We asked what were they doing and she said: “It’s …

Mar 27, 2022: Welcome summer time! Also, in-laws have finally joined the Covid club 🦠

Mar 26, 2022: thingsThisWeek #26/#27 Another couple of weeks went by, and I couldn’t even finish these on time. We’re having two-in-one again… Sorry about that. 🚗 Saturday. The usual …

Mar 26, 2022: I guess I’ve had a good run, a couple of weeks with no issues 🙂 Welcome, new stomach bug! Nice of you to drop by.

Mar 24, 2022: movieStar had coffee this morning. She’d been drinking tea for a few days now. I can REALLY tell the difference! 🤣

Mar 24, 2022: Also, yesterday we had the most wonderful evening, dinner with our friends/family from Chaves. tinyMovieStar was REALLY thrilled to see them again, …

Mar 24, 2022: Sometimes it takes me forever to edit photos from an assignment. Usually it’s something that was SO boring that I just know, and fear, the …

Mar 23, 2022: The call came. Wanna go on assignment to Ukraine? Not right now, no. Sorry, can’t.

Mar 22, 2022: Supermarket Soundtrack Perfect to wander the isles of the local supermarket. Wander the Night - Tokyo

Mar 22, 2022: Starting to wonder if this will be a sleepless night. We haven’t had one of those in a while.

Mar 21, 2022: Blinded by the Light, 2019 - ★★★½ Watched on Monday March 21, 2022.

Mar 21, 2022: Brillo Box (3¢ off), 2016 - ★★★ Watched on Monday March 21, 2022.

Mar 21, 2022: Welcome 🇺🇦

Mar 21, 2022: Morning routine now includes checking up on Ukraine’s situation, so I can advise my friend who’s still in Odessa, and wondering if …

Mar 21, 2022: Here’s your milk, the one you asked for. Is it good? No. Turn around, walk to the room and back. 5 seconds total. Here you go. Try it …

Mar 18, 2022: What. A. Long. Day! Again.

Mar 18, 2022: Walking to Work Of course you’re free to move around any way you like…

Mar 17, 2022: Grover on Wheels

Mar 17, 2022: A Brief History of Tractors in Ukrainian Found at the second hand bookshop. 🇺🇦 🚜

Mar 16, 2022: Driving Around Had to leave the house for a while, things did not improve on the filter situation. Still impossible to see the sun.

Mar 15, 2022: Sandstorm Not easy to see on the photos, but the sky is yellowish and it feels a bit harder to breathe. Maybe the printed “yellow” helps set the mood. …

Mar 15, 2022: Slightly hangover. Not used to these anymore.

Mar 14, 2022: Photographer’s beer meet planned for today. A colleague who moved up north is in town, and we’re celebrating his visit. A chance for him …

Mar 13, 2022: Odd to be messaging someone I had a beer with a couple of days ago, and now he’s in Odessa, while we’re having lunch with the in-laws as …

Mar 12, 2022: One thing we didn’t expect to spend so much money on with the arrival of tinyMovieStar: toothbrushes. She LOVES playing with them, and renders …

Mar 12, 2022: One lunch appointment, a visit to a farmers market, a toddler’s birthday party, a drive to the in-laws. And we should have rain throughout the …

Mar 12, 2022: lowLight I have to say I’m IMPRESSED! Last week we visited a winery up in Gaia for work, and it was dark in the cellar. Really dark. It was my first …

Mar 11, 2022: thingsThisWeek #24/#25 Unable to publish last week, here goes a 2-in-1 edition. 🇺🇦 The situation in Ukraine took over most of the weeks. Twitter is where I spend most of …

Mar 11, 2022: A close friend is on his way to Ukraine. Wish him all the best, and hope he remembers my words: No photo is worth your life. Godspeed.

Mar 10, 2022: We’re going through a Barbapapa phase.

Mar 9, 2022: Tomorrow I might finally get some rest. Emphasis on “might”.

Mar 7, 2022: On Our Way First stop, first photo.

Mar 7, 2022: 06:30AM. Up. As we’re taking the train, at least I can sleep during the ride, or share photos and post while we’re on the way. What will …

Mar 6, 2022: Back home. Editing and getting stuff ready for tomorrow’s trip up north. Shortest weekend in a LONG time.

Mar 4, 2022: Full weekend ahead, and Porto on Monday! Taking the train this time.

Mar 4, 2022: Out and about. Again! Busy busy busy 😰

Mar 2, 2022: No one talks about anything else. The war takes up the whole day, everywhere.

Mar 1, 2022: Bank holiday over here, the whole city is quiet. Except the street where the Ukrainian Church is located. That’s packed full of people donating …

Feb 28, 2022: Going Home

Feb 28, 2022: When it rains, it pours. We did it! Went out for a beer! It’s been months.

Feb 28, 2022: Finally managed to go out and meet a couple of friends. They had a baby a couple of months ago, and today was the first time we saw her.

Feb 25, 2022: thingsThisWeek #23 📷 New iPhone mostly means new camera, and I tried to take advantage of the new one this week. As I haven’t been out of the house for long periods of …

Feb 24, 2022: Not Ready, but Here We Go Still a little under the weather, but couldn’t say no. It’s been years since I’ve had my morning coffee at this place.

Feb 24, 2022: Wake up at 8, got an assignment at 8.30, leaving at 10. Freelancing ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Feb 23, 2022: The “It took me X hours to make this, hope you like it” scam on Instagram is going strong. Getting one DM from contacts that have been …

Feb 22, 2022: Still working with half a brain (at most) only… The bed is my new chair.

Feb 22, 2022: Just realized today is the day when tinyMovieStar turns 22 months old. On 22-2-22. No wonder the Terrible Twos are here!

Feb 22, 2022: Three months of Apple Arcade included with new device. I had no idea. Nice! And thank you.

Feb 22, 2022: Here we are: Terrible Twos.

Feb 21, 2022: Upgraded my cellphone plan. The extra €3 will get me 5GB data a month on top the the old 5GB limit, and 5G. Turns out the vaccine & booster …

Feb 21, 2022: Attack of the Ultra Wide I knew it, this will become a thing. I might as well start a new series. Decided not to fight it, I will embrace the …

Feb 21, 2022: Forgot to inform that we had Chicken Skewers, Amazing Satay Sauce & Fiery Noodle Salad for dinner on Saturday, and we most definitely will have it …

Feb 20, 2022: Sunday Morning After a night of little sleep, we decided we wouldn’t stay home, and drove to the salt pan nearby. I had never been there, but my father-in-law wanted …

Feb 20, 2022: Thinking about going the eSIM way, and leave the physical slot empty for when we travel… Hahahahaha. Joking, we’ll never travel again!

Feb 20, 2022: Ultra wide will take over my life! Haven’t used such a lens in a decade, I’m doomed!

Feb 20, 2022: Stuffy nose + cough = no sleep. Up since 4AM. Using the time and quietness to write a few more sentences on the Japan post. It’s been a while …

Feb 20, 2022: The Usual Busy busy day, no opportunity to properly test the new camera, so my subject is the usual one: movieStar. xMarksTheLove 🥰

Feb 19, 2022: Kevinho Over the years, I’ve been lucky to meet a few characters. First because of my line of work, and then movieStar’s occupation allowed me to …

Feb 19, 2022: Been away for a while, energy levels still low to spend as much time online, but feeling like I’m missing on a lot of stuff.

Feb 19, 2022: thingsThisWeek #22 🍷 Comida Independente had a party, we attended. I was supposed to document the event, but things didn’t turn out as easy as expected. I’m not really …

Feb 18, 2022: Also it’s now dark outside, no way to test the new camera 😔

Feb 18, 2022: Package has arrived. Setting up takes hours. All apps are restored to proper location, except TestFlight ones. It’s annoying as hell.

Feb 17, 2022: Incoming parcel.

Feb 17, 2022: helloYellow(carEdition) 💛

Feb 16, 2022: Today’s Bitcoin investor is savvy and looking for a hand-crafted crypto currency to launder money or pay to have someone eliminated. Portland Startup …

Feb 16, 2022: No. Energy. Whatsoever.

Feb 14, 2022: No idea where time is going these days, but I’m getting absolutely nothing done, and yet I have no free time at all!

Feb 14, 2022: My oldest project. loveProject made it to the paper… loveProject 💖

Feb 14, 2022: Guess who forgot Valentine’s Day was around the corner?

Feb 12, 2022: Hard at Work. Both of us! (Photo stolen from Mansinho’s account.)

Feb 12, 2022: Yesterday we had a birthday party for one of tinyMovieStar’s friends, today a birthday party for a shop I’m doing some work for. I believe …

Feb 12, 2022: thingsThisWeek #21 🦥 Zoo time! Haven’t been in ages, didn’t really want to go back, but there you have it. tinyMovieStar rules the world, with movieStar as …

Feb 11, 2022: Night what was it a!

Feb 11, 2022: Follow up: almost 3:30AM, girls finally asleep. I’m now having trouble doing the same. Brilliant.

Feb 11, 2022: Turns out it’s one of those nights. 2AM and nothing seems to work, all of us are sleepy, getting cranky, and already thinking tomorrow (or later …

Feb 11, 2022: Triangle Party tinyMovieStar went to bed at 9PM, woke up close to midnight. She wanted an apple. I peeled it, and chopped it into small pieces. A …

Feb 10, 2022: Analog! movieStar’s phone is broken beyond repair, today they’re doing the “Camera Roll” thing old school style!

Feb 10, 2022: Also excited that we’ll be able to post new stuff on dinkiwinkiminkiwinki, and not only the old ones we made (yeah, yeah, that Japan post is …

Feb 10, 2022: After a thousand drops on the floor, movieStar’s phone finally got fed up and gave up. She now owns a dead Pixel.

Feb 10, 2022: Travel Plans We’re on the first stages of planning our upcoming trip. We’re still waiting for the confirmation, but we’ll probably spend a month (March?) on the …

Feb 9, 2022: Love it when I’m wandering the isles of the supermarket and the music on the AirPods matches my mood perfectly. Today I was lucky. Michelle …

Feb 9, 2022: Instagram can be cool. A friend was asking for advice regarding movies/documentaries about photojournalists. I posted a story. Two hours later I have …

Feb 9, 2022: Tried DeepL to help speed up a translation job, and I’m glad I did. The Mac app is lovely, a shortcut will paste the text from any app into it, …

Feb 8, 2022: 🐼 tinyMovieStar loves pandas, today we did the right thing and told her about Panda Cheese. She laughed out loud!

Feb 8, 2022: Oh. So now Leica also makes watches. I guess I have no use for kidneys, right?

Feb 8, 2022: Vodafone PT was hacked. No 4G/5G, no SMS service, home routers not working. A lot of people are unable to work from home. Also no Uber/Uber Eats, and …

Feb 7, 2022: Seems like we’ll spend another month in the island soon. If I’m really lucky, I’ll celebrate my birthday (and wedding anniversary!) …

Feb 7, 2022: Maybe I’ll finish the Japan post on dinkiwinkiminkiwinki. It’s taking too long!

Feb 7, 2022: Should be a slow week. Hoping it’s a slow week.

Feb 6, 2022: Yikes! Following a tip from @benwerd, I downloaded the app from Shady Pines Radio. Instant love. A few moments later, I’m ready to order a trucker …

Feb 6, 2022: Seems like tinyMovieStar still has a couple of teeth left on her teething adventure. Or should I say OUR teething adventure? Rough night.

Feb 5, 2022: Guess the Animal Let’s play? Easy one 😊

Feb 5, 2022: Zoo? Done! No flare? Flare? I guess zebras were made for flare 🤣

Feb 5, 2022: Zoo Day. Not a fan, never been. We’re going nonetheless.

Feb 4, 2022: Analytics One service I quite enjoyed, and recommended, is Plausible. If you’re looking for a simple, privacy-friendly, analytics tool, they will deliver a …

Feb 4, 2022: Today we’re picking up tinyMovieStar from kindergarten and driving to a friend’s house to drop some treats. Covid buddies!

Feb 4, 2022: thingsThisWeek #20 🎂 Mother-in-law had a birthday, and we couldn’t attend. We’re still a little scared we might be infecting people even after the mandatory week at …

Feb 3, 2022: Back from a wake, ordered food for dinner. Wait for it to be delivered. Find out I forgot to order the main dish. We’re good for dessert, and …

Feb 3, 2022: Haircut: Done! I present… the Undercut!

Feb 3, 2022: Haircut day. I’m thrilled. Maybe a little more than I should for such a common event, but I’m looking like a troll!

Feb 2, 2022: I’m the luckiest man alive. That’s it. Have a great day too.

Feb 2, 2022: Today I’m also delivering photos the old school way, and it’s a lot more fun! Instead of sending a link to the client, I’m going …

Feb 2, 2022: Exporting another batch. Covid vacation is over.

Feb 1, 2022: Still There Years later, same car, at the same spot. The parking bill must be incredible by now…

Feb 1, 2022: Zombie mode all day long…

Feb 1, 2022: No, tinyMovieStar, it’s not 8AM. It’s 6AM, and you’ve been up since 4AM. It’s dark outside, that’s a clue.

Jan 31, 2022: Both of us took a test at the pharmacy and we both got a negative result. Yay. See you next time, Covid. Please be gentle.

Jan 31, 2022: As Bravas Lovely show. Glad Nuno got me out of the house. As Bravas (The Brave) Photos by Paulo Pimenta

Jan 31, 2022: Going to a museum! How long has it been?

Jan 30, 2022: Long night ahead, waiting for the election results. Hope this ends well…

Jan 30, 2022: Check! Out for a little stroll with the movieStars. Voted already. In and out, no line at all. At my old high-school, as usual.

Jan 30, 2022: It’s Election Day! Let’s do this! Gotta keep those asshole fascists at bay!

Jan 29, 2022: Now I have a cold 🤧 Great!

Jan 29, 2022: New pair of Blundstone boots ordered. These last ones served me well, as usual. Many kilometers on them…

Jan 29, 2022: These diapers have either a raccoon, or a bird. tinyMovieStar will only accept the raccoon ones. She’s very determined. We now find ourselves …

Jan 29, 2022: Slow day. Mother-in-law’s birthday, but we’re still on soft-opening mode, and tomorrow is Election Day, so we can’t leave the city.

Jan 29, 2022: thingsThisWeek #19 🦠 This week was all about Covid. Locked at home, on mandatory isolation after the positive test. Days One and Two. Days Three and Four. Day Five. Days …

Jan 28, 2022: A Pinch of Yellow

Jan 28, 2022: Went out, got the latest Hemispheric Views episode going, and found a ton of new stickers. Not a bad way to start the day.

Jan 28, 2022: tinyMovieStar, again, woke up at 5:30AM. The usual “tell me a story” routine. She goes back to sleep, we’re not so lucky.

Jan 27, 2022: covidNotes (6/7/8) daySix 4PM Head feels a little light. tinyMovieStar went back to kindergarten, the bigger movieStar sat at her computer and worked, and I thought I …

Jan 27, 2022: The Light It wasn’t the darkest tunnel, but I’m still glad to see the light at the end. Tomorrow I’m off, to the street!

Jan 27, 2022: Final day in isolation. Tomorrow I’m allowed to go outside, a beer has already been scheduled. Still feeling like I have a cold, but a mild one.

Jan 26, 2022: Micro Camp 2022 is coming! 🎉🥳 Micro Camp 2022 Dates and Call for Presenters Proud to be one of the presenters this year! No idea what I’ll talk …

Jan 26, 2022: Dumpster Fire Thanks to the lovely generosity of Jay Holler, I have received a cool sticker on the mail. One that went straight into the laptop. A …

Jan 25, 2022: The little one is off to kindergarten today. movieStar had to take her, I still have to be locked inside for a few more days. Will miss her terribly.

Jan 24, 2022: covidNotes 5 dayFive Went to bed yesterday exhausted. It was a little later than usual, we binged Ozark for a little longer than we should. Other than coughing, …

Jan 24, 2022: Ozark. Damn!

Jan 24, 2022: When Christmas vacation was on we couldn’t wait for kindergarten to open again. This time I don’t want tinyMovieStar to leave! We might …

Jan 23, 2022: covidNotes (3/4) dayThree Hello, hello,… What time is it? 5:30AM Nose still blocked. I guess I’m a mouth-breather now! 🤣 Also, SO thirsty. It doesn’t matter how …

Jan 23, 2022: Feeling a little better. That’s good.

Jan 22, 2022: covidNotes (1/2) dayOne I was feeling fine, happy, until the test result came. I was also feeling fine when the test result came, truth be told. Nothing changed, …

Jan 21, 2022: The girls are MUCH better, and I’m pretty well too. A little fever, a bit of coughing, some body aches. That’s it so far.

Jan 21, 2022: thingsThisWeek #18 📷 Starting with work, since that’s how the week began. Quite early in the morning, as a matter of fact. Rougher neighbourhood on Saturday, and then I …

Jan 20, 2022: 🦠 Oops! Of course I had to get a photo of this one. Background art: tinyMovieStar. (And I already went to the pharmacy to get a confirmation. It’s …

Jan 20, 2022: We have a bingo! 🦠🦠🦠 I knew my time would come, today was the day.

Jan 20, 2022: Short day at work today, enjoying the girls at home while photos export. Lying in bed with tinyMovieStar, and it’s just past lunch time! How …

Jan 20, 2022: Sitting on the bed, doing yet another covid test before getting up. Girls in the room next door, sound asleep. Still negative. How long will this …

Jan 19, 2022: Off to another day on the campaign trail. Still negative, girls still stuck at home.

Jan 19, 2022: Ok, I’ll do one of these. Only one (promise) and that’s just because I got REALLY lucky 🤣🤣 Wordle 214 2/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Jan 18, 2022: Two down, one to go. I’m the only one left with a negative result. Both movieStars are positive, and well.

Jan 18, 2022: movieStars My Ulysses theme, movieStars (what else?), has been approved! I’ve been enjoying the app (and the theme), for a while now, and I’m happy …

Jan 16, 2022: tinyMovieStar has tested positive. The bigger movieStar, and myself, negative. Of course that had to happen when I’m away. Fuck. She’s ok. …

Jan 16, 2022: I’m telling you, she knows when I have to get up early, and picks those days to stay up late! Past midnight, and we’re going around in …

Jan 15, 2022: Packing almost done for tomorrow’s and Monday trip up north. Most important items: powerbanks! Two of them, totaling 30000mAh. Gotta keep the …

Jan 15, 2022: Not Particularly Exciting A rather bland morning at the projects. The usual assortment of characters one finds there, on top of a couple of markets. Highlight was meeting …

Jan 15, 2022: Today’s spot is a LOT less glamorous than the ones we’ve visited before.

Jan 15, 2022: Yesterday I had an amazing commute, with a few good photos. Today I’m back to driving, but I’ll get to see a friend I haven’t met in a while. No two …

Jan 15, 2022: thingsThisWeek #17 😔 A sad way to start the week, the saddest. As I had work to do during the weekend, I would be unable to spend the weekend with the girls and the …

Jan 14, 2022: River Ride Taking advantage of the fact that today’s venue for the campaign was just across the river, I thought I might skip the driving part and just take the …

Jan 14, 2022: A TON of photos on the way to work today. Post coming later, get that bandwidth ready!

Jan 13, 2022: She’s close to 2 years old, and I don’t want her to grow anymore. She’s perfect like this! 🥰

Jan 13, 2022: Must get some new photos for sticker spotter, running a little low…

Jan 13, 2022: Day Two after the booster, feeling much better. No work today, so I get to drop the little one at kindergarten 🥰 Some errands to run, but should be an …

Jan 12, 2022: You’re missed. Thinking about you often, but these days you’re even more present. Miss you.

Jan 12, 2022: Foggy Morning Foggy Day

Jan 12, 2022: Not feeling great, it was a rougher night. Side-effects feel milder, but body and head still hurt. I do have to work. It’s not going to be …

Jan 11, 2022: Booster Place The new vaccination spot is further away, but the street art is nicer. There was none on the other one 😊 15 minute wait only at the end, …

Jan 11, 2022: Get up, have coffee, get ready to leave, drop the little one at kindergarten, drive to the vaccination center, get boosted, come back. These are my …

Jan 11, 2022: My favorite thing these days: when tinyMovieStar uses me as a pillow and falls asleep on my face. Having her face pressed against mine, and hearing …

Jan 10, 2022: Now getting mentions on Twitter from people you will get me a Covid certicicate (sic), complete with QR Code, that will allow me to skip …

Jan 10, 2022: New Røde microphone on the way. Hopefully this one will last longer than an hour! 😩

Jan 10, 2022: Enjoying the Work I do love these days.

Jan 10, 2022: New 20000mAh powerbank is home. I will also use it as an exercising tool, it’s HEAVY!

Jan 10, 2022: Back from Grândola Grey, almost raining. Market was almost deserted but, unlike yesterday, everyone had to show a vaccine certificate at the gate. A …

Jan 10, 2022: Here we go again. This time we’re going a bit further south, glad I’m not driving today. Feeling so sleepy I’m happy a professional …

Jan 9, 2022: Tomorrow school is back on. I expected to drop tinyMovieStar off, as usual, but found out today I’m working tomorrow. Darn!

Jan 9, 2022: The Market As far as markets go, this is one of the coolest we visit. Pinhal Novo is one of my favorite spots.

Jan 9, 2022: Off I Go On my way to the market, this time Pinhal Novo. Second coffee of the day, at the gas station, after filling up. Then about an hour of (very …

Jan 9, 2022: 6AM, Sunday. There’s another market to visit on the campaign trail, no escaping that. Time for coffee.

Jan 8, 2022: The Brown Gang Back from this morning’s shoot, photos are edited, and it’s now time to pick up the movieStars. Miss them!

Jan 8, 2022: One of the things I like about this job is that it gets us out of our bubble, and we get a glimpse of the way others go through their lives. …

Jan 8, 2022: Saturday, that means market day on the campaign trail. Always fun.

Jan 7, 2022: Batteries are charged for tomorrow, it’s 9.30PM. Getting ready to sleep. How’s that for a Friday night?

Jan 7, 2022: Every time I get on the highway I’m appalled by the number of cars being driven by people on their phones!

Jan 7, 2022: Campaign photos get WAY trickier when you can’t see people’s faces. We need masks, sure, but it makes my work a lot harder.

Jan 7, 2022: Here kitty kitty…

Jan 7, 2022: Good Morning, Setúbal! Nice to see you again, it’s been a while.

Jan 7, 2022: Enough time for a shower, two coffee cups, a post on sticker spotter (must get new photos!), and it’s off to the races. No breakfast today.

Jan 7, 2022: 7AM. Here we go… 😴

Jan 6, 2022: Romanesco Special delivery for @Miraz 😊 Looked for it in the archive and, sure enough, there it was. 11 year old photo, the first time I saw one.

Jan 6, 2022: Uploading a few dozen photos to Flickr. Gotta back them up, right?

Jan 6, 2022: On the Campaign Trail, Again This month we have another election in the country, and I really thought this time I would sit this one out, as far as work is concerned. I was wrong. …

Jan 6, 2022: thingsThisWeek #16 🎈 Here we are, 2022! No predictions, as we are well aware how that went a year ago. 🍾 We joined a couple of friends for NYE. The (by now), antigen …

Jan 6, 2022: Tomorrow the madness will start. Today is prep day, and a busy one at that.

Jan 5, 2022: The rain didn’t stop. We drove back with water pouring over us, past an accident on the main highway, into the city. Crazy day to be out and …

Jan 5, 2022: Out in the Country Left the city today, for a few hours. Luckily the weather was fine for 30 minutes after we arrived at the location. After that: …

Jan 5, 2022: Work day, leaving the city. The usual mix of “happy to go” and “sorry I can’t stay”.

Jan 4, 2022: Another great plug-in from @sod: Surprise me!. Get a random post from your archive every time you click the link. Brilliant.

Jan 4, 2022: Finally made it to the end of the post about 🇱🇦 Laos. Hope you like it ❤️

Jan 4, 2022: Love it when I open Mastodon and see one of us being mentioned 😊 @canion 😎

Jan 4, 2022: Our January 1st will take place on January 10th.

Jan 4, 2022: 💸 Subscriptions Another classic post for the New Year. What am I paying for on a regular basis? What subscriptions do I have going? I bet I’ll be scared when I get to …

Jan 3, 2022: I was expecting a slow, quiet, relaxed month. Obviously I had forgotten we’re having an election later on…

Jan 3, 2022: A Gyoza Bar Found this one while looking for something else. Didn’t find the something else.

Jan 3, 2022: My first Ulysses style has been submitted. Let’s see if it gets approved. Say hello to “movieStars”… https://styles.ulysses.app

Jan 3, 2022: Follow up to Stock or Not, regarding Reminders. One app that will help this one stick a little longer is Remind Me Faster, a nifty way to add …

Jan 3, 2022: It takes me much longer, but I can not not add emoji to each individual item on my groceries shopping list.

Jan 3, 2022: It’s a scientific fact that, as your tiredness level grows, so will the chance of the toddler living in your home insisting on staying awake well past …

Jan 2, 2022: Stock or Not It all started when I thought about using Craft as my note-taking app. It seemed like a good idea, nicer looking than Obsidian, felt native and not …

Jan 2, 2022: Being human is a condition that requires a little anesthesia. Freddie Mercury We watched Bohemian Rhapsody yesterday. It was a cool evening. 🍿

Jan 2, 2022: I’ll get back to these one day… Browsing unused folders on the iPhone, found Procreate. One of these days I have to start doing these …

Jan 1, 2022: Hot chocolate by the fireplace. Nice.

Jan 1, 2022: kalsarikännit, which translates as “pantsdrunk,” refers to the practice of binge drinking home alone in your underpants 🔗 The grim reason why Finland …

Jan 1, 2022: Sticker Life Since I have committed to sticker spotter for a whole year, I thought I might as well have my own sticker. Of course the sticker will be one that …

Jan 1, 2022: Hello, 2022 First one of the year. Let the games begin! ☕️

Jan 1, 2022: Same as last year, the three of us welcomed the new year in bed, together. Last time we did it in our bed, this time we squeezed ourselves into her …

Dec 31, 2021: The Omicron numbers are scary! Up to a month ago I would get tested and was always “Na, I’m good!” These days, whenever I take one, …

Dec 31, 2021: Another box of antigen tests was purchased. There’s something that I never thought we’d be buying like this…

Dec 31, 2021: thingsThisWeek #15 🎄 Christmas dinner at my parents, as usual, then we moved to movieStar’s parents after that. One-hour drive, and we’re set for the night. …

Dec 31, 2021: Happy New Year / F*!K Omicron OFF

Dec 31, 2021: Thank you, -A–mazon®, you’re too kind, your email sounds really legit (all 50 of them!), but I think I’ll skip checking that lovely …

Dec 31, 2021: Giving it Another Try Test post, I’m giving Ulysses another go. Thank you, @Gaby, I’ll blame you for this one.

Dec 30, 2021: Final Day Technically tomorrow will be the last one, but today felt like it, so… Now that the worst of my multiple maladies is, hopefully, behind me, we …

Dec 30, 2021: Good day. Report (with photos!) in a little while.

Dec 30, 2021: 🦠 Booster shot requested, waiting for confirmation SMS.

Dec 30, 2021: Best of 2021 This. We’re doing something right.

Dec 30, 2021: Feeling strong enough to have coffee again, but not overly confident I will be ok. Here goes… ☕️

Dec 29, 2021: Third day without coffee! No one should have to go through this…

Dec 29, 2021: I take a LONG time to unpack. Doesn’t matter if it’s a month-long trip, or a weekend away, the bags will be left untouched for way longer …

Dec 28, 2021: Tomorrow’s job postponed, one of the folks we were meeting tested positive for COVID. More time with the movieStars, so there’s a silver …

Dec 28, 2021: Stomach Flu. That’s it. I’m going for bingo! All the diseases until the year is done!

Dec 27, 2021: Can’t wait for 2022 to start, so I can add a thousand more links to my read-list, and never see them again.

Dec 26, 2021: Vaccination certificate was about to expire, issued another one. Took less than 3 minutes to get it. Set for another 6 months.

Dec 26, 2021: Is anyone still looking for a literal.club invite? Three more available.

Dec 25, 2021: Here we Go 🎄

Dec 25, 2021: Feeling it… 🎄

Dec 25, 2021: 🎄🎅🏼 Merry Christmas 🧦🎁

Dec 24, 2021: A Jellyfish Christmas

Dec 24, 2021: 2021 Was that a year? A month? Two years? I cannot recall what I did this year. I know I spent most of the time trying to keep both movieStars happy, …

Dec 24, 2021: Soooooo… kindergarten reopens on the 10th, right? The 10th, you say???

Dec 24, 2021: thingsThisWeek #14 😴 I took a pill for the cold, and I believe it was one of those that come with a “Do not operate heavy machinery” warning. I was …

Dec 24, 2021: There’s an alarm that goes off every weekday at 8AM. It’s tinyMovieStar’s “Get up and go to School” alarm. She has no …

Dec 23, 2021: Exporting 251 photos. That should give me enough time for a quick nap.

Dec 23, 2021: GOD! This is boring enough when I’m feeling good, doing it like this is just…!!!

Dec 23, 2021: Editing and still feeling like S&$T. That’s how it is, I guess. Getting to the end of this today.

Dec 23, 2021: Me, Right Now

Dec 23, 2021: Sleeping through the night is still a distant dream. Feeling better, but coughing hard enough to wake me up multiple times every day.

Dec 22, 2021: Feeling a little better, let’s check if that’s good enough to get back to editing…

Dec 21, 2021: The streak of shitty movies is over. What a GREAT movie. Amazing acting, soundtrack, directing, photography, … Boy, I missed a good western, …

Dec 20, 2021: Finally made it to the end of 🇻🇳Vietnam. It was one of our favorite stops on theAmazingHoneymoon. Hope you enjoy this one… 🇻🇳💖

Dec 20, 2021: Where does that leave the tourist industry around Lake Toiletbrush? Down in the dumps, is where. 🔗 Lake Toiletbrush and the Curse of Ikea’s Product …

Dec 20, 2021: 🛌 🫖 💊

Dec 20, 2021: Christmas Week Lovely. Wet and Windy.

Dec 19, 2021: Tonsillitis. That’s why it hurts so much. Now on antibiotics. Eight days of this, and no alcohol. Looks like a fun Christmas ahead 🤣

Dec 19, 2021: We thought the cold was taking it’s sweet time to go away, so here I am: at the hospital.

Dec 19, 2021: Not feeling better. That’s all. Hope you have a good Sunday.

Dec 18, 2021: From Yesterday I think I got worse because I had to leave the house. But got a photo in return.

Dec 18, 2021: thingsThisWeek #13 💊 Pharmacies are everywhere, at least in the city. We have a 24/7 pharmacy close to home, three minute walk away, so we never give this a second …

Dec 17, 2021: Das Bundesverfas… Those times when @ohBananaJoe shows up in the middle of a meeting.

Dec 17, 2021: Status Report: Then I had to leave! I fear I’ll feel miserable when I’m back.

Dec 17, 2021: 2:30AM. 🤧 😷 🤕

Dec 16, 2021: 🤧

Dec 15, 2021: Kindergarten Christmas party day. Our first one. Let’s try to make it to the end of the day alive, shall we? It’s going to be intense!

Dec 14, 2021: Next adventure: we’ll be chaperoning the kindergarten Christmas party. Both of us.

Dec 13, 2021: PSA: If an iOS update comes out, don’t think about updating it right before going to bed. Why is this still a multi-hour thing?

Dec 13, 2021: Maybe today I can finally get to the editing part. So much work, and so many things going awry in the health department, it’s not easy to find …

Dec 13, 2021: Monday arrived, and the girls are feeling a little better. Ufff… Will this last?

Dec 12, 2021: On the medical front: the good mood was short lived. Seems like the little one probably has gastroenteritis on top of the conjunctivitis (this part is …

Dec 12, 2021: iPhone 13 Pro, I’m looking at you. I shouldn’t (REALLY shouldn’t), but I’m looking at you…. Unrelated: I wonder how …

Dec 12, 2021: The Village Christmas is always fun at the in-laws. They’re SERIOUS about the season! 🎅🏼🎄

Dec 12, 2021: Morning news: everyone is feeling a little better. Great! 🤣 Time for coffee #2 ☕️

Dec 12, 2021: 11:20PM. Looking for a pharmacy in the town next door. Joys of the countryside.

Dec 11, 2021: Oh! Yesterday I was told I could use Memoji like this! 🤯 Maybe I should use Memoji more often…

Dec 11, 2021: When will this madness end? December shouldn’t be all about work, right?

Dec 11, 2021: Vomit themed night turned into vomit themed day 😊 Happy times 😊

Dec 11, 2021: thingsThisWeek #12 😢 Weekend was cut short again, as I had work starting very early Sunday morning. Had to drive out to the Alentejo region, an hour and a half outside …

Dec 10, 2021: 10.30PM, whole hell broke loose! Too much snot led to extreme cough, and that took us to the next level: vomiting! Sorry about that, but this here …

Dec 10, 2021: Back Home Via the Space Station.

Dec 10, 2021: Trip up north on a Tesla Model X. Stoked!

Dec 10, 2021: tinyMovieStar woke up with what looks like conjunctivitis. I’m off to work, movieStar again taking care of business 😔

Dec 10, 2021: Tomorrow’s assignment should be fun. Artisanal chocolate up north. Yummy.

Dec 9, 2021: Cerveza We had a wonderful lunch. 🍺 🇲🇽

Dec 9, 2021: The law has changed a week or so ago, but today was the first time we were asked for our vaccination certificates at a restaurant. Our usual spot …

Dec 9, 2021: I’m afraid the sticker spotter posts might get a little spammy in the long run. If there’s an issue with that let me know, and I’ll …

Dec 9, 2021: Good lord, December is turning into one BUSY month! I need a vacation! Today still in town, tomorrow up to Aveiro.

Dec 8, 2021: Paid for a year of Sticker Spotter hosting on blot.im. I guess you’re stuck with a year of sticker shots!

Dec 8, 2021: Side note: stopped using Flickr embeds on Ghost. It’s a cool feature, but finding out Flickr fails so often it’s just better to have to …

Dec 8, 2021: Another day, another country. We stopped in Cambodia, and this is how it went. theAmazingHoneymoon goes on… …

Dec 8, 2021: National holiday again. That means no kindergarten. That means FULL STEAM AHEAD!

Dec 7, 2021: We had planned to go out to the Mexican place for lunch, and then it started raining, so we didn’t. Somehow it felt wrong to have tacos with …

Dec 7, 2021: IKEA morning Quick IKEA run this morning, now back home. We have restocked the drawing paper supply for tinyMovieStar, so everything is OK.

Dec 7, 2021: stickerNews Months ago I felt the sticker spotter project was done, stopped paying for the blot.im account, and never gave it a second thought. One day I came …

Dec 6, 2021: Needed something easy to update, to keep busy with the limited time I have, so Sticker Spotter is back on! Back using blot.im, and with a new domain …

Dec 6, 2021: Ok, Porkbun, you win! Two more domains…

Dec 6, 2021: Leftovers Playground love, and another xMarksTheSpot for the collection.

Dec 5, 2021: 9.30PM, back in the city. Drove out to pick up the movieStars, everyone is home now! All together again! 🥰

Dec 5, 2021: Second Batch

Dec 5, 2021: Fun Having a great time with the location. Plenty of incredible details. Enough to keep me entertained for a while.

Dec 5, 2021: Countryside Eggleston At today’s office, a familiar view.

Dec 5, 2021: 5AM, Coffee #2 ☕️ ☕️

Dec 4, 2021: 9.30PM, time to get some sleep. Long day ahead. See ya.

Dec 4, 2021: And… It’s off to 🇲🇲Myanmar, the next stop on theAmazingHoneymoon! Awesome, sad, incredible, worth it.

Dec 4, 2021: movieStar remembered we had no coffee, and got some during today’s supermarket run. Obviously I came back home and forgot it, the coffee is …

Dec 4, 2021: There was one last thing left to do: get maique.omg.lol as my email signature! movieStar was the one that noticed it. Solved!

Dec 4, 2021: Supermarket Run: Check! 🛒

Dec 4, 2021: Software, even buggy software, has changed the world. Software, even software you don’t like, has inspired, and enabled, has been a life changing …

Dec 4, 2021: Will start including a photo on my thingsThisWeek posts. The Twitter card will look nicer with a photo on it 😊

Dec 4, 2021: thingsThisWeek #11 💖 Missing the girls. On Saturday evening, after the day’s work was done, I was supposed to ride my father-in-law’s motorcycle back to the …

Dec 4, 2021: ETD for tomorrow’s assignment is 5:20AM! Yes, no typo there, 5:20AM! 😭😵‍💫🥺

Dec 3, 2021: Loaded! 🎄

Dec 3, 2021: Back in the village, at least for one night!

Dec 3, 2021: Need to find time to go through all the Myanmar photos, a few still missing for the next post on dinkiwinkiminkiwinki. When will I be able to? …

Dec 3, 2021: Burn!

Dec 3, 2021: Getting dangerously close to 2AM! Time to sleep, everything is edited already. The girls aren’t having an easy night, so I might as well get …

Dec 3, 2021: Funny Building Coming across a ton of out-takes, but no time to edit these right now…

Dec 3, 2021: 11PM, still working the laptop, still churning out edited photos.

Dec 2, 2021: Spotify around here, today… Thanks to Spotify TUI.

Dec 2, 2021: Japanese Films That Will Blow Your Mind And Make You Reevaluate The Possibilities Of The Cinematic Artform The World of Kanako Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets Confession Love & Pop Tetsuo: The Iron Man Love Exposure A Page of Madness …

Dec 2, 2021: I guess today is Editing Day! Very possible that it’s also Editing Afternoon, Editing Evening, Editing Night, and Editing Dawn… 😵‍💫

Dec 2, 2021: Morning Drive Had to pick up something this morning, and traffic was HELL. I HATE driving in the city these days, but couldn’t get away from it. …

Dec 1, 2021: Old Timey Blogging Machine

Dec 1, 2021: That was one LOOOOOOOONG day.

Dec 1, 2021: Time to dust off that EU Covid Vaccination Certificate! We’ll need those this month if we plan to eat out…

Nov 30, 2021: Hippo Troubles Today was also the day the Hippo tried to eat a Clio…

Nov 30, 2021: Back from kindergarten. As soon as we step inside, tinyMovieStar asks, demands, lemon. Yes, that’s right, a huge slice of lemon. She sits on the …

Nov 30, 2021: We went out, had lunch, bought a book for tinyMovieStar. Now waiting for the time to pick her up from kindergarten. Oh, sent an invoice as well! And …

Nov 30, 2021: Spread over two days, I managed to watch The Angel. 🍿

Nov 29, 2021: Thailand… Thailand… We had to stop there, right? Welcome to another episode of theAmazingHoneymoon! 🇹🇭Thailand.

Nov 29, 2021: The places inspiring your return to travel. 🔗 The Best Countries in the World: 2021 Readers' Choice Awards | Condé Nast Traveler

Nov 29, 2021: If you were on the fence about getting an omg.lol address, there’s a flash sale going on, 50% off the regular price! That’s half the usual …

Nov 29, 2021: I remembered I should probably update Homebrew. Turns out I had 31 outdated formulae, and needed to “unshallow clones”. It’s been …

Nov 28, 2021: “It’s time to sleep, tinyMovieStar…” “But… I want to draw. And I want to play with cubes. And I want …

Nov 28, 2021: Here we go again…

Nov 28, 2021: Didn’t ride back to the meet the movieStars last night. movieStar said I should stay in town, my father in-law would even thank me for riding …

Nov 28, 2021: Also, in Apple news, finally got to the bottom of an issue that was driving me (and my Air) nuts. High CPU from SystemUIServer, and the annoying fans …

Nov 27, 2021: Day in Photos It was long, mostly very boring, with some interesting highlights. Tomorrow I’ll have more of this. Maybe it’s better. At …

Nov 27, 2021: Back-breaking assignment done for today. Tomorrow we’re back for part two. For now: Indian for dinner, and maybe a movie.

Nov 27, 2021: Work!! Why. Do. We. Have. To. Do. This!

Nov 27, 2021: thingsThisWeek #10 😰 Tired. When are we supposed to get our energy level up? There’s no way we’re getting as much sleep as we need to, and our waking hours …

Nov 27, 2021: I’ve joined the gang, and I’m now on Letterboxd. Watching a lot more series than movies, but had to do it, right? Find me at …

Nov 26, 2021: EyeEm, the site that keeps on giving. This month: $0.72! It probably doesn’t even pay for the electricity spent on this post.

Nov 26, 2021: One Tired maique? Sure, here you go:

Nov 26, 2021: We went out hours before lunch time, walked around for a while, had a great lunch, shopped, and acted like we were tourists in town. Felt amazing.

Nov 26, 2021: Table for One

Nov 26, 2021: Inside Sometimes it’s worth it to look inside.

Nov 26, 2021: No sleep. A true story. tinyMovieStar goes to bed. It’s around 8PM, probably closer to 7.30PM. She sleeps. Around 1AM I decide to do the …

Nov 26, 2021: I know I signed up to Letterboxd in the past, can’t remember the email I used! The user “maique” exists, has no activity, and …

Nov 25, 2021: A tiny glitch in the Time Machine made me skip Indonesia, our port of call right before Malaysia. Here you go: 🇮🇩Indonesia. Fixed, but get ready for a …

Nov 25, 2021: Thanks to @ndreas I’m finally able to test Zenly with a friend. He’s so right, feels like Foursquare had a baby with Snapchat. It’s fun, and I have …

Nov 24, 2021: A lot of photos left out, but there you go: 🇲🇾Malaysia is online. Another episode of theAmazingHoneymoon saga.

Nov 24, 2021: Fun Times! I think it’s safe to say we had a good time. Some were a bit suspicious, but most enjoyed the photos 😊

Nov 24, 2021: Shooting is done, now on to the editing… Fun day!

Nov 24, 2021: 30 minutes to go. Having my second coffee… Then it’s off to meet the kids! 😱😰

Nov 23, 2021: Tomorrow is the day when I’ll show up with my camera, and face 30 toddlers! Can’t say I’m looking forward, but I’ll do my …

Nov 23, 2021: Today I had time for a (quick) beer with Mansinho. Hadn’t seen in a month or so. In the meantime he went to Lithuania. Sometimes I miss the …

Nov 23, 2021: Lisbon (or Lisbonne 🇫🇷) I had a good laugh with this one!

Nov 23, 2021: Street Art From yesterday, hospital walls before my father’s eye surgery.

Nov 23, 2021: Should I? Maybe not 🤣😂🎅🏼

Nov 23, 2021: Red Notice: check. Not the worst, far from great. But fun and entertaining, and that’s ok. 🍿

Nov 23, 2021: Fun Fact: 99% of the photos on our honeymoon were taken with the iPhone. I did carry a camera, but never got around to actually use it! Indonesia will …

Nov 23, 2021: Daddy’s eye surgery went as good as expected, the eye patch comes out today. Sadly, as I think the pirate vibe looks great on him 🏴‍☠️

Nov 22, 2021: The honeymoon part of the story has it’s first post online… 🇸🇬Singapore… Here we go! 🥰

Nov 22, 2021: Not a bad way to start the week…

Nov 22, 2021: Monday: tinyMovieStar back at kindergarten, photos still unedited, my father has minor eye surgery later on. That’s pretty much it. Have a great …

Nov 21, 2021: Downloaded Zenly but no one I know is there. That icon, though, is enough reason to keep it installed 🥰

Nov 21, 2021: Nostalgic November I was fortunate to have a happy childhood, full of great memories. There is one of those memories, one that surfaces every time I remember those happy …

Nov 20, 2021: Leopards “Not on purpose”, she said. Sure! 🤣

Nov 20, 2021: thingsThisWeek #9 🎙 Sway, Kara Swisher & Jaron Lanier. Listened to this one on the way to work this week, well worth my time. 😰 Sunday. No work. But still a lot …

Nov 19, 2021: Happy Campers Sooner or later I’ll have to deal with the pile of unedited photos that’s sitting here…

Nov 19, 2021: Final month on the island before going on an extended honeymoon. We’d be back in a year. Hope you have a great weekend, posting will resume in a …

Nov 19, 2021: Managed to install YunoHost on Linode, get a second domain configured for it, and serve a Ghost install on that one. A bit of DNS wrangling was …

Nov 19, 2021: Thank you all, tinyMovieStar is acting like nothing happened! Full of energy. Thank you for the support throughout the night!

Nov 19, 2021: Rough night for tinyMovieStar. Out of the blue, she has a fever. Was laughing and acting sweet until bath time, started getting warmer and crankier …

Nov 18, 2021: Just accepted the most demanding assignment of the year! Got talked into photographing the kids at kindergarten, 30 of them! I’m used to tv …

Nov 18, 2021: The second, and final, wedding story is live! NOW we were properly married!

Nov 18, 2021: Guess who’s still waking up at 6AM, even though there’s no need anymore? The same person who could use the two extra hours he’s now …

Nov 18, 2021: Getting Tiny Barber, Post Office on the inbox each day is delicious. Cool idea, great photos and text.

Nov 17, 2021: Narcos Mexico ended too soon. Ready for season 04 right now! 📺

Nov 17, 2021: Coffee Time tinyMovieStar has been dropped off! LOVE that I’m doing that again. Now it’s time for this: COFFEEEEEE!!! ☕️

Nov 16, 2021: A little sad that I’m staying behind, when the Finns move north. I enjoyed the time we spent together. Always good when the crew is …

Nov 16, 2021: The Wedding, Episode 01 is up. Yay!

Nov 16, 2021: Gotta love modern hotels!

Nov 16, 2021: Going, Going, Gone It’s been a very fun week and a half, but I’m ready to go back to be a full time daddy.

Nov 16, 2021: Good morning, final day. Here’s to not seeing the sun rise tomorrow!

Nov 16, 2021: Long Day It was a very long day, and not a particularly interesting one. Tomorrow I’ll say goodbye to the crew. They’re moving north, but …

Nov 15, 2021: DigitalOcean vs Linode vs ServerCheap vs ?? Ideas?

Nov 15, 2021: So… ran out of available domains in my bag, and want to have another go at a server thing. I’ll need a new VPS and a domain! Feels like …

Nov 15, 2021: Strange jobs on these productions: Data Rangers. Two guys, sitting in front of computers all day long, getting files out of camera cards. Making sure …

Nov 15, 2021: One of the coolest things I’ve found while using Ghost is the incredibly easy way to add photos hosted on Flickr. /image URL, and it’s …

Nov 15, 2021: 6AM 🚨 ⏰ 😠 😭

Nov 14, 2021: We’re All Alone End of Day

Nov 14, 2021: Can’t wait for this assignment to end, I need to get the second post on dinkiwinkiminkiwinki out!

Nov 14, 2021: Day off! 🎉 🎊 🎈

Nov 13, 2021: Here you go, sir, a couple more I found on the tiny camera… @mpmilestogo 😊

Nov 13, 2021: Afternoon at the Museum One I’d never been before. 5 min walk from our place!

Nov 13, 2021: Hard at Work In the morning.

Nov 13, 2021: Finns Having Lunch Another day outside, another picnic. Tasty and sunny. Not bad at all.

Nov 13, 2021: thingsThisWeek #8 💻 Moved to Ghost.org. I knew I would end up doing this, the anxiety of something going wrong with this blog, and me not being able to fix it, was …

Nov 13, 2021: Heaven/Hell

Nov 13, 2021: Portable Helipad! First time I’ve seen one! 🤣😂

Nov 13, 2021: Boxes in the Woods That’s how it starts today. Good morning.

Nov 13, 2021: Tomorrow we have a day off. Today we’re still up at 6AM. Coffee time. Again.

Nov 12, 2021: I’m no longer used to a whole day away from home. Missing the movieStars a LOT, and it pains me that they’re dealing with everything on …

Nov 12, 2021: Lunch Time At least the view is nice 😊

Nov 12, 2021: Portuguese only, but lots of photos. Back in the day, some mine, others from colleagues who also worked in Timor. Great memories.

Nov 12, 2021: Beach Morning Some days have nicer locations. Today is one of those days. November, and you could still go for a dip.

Nov 12, 2021: Local In between shots, I still shoot.

Nov 12, 2021: 6.40AM. At the hotel. Waiting for my coffee. Zombie mode.

Nov 11, 2021: DailyLife As usual there’s not a lot I can show. At least we’re outside most of the time, so a few crew shots are available.

Nov 11, 2021: Hotel Day Stuck inside, and on the rooftop, all day.

Nov 11, 2021: Lightbox enabled on the new blog, and found a way to kinda get Mapbox in there as well. Not perfect, but I’m really trying to stay away from …

Nov 11, 2021: Hotel Day We had (some) fun at the castle yesterday, today we’re staying at the hotel all day long. Not as fun, but no running around, and no …

Nov 10, 2021: Happy Birthday 🥰 It’s movieStar’s birthday tomorrow. I will never be able to thank her for everything she’s done, or for how much she loves me, or …

Nov 10, 2021: Me. So. Tired.

Nov 10, 2021: Busy at the Castle Still outside.

Nov 10, 2021: One thing I can say about the Finnish, they are all very polite. Love that. Another thing: shooting ends on time, and that is even more unusual! I get …

Nov 10, 2021: 7AM, already at the hotel that is being used as HQ. Today we’re shooting at the castle, in Lisbon! Should be cool.

Nov 9, 2021: More Trams Left the museum already, but a couple more for the trams fans.

Nov 9, 2021: Shooting a show directly under the final approach path to the airport AND under a bridge with a train going every five minutes is fun!

Nov 9, 2021: Museum Day Still rode some of these.

Nov 8, 2021: 9.30PM, going to bed. I can’t even believe I’m saying this, but that’s where we’re at. Exhausted, and still a few more days of …

Nov 8, 2021: Sunset The day is done. Still here, but not for long.

Nov 8, 2021: The Afternoon Shift After a very long morning, we finally managed to have lunch at 4PM. Now getting ready to start the afternoon shift. May it be …

Nov 8, 2021: Standing Still No coffee, but what a view!

Nov 8, 2021: Seaside Office for the day. Some climbing required.

Nov 7, 2021: Thanks, Siri! I don’t think of you that often, maybe this has something to do with that! Thanks anyway…

Nov 7, 2021: The Boss

Nov 7, 2021: Got my schedule for tomorrow. Leaving the house at 6.30AM! Ouch! Still a ton of stuff to get ready until then.

Nov 7, 2021: Drink Up! One of the things I enjoy when traveling: trying new things. Sometimes it’s great, others not so much. Always a surprise. 🇲🇦🍹

Nov 7, 2021: That Time of Year Yummy Season! 🌰

Nov 7, 2021: Yesterday we drove to my in-laws. In between the usual conversation and parental duties I still managed to deploy a server, install Yunohost on it, …

Nov 6, 2021: Working Hard No other way to do it. 🇲🇦 🔨

Nov 6, 2021: Just arrived at my in-laws, and got the news: both of them were also sick last week, and didn’t tell us. So far tinyMovieStar managed to infect …

Nov 6, 2021: thingsThisWeek #7 📷 October Photoblogging Challenge. We’re done. It was a hell of a month. So many great photos from everyone, and so many memories visited on my …

Nov 5, 2021: Twister and the Shadow A fun afternoon at the fairground. Seems like a dream now. 🇲🇦 🌪

Nov 5, 2021: Haircut: done. Feel like myself again!

Nov 5, 2021: 1030AM, tested for covid already. Time for another coffee ☕️

Nov 5, 2021: dinkiwinkiminkiwinki Quite happy with how our Ghost on Ubuntu on DigitalOcean is coming along…

Nov 4, 2021: I am the luckiest person on earth. Couldn’t go to the beer place, so my friends came over, with 10.3% beer! Now slightly drunk and cooking …

Nov 4, 2021: Adobe renewal day. Yay! 😔

Nov 4, 2021: Today I’m shooting some tiles in preparation for next week’s assignment. Tomorrow the setting up continues, with a Covid test and a …

Nov 4, 2021: Up since 4.30AM. This time tinyMovieStar is not to blame, I have no idea what happened. Still two hours before the alarm goes off.

Nov 3, 2021: Have to set up a site. A sort of blog, where we’ll have text and photos from several trips, a record. Mine and movieStar’s. I’m …

Nov 3, 2021: Ghost is very capable. But it’s not Tanzawa 🏔

Nov 3, 2021: Today is YunoHost day on my DigitalOcean adventure. Had to nuke the Ubuntu server, since YunoHost runs on older Debian servers, and that was hard. I …

Nov 3, 2021: N The Patisserie des Princes. A place I found on the first trip, and try to visit every time I go back. Lost a bit of the original oomph, but memories …

Nov 3, 2021: Childhood Memories Bolo de Azeite e Ovos (Olive Oil and Eggs Cake) is actually more like soft (SO soft!) bread, and something that has been in my life since I was born. …

Nov 3, 2021: The Other Side Same country, different reality. “Influencing” on the influencer’s garden. 🇲🇦💃🏻

Nov 2, 2021: I feared this might happen, but trying @jamesvandyne’s Tanzawa today left me wanting it even more. That’s a really well thought out blogging engine. …

Nov 2, 2021: I spot another week on assignment with the Finnish!

Nov 2, 2021: Back from kindergarten, on the laptop again. Thinking about Cloudron.

Nov 2, 2021: Tanzawa Love Ever since I first saw @jamesvandyne’s blog I’ve been in love with Tanzawa. It’s one of the coolest looking blogs I know. Crisp, …

Nov 2, 2021: Down South Things are pretty cool all over, but the south is a notch above the rest of the country. Go south, go south! 🇲🇦 🚲

Nov 2, 2021: Just Go! Done with the dropping at kindergarten bit. Now dreaming of nice weather and endless roads. 🇲🇦🚗

Nov 2, 2021: We’re back to our regular programming: tinyMovieStar will go to kindergarten in a little while, and a Morocco photo will probably show up after …

Nov 1, 2021: On the VPS front, server has been deployed, Docker installed, and I even got Apache2 as well, a simple webpage is being served. Not Uber geekiness, …

Nov 1, 2021: Also, getting “No Caller ID” calls. Who in their right mind expects me to answer a call with no caller ID? Hahahahahahaha.

Nov 1, 2021: The casualty list increases: my mom and my brother were both infected by the little one! She’s totally recovered, as far as we can tell, but the …

Nov 1, 2021: tinyMovieStar sleeping through the night. I bet it feels great for her, but I’m feeling amazing! Great that she’s better.

Oct 31, 2021: We ended up having dinner with some hardcore Halloween fans! Glad the movieStars were feeling better, but still not a Halloween fan 🎃

Oct 31, 2021: VPS. Done, but not done. After a few failed attempts, I did manage to get the server running on DigitalOcean. I, as the image proves, managed to install an app. But failed …

Oct 31, 2021: thingsThisWeek #6 🎉 Saturday was crazier than a regular Saturday, and those are already pretty intense anyway. We had lunch at my parents, and mom did a really silly …

Oct 31, 2021: DST! Remind me, why are we still doing this?

Oct 31, 2021: [ home ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 31 : (@agilelisa)

Oct 30, 2021: Help needed. There was a very simple anonymous blogging platform, where you’d write a post, hit publish and got a URL you could share for that …

Oct 30, 2021: One of the things I would love to try is a VPS. Figure out how the whole thing works. I don’t think I have the time to do it, though. Unless I …

Oct 30, 2021: 8PM. Puking episodes today: 0. So far, so good 🤞🏼

Oct 30, 2021: Crypto Piggy Bank New mural next to Mom&Dad. 👾 🐷

Oct 30, 2021: Boiling pears. Today’s breakfast for tinyMovieStar.

Oct 30, 2021: And… Spoke too soon. The ink on the post was still wet, and both of them were back at it.

Oct 30, 2021: [ red ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 30 : (@odd)

Oct 30, 2021: Update: Finally the girls are sleeping, but movieStar was also throwing up before both of them crashed. Bag is ready for a hospital run, and …

Oct 29, 2021: Vomiting going on. Thankfully we have the Health Line to call. They were very helpful, reassuring, and provided detailed instructions, but the little …

Oct 29, 2021: You can tell WebSummit is around the corner by the number of people walking around with a coffee to go on their hands!

Oct 29, 2021: Checking tomorrow’s Photoblogging Challenge word, and it’s red. It’s great that I decided to do the whole month in black & …

Oct 29, 2021: No kindergarten today for tinyMovieStar, she’s still having tummy issues. Home all day.

Oct 29, 2021: [ cycle ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 29 : (@rnv)

Oct 28, 2021: Fingers crossed we can sleep until morning comes or, at least, a bit more than yesterday. See you tomorrow or, worst case scenario, in a couple of …

Oct 28, 2021: Speeding Along Never stop. 🇲🇦🛵

Oct 28, 2021: Bye bye, Summer. Hello rainy days and miserable darkness.

Oct 28, 2021: I did manage to reorganize my homescreen, so there’s that…

Oct 28, 2021: Thorny Night Not the easiest one, but let’s deal with the day with a smile on our faces. 🇲🇦🌵

Oct 28, 2021: 06:39AM 😳 I knew it. Thankfully the girls managed to get back to sleep.

Oct 28, 2021: Rough night for tinyMovieStar. Also why it’s past 5AM and we’ve been up for over an hour. She’s falling asleep again (🤞🏼) but I feel …

Oct 28, 2021: [ underneath ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 28 : (@timapple)

Oct 27, 2021: Tor Project’s annual fundraising campaign is ongoing. Donate.

Oct 27, 2021: Really, Siri? Are you just waking up?? What kind of son would I be if, by now, I still needed to call Mom? It’s dark out already, for crying out …

Oct 27, 2021: Also, Mom&Dad came over and picked tinyMovieStar from kindergarten today. She LOVED it. Long LONG day, but so much fun.

Oct 27, 2021: We had mom’s birthday lunch at a restaurant I would never find on my own, and would probably never stop at if, by mistake, I was in the area. …

Oct 27, 2021: Probably my favorite from this particular trip, and also a loveProject shot! Hope you like it as well. 🇲🇦❤️

Oct 27, 2021: Kindergarten Drop: Check. Pharmacy Run: Check. Laundry: Check. Double Coffee: Check. And, I’m sorry to say, a couple of invoices managed to get …

Oct 27, 2021: [ chaos ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 27 : (@TheDimPause)

Oct 27, 2021: On our morning stroll to the kindergarten something made me think of @vincent! The quintessential British car, with a Polish license plate😊

Oct 26, 2021: That crazy square with the medieval fairground feel. Love it, even though it’s one of the biggest tourist traps in town. Snakes? Sure. Music? …

Oct 26, 2021: Every single time I have to get in the car and drive in the city I can’t help thinking I shouldn’t be doing that. I can’t stand …

Oct 26, 2021: Walk all the way to the supermarket, get everything you need, go to the self service cashier, put everything through the scanner, grab the phone to …

Oct 26, 2021: The River Crossing The most peaceful place we slept in, totally alone after all the tourist buses left for the day. It was as quiet as we’ve …

Oct 26, 2021: Squid Game, episode 3: check. I’ll get to the end of this one, even if it takes me another month.

Oct 26, 2021: Busy day today, with doctor’s appointment for the little one later in the day.

Oct 26, 2021: Everyone seems to be busy there, never a dull moment. Going someplace, coming from somewhere, doing business all over. Finding someone idling for a …

Oct 26, 2021: Always the most incredible light displays. The sun loves Morocco. 🇲🇦 🛑

Oct 26, 2021: [ bliss ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 26 : (@maique)

Oct 25, 2021: Tomorrow I will turn the volume down, I promise, just wanted to have something up for the new bSide, Morocco. Mission accomplished. 🇲🇦☪️

Oct 25, 2021: It has changed a lot in the 30 years I’ve been going there. But still feels as new as the first time. Some things change slower. 🇲🇦 🐈

Oct 25, 2021: Now that bSides is working again, I’m celebrating by adding a new country to the list. Close to home, it’s the country I’ve …

Oct 25, 2021: Time to pick up tinyMovieStar from kindergarten. Hopefully she has, once again, evaded the dreaded illnesses that have been going around.

Oct 25, 2021: I’ve been having fun with Townscaper. It’s a great way to relax, beautifully crafted, and a pleasure to me ever since it launched for iOS. …

Oct 25, 2021: Oh, invoice update! For those following the saga, not a single invoice was issued last week. The new week might see me going into the site and dealing …

Oct 25, 2021: Here we go, fresh new week ahead!

Oct 25, 2021: [ gravity ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 25 : (@mroutley)

Oct 24, 2021: Awesome Sunday Surprise A friend of my in-laws showed up today carrying a gift: a USB drive, filled with videos from our wedding! We had never seen …

Oct 24, 2021: Seems that a few things were indeed broken with the domain change. Images, pages, the whole bSides, a lot to go through…

Oct 24, 2021: [ connection ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 24 : (@warner)

Oct 23, 2021: The Day After

Oct 23, 2021: What. A. Night.

Oct 23, 2021: thingsThisWeek #5 😢 Little brother got married a couple of weeks ago, and now his wife had to leave, again. Making things a bit harder, tinyMovieStar grew to like her …

Oct 23, 2021: tinyMovieStar was asleep for hours, until she suspected it was MY bedtime. She waited three minutes, and woke up. It’s now 0230AM, and …

Oct 23, 2021: That’s it! Another week has gone by! Ufff….

Oct 23, 2021: [ meaning ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 24 : (@ronguest)

Oct 22, 2021: The Lonely Blue Crate

Oct 22, 2021: The new omg.lol email can also be used for serious businesses, I have a PGP key now! Encryption with that domain feels even better 🤣

Oct 22, 2021: I forget! We do this now! Seems like Halloween is around the corner 🎃

Oct 22, 2021: tinyMovieStar is one and a half years old today. That was FAST!

Oct 22, 2021: [ rest ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 22 : (@crossingthethreshold)

Oct 21, 2021: CRT This is probably one of the best ways, or one of the coolest, to interact with tilde.club ~ Available in several flavors. cool-retro-term.

Oct 21, 2021: EU I wanted an .eu domain for a while, since I live in the EU and find it nicer than a .pt one. Another cool thing about it is that “Eu” in …

Oct 21, 2021: Today I will try to move {micro maique} to the new domain: maique.eu. @canion did it, others have done it, so why not? Things will probably break. …

Oct 21, 2021: [ space ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 21 : (@dfj)

Oct 20, 2021: Camera Testing I have no intention of buying this one, but Nuno was kind enough to bring it over. SO expensive! In between monster tantrums, …

Oct 20, 2021: Tried the Canon R3. Lovely camera. The price? Not so nice 😔

Oct 20, 2021: tilde.club day. There’s a lot to unpack there!! It’ll take a few days to get my head around this one, I’m sure.

Oct 20, 2021: [ sports ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 20 : (@ greghiggins)

Oct 19, 2021: Inspired by a feature on @pimoore’s crazy good Tufte theme, one that my meagre skills would probably be able to tackle, I was able to enable it …

Oct 19, 2021: Trying to pick a photo for tomorrow’s October Photoblogging Challenge. Stuck with two at the moment. The theme is sports, something I …

Oct 19, 2021: Came across rumbo.world, a very cool, and free, tool to turn your GPX (and FIT) files into nice videos. Great for hikers, riders, drivers,…

Oct 19, 2021: Succession is on, but I wish we could binge it! This one-episode-a-week thing is… GRRRR!

Oct 19, 2021: Speaking about Townscaper reminded me of this one… Back in Macau, looking up. 🇲🇴🏢

Oct 19, 2021: One day until Townscaper shows up on the iOS App Store. Pre-ordered, just waiting…

Oct 19, 2021: Good morning, people! Hope you have a great Tuesday.

Oct 19, 2021: [ mirror ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 19 : (@amit)

Oct 18, 2021:

Oct 18, 2021: Testing…. Thanks, @manton.

Oct 18, 2021: Another Apple Day, and I don’t even want to know about it! Getting off social media until this blows away, I don’t need to know what …

Oct 18, 2021: It’s been a while since I posted a bSide, so here goes… While waiting for the time to pick tinyMovieStar up from kindergarten, hoping she …

Oct 18, 2021: What a busy, and scary, morning! As soon as I got home, back from dropping tinyMovieStar at kindergarten, we got an email from them. A kid was …

Oct 18, 2021: Is this the week invoices will be sent? Do I want that money? Do I need that money? Stay tuned!

Oct 18, 2021: [ finished ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 18 : (@ericmwalk)

Oct 17, 2021: movieStar went to bed at 9.30. It’s now 10.30 and I’m struggling to keep my eyes open. That’s how the weekend went!

Oct 17, 2021: We kinda planned a day trip out of town for today, but the weather is not on our side. We now have a WHOLE day inside, it’s not going to be …

Oct 17, 2021: It’s late, again. The weekends are killing us. We now consider everyone who works at the kindergarten a Saint. A proper Saint. Worthy of …

Oct 17, 2021: [ compass ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 17 : (@canion)

Oct 16, 2021: Wishing you all a great weekend. Bom fim-de-semana!

Oct 16, 2021: thingsThisWeek #4 🎈There are still a few (a lot) of people in the family that tinyMovieStar hasn’t met. The size of both our families, the pandemic, our lives, …

Oct 16, 2021: Almost one and a half years old, and tinyMovieStar still LOVES Jack Johnson. Can’t say I blame her, it’s perfect for a Saturday morning.

Oct 16, 2021: [ rotation ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 16 : (@jdm)

Oct 15, 2021: It’s on! Time for another @omgdotlol Giveaway! 🎉 Thanks to a very generous offer from the developer I’m again sharing a code for a year of this …

Oct 15, 2021: I see another OMG.LOL Giveaway in the near future! Get your comments ready…

Oct 15, 2021: A trip to Lidl.

Oct 15, 2021: October be like… 28°C.

Oct 15, 2021: [ ethereal ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 15 : (@jafish)

Oct 15, 2021: The randomness has spoken! @r@social.up.edu.ph is the lucky winner of the OMG.LOL Giveaway. Hope you enjoy the prize, sir, and congratulations! 🥳 …

Oct 14, 2021: And, just in case you’re wondering, those invoices are still waiting…

Oct 14, 2021: [ wheels ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 14 : (@dejus)

Oct 13, 2021: Those invoices still have to be sent. I guess today is still not the day for that…

Oct 13, 2021: OMG.LOL Giveaway Inspired by their own giveaway, I’m doing the same: I’m offering one year of OMG.LOL to a lucky winner! I’ve been using the service …

Oct 13, 2021: Ledger, the Nano S I’ve had a curiosity about crypto ever since I first heard about Bitcoin, back in the day. At the time it was a hassle to get them. I remember …

Oct 13, 2021: [ animals ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 13 : (@agilelisa)

Oct 12, 2021: It’s here. More on the Ledger Nano S later.

Oct 12, 2021: Have a few invoices to send, but can’t even find the right mindset for that. Not even to get money!! I’m the least business-oriented …

Oct 12, 2021: The Ledger is in town! Waiting for the “Out for Delivery” notification…

Oct 12, 2021: Walking Back The Teacher The Church-Keeper

Oct 12, 2021: Damn busy days, so much to do, so little time! How far is the weekend??

Oct 12, 2021: [ legend ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 12 : (@TheDimPause)

Oct 11, 2021: Monday! Let’s get this show on the road!

Oct 11, 2021: [ hygge ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 11 : (@Odd)

Oct 10, 2021: Memory Lane

Oct 10, 2021: The Team

Oct 10, 2021: Long Time Not a usual sight these days, wearing a helmet. Father-in-law’s Harley needed to go out for a ride, I was happy to take her.

Oct 10, 2021: [ bridges ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 10 : (@crossingthethreshold)

Oct 9, 2021: Whole day surrounded by kids (four of them), cousins, brothers in law, their brides, in-laws, and a dog. Barely had time to order a Ledger Nano S!

Oct 9, 2021: thingsThisWeek #3 💻 My short lived experiment with a newsletter ended even before it started. I saw the integration of Revue on a Twitter profile, and wanted to give …

Oct 9, 2021: It’s Saturday! Relax.

Oct 9, 2021: [ safe ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 09 : (@maique)

Oct 8, 2021: Beach Day Glorious day at the beach today, working. Over 8km walking back and forth, with cameras, and temperature cranked up to summer. Nice.

Oct 8, 2021: [ twilight ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 08 : (@rom)

Oct 8, 2021: People are FILTHY! 🤮

Oct 8, 2021: Today’s Office It’s Beach Cleanup Day! 🏖 🗑

Oct 7, 2021: I’ve seen the Ledger Nano X, and now I want one too! Problem #1: Again, I don’t need it. Problem #2: My whole crypto wallet is now holding …

Oct 7, 2021: Back from kindergarten, off to a gallery, today it’s “Shoot an Installation Day”.

Oct 7, 2021: [ spicy ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 07 : (@ronguest)

Oct 6, 2021: I was asked to pick a photo from the President who passed away a couple of weeks ago, for a book. I had a few, mostly at the palace, or some other …

Oct 6, 2021: Taco Wednesday It had to happen, it did today. Lunch with movieStar, just before picking the tiny one from kindergarten. Tacos & Beer. 🌮 🍺

Oct 6, 2021: Editing. Editing. Editing. Editing… Need more coffee! ☕️

Oct 6, 2021: Well past midnight, and the relentless alarm clock doesn’t give a damn about how tired we might be. In a few hours it will start nagging us …

Oct 6, 2021: [ street ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 06 : (@ohBananaJoe)

Oct 5, 2021: What a miserable day.

Oct 5, 2021: 4AM. tinyMovieStar up from 1.30AM up to now. Lots of crying, some yelling, not hungry, too sleepy, just being a pain. She finally falls asleep again. …

Oct 5, 2021: [ toy ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 05 : (@Gaby)

Oct 4, 2021: It was great while it lasted.

Oct 4, 2021: Back home and back at the computer. Editing. tinyMovieStar has also been picked up. All together again.

Oct 4, 2021: Kindergarten drop & photoshoot morning. Hope you’re having a great Monday as well.

Oct 4, 2021: [ sharp ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 04 : (@rnv)

Oct 3, 2021: TIL Kids birthday parties are MUCH nicer when the parents of the toddler are owners of the beer place. Also: it helps when all the guests are friends, …

Oct 3, 2021: I’m under the impression that we’ve watched 35765 versions of “The wheels of the bus go round and round…”. Are there …

Oct 3, 2021: The movieStars are now awake, after a nice nap. Getting ready to go out, it’s birthday party time!

Oct 3, 2021: 11AM update. Laundry: Done! 👖👚

Oct 3, 2021: 9.30AM, Sunday. A cake has been baked already. Where did our lazy weekends go?? 🧁

Oct 3, 2021: [ majority ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 03 : (@jemostrom)

Oct 2, 2021: thingsThisWeek #2 🤵🏻Right after I posted last week’s report we went for our regular Saturday lunch with Mom&Dad. My brother was also there, as on most of the …

Oct 2, 2021: [ dark ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 02 : (@pratik)

Oct 1, 2021: In Portugal, every indicator of pandemic severity is quickly trending downward. The death rate is half the European Union average and nine times below …

Oct 1, 2021: Headache + body pain + stuffy nose. I seem to have caught these from tinyMovieStar. She manages to bring something home every day, and likes to share. …

Oct 1, 2021: Sublime Ads: Check! I’ve been afraid of tweaking the templates for the site for a long time, scared I might break something. Hugo seems hard! I wanted to have …

Oct 1, 2021: [ touch ] October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 01 : (@Warner)

Sep 30, 2021: It’s October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge time! Here are the prompts for the first week…

Sep 30, 2021: Managed to get SublimeAds working on a test page. Doesn’t sound like a huge accomplishment, but I feel great!

Sep 30, 2021: Wedding day yesterday, and I just found this lying on the ground when coming home from kindergarten!

Sep 29, 2021: Hey There, Yubi! The key is here, and so are my first impressions. Mind you, I have no idea what I’m talking about, these are my views, and I might very well be …

Sep 29, 2021: YubiDay The Yubikey finally made it home! First one to set up: it had to be GitHub. Working.

Sep 29, 2021: Little brother just got married! 🎉

Sep 29, 2021: Are there any literal.club invites available? @merecivilian is looking for one, and mine ran out 😔 @ohbananajoe Do you still have one? Thank you 😊

Sep 28, 2021: Fastmail and 1Password have teamed up to make it easy for you to create and manage unique email addresses while signing up for services online. 🔗 …

Sep 28, 2021: tinyMovieStar is up since 5AM. Guess who can’t go back to sleep now that she’s nodding off again? This Tuesday is starting to feel a lot …

Sep 27, 2021: Three more literal.club invites to give away. If anyone is still looking for those, feel free to ask.

Sep 27, 2021: Almost no sleep last night + tinyMovieStar having a small fever = harder day

Sep 27, 2021: Yesterday in one photo. It was a miserable night.

Sep 26, 2021: Ready to leave. Election night, here we go!

Sep 26, 2021: 🗳 ✅

Sep 26, 2021: Vamos lá, dia de ir votar.

Sep 25, 2021: thingsThisWeek #1 🍺 Disappointment coming from the least expected place, our usual beer place was closed again on Monday. It’s the second time we find them skipping a …

Sep 25, 2021: 12 days now, and the package DHL is handling is still stateside. By now I assume the Yubikey will be forced to swim across the ocean! Hang in there! …

Sep 24, 2021: 50€ worth of gas! F$¥K YOU!

Sep 23, 2021: Why didn’t I start watching this one sooner… Fauda Entertaining.

Sep 23, 2021: I have always been a fan of pied-de-poule. I’m not the only one!

Sep 22, 2021: If I had serious money riding the Crypto markets I’m sure I would have had a stroke by now.

Sep 22, 2021: Using the free time I now have on my hands and trying to finish our honeymoon report. It’s only been 3 years since the trip, so no rush… …

Sep 22, 2021: Way Back On the way back from kindergarten, an old friend. Today it was looking particularly appealing.

Sep 22, 2021: Oh…. Hey there, Fall! 🍁🍂

Sep 21, 2021: Ordered something from the US. Tracking it. Seven days have gone by and DHL shows the item still over there. A week (in their hands), and it …

Sep 21, 2021: Seems like I might have an assignment for a newspaper next Sunday. It’s been YEARS since that happened. The pay is still lousy for freelancers, …

Sep 21, 2021: The iPhone X still feels like a pretty decent machine. I edit photos every day, video as well, play games heavy on graphics, use it basically as my …

Sep 21, 2021: tinyMovieStar’s All Stars Earlier today, on our way to kindergarten. Happy times.

Sep 21, 2021: Monkey Business We could not go into the hell that is IKEA and come back without something for the little one, right? Say “Hello” to …

Sep 21, 2021: You can now build your own octocat! Here’s mine:

Sep 21, 2021: Today is the day: we’re going back to IKEA. If you don’t hear from me in a few hours, send help. Please.

Sep 20, 2021: Another year, another iOS version, another full review. Will I make it to the end of this one? iOS and iPadOS 15: The MacStories Review

Sep 20, 2021: Beta profile removed, iOS 15 official release downloading.

Sep 20, 2021: Finally got Mullvad and NextDNS playing nice with each other, both on iOS and macOS! Hint: WireGuard apps are your friends.

Sep 20, 2021: Trying to get my spirit up, wearing my bamboo shirt for tinyMovieStar’s kindergarten. Maybe this will work. Maybe not.

Sep 20, 2021: Monday again, that means a few more tears for all of us when we drop tinyMovieStar at kindergarten. Yeah, we’re still doing that… 😭

Sep 19, 2021: Animal Morning Today we saw: A hungry horse. A cool looking chicken. An odd, and very still, cow. And, obviously, a goat that enjoys going to the …

Sep 18, 2021: Habana Had lunch with Mom&Dad, now we’re at movieStar’s Mom&Dad. According to plan 😊

Sep 18, 2021: Saturday is Grandma & Grandpa Extravaganza Day! We’re doing the rounds today, and tinyMovieStar has tummy issues. Extra diapers!!

Sep 18, 2021: Quick question: now can Miss Rabbit have a dozen full time jobs on Peppa Pig?? I have no time left, and barely do any work at all!

Sep 17, 2021: Back from Chile. What comes next is no surprise: editing!

Sep 17, 2021: Waiting outside the Chilean embassy. Now that’s something I don’t get to say often! Or ever, before today!

Sep 17, 2021: Later today: one of those random assignments. Not exciting, but quick and painless.

Sep 15, 2021: My oldest domain was about to expire, and I just couldn’t let it. Renewed for another year. There’s only on email address attached to it, …

Sep 15, 2021: Movie With Lunch Play date for the movieStars, burger, beer, and The Imitation Game for me. Enjoying all three. Missing the movieStars. 🍿 🍺 🍔

Sep 15, 2021: New Tires Finally the tires arrived at the shop. The sun was burning. On the way back: heavy rain. HEAVY!

Sep 15, 2021: If I could, this is all I’d be doing for the rest of my life: travel notes for places I love. São Tomé and Príncipe Travel Notes 🇸🇹 (Work, as …

Sep 14, 2021: Today I remembered GitHub Pages, and the one I had there, abandoned. Must do something with it.

Sep 14, 2021: Yesterday @ohBananaJoe was kind enough to invite me to literal.club. Today is my turn. I have 3 invites available. If you’re looking for one, …

Sep 14, 2021: Regarding today’s Apple event, I think I’ll skip it. Still using my trusty iPhone X, and a very old (2012) MacBook Air. The laptop needs …

Sep 14, 2021: Rainy Day Old photo, didn’t go out yet. Hope you’re all having a good one.

Sep 13, 2021: Not Everything is Beautiful

Sep 12, 2021: Mandatory mask wearing outdoors end today. Tomorrow you’re free to go maskless outside.

Sep 12, 2021: Thinking about a Yubikey… Nothing I feel I really need, but it would certainly be a cool thing to have. Looking at the 5 NFC.

Sep 12, 2021: movieStars at another play date. Hello, Asahi!

Sep 12, 2021: Special Delivery Rain is coming. It’s going to be a wet week. Have to get a budget proposal ready, get new tires for the car, and a trip to …

Sep 11, 2021: Gifts We Enjoy Oregano. Yummy.

Sep 11, 2021: tinyMovieStar had a play date, movieStar with the girls in the playground swing. I had a Sapporo (huge) with Teriyaki potatoe chips, from the Korean …

Sep 11, 2021: RIP Long time since I’ve had a photo in the paper. Sadly it’s because my favorite President has passed away 😢

Sep 11, 2021: Slept in the Land of Oz, now back in the city for lunch with Mom&Dad. It rained this morning.

Sep 10, 2021: Oz After the photos were edited, and I use the word lightly here, but they were in such a rush (!), we got in the car and drove off. Ended up in Oz. …

Sep 10, 2021: Red Carpet I believe I’ve done red carpet once before this, in all the years I’ve been shooting. Can you tell I really enjoy it?

Sep 10, 2021: Another day, another editing session. Hope everyone is having a great Friday, the weekend is just ahead…

Sep 9, 2021: Went to bed at 7PM. Just a quick nap, as the photos are still waiting to be edited. Woke up at 11PM! Oops.

Sep 9, 2021: Let’s do This! After a long day at work there’s usually another couple of long days at home. 3229 photos, not even that many, but it will …

Sep 9, 2021: One week since kindergarten started for tinyMovieStar and she has a cold already. She was never sick before.

Sep 9, 2021: 4:15AM. Finally home. That was a LOOOOONG day. Waking up at 8AM. See you in a bit and, guess what? Editing day! Yay! 😔

Sep 9, 2021: Still at the studio. Close to 15 hours straight, and still far from over. I’ll consider myself lucky if we’re out of here before 3AM.

Sep 8, 2021: Glamour The Red Carpet life… 🤣

Sep 8, 2021: Top Secret, as usual. Morning well underway.

Sep 8, 2021: Arrived Ready for my 14-hour shift. One full day away from the movieStars 😔

Sep 8, 2021: Here we go, back to the studio. Coming home tomorrow.

Sep 8, 2021: Great news, 1Password: There’s a new bad guy in town, ProtonMail! You’re off the hook for now!

Sep 7, 2021: One thing I’ll need to get sorted: my M.b favicon. It’s been months since {micro maique} has shown it, and the blank square looks awful on …

Sep 7, 2021: Working tomorrow. Probably shouldn’t be a cause for celebration when I get to work, but there you go… Anyway, 11AM to 1AM the following …

Sep 7, 2021: Tick Tack… Tick Tack… Tick Tack… Tick Tack… When can we pick her up from school? Tick Tack… Tick Tack… Tick …

Sep 7, 2021: Yup, Two! Would go back in a heartbeat, even though it’s not first in line, or second. But had an amazing time with my brother there, and that …

Sep 7, 2021: Macau Memories With time on our hands until tinyMovieStar has to be picked up, I’m back posting on bSides. Maybe I even have time for two! 🇲🇴⏰

Sep 7, 2021: Oh, raining today. I guess we’re really done with summer.

Sep 6, 2021: Lunch at school: done. Afternoon nap: done. Next up: Afternoon stroll. Afternoon beer with friends (tinyMovieStar not having any!)

Sep 6, 2021: OMG New profile page at maique.OMG.LOL. What’s that all about? Yesterday I was complaining about no new toys to play, because there is no time to …

Sep 6, 2021: Week 2 Second week dropping off tinyMovieStar at school, and I just didn’t want the weekend to be over. Taking her there and back is a 30 min …

Sep 5, 2021: Sunday We can’t seem to watch a full episode of anything, no matter how small the episodes are. But this one has been on repeat for hours! …

Sep 5, 2021: Her First Yoga Book Also my first one! Mom is the Yoga fan in the house… 🧘🏻‍♀️

Sep 5, 2021: In the old days I used to try and install numerous things, and apps, I didn’t need, just to see how they worked. It was fun. I have no time for …

Sep 5, 2021: Windy Bend, don’t break 🌲

Sep 4, 2021: BreakTime NoBreakTime

Sep 4, 2021: Lunch with Mom&Dad (little brother still down in the Algarve), then a bDay party for a friend’s daughter. Happy Saturday, y’all.

Sep 3, 2021: We made it through the first week, or half a week to be more precise. tinyMovieStar seems to be enjoying her time at school, after the first couple of …

Sep 3, 2021: Get vaccinated. Fuck. 🔗 Oh My Fucking God, Get the Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Sep 2, 2021: Walking around the block with a friend… Not a great day for photos, but one I kinda liked.

Sep 2, 2021: Also… the many joys of potty training.

Sep 2, 2021: 1Password offers free team subscription if you’re working on an open source project. GitHub - 1Password/1password-teams-open-source: Get a free …

Sep 2, 2021: 👶🏻:😭 🧔🏻:😭😭😭

Sep 2, 2021: Tomorrow (well, actually in a little while) it’s my turn to drop off tinyMovieStar at school. Can’t say I’m looking forward to it, …

Sep 1, 2021: The End How did today end? With Inês and Pedro joining the three of us for a beer. We deserved it! And Nepalese for dinner, because we also deserved …

Sep 1, 2021: Can I say I’m enjoying the URL/search bar at the bottom on iOS 15’s Safari update?

Sep 1, 2021: Sticker Time The cutest envelope and sticker came in the mail today! 🥰 Feeling a bit like an impostor, since I wasn’t able to attend. Thank you …

Sep 1, 2021: First Day movieStar left the house with the little one, dropped her off at her school. I will do the same tomorrow. I joined her in the garden a little later, …

Sep 1, 2021: Vacation report published with no photos. It was getting too long, too late, and the editing is still long from done and pretty messy. Will post a few …

Sep 1, 2021: Vacation: Done Maybe I should start this one by saying that “vacation” doesn’t really apply when you’re doing it with a one year old, no …

Sep 1, 2021: And off she goes. tinyMovieStar’s first school day.

Sep 1, 2021: Also, shitty weather today. Coincidence? I think not.

Sep 1, 2021: The day begins. As expected, I didn’t get much sleep. Woke up at 5AM. Then at 6AM. Again at 7.30AM.

Aug 31, 2021: School starts tomorrow and I feel like one of those parents on American movies when their kids go off to college! I know it’s preschool, and an …

Aug 29, 2021: Hello again, iMovie. You are not the best of them, but you’re all I have at the moment. You’ll have to do.

Aug 28, 2021: 94000 photos already restored and back on the phone. 17000 to go!

Aug 28, 2021: Early Selfie Before the beard, before digital, when we could smoke in tiny cramped spaces. A clown amongst other clowns.

Aug 28, 2021: Getting close to 2AM. Phone updated, after a forced reboot, and now it will spend the next hours (maybe days) restoring the 110.000+ photos from …

Aug 28, 2021: Why do I ALWAYS pick 11PM to start an iPhone update?? These things take FOREVER! 😡

Aug 27, 2021: Here We Go At last. Let’s see how it turns out.

Aug 27, 2021: Getting 400 photos out of Photos.app into the Finder is a whole day affair with my old Air. Not sure if the laptop is to blame, or the subpar …

Aug 27, 2021: tinyMovieStar starts school next week. She has always slept for as long as she wants, that is about to end 😟😭

Aug 26, 2021: Vacation post almost ready. Text is nearly done, but picking the photos will take a little longer.

Aug 25, 2021: Time to go. We had the most wonderful time. Looking back and writing about it will be great. Many happy moments to share.

Aug 23, 2021: Another thing: if I’m away from the Internet most of the day, I don’t really feel like I’m missing out on a lot of what goes on on …

Aug 22, 2021: Too busy to write about the fun we’re having, and how much hard work goes into it. It’s fine. We’ll be back in no time. For now: …

Aug 21, 2021: Back in the Algarve We made it. Hours after we left the city we made it down to the Algarve. I can’t remember the last time I saw so many people on the highway, if …

Aug 20, 2021: Added 2FA to over 20 sites. It’s so easy to do with 1Password I wonder why I hadn’t done this before.

Aug 19, 2021: Darn! Someone just called me for an assignment, with two days notice! I would love to go, but two days before the thing is happening doesn’t …

Aug 19, 2021: Happy World Photography Day Two shots from the place where this particular photographer is happiest. There is nowhere I’d rather be shooting …

Aug 18, 2021: Ok, we’re not done with beach time. Going back to the Algarve for a few more days, same place, bigger house. Coincidence? I talked about the …

Aug 18, 2021: 2AM, exporting… Quicker than expected. Bed time is getting deliciously close.

Aug 17, 2021: Picking some music for the final stretch… Day Two is done, Day Three is the one still missing.

Aug 17, 2021: Half a day later: exporting the second day of the shoot. By the looks of it I won’t be going to bed before 5AM. Ouch.

Aug 17, 2021: Exporting DayOne. Time for a quick shower. Heck! With this old computer & Lightroom, I have time for a bubble bath!

Aug 17, 2021: Editing… Editing… Editing… Photos have to be delivered today, and it’s taking FOREVER to go through them.

Aug 17, 2021: Editing photos, and setting up 2FA on a bunch of sites. Could be worse.

Aug 17, 2021: Already missing the village life. Thankfully these two are two thirds of the gang in Lisbon, it was great to spend a few days with them away from the …

Aug 16, 2021: Back home. Damn, we’re tired! Still the usual ton of photos to go through, both work-related and otherwise. Will have to spend this evening/late …

Aug 15, 2021: Packing for the final leg of our month on the road. Today we make our way home, with only a small stop en route: Visiting the in-laws, but …

Aug 14, 2021: A little sad that I’m missing Micro Camp, there will be a lot of video to go through when we’re sitting at home…

Aug 14, 2021: Still Going Didn’t make it back to the city, still at our friend’s place, and another one came over for a couple of days. One day …

Aug 12, 2021: Ciudad Rodrigo Always lovely, even though today it felt like hell! Impossible to be out.

Aug 12, 2021: Waking up at the village feels amazing and SO peaceful! Time for coffee and then it’s off to Ciudad Rodrigo, one of the Spanish cities that we …

Aug 11, 2021: River Beach We made it. All the way to the Spanish border, again. All the places on our list this year are next to the border! And quickly found a …

Aug 11, 2021: No cell network coverage. It’s Wi-Fi or nothing! Yay 😊

Aug 11, 2021: Good Morning Time for breakfast, then pack and move on. A couple more hours on the road and we’ll be at our friend’s place. See you there. …

Aug 10, 2021: Almost at the top Up there 📍 Torre, Manteigas

Aug 10, 2021: Amazing with what you find in the middle of the mountain. Casas da Lapa

Aug 10, 2021: movieStar is the best hotel finder in the world. Amazing place she found for us today.

Aug 9, 2021: You find a really nice hotel, and you’re even thinking about extending your stay, but the guy at the front desk is an asshole. So you …

Aug 9, 2021: Packing. Again. The hotel room is a mess from these days. Also using it as office and baby room, so it’s taking a while to pack from …

Aug 8, 2021: Family It’s been a great, amazing, sweet, exciting, and busy, week. We’ve been spending these past days at Chaves, the greatest little city in …

Aug 5, 2021: We made it! Six hours on the road. It was EXHAUSTING! Then we remembered my parents did this, back in the 70s. But seven and a half hours, two kids, …

Aug 4, 2021: I should have stuck with my decades old rule of packing everything the day before I have to leave.

Aug 3, 2021: Busy bees: Baby, Beach and Beer. Tomorrow we’re back on the road, after movieStar gets her second shot of the Pfizer vaccine.

Aug 2, 2021: Where can you get a 16th century fort as backdrop for your beach photos? 📍 Fort of São Julião da Barra, Oeiras

Aug 2, 2021: Beach Morning Not the greatest beach day ever, very far from it, and I’m not the biggest beach bum anyway, but here we are. The skies are cloudy and dark, …

Aug 2, 2021: Beach morning today with cousins. Alarm set for earlier than our usual wake up hour, but of course I’m up an hour and a half before that. Why? …

Aug 1, 2021: This is called marketing. A little romance with your sales pitch. 🔗 Scripting News: An EZ-Pass for news

Aug 1, 2021: A couple of days left, then it’s off to the festival. Live music will be a (very) welcome event.

Jul 31, 2021: Oops! Missing photo @mpmilestogo!

Jul 31, 2021: VaccineDay Another couple of shots for tinyMovieStar, another rough day afterwards. She was very brave, up all day, playing with us and a cousin, …

Jul 30, 2021: Anyone? In other news, I now have a pair of slightly used monocles to give away, if anyone is interested.

Jul 30, 2021: Just noticed my iPhone now unlocks when I’m wearing a mask. Don’t think it did it before.

Jul 30, 2021: tinyMovieStar has another vaccine shot scheduled for today. I’m sure it will be followed by a lot of drama. And, yes, I will be the one …

Jul 29, 2021: Tonight tinyMovieStar wouldn’t fall asleep in her room, and kept hinting she wanted to sleep in our bed. Time and time again. She walked into …

Jul 29, 2021: Somehow I misplaced Pedro’s photos of our wedding, and he kindly sent them again today. My favourite photo ever with me in it is in there, and …

Jul 29, 2021: Every time tinyMovieStar hears “Japan” she says “Xapao”… I wonder who she got that from? 🇯🇵🥰

Jul 27, 2021: In other news, my Castro subscription is about to end. I still have months left on Pocket Casts left, so I moved there. Again. Also back on Day One, …

Jul 27, 2021: Out and About On our way to tinyMovieStar’s school, for her first visit. We had lunch at the square, then up the hill!

Jul 27, 2021: Back from school. tinyMovieStar seems to like it, was immediately at ease with the kids who were there. They were thrilled to have a new toddler …

Jul 27, 2021: Also, we’re on our way to tinyMovieStar’s school, we’re meeting her new, and first, teacher in a little while. I wonder how …

Jul 27, 2021: Every time I have to update iOS it seems half a day goes by without my phone. Why do these take SO long?

Jul 26, 2021: We’re getting back to our strolls around the block, for a week, before we head up north again for the music festival. Hopefully it won’t …

Jul 26, 2021: Salad Beach We did get less than ideal water once. The first couple of meters were like walking on lettuce.

Jul 25, 2021: The Algarve I have mixed feelings about this part of the country. Always have. On one hand it’s beautiful, has amazing beaches, the weather is always nice, …

Jul 25, 2021: Still working on the post (my brain is not working properly yet) but I can safely say tinyMovieStar had a wonderful time. We had a blast too, even …

Jul 25, 2021: 24 hours after we’re back, still feels like we just ran a couple of marathons back to back.

Jul 24, 2021: Packed car. Ready for the trip up, or a nap. Guess which one I’m getting?

Jul 23, 2021: I need a vacation! These days at the beach are draining us.

Jul 21, 2021: where privacy is afforded, it is afforded by the grace of inefficiency. 🔗 Why Were Daniel Hale’s Leaked Drone Wars Documents Ignored?

Jul 21, 2021: Spain, Again Another quick trip to Spain, after a morning spent at the beach and pool. Gas is SO incredibly cheaper there you’ll find the gas …

Jul 21, 2021: One of the unexpected perks of this holiday: guaranteed parking place at the beach. Very handy, summer in here is hell for parking.

Jul 20, 2021: Top Shelf When you want peppers, but your legs are as long as leeks.

Jul 20, 2021: Low Tide Beach Wait for the low tide to cross, or pay the men with the boats. That’s how you do it in Cacela Velha, Praia da Fábrica.

Jul 20, 2021: Another One Post will also come later, but we had an amazing day with friends.

Jul 19, 2021: 14 days have passed since vaccine shot #2. I can definitely feel the power! 💪🏼

Jul 18, 2021: Over twenty years ago I saw something that looked so odd it stayed with me: a Russian family traveling in Egypt, with a nanny. Actually not one …

Jul 18, 2021: What Next? The little one woke up at 7AM… We all went outside, she ate, and went back to sleep. Thankfully. Wondering what we’ll do …

Jul 17, 2021: Day Three Awesome day with another couple of friends visiting, lunch at amazing local restaurant, and cool beach afternoon. Back home for dinner and …

Jul 17, 2021: The View Cows and, if you look close enough, you can spot the flamingos in the back.. That’s our morning view. 🐮 🦩 😍

Jul 17, 2021: There’s a one year gap on my Day One. I just stopped using it, during the most important, and busy, year of my life. Now I want to go back and …

Jul 16, 2021: Castro Marim, Day Two Yesterday we had a long night. Turns out the core group of friends all decided to come down to the Algarve at the same time, we’re now scattered …

Jul 16, 2021: We did it: on day two we went abroad! Had lunch in Spain, bought some beach toys for tinyMovieStar, and drove back.

Jul 16, 2021: Side effects of the shellfish extravaganza last night: 11:37, still far from leaving home. Late LATE breakfast.

Jul 15, 2021: We made it. It’s perfect. tinyMovieStar had her first pool swim, she couldn’t get enough. Home for the next ten days.

Jul 15, 2021: Last purchases made, and a walk as well. We have board shorts! Time for a quick bite and then we’ll load the car. To the top! Feels like …

Jul 15, 2021: “Socks? Where we’re going we don’t need socks!” Packing for ten days, no socks, shoes, sneakers or boots in sight! …

Jul 14, 2021: One of our closest couples are having a baby! Yay!!!

Jul 14, 2021: Time for a beer with friends before we leave 🍺🥰

Jul 14, 2021: We both slept like logs, and the little one as usual. We were away from home four days, feels like a month. It’s exhausting! Tomorrow we leave …

Jul 13, 2021: Going home today, for a day. Then it’s time to hit the road again.

Jul 12, 2021: Porto Preview Big fan of the city, and sorry we can’t stay longer. Time for a quick walk around the hotel, Ribeira, Aliados, Clérigos, and not …

Jul 11, 2021: Chaves Life Busy days at Chaves. Time to meet old friends again, shoot some photos, eat a TON of amazing food, some beers, and watch an incredible concert. The …

Jul 9, 2021: Apologies in advance if I take a while to reply, or somehow miss a comment. Also if I fail to comment on your posts in the next few days. Busy busy, …

Jul 9, 2021: First Stop: Coimbra I’ve been to this one a few times, but not recently. I came here a lot on assignment, but I can easily count the number of times I visited on my own. …

Jul 9, 2021: Ready to Go Bags are packed, we’re almost ready to leave. Deep breath…

Jul 9, 2021: Added to the list of things I never thought would feel odd: packing.

Jul 9, 2021: Waking up. Still a lot to pack, and then we’re off to theTinyTour! Coimbra - Chaves - Porto!

Jul 8, 2021: Achievement Unlocked tinyMovieStar watching a video on the phone, says “papa” and looks at me when this shows up. First time I loved being …

Jul 8, 2021: I believe we all knew it would come to this…

Jul 8, 2021: Prepping for the trip up north today. Getting my father’s car, and leaving ours home. His is smaller, hence cheaper to go on the highway, has …

Jul 8, 2021: Lucky 8 movieStar found this just now. It’s her fortune from Doi Suthep, and how right it is. She has no side-effects from the covid vaccine as …

Jul 8, 2021: Barber Time Today I thought about barbers, and barbershops, and how I love to get a haircut whenever I’m in a new place. Looked for the photos and …

Jul 7, 2021: Ok, enough crying, time to go to bed… Lewis Takes Sir Frank Williams for a Silverstone Hot Lap SO happy, and Lewis is the sweetest.

Jul 7, 2021: Barber booked for Saturday, in the town we’re going to. Another one of my favorite things to do in a new place: meet a barber and get a haircut. …

Jul 7, 2021: Hump Day Almost fully recovered, today was movieStar’s turn, her first shot. She got a ticket to Pfizer Team. I stayed home with the tiny one, and were …

Jul 7, 2021: I miss all the photos and long walks with tinyMovieStar. The stroller is a necessity right now, but it was much nicer before. We end up closer to …

Jul 7, 2021: Update: not 100%, but feeling a LOT better 😊 Thank you all for the support yesterday. Specially movieStar, who took care of everything 🥰

Jul 6, 2021: Some happier news: I have my EU Vaccination Certificate already, less than 24 hours after the shot was taken. After seeing some of the ones other …

Jul 6, 2021: Approaching the 24 hour mark, feeling increasingly miserable. Still manageable, but legs and back hurt, feels like I’ve taken a beating. In bed.

Jul 6, 2021: So far same side-effects as I had on the first shot: sore arm, joints in pain, and EXTREME fatigue. movieStar is the one on baby duty today. Bless …

Jul 5, 2021: Fun thing at the vaccination center: gave my first and last name, appointment time. She located the appointment, and proceeded to read my name out …

Jul 5, 2021: Done We waited, and then some more. They’re ramping up the effort, and getting all these people vaccinated has this side-effect: you wait a …

Jul 5, 2021: Waiting HUGE line at the vaccine spot today!

Jul 5, 2021: We decided to skip the more traditional method of marking tinyMovieStar’s height on the wall, and gone with “does her head still clear the …

Jul 5, 2021: Oh! Yesterday we also booked a room using a booking platform! Something we used to do so often and hadn’t done in a long time. Felt great, and …

Jul 4, 2021: Sunday Woes Locked outside in the morning, help came over and opened the door in under 5 seconds. That was scary. I waited for the locksmith while the girls went …

Jul 4, 2021: Happy 4th of July To all of you across the proverbial pond 🇺🇸

Jul 4, 2021: We have locked ourselves out of the house. How’s your Sunday going?

Jul 4, 2021: Also, this was the weekend when tinyMovieStar found out about flies!

Jul 4, 2021: Our host for the stay down south sent us a video of the place, and we extended our stay. We were thrilled already, now the days can’t go by fast …

Jul 4, 2021: Eco-consumerism may expiate your guilt. But it’s only mass movements that have the power to alter the trajectory of the climate crisis. 🔗 …

Jul 3, 2021: Going Yesterday at the park. We somehow forgot one shoe, so tinyMovieStar couldn’t leave the stroller. Thankfully a jazz band was playing, that …

Jul 3, 2021: Week Ahead Second Moderna shot on Monday. movieStar gets first one on Wednesday. Small assignment on Thursday. Leaving for Chaves on Friday. …

Jul 2, 2021: I know bookmarklets are an old-school web nerd thing, but I have a few I use frequently 🔗 Daring Fireball: Regarding the Safari 15 Public Betas for …

Jul 2, 2021: Going up to Chaves in a week! movieStars are coming too! Yay!

Jul 1, 2021: Lonng, but nice day. Morning with the movieStars, back home for lunch. Afternoon spent at home, then with friends and beers. movieStars at home with a …

Jul 1, 2021: 22 Year old Hat Veeeeeery long story (probably) coming later, if I find the time to write it down.

Jun 29, 2021: 2020/2021, the years when I got two superpowers: I can eat an entire meal in seconds, and I can sleep whenever I want to, wherever I am. Thank you so …

Jun 29, 2021: Ice Cold A huge THANK YOU to the lovely movieStar, who made it possible for me to enjoy a relaxing beer with Nuno 😊 🍺Cerveteca Lisboa, Lisboa

Jun 29, 2021: Stroller View The tourists are coming, the kiosks are open, the sky is blue. There’s a 4th wave, but… 📍 Praça Luís de Camões, Lisboa

Jun 29, 2021: Take me Back. Or Forward! Tuesday is just starting, and I wish it was still Sunday, or next Saturday! Weekdays, all of them, suck! It’s not just …

Jun 28, 2021: Testing @burk’s new Siri Shortcut 📍 Príncipe Real, Lisboa

Jun 28, 2021: Photos sent, others still left to edit, and yesterday’s beach adventure left me with a running nose. That’s pretty much how I’m …

Jun 28, 2021: Beebo Russell loved Jesus, craft beer, and cargo shorts. He was not the kind of man you’d peg for grand-theft airplane. 🔗 The Sky Thief: Beebo …

Jun 27, 2021: Great Sunday What started as a day with a few hours of sleep missing, turned out to be pretty great in the end. The morning was pretty normal, with a walk to the …

Jun 27, 2021: Before When there were only two of us, and we were free to go. 🇸🇬 🖼

Jun 27, 2021: Long night. We woke up at 2AM, tinyMovieStar was walking around. Back to sleep at 4AM. Today I will be performing in ZombieMode.

Jun 26, 2021: Done editing another assignment, happy I’ll be able to send it on Monday. Not great working on a Saturday, but movieStar was kind enough to step …

Jun 26, 2021: Pink World, Take Two I want to shoot this every time I go by. Yesterday I did it again.

Jun 26, 2021: Another Saturday, another lunch with Mom&Dad, and another wait in the parked car. tinyMovieStar falls asleep on the way back, and we just sit and …

Jun 26, 2021: Saturday morning, and guess what? After coffee comes…. EDITING! ☕️😖

Jun 25, 2021: Done with 3 seasons of Startup. Hurry up with the 4th, will you? 📺

Jun 25, 2021: Miss carrying tinyMovieStar on the sling. This stroller thing is not the same…

Jun 24, 2021: Still editing. Damn busy days.

Jun 24, 2021: Reading VI National Biodiversity Report and Understanding the Remarkable Biodiversity of Príncipe Island papers. How’s your morning? 😴

Jun 23, 2021: Wanna talk about rabbit holes? Obsidian! This will keep me entertained for years, considering what little time I have left for these adventures!

Jun 23, 2021: Meeting for a very cool new project, movieStar also had a meeting, both juggling the little one. Everything seems to be heading in the right …

Jun 23, 2021: Editing. Editing. Editing.

Jun 23, 2021: Back from the park. Met an Instagram acquaintance for the first time. An OBGYN that gave us a ton of advice when movieStar was pregnant, she …

Jun 23, 2021: Time to sleep. One last thing about today: movieStar finally got her vaccine appointment scheduled. She’s just too young, she had to wait for …

Jun 22, 2021: KDE Linux powered batteries?

Jun 22, 2021: We Made It We both survived without movieStar. A teenager joined us at home, we expected her to help, but she spent the whole time on the iPad, with …

Jun 22, 2021: Would love to try Obsidian for real, but the iPhone is my main computer these days, and the workaround to get it to work here is a pain. iOS app …

Jun 22, 2021: movieStar is having dinner with some friends, I’m taking care of tinyMovieStar at her brothers place. Something tells me it’s going to be …

Jun 22, 2021: Love the clients that have yet to pay and ask for the photos again, over a month later. They have deleted the folder on their end…

Jun 22, 2021: Some days I just feel older. On this particular one I woke up feeling old.

Jun 21, 2021: Today’s Spot As far as cool locations in town go, this one is hard to beat.

Jun 21, 2021: movieStar out and about with tinyMovieStar, while I get ready for an assignment. This particular one always makes my heart smile a bit, love getting …

Jun 21, 2021: Currently reading: Out: A Thriller by Natsuo Kirino 📚 New one. So far, good…

Jun 20, 2021: Old Habits Tea time. I just couldn’t let this one go without a photo.

Jun 20, 2021: Finished reading: Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka 📚 Long time since I’ve read one that I couldn’t put down.

Jun 20, 2021: Strawberry cake for breakfast: done.

Jun 20, 2021: Back, Again Follow up to Back in Time, last one for today. Sleep tight.

Jun 19, 2021: Fun fact: while waiting in the garage we found the place where we’ll spend the time we expected to be in Greece 😂🤣 out of the blue, on …

Jun 19, 2021: Waiting Sitting in the car, inside the garage, looking out. Waiting for tinyMovieStar’s sleep to end 😊

Jun 19, 2021: Sunset Sailing A few more days and we’ll be sailing again.

Jun 19, 2021: In the old times these cloudy and darker days would be perfect for snuggling and watching a couple of episodes of some series, while dozing …

Jun 18, 2021: Another day away from the internet. Went out with the movieStars, met a few friends at the square, had a couple of beers, ate something, came back …

Jun 17, 2021: Busy afternoon. tinyMovieStar meeting her future babysitter (they got along just fine after a tense start), and appointment with a plumber to see …

Jun 17, 2021: Sleepwalking Zombie tinyMovieStar is now officially cuteZombie, after getting up from bed last night and deciding to join us in the living room, while …

Jun 16, 2021: BeachWear When you need something to use in a beach, live in a country known for its beaches, and have to follow along as the item makes its way down …

Jun 16, 2021: Kindle Time I wonder what he was reading?

Jun 16, 2021: Greece trip postponed. Making tinyMovieStar go through the PCR tests, and six flights in two weeks, helped decide that. Thankfully movieStar had …

Jun 16, 2021: 20/20 Our walks have turned into rides, we’re now using the stroller every day. Less photos, as the hands are always busy with pushing and steering. Also we …

Jun 15, 2021: Pretty soon my Raindrop Unsorted folder will look like my old GoodLinks list, or the Pocket list before that, or my even older Instapaper unread list: …

Jun 15, 2021: I literally hold my breath when shampooing my hair, and laundry is a terrible experience. Even fresh-cut grass is terrible 🔗 Covid Survivors Smell …

Jun 15, 2021: consuming four or five eight-ounce cups of coffee (or about 400 milligrams of caffeine) a day has been associated with reduced death rates. 🔗 The …

Jun 15, 2021: Grateful that we have so many parks around here. Plenty of places where tinyMovieStar can have a good time.

Jun 14, 2021: Beer Garden Our little square is alive again. Tourists are still a rare sight here, but this was never a place with a lot of them.

Jun 14, 2021: 50 years old, a new hobby: fishing things out of yucky places.

Jun 14, 2021: USA! American Day at the square. (The beer was European…)

Jun 14, 2021: Sent almost all the paperwork (a LOT) to the school tinyMovieStar is going in September. Only thing missing is the tax return, we still have to file …

Jun 13, 2021: All praise the lord RAW!

Jun 13, 2021: they became known as the Slave Islands where West Africans were gathered in their thousands and shipped to work plantations in such colonies as …

Jun 13, 2021: We’re living in a world of snot.

Jun 13, 2021: The Tree That Keeps on Giving Still time for one more of the lovely jacarandas. They seem to have a huge fan club…

Jun 13, 2021: A few more hours of editing, and then a little relaxing time: editing photos of the movieStars.

Jun 13, 2021: Sunday editing, and somehow @ohBananaJoe showed up on some of the photos…

Jun 12, 2021: Ajisai Reply This was meant as a reply to @jamesvandyne, but it might as well live its own life as a standalone post. We have these, in a different …

Jun 12, 2021: One thing I’ve been doing a lot more these past few days, whenever I have a few minutes available: reading in Books, instead of scrolling …

Jun 12, 2021: Back in Time Saturday lunch at Mom&Dad, and back home for the afternoon nap. tinyMovieStar has a cold, her first one, so there’s a lot of snot all …

Jun 11, 2021: Trying to edit the boat photos, I have to finish this one soon. Editing was never my favorite part of the job, and my feelings towards it are not …

Jun 11, 2021: Thank you SO much, @odd. You’ve made today’s editing session so much easier! Bitori! 🎶 🇨🇻

Jun 10, 2021: Now that we have the remote back (and wrapped in plastic) we can get back to our nightly Netflix moment. Watching episode 01 of Startup! Damn! 📺

Jun 10, 2021: What do lots of people want from their phone? A cool look, simplicity, longer battery life, low costs for the device and internet surfing, and better …

Jun 10, 2021: The Quest is Over (Warning: Graphic Content) Using my Sherlock-like skills I knew deep down there was only one place where the remote could be found. …

Jun 10, 2021: Remote Update: none. Still missing. RIP.

Jun 10, 2021: Jun 10, Dia de Portugal

Jun 9, 2021: There’s a new game we like to play: Where did tinyMovieStar Hide the Remote? It’s awesome, and it’s going on for a while.

Jun 9, 2021: missQ Today I took missQ for a spin, shooting some photos with a proper camera. Strangely I was drawn to people with smartphones.

Jun 8, 2021: Things I Love About Lisbon Turning a corner and not getting a single word of what’s being said.

Jun 8, 2021: Ok, now my ankles are hurting. Hard to tell if it’s another odd side effect from the lovely people at Moderna, or am I just showing signs of old …

Jun 8, 2021: About Yesterday Not a lot of photos when I’m shooting, but yesterday a few friends came along for the ride, and one of them is a great photographer. I …

Jun 8, 2021: Vaccine Day I had my appointment scheduled for 09:51AM and, sticking to my habits, arrived at the designated center 15 minutes earlier than that. A lot of people …

Jun 8, 2021: movieStar out walking with tinyMovieStar, I’m back in bed. Feeling useless.

Jun 8, 2021: Woke up a few times during the night, sore arm and shoulder. I can take it, if it doesn’t get worse than this.

Jun 8, 2021: Past midnight. Busy afternoon, working long hours, tinyMovieStar with tummy issues (💩💩💩), no time to read the timeline. Also no side effects from the …

Jun 7, 2021: All Aboard Getting ready to board. That’s a nice boat house, right? Ticket counters on both sides…

Jun 7, 2021: Odd news of the day: a rather large razor company wants me to do an Instagram campaign with them. Not sure where my beard would fit the bill, though, …

Jun 7, 2021: Gave up on the last one, and started this right after the vaccine shot. Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka. Sample here. 📚 🇯🇵

Jun 7, 2021: Done. 30 minute wait, and then I’m free to go.

Jun 7, 2021: Still waiting in line, but already know I’m getting a Moderna shot.

Jun 7, 2021: Here We Go A bit messy, but it’s moving. More later, if I survive… 😊

Jun 7, 2021: Slept for ten and a half hours. I could keep going, but have to get ready for my vaccine.

Jun 6, 2021: Afternoon We went to the square, again, met a friend who has a boy a month younger than tinyMovieStar, had a beer, and came back home. Parked with the …

Jun 6, 2021: WWDC21 and vaccine in the same day. Guess which one I’m excited about?

Jun 6, 2021: Essentials Picking up some essentials from IKEA. Unrelated to yesterday’s Poo Extravaganza…

Jun 5, 2021: Can’t Wait Can’t wait to be somewhere different with movieStar in one hand, and the phone on the other, shooting something I’ve never seen before. 🇲🇽 …

Jun 5, 2021: There is no worldview so dangerous as the worldview of those who have not viewed the world. 🔗 Can Travel Be Fun Again? - The New York Times

Jun 5, 2021: 10.30PM and just found out Peppa Pig is also a member of our community! There’s an episode dedicated to the pineapple on pizza debate we had one …

Jun 5, 2021: movieStar found an amazingly small and full featured baby stroller that is airline cabin compatible. Another item I never imagined I would order. …

Jun 5, 2021: Memory Moments Today’s throwback takes us to the lagoon at Bacalar, Mexico. Lovely place. 🇲🇽 🏊‍♀️

Jun 5, 2021: It’s been 0 days since I’ve had baby poo on my clothes. We made it 13 months,much longer than I had anticipated.

Jun 4, 2021: Planning a 10 day trip with a baby, to a single location, is WAY harder than planning a 4 month trip to multiple countries without one. WAY harder!

Jun 4, 2021: Great chefs burn their hands while cooking too… Great chefs burn their hands while cooking too… Great chefs burn their hands while …

Jun 4, 2021: If you are in search of a no-cost photo editing app for your iPhone, Android, or tablet — this is it. 🔗 The Best Free Photo Editing Apps in 2021 | …

Jun 4, 2021: Morning spent with the movieStars at the park, arm still aching, but lovely nevertheless. We had lunch at one of the cafes there, and now it’s …

Jun 4, 2021: Yesterday Went to Carcavelos, the weekly market as an excuse to get out for a bit. We met some friends, had a messy meal (they also have a tiny …

Jun 4, 2021: Fun shoot on Monday, after the vaccine: a cool boat doing tours on the river. Also, I get to take friends along, so we’re having a party while I …

Jun 4, 2021: Neck and arm still hurting. Maybe because the Tiger balm has expired? Still smells wonderful though…

Jun 3, 2021: Counting down to vaccine day. Was afraid I might get a sore arm because of the shot, and ended up spending half of today with a sore neck and stiff …

Jun 3, 2021: Blue

Jun 2, 2021: Almost ready to book our hotel for the week, watched a few videos on YouTube, and we’re changing islands! Paros is out, Naxos is in! Stay tuned, …

Jun 2, 2021: Combo The one that was still missing: jacaranda + beer I can now end the jacaranda series! 🍺 🌸

Jun 2, 2021: Life Goes On Finding a lot more tourists around, everywhere. Can hear English more than before, probably because we’re on their green list, but I even …

Jun 2, 2021: While I Can They’ll soon be gone, so I’m getting as many photos as I can while it lasts. The iPhone is not perfect for these, but that’s what I’m …

Jun 2, 2021: Finally able to hide like counts on Instagram, and love it. One thing though: I can hide everyone’s count as default, but have to hide mine …

Jun 2, 2021: Happy Place I’ll keep this on my mind today. It might help… 🇸🇹🌴

Jun 2, 2021: I’m up. But not entirely. Rough day ahead.

Jun 1, 2021: I guess no one is sleeping at this house today. That’s what tinyMovieStar told us.

Jun 1, 2021: Ongoing Still on Jacaranda duty, they do look amazing. The street is, by now, covered with flowers.

Jun 1, 2021: My wrist is screaming Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at me! Why do I have to shoot this much, when I know I’ll regret it when the time comes to pick and …

Jun 1, 2021: change their names, ate thousands of dollars’ worth of sushi, and then changed their names back. 🔗 Taiwan’s punishing work culture is forcing young …

May 31, 2021: Picking photos with Dark Minimal Techno Trip Live Radio 24/7 Dark Monkey Music station blasting on lofi.cafe. Not the easiest of tasks, maybe I should …

May 31, 2021: Hello again, Lightroom. Can’t really say it’s a pleasure to see you again…

May 31, 2021: The View Nice view from yesterday, even with the poorly parked car getting in the way.

May 30, 2021: The Pink Chair In-laws went to the countryside last week and got tinyMovieStar the most amazing chair! It’s the sweetest thing, typical from that area …

May 30, 2021: Vaccine appointment confirmed, getting it on the 7th. Yay! 💉🦠

May 30, 2021: Status Report Reading the Micro.blog timeline, lying down.

May 30, 2021: Old School Long time since I’ve seen one of these.

May 30, 2021: Plan for today: going out of town. Not far, not for too long, but going.

May 30, 2021: As long as the pandemic persists, we will all need to be flexible and solicitous of those around us, and we will all need to wear a mask in certain …

May 29, 2021: Trying to watch an episode of Bourdain’s Parts Unknown series, and it’s impossible to find it on the streaming platforms. Looked on …

May 29, 2021: Morning Light Restauradores Square looks great in the morning.

May 29, 2021: Testing something at theLab. Not sure what to do with it at the moment, but think Raindrop embeds could come in handy for something.

May 29, 2021: That is one more reason why Belarus’s devilish gambit should lead to stiff punishment: The law is little protection, so if norms go, there won’t be …

May 28, 2021: The weather is great. The kind where you go-to-the-square-and-have-beers-with-friends-and-come-back-home-close-to-9PM-and-leave-the-windows-open …

May 28, 2021: It’s rare to go one day without a mass shooting in America. 🔗 Every mass shooting in the US – a visual database | The Guardian It’s a sad, …

May 28, 2021: Here we go again… Big Mail - Upgrade your inbox 🤣😂

May 28, 2021: Reading Session I don’t think she was really into the books yesterday, just enjoying her sofa. We were both too tired, but none willing to let go. …

May 28, 2021: xTime Despite all the craziness of the past two days I did manage to add two photos to one of the longest running silly projects I’m shooting, …

May 27, 2021: Cherry on today’s cake: vaccine appointments for my age group are now open online, booked for the 7th of June. A week and a couple of days from …

May 27, 2021: Back home, after another grueling day at the office. tinyMovieStar is WAY past her bedtime, extra tired, but refuses to go to sleep now that papa is …

May 27, 2021: Learned my lesson yesterday. Today I had two HUGE doughnuts as dessert! Ready for a full afternoon shower of shutter pressing.

May 26, 2021: 9.30PM, in bed. That’s life as a tired, old, person. Let’s see how long it takes until I’m asleep.

May 26, 2021: Who else updates apps 24 hours after a feature was talked about? NO ONE, that’s who! @Vincent is the only one! ❤️

May 26, 2021: Day One balance: over 128GB! I’m dead! Picked up an e-motorcycle to get back home, it had a flat tire, and I just didn’t care. Rode the …

May 26, 2021: Stress level today is a little over the usual amount. movieStar stuck at home taking care of the tiny one, I’m off the whole day, stuck at that …

May 26, 2021: It’s Beautiful Outside I’ll be spending most of the day stuck inside a concert hall, one where I haven’t been in a while, one that’s been closed since …

May 26, 2021: 30 minutes to wake-up time for me, it’s time to quit trying to go back to sleep and just deal with it. Extra coffee will be needed for all of …

May 26, 2021: 05.30AM. Temperature almost normal, but she woke up crying. She HATES having her temperature taken too!

May 25, 2021: Away from the internet for most of the day, and the next two days will probably be the same. Work is welcome, but a pain at the same time.

May 25, 2021: tinyMovieStar added three (3!) vaccine shots to her growing collection. I had never seen her cry like that! I could have punched someone if my eyes …

May 25, 2021: Love finding friends while walking about with tinyMovieStar. My social skills need refreshing, but great even so. Today we met three of them! It was …

May 25, 2021: all of them hark back to an era when millions of people sat, at set times, to watch specific programmes. 🔗 Old and long-abandoned Japanese …

May 25, 2021: Up (way too) early, editing photos. Didn’t even have coffee yet! ☕️

May 25, 2021: people with a low profile and just a few followers often become targets for abuse after tweeting about controversial subjects, because harassers might …

May 24, 2021: TIL Some podcasts are probably meant to be listened to on a dark road in the middle of the night. @SwindledPodcast is one of them! Brilliant company …

May 24, 2021: Country road, take me home to work…

May 24, 2021: Getting ready for a early-night assignment about an hour away from the city. Glad work is (very slowly) starting back again, but can’t help …

May 24, 2021: Nothing is Forbidden 🌸 ⛔️

May 24, 2021: Would go Back for Lunch Happily. Probably the cheapest place we found in Copenhagen, the food was amazing! Magasasa. 🇩🇰 🍜

May 24, 2021: It's been a crazy year Covid has been with us for such a long time it’s almost hard to remember how life was before it. tinyMovieStar was born, and it’s …

May 24, 2021: Micro.blog anniversary, here’s to another year! 🎉 You’re all great, and it’s been amazing being here through this crazy, awesome, …

May 24, 2021: tinyMovieStar has moved into her own bedroom, right next door. It had to happen, but she’s been gone for a day and I miss having her here …

May 23, 2021: 183 countries and territories — out of 195 — will have fertility rates below replacement level by 2100. 🔗 Long Slide Looms for World Population, With …

May 23, 2021: That’s an understatement. Airfares from the U.S. to Lisbon are down a staggering 48% compared to pre-pandemic 2019. 🔗 Greece Is The Word: Why It’s …

May 23, 2021: Eurovision is on, and what do we do? Watch a couple of Ugly Delicious episodes instead! Love the show, still think it’s one of the best in the …

May 22, 2021: Smoker First pick for movieStar before the big trip: Singapore. We both loved it, it was our first stop too. 🇸🇬 🚬

May 22, 2021: Epistemologically, this is where we are as a country: when content gets expurgated because of blatant misinformation, it is taken as a sure sign of …

May 21, 2021: Yesterday @Gaby was feeling jealous, today is my turn! Why don’t they make these in my size?

May 21, 2021: Furniture assembled. Unlike IKEA, and their infernal instruction booklets, for these you have to suffer on top of that: find the PDFs online, and look …

May 21, 2021: movieStar is browsing hotels in Greece, and sending the links over. Something that was so common before, and now feels so odd.

May 21, 2021: Save from GoodLinks directly to Raindrop.io, with tags and collection set? ✅ Custom actions on GoodLinks are great, and quicker than using the share …

May 21, 2021: Music Needed to visit a couple of shops, off to Chiado we went. Lucky us we came upon Estrela Gomes, a super cool street musician. tinyMovieStar …

May 21, 2021: Manokaran’s team began thinking about why people love Lego during lockdown, and realised that a big hook was how it sounds. Inspired by the online …

May 21, 2021: Yesterday I rode a friend’s e-bike for a little while, we all went out for beer, tinyMovieStar stood on a skate, she ate out, we did too, came …

May 20, 2021: Halston We just finished Halston on Netflix. Loved it. Everything, but Ewan McGregor is just brilliant in it. 📺

May 20, 2021: Tiny changes, but here you go. How’s yours, @Gaby? Anything new?

May 20, 2021: Happy Place No photos for a few posts, so here goes one. Back to a place with so many happy memories: Tokyo. Deus Ex Machina Harajuku. Nice spot. 🇯🇵 🛍

May 20, 2021: Managed to send the photos, ahead of schedule no less, and am now already thinking about assembling the rest of the furniture. I used Smash to send …

May 20, 2021: The Portuguese Navy is 704 years old today. 704! Talant de bien faire

May 20, 2021: a waterfall of colour with 11 brand new minifigures striding purposefully towards an imagined brighter future 🔗 Everyone Is Awesome: Lego to launch …

May 20, 2021: There are three main reasons: money, money and money. 🔗 Opinion | A Sports Event Shouldn’t Be a Superspreader. Cancel the Olympics. - The New York …

May 19, 2021: It had to happen, back in Lightroom. Grrrrrr!!! (Before that I half assembled a bed with no proper tools. The other half is waiting for an electric …

May 19, 2021: Testing Brid.gy, please disregard 💥

May 19, 2021: those trucks were involved in more than 50 serious crashes over the last three years 🔗 The Deadly Toll of Amazon’s Trucking Boom — The Information …

May 19, 2021: Finally managed to get through this one. Great episode, as usual. The Pirate Bay – Darknet Diaries 🎙

May 19, 2021: There, and Back Car loaded with a huge mattress and a stroller, drove off to drop them an hour outside the city. Uneventful on the way there, busy on …

May 19, 2021: Page 1, here we go. Currently reading: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 📚

May 18, 2021: 11PM, there will be no sleep today, or so tinyMovieStar has informed us.

May 18, 2021: The Abandoned Square A few bars and restaurants, right by the Rossio train station. I walk by often, but I’ve never stopped for longer than the time …

May 18, 2021: Slooooooowly starting the process. First step, getting the photos out of the card: done. Next up: fire up Lightroom and import them. I’ll spare …

May 18, 2021: If you have a few minutes to spare and enjoy the (very specific) thrill of high-speed Brazilian motorcycle police chases, this will surely get your …

May 18, 2021: Watch Update: the new G-Shock has survived its first bout with tinyMovieStar’s teeth. Yay!

May 18, 2021: Can’t postpone editing a lot longer, I’ll have to start looking at those photos pretty soon…

May 18, 2021: To the River, Again Another couple of hours outside, some of it spent by the river. Always a hit with tinyMovieStar. At the very end of the hike, this …

May 17, 2021: Chinese state employees physically manage the computers. Apple abandoned the encryption technology it used elsewhere after China would not allow it. …

May 17, 2021: Our Sakura Jacarandá.

May 17, 2021: IDAHOT Today, and everyday! 🏳️‍🌈

May 17, 2021: Sunny Again The sun is back, so are the tourists (thousands of British arriving today!), and our walks have resumed! I wonder how long will this last.

May 16, 2021: Extremely slow Sunday, it was. We hadn’t seen one of these in a long while. Still a couple of hours to go, fingers crossed it won’t derail …

May 16, 2021: And… done! Reeder list is empty. Bring it on!

May 16, 2021: Sunday (extended) nap. Doesn’t get much better than that.

May 16, 2021: Which major platform has a news feed, disappearing posts, private messaging, and a live broadcasting feature? That would be … all of them. 🔗 All the …

May 16, 2021: Anybody who gets a text from me knows I mean it. 🔗 Why Can’t I Quit My Flip Phone? - The Atlantic

May 16, 2021: When Apple fails to protect survivors, the consequences can be fatal. Apple leadership needs to give abuse survivors and experts a central place in …

May 16, 2021: Preparing ourselves for another night with little sleep. movieStar is trying to get the little one to sleep for the hundredth time. Freshly changed …

May 15, 2021: Tchiloli One of the most unique things I’ve ever seen. São Tomé and Príncipe, an archipelago on the Equator, boasts one of the most curious performances of …

May 15, 2021: Existencial Street Art

May 15, 2021: WhatsApp Will Turn Your Account Into a Useless Zombie If You Don’t Accept Its New Privacy Policy 🔗 WhatsApp’s New Update: What It Means …

May 15, 2021: Today won’t be an easy day. Must. Sleep.

May 15, 2021: Adding a background color to quotes, seeing as I’m the one who won’t be able to sleep. In the morning I might revert things, but for now …

May 15, 2021: Teething is ongoing. This time with some fever, and with the usual pain. Enough to wake tinyMovieStar up and make it hard to go back to sleep. …

May 14, 2021: Light Them Up Time to go. See you tomorrow. 🇲🇴

May 14, 2021: Following another tip from @Burk, I installed FMail. The web interface used by Fastmail is excellent. The big thing missing for me, is that the web …

May 14, 2021: About to Start Got here an hour earlier. Usually I’ll go for 30 minutes but no harm done. A little more time to prep things is great when you’re out …

May 14, 2021: Old-Timey Blogging Very early version of Drafts in the wild (drum roll, please!). Nuno Saraiva is awesome, by the way.

May 14, 2021: The World is Healing Warning: this is not how we get around these days 🤣

May 14, 2021: BabyTV for breakfast. With coffee for the grownups ☕️

May 13, 2021: Today Out In Tomorrow we shoot.

May 13, 2021: I hear @Burk’s 1000 Words project is still accepting submissions! Go, upload, upload…

May 13, 2021: One thing I love about my work is that I’m mostly the only one involved. When others are involved there are more variables to deal with, I have …

May 13, 2021: Lost Lisbon Love

May 13, 2021: Time to Sleep 00:00. Perfect time to sleep. The gang is already waiting for tinyMovieStar. She’ll be thrilled to see them in the morning.

May 12, 2021: you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever. 🔗 Wormhole is a file sending site with end-to-end …

May 12, 2021: All day locked at home, the furniture didn’t arrive. Dang. Tomorrow.

May 12, 2021: Unfortunate side-effect of my brothers nasty cut in the hand: he’s now sending voice messages instead of typing them out. I HATE voice messages …

May 12, 2021: It’s possible to remain anonymous with a single data point. However, as soon as a series of data is collected, remaining anonymous becomes …

May 12, 2021: Waiting for some furniture for the baby’s room to be delivered. Hope it gets here soon, plenty of stuff to do with the rest of the day.

May 12, 2021: Currently reading: On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey by Paul Theroux 📚

May 12, 2021: Quick PitStop We had to briefly stop yesterday on our way back home, trying to escape traffic and get something to eat. We ate, but traffic got worse …

May 11, 2021: For those of you not in town: there’s a central square where local teams celebrate when they win the national football championship. A local …

May 11, 2021: Running Around Yesterday we had an appointment with a doctor, setting up a minor procedure for movieStar. Something very simple. We had to call today to arrange a …

May 11, 2021: We are learning to live with the jeopardy that even when we are physically together, we can be socially, emotionally or professionally alone. 🔗 …

May 11, 2021: Wavy & Reddish

May 11, 2021: Amount of time spent on Twitter looking for stuff to show movieStar has grown. A LOT. I’m going through the timeline for both of us.

May 10, 2021: As well-intentioned as a Tip Jar may be, Twitter’s users shouldn’t be the ones making those catches. It’s the sort of thing that Twitter should have …

May 10, 2021: Ten Minutes Apart Crazy weather today!

May 10, 2021: Unrelated, I’m missing this. Khao Soi. We had it for lunch and dinner a few days in a row. I could have at this every single day. 🇹🇭 🍲

May 10, 2021: Today’s plans include a trip to Cascais for a doctors visit. We’re leaving the city again, rain is expected. Exciting times!

May 9, 2021: Among the world’s wealthy countries, the United States is, by many measures, the worst place for parents. 🔗 Biden’s American Families Plan could make …

May 9, 2021: one of those discoveries was not even in the film: it was staring right at us all this and we never even noticed it. 🔗 The Secret Behind the …

May 9, 2021: A couple more ready for @Burk’s 1000 Words project. Both handwritten and, in a way, related.

May 9, 2021: With Portugal announced as the only major destination on the green list on Friday, our tipsters choose their favourite natural parks, towns, beaches …

May 9, 2021: Wanted to share a photo of an EU flag for Europe Day, but somehow I never photographed one. Or I never tagged it! Anyway, happy Europe Day! 🇪🇺

May 9, 2021: In the end the city woke up without a Chinese rocket stuck somewhere… on the other hand it’s raining heavily, after days of nice, sunny, …

May 8, 2021: companies ask them to drive a few hours or a couple stops, while minding their speed and braking, so that the app registers a high score, and then …

May 8, 2021: One of the apps where I spend a lot of my time, Gluon, is getting new icons. Cool names, right? 😉🥰 Thank you, @Vincent!!

May 8, 2021: When Life Gives You One Lemon… You make lemonade, and a lemon pie, and lemon curd, some lemon cookies, lemon cake, lemon ice cream, lemon …

May 8, 2021: Uffffff!! Back from the birthday party. Dead tired. It wasn’t even that long, or crowded, but all interaction is soooo draining! People are nice, and …

May 8, 2021: 11:28, time for coffee number 3. ☕️

May 8, 2021: People dropping off kids for a birthday party across the street are being sent off, after leaving the children behind, with a cheery “Enjoy your …

May 8, 2021: One of the photos I dug up for @Burk’s 1000 Words project. In the end I picked a different one, but this keeps popping up on my mind. Have you …

May 8, 2021: Long day ahead.

May 8, 2021: An alcohol wholesaler is now stuck with about 800 kegs of beer produced from early March to mid-April that will not stay fresh if shipments are …

May 8, 2021: Nowadays I always get nice photos too! After sooooo many years without photos with me on them (a nasty side-effect of always being the photographer), …

May 7, 2021: Blessed with one of the most dramatic geological landscapes on earth, flying into Principe is a lesson in the profundity of nature. 🔗 São Tomé and …

May 7, 2021: Afternoon We managed to get away for a little while, after the work part of the day was done. Perks of living close to the beach, we grabbed the car …

May 7, 2021: Single Shot Busy walk, with plenty (too many) phone calls, and a single shot for the helloYellow series. Also, anyone still using those to mail actual …

May 7, 2021: The weather is perfect…

May 6, 2021: Back to Macau, this time without an umbrella. I’m not done yet, just taking a break 😊 The umbrellas will be back! 🇲🇴 🛒

May 6, 2021: Celebrating the new beta release with custom icons, I moved @Gluon to where it should have been for a long while. Thank you, @Vincent, it’s …

May 6, 2021: Tip Jar supports a variety of payment options and links: Bandcamp, Cash App, Patreon, Paypal, and Venmo. 🔗 Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature …

May 6, 2021: Showcase your collection to entire web with new public page and embeds support! 🔗 New Public Page and Embeds | by Raindrop.io Enjoying Raindrop, and …

May 6, 2021: I guess we have a fan of Korean movies…

May 6, 2021: The key to this workflow is using contacts and contact groups to filter incoming mail into various labels. 🔗 My email workflow in Fastmail - Piet van …

May 6, 2021: Random Smaller walk, nothing to report. Just these random shots.

May 5, 2021: It would be hard to find a phone that shoots as well as the Pixel 4a does for the price. 🔗 The Best Smartphones for Photography in 2021 | PetaPixel …

May 5, 2021: A simple bookmarklet to post links to Micro.blog based on the current page in your desktop browser. Supports text selections. 🔗 Micro.blog Posting …

May 5, 2021: The Pouch There was a time when every single photographer in town, and pretty much everywhere I met them, had a Domke bag. It was either that or, if you were …

May 5, 2021: Welcome to Texas, … Italy?!? 🇺🇸 🍕 🇮🇹

May 5, 2021: They’re Back Too! These, and the gentlemen selling sunglasses. They outnumber the tourists, 100 to 1, but it feels great to see the local fauna back …

May 5, 2021: To the River and Back One of tinyMovieStar’s favorite stops, and mine as well. So glad this is within walkable distance from home.

May 4, 2021: Just Like the Old Days Mansinho, Nuno, and me, having a beer at Cerveteca, when the sun is going down. Felt good. Really good. Special thanks to …

May 4, 2021: Kangaroo Style Again Feeling a little better, enough to go Kangaroo again for two hours. The Parliament, French Bakery, Starbucks, we did it …

May 3, 2021: No Photos Day Feeling a bit under the weather, and today we took the stroller, so no photos. Having both hands holding the thing is not great, harder to shoot. We …

May 3, 2021: Still configuring Fastmail to act a little more like that other email service. Adding filters, folders, automate this, automate that, get contacts …

May 3, 2021: Yesterday at Guincho It doesn’t matter how many times we drive through here, we always feel blessed that this is so close to home. Not even stopping, …

May 2, 2021: Mother’s Day (Outdoors Edition) Trip to Cascais, lunch with grandparents. Happy at the golf course.

May 2, 2021: One thing that always get a tear (or two) out of me: the screaming crowd at “10,000 people, maybe more” on Simon & Garfunkel’s …

May 2, 2021: Mother’s Day Blessed to have them in my life. To have them be my life.

May 1, 2021: Back to the Square After a Saturday morning equal to all the other Saturday mornings, we had lunch at my parents, as we do every Saturday. We came back home, a tiny nap …

Apr 30, 2021: Sad Wow the list of Basecamp people leaving the company. Head of Design, Head of Marketing, Head of Support, the whole iOS team… 😳 Good case study …

Apr 30, 2021: Back to vanilla IMAP accounts, using Mail.app, creating filters and folders in Fastmail, like an animal… Thankfully I’m a fan of vanilla.

Apr 30, 2021: It’s Here A little past one, the package arrived. Another present from movieStar, and a gorgeous one at that. Just in time to still be able to leave …

Apr 30, 2021: You can definitely tell both girls are out of the house, right? I’ll stop with the memories posts now… 🤣🤣

Apr 30, 2021: From when she was really tiny, hungry, and had amazing eye-hand coordination already! Also the day tinyMovieStar learned all about HOT, HOT! 🥵

Apr 30, 2021: Promo Shooting That one time we were doing a photo shoot to advertise the activities at the hotels, and then I had to go into the water and rescue …

Apr 30, 2021: Stuck at home waiting for a package. movieStar is doing the heavy lifting, out running errands with the little one. We also received …

Apr 29, 2021: We Made It The little one is in bed. We will be soon. The madness began early in the morning, and it’s about done over 12 hours later. But we made it. The …

Apr 29, 2021: Slow & Steady Keeping an eye on the package. Slowly, but it’s moving in the right direction.

Apr 29, 2021: Odd Day Morning walk shorter than our usual one, we had to move the longer one to the afternoon, cancelled a service after a couple of days going through blog …

Apr 28, 2021: In other news, my glasses are gone. Kept them in my jacket pocket, stupidly the same one where tinyMovieStar’s snacks are. Take out a snack, …

Apr 28, 2021: City Hall We walk by the City Hall often, but somehow I don’t think I ever shot it. Today was the day.

Apr 27, 2021: Parking Spots Maybe I should do something with parking spots photos, now that we’re getting out a little more than we used to. One from today, another …

Apr 27, 2021: New Circuit Pretty boring walk today, with a restless tinyMovieStar. We found a new neighborhood to walk in, but it turned out to be pretty uninteresting. I’ve …

Apr 26, 2021: 14.5, still no way to have Maps display in Light Mode when the iPhone is set to Dark. How hard would it be to have a toggle? Every other map app does …

Apr 26, 2021: No Covid related deaths in the country yesterday. First time in… well, forever! 🎉

Apr 26, 2021: Here We Go Again It’s Monday, so I guess another week is just beginning, yet it’s all the same for us. Plans for the next seven days include walking, …

Apr 25, 2021: Expecting rain and thunder, according to the apps, but instead we got this… Not bad, sometimes life can be quite good.

Apr 25, 2021: AirTag price in the country, converted to USD. Single: $42,34 Pack of 4: $143,96 Not something I would get, but the price increase is ridiculous.

Apr 25, 2021: 25 de Abril Parade starts at 3PM, but it’s probably packed, so we went down the avenue at an earlier time. First time for tinyMovieStar, we were …

Apr 24, 2021: The End It’s time to close the sticker spotter project. It was never destined for permanence, more like a pop-up side project, a short-lived one. It was …

Apr 24, 2021: Local News Tomorrow we’re celebrating the Carnation Revolution, the bookshop dressed accordingly. Also, seems like the McBifana is coming back.

Apr 24, 2021: Long, Rainy, Sunny, Rainy, Sunny... A very long Saturday, with plenty of dark skies, and a lot of sunshine. Stuffy heat, and then wind. We’ve been having odd weather, in a word. …

Apr 24, 2021: Work done, beer finished, domain transferred. 1:38AM, I guess it’s time to sleep.

Apr 24, 2021: Propagate, propagate The exciting world of DNS propagation… (That ✅ in China is still the old one, by the way!)

Apr 24, 2021: Yesterday I was offered a beer to bring home, and decided to start drinking it while editing the photos. Maybe not the best decision of the …

Apr 23, 2021: Lunch Break 📱 📱 📱

Apr 23, 2021: 1130AM Situation Report: sitting on top of the laundry machine, trying to soften the crazy vibration a bit.

Apr 23, 2021: Domains have been rolled out on HEY, and it’s not great. You either get on HEY for Domains, lose the HEY address; pay for both; or keep using …

Apr 23, 2021: Long, loooooooong, day. Happy as hell, but I’m thankful birthdays only happen once a year! 🥵

Apr 22, 2021: Adding insult to injury, I was surprised just now by the bigger movieStar: seems like we’re going to Greece in a few months! Did not enjoy it a …

Apr 22, 2021: Mega Ooops! With everything that’s going on I just remembered something: I have no present for tinyMovieStar!! Have to find a way to get …

Apr 21, 2021: Nepalese for dinner, and Lightroom for dessert… Life has great moments, then they’re gone.

Apr 21, 2021: Just remembered I have photos to edit. I was aware of it an hour ago, but somehow I managed to completely forget about it! It just came back, and I …

Apr 21, 2021: The classic tram-in-the-back shot. Some work it a bit harder than others…

Apr 21, 2021: It's here!! “The plane! The plane!” I got the notification that the package was out for delivery a little after waking up, and it arrived when we were …

Apr 21, 2021: Final day with 0 years for tinyMovieStar. We’re clearly more excited about tomorrow than she is. We made it through one year, we’re just …

Apr 21, 2021: All I wanted from today’s Apple event. Last frame of the event, before the Apple logo! Shared by klavr on Twitter.

Apr 20, 2021: The Long Walk We had to stay out a little longer today, movieStar had back to back Zoom calls. It started with going down Avenida da Liberdade, where I saw a very …

Apr 20, 2021: Kung Fu Ramen If I didn’t have a new avatar that I’m quite fond of, I would surely steal this one and use it everywhere!

Apr 20, 2021: .pt A year ago I took advantage of an offer and registered maique.pt. It was free, and I do miss dearly the maique.com that I let expire, so why not? I …

Apr 19, 2021: Open Up! Some of the lockdown restrictions were lifted today, and shops are now open for business. Not yet as before, but closer. I took advantage of the fact …

Apr 19, 2021: Whenever I want to send something from the iPhone to the Air, or back, I just send it to a private (as in one) group on Telegram. Text, photo, URL, …

Apr 19, 2021: Tea Time Quick visit to Companhia Portugueza do Chá (Portuguese Tea Company) to get some delicious Earl Grey for movieStar. Contender for most …

Apr 19, 2021: Clara’s 1st bDay party is coming up in 3 days!! Damn, that was fast! We’re so happy with the way she’s growing up, making us proud …

Apr 18, 2021: Also, where did the weekend go?? Is it done already?

Apr 18, 2021: I do miss these people 😢

Apr 18, 2021: I Just Want to go Back It’s not the first on the list, because Príncipe will always be on the top, it doesn’t even enter any list. Japan is the place …

Apr 18, 2021: Lunch Time Not here, at home 😊

Apr 18, 2021: Six days in and I’ve just gone over 100,000 queries. The 300,000 monthly limit wouldn’t be enough, and I’m not even spending that …

Apr 17, 2021: Update on the senhor rito hot sauces: they are AMAZING! I wouldn’t rate “Butt Lava” a 9/10 on the spice scale, it’s way milder …

Apr 17, 2021: Favorite relaxing activity: look for links about sustainable tourism, and São Tomé and Príncipe, to add to movieStar’s daily newsletter.

Apr 17, 2021: Spicy Walk Breakfast taken care of, time to walk to the market. Down the street until you get to the Parliament, through the old Madragoa neighborhood, walk by …

Apr 16, 2021: A door in Campo de Ourique, on our way to get a single ‘1’ candle for tinyMovieStar’s upcoming celebration, and a visit to a fiend’s studio in the …

Apr 16, 2021: Can’t wait for tomorrow: meeting the crazy guys from senhor rito, and bring home some serious spice.

Apr 16, 2021: Close to Perfect Walk (and Day!) We were about to have breakfast when the phone rang. Delivery incoming. We have some very dear friends in a town up north, as north as the country …

Apr 15, 2021: The already cheerful morning turned into a lovely afternoon…

Apr 15, 2021: Why would anyone need a gym?

Apr 15, 2021: Walked by the Opera House again today, trying to get a photo of the whole thing with the fake scaffolding for you, @odd. Sadly they were done, and …

Apr 15, 2021: Still on the barbershop visit from yesterday (and I really should get some decent photos next time!) The ceiling: While, on the outside,… …

Apr 14, 2021: Free Covid testing is now being offered to everyone living in the city. Great move, if you ask me.

Apr 14, 2021: Back from the barbershop 💈

Apr 14, 2021: Fun Ones Having a bit of fun today, regardless of the gloomy weather…

Apr 14, 2021: GreenDay Wet walking, glad we got a color boost on the way. And also on two wheels.

Apr 13, 2021: Having fun with NextDNS, I can easily see myself subscribing. The free tier would be enough for the iPhone, but add the Air, and the occasional iPad …

Apr 13, 2021: Can I get a reply, please? Uninstalled the Micro.blog app, and installed again. Strangely I was not asked for permission to get notifications until I …

Apr 13, 2021: Cutlery Ever since I can remember, from the days when I was a little boy, every home had these. Parents, grandparents, uncles,… As far as I’m …

Apr 13, 2021: Where To?

Apr 13, 2021: Oops! I see what you did there!

Apr 13, 2021: It’s Big Jacket Day again, need to keep tinyMovieStar dry on today’s walk. The weather turned, and it’s winter all over again. …

Apr 12, 2021: Nice surprise, the books for tinyMovieStar arrived three hours later! That was fast! The destination for the afternoon walk was set, we walked to the …

Apr 12, 2021: 50/50

Apr 12, 2021: A week later my father got his first shot of the Pfizer vaccine. Both parents are now missing one shot. We’re all a little relieved.

Apr 12, 2021: Escalator & Books Cold and grayish day, we had to find something to do to brighten the mood. FNAC is open again, we went in looking for a couple more of Miffy’s …

Apr 12, 2021: Everyone Needs Therapy One of today’s stickers at sticker spotter… Thought I’d share it here as well.

Apr 11, 2021: Weekend about done, time to get ready for the week ahead. What surprises will this one bring? Another tooth?

Apr 11, 2021: All Aboard A short, bumpy, ride from Bali, the cooler Nusa Penida awaits. Another one of the places we could be today. We’re VERY far. 🇮🇩🚤

Apr 11, 2021: One Day One day we’ll be back. ALL of us. 🇩🇰 🗿

Apr 11, 2021: Sunday Still taking it slow, we did a tour of the neighborhood and then back home, trying to get there before the rain comes. We did. It’s after lunch …

Apr 11, 2021: Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone

Apr 10, 2021: I don’t think it’s always fair to compare things but… How can every single trucker hat for babies in this town cost double what I …

Apr 10, 2021: Slightly Different Saturday Taking advantage of the newfound freedom, our Saturday had a twist. After the usual walk to the Farmer’s Market at our local garden, and the …

Apr 10, 2021: Found Him! The elusive Unicycle Man!

Apr 10, 2021: Daydreaming Rainy days in other places. When we were happy to be out in wet weather. 🇩🇰 🌧

Apr 10, 2021: Marketing tip: I don’t think I’ve ever seen “Bringing up babies” on a G-Shock ad. It’s as rough as it gets, up there …

Apr 10, 2021: Rain, wind, thunderstorms. That’s what’s expected for today. And we had amazing sleep time today, none of that night drama! All feeling as …

Apr 9, 2021: Told ya! Told you they were back a couple of days ago. Here they are… The Tourists!

Apr 9, 2021: We just got our utilities (power and natural gas) bill for the past two months. Holy FFFFFFF Christ! It’s EXPENSIVE to keep warm!

Apr 9, 2021: Quick One After the night we had, with the crying baby, we needed to take it slower today. All of us. We stayed home a little longer, and only left for our walk …

Apr 9, 2021: New Friend Say “Hello” to Daniela, last name PingoDoce. Named after the fastest, and nicest, counter operator at our usual supermarket. movieStar was …

Apr 9, 2021: This will not be an easy day, but however hard it is for us, it will be harder for tinyMovieStar. We have your back, baby! 😘

Apr 9, 2021: 4AM-5.30AM 👶🏻😭👶🏻😭👶🏻😭👶🏻😭

Apr 8, 2021: Campus

Apr 8, 2021: Parked & Waiting As usual, a little early for the assignment. Parking situation solved, cards emptied, battery charged, lenses dusted. Ten minutes …

Apr 8, 2021: One day I’ll successfully talk movieStar into using a password manager…

Apr 8, 2021: Long Live the Queen

Apr 8, 2021: 2 + 2 Renovation. More of it. And another one… Transportation. And the lost Jaguar…

Apr 8, 2021: Plans for today: walk, eat, shoot, walk, eat, sleep.

Apr 7, 2021: We haven’t talked about the new pink in town, @Gaby. Pretty pretty nice… 😊

Apr 7, 2021: Delivery Incoming! Here comes your food!

Apr 7, 2021: Out of the blue comes a quick assignment for tomorrow. Time to dust off the camera and find the battery charger.

Apr 7, 2021: The Loop Trying not to upset the little one too much, I didn’t think too much about different places, and we did one of our regular loops this morning. …

Apr 7, 2021: Ready to leave for another walk, after a night with teething issues. tinyMovieStar tries to be strong, but it’s not easy. Photo by her amazing …

Apr 7, 2021: 100 Just finished the 100th episode of @monday. A great one. @jean does it again, this time with @manton, and @patrickrhone, a perfect guest as …

Apr 7, 2021: Some Things Never Change I’ve looked at these buildings, from this spot, for close to 35 years. A lot of change in the city since then, a LOT. But …

Apr 6, 2021: … And We’re Back! A whole day, nothing but on the road photos. Still arrived on time to meet the movieStars at the garden. Yay! 🥰

Apr 6, 2021: Where Are We Going? Yes, it’s Dentist Day again! Crosstown, now with added traffic, and over the bridge. Our favorite day! But today I’m doing it …

Apr 6, 2021: Tricky It was not an easy morning walk. The little one is still going through some personal issues, and kept asking for mom. I wonder how long before …

Apr 6, 2021: São Jorge Still from yesterday, the cool São Jorge movie theater, on Avenida da Liberdade. Long time since I’ve been inside. Good morning!

Apr 5, 2021: Done for the day. Another couple of hours of walking. movieStar buried in Teams calls, and then she had time to go grocery shopping. That was it for …

Apr 5, 2021: My life now… 🤷🏻‍♂️🐷

Apr 5, 2021: Chaos In Town As expected, the city is a mess again. Restrictions are being lifted, starting today, and everyone seems a bit too eager to take advantage of the …

Apr 5, 2021: movieStar thinks I’m so sad the restrictions are being lifted that I will personally travel to Wuhan and bring back a bag full of virus to start …

Apr 5, 2021: Getting ready for our first walk in the new partially unlocked city. Traffic is back, stores are opening up again, and I’m actually not looking …

Apr 4, 2021: Pessimism Still from today’s walk…

Apr 4, 2021: Testing from iPad. Disregard.

Apr 4, 2021: Easter Afternoon Back to the garden after lunch, for another practice walking session and meet with the doggy friends… tinyMovieStar is …

Apr 4, 2021: All the walking and teething takes a toll. tinyMovieStar decided to skip lunch and has been sleeping for three hours now… Growing up is hard!

Apr 4, 2021: Easter Walk 🐰 Quick stroll through the neighborhood, with a stop at the garden for a little exercise. No eggs were found. Who needs eggs when these …

Apr 4, 2021: The River Rider My mind keeps going back to this suffering people. When will it all end? 🇲🇲 ✊🏼

Apr 4, 2021: Happy Birthday A kid in the building turned 10, someone wrote this on the pavement. He must have been so happy to see it… 🎉

Apr 3, 2021: YES! 🍓🤤

Apr 3, 2021: Saturday, Part I: The Farmers Market Check. Kale was purchased. tinyMovieStar walked around a bit, feeling good.

Apr 3, 2021: Come Monday we’re having lighter restrictions, and will be able to sit outside at cafes! Let’s see how long this lasts.

Apr 3, 2021: Pedro is the greatest! Out for a stroll, on our way back home. Both movieStars and that guy.

Apr 2, 2021: Garden, walking, Inês and Pedro visit (complete with a rather delicious West Coast IPA), dinner, bath. That was it. A busy afternoon.

Apr 2, 2021: I’ve been writing my quick first impressions on HEY, after a month using it. It’s taking so long it will probably be out after another …

Apr 2, 2021: Guess Who? Our regular breakfast company!

Apr 2, 2021: We know, we Know We’re all just sooooo tired.

Apr 2, 2021: Bank holiday today, so we’re all walking this morning, movieStar included!! Let’s just hope we manage to stay dry through it all. Is there …

Apr 1, 2021: Don't Watching a video about a photographer’s daily life, when that photographer works for the US Air Force. I like planes, I like photography, why …

Apr 1, 2021: The Movie Poster We’d seen the poster all over the place, at Bairro Alto. movieStar loved it. The Woman Who Ran, by Sang-soo Hong. Would I be able to get it for …

Apr 1, 2021: Amazing new project by @gregmoore, Sticker Doodle is going straight to my feed reader. Announcement post can be found here.

Apr 1, 2021: Status Report

Apr 1, 2021: While hunting for stickers, this one came up. Thought about you, @helgeg.

Apr 1, 2021: Holy Pizza Have a slice! 🍕

Apr 1, 2021: The Rain is Back After a nice couple of weeks with fair weather and lighter clothing, it’s rainy time again. It sucks. Holding an umbrella in …

Apr 1, 2021: Sound is not measured in decibels any longer. We now have a scale we like to call “Will she wake up with this racket?”. It’s a …

Mar 31, 2021: New things being built behind closed doors. At least there’s a nice construction site door.

Mar 31, 2021: Almost time for the afternoon walk! Boot up, and get ready! There may, or may not, be a beer waiting for us at the garden.

Mar 31, 2021: In these two streets at Cais do Sodré, there’s Tokyo, Jamaica, Oslo, and Texas! I’m sure I’m missing others…

Mar 31, 2021: Happy birthday, Mr @Gaby! 🥳🎁🎉

Mar 31, 2021: Crosswalks I can’t even tell you how many times we have to wait for drivers to stop when we’re trying to cross the street, or when we’re …

Mar 31, 2021: Word that has absolutely no meaning in this country: crosswalks.

Mar 31, 2021: We’ve found ourselves at this dark place again: there’s no coffee in the house! NO COFFEEEEEE!! 😩☹️🥺😭❌☕️

Mar 30, 2021: The Old Lady Leftover from today’s morning walk.

Mar 30, 2021: It’s another Friday around here 😓

Mar 30, 2021: The River The Tejo (or Tagus) is an incredible river. It’s impossible to imagine the city without it. And yet, a lot of times, it feels like it’s …

Mar 30, 2021: One Time Only The only time I rode a motorcycle with three wheels. It was fun, but really slow 🤣 @odd

Mar 30, 2021: Seems like the sun decided to go somewhere else today. Back to gray and windy walks… 😢

Mar 29, 2021: Why Would You Do That? I’d seen it drive by, but always too noisy and speeding, so I couldn’t get a proper look. Then I found it parked. Still can’t …

Mar 29, 2021: tinyMovieStar having yoghurt with chopped strawberries. Next up: daddy has a beer at the garden!

Mar 29, 2021: Change of pace today. Off comes the Apple Watch, back on the G-Shock train. I missed this one… DW-5600TB Throwback ’80s, I believe this was the …

Mar 29, 2021: Happy Days Long walk this morning, down to Rossio and on to the river, along it for a while until we reached Cais do Sodré. We were met by two friends and made …

Mar 29, 2021: Walkable Photo-wise it was a slow day. Lots of photos from both movieStars, a handful of stickers added to the collection, but not much else. We did walk by …

Mar 29, 2021: Classic Old School Hong Kong 🇭🇰💡

Mar 28, 2021: Yesterday I remembered I could be uploading the small video clips with tinyMovieStar to Flickr, just like I do with the edited photos, as backup. Now …

Mar 28, 2021: We all went to the park, there were a lot of us there, someone was playing music, others working on their laptops, loads of families with babies …

Mar 28, 2021: 420 It’s Sunday, DST just kicked in, so we’re having a small 420 Special at sticker spotter. Why not? One | Two | Three

Mar 28, 2021: Me: “Wow, what an amazing night, I’m so relaxed…” Reality: “No, silly boy, you didn’t sleep an extra hour.”

Mar 27, 2021: Warm night. The window open kind.

Mar 27, 2021: I bet tinyMovieStar will be surprised when she talks with other kids about the sweet chirping of all the birds. So far she’s only familiar with …

Mar 27, 2021: Just got the notification that my card was charged by blot.im. I guess you’re all stuck with sticker spotter for another month… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Mar 27, 2021: Lazy Saturday The Cola Bike from this morning. Shorter walk, it’s Saturday and a visit to my parents was in order.

Mar 27, 2021: D for Dad We have found ourselves buying books for tinyMovieStar lately. Actual books, physical ones. Ours are now mostly digital. Some of these books, truth be …

Mar 27, 2021: One day I’ll get to the bottom of this one! Why is my Air randomly waking up from Sleep ? Does it not understand the importance of sleeping ?

Mar 26, 2021: Giving Pocket Casts another go. I might have been noticing some sluggishness on Castro…

Mar 26, 2021: #GardenLife Another Zoom call for mum, a handful of steps for tinyMovieStar and dad. Those were the afternoon plans, and we completed them with flying colors. …

Mar 26, 2021: Construction Site & Carris The whole city looks like a construction site. It’s incredible the amount of work that’s going on all over the place. I guess it’s …

Mar 25, 2021: Word! Today @burk wrote a post about a project he thought of, one that is a brilliant idea. See for yourself: 1000 Words “Hell, yeah, I’m …

Mar 25, 2021: Before the Walk Good thing I was already a Nijntje fan before tinyMovieStar came along…

Mar 25, 2021: tinyMovieStar woke up an hour earlier, and that makes a world of difference. She also seems to know when we’ll have harder days, and …

Mar 25, 2021: Memory Lane We changed the route again, and walked the wide streets of the business area around Marquês do Pombal. Went by movieStar’s office, but also walked by …

Mar 25, 2021: 200 | One Month Getting close to 200 stickers, and a month old. I wonder if I should retire sticker spotter? I actually like the idea of this one as a …

Mar 24, 2021: Quick One The day flew by! Picked up the car from the mechanic, back home just in time to catch the movieStars leaving for the morning walk. Off to Estrela …

Mar 24, 2021: The jacket that led us into a quest, trying to find a hat with their logo on it. We couldn’t. Sold out. We did have a great coffee at their place in …

Mar 24, 2021: Waiting One day tinyMovieStar will have her own Blunnies.

Mar 23, 2021: New use for Mailbrew: setting up a brew with links for MovieStar. Twitter searches and users that are important for her work, Google (Yuck!) News …

Mar 23, 2021: One More Time for another, smaller, walk. Time to meet the others, the ones also walking with babies, or dogs. They are our daily companions, we nod or talk a …

Mar 23, 2021: The Other Side We took off this morning and decided we would climb the hill on the other side of Av da Liberdade, up to Campo Mártires da Pátria, forward to Jardim …

Mar 23, 2021: Ulysses goes to Japan Trying new things, a little like visiting new places. Sometimes you love them, others not so much. You can always go back. 🇯🇵 💻

Mar 22, 2021: Current zen activity: find photos and logos to add to contacts on HEY. Very zen.

Mar 22, 2021: Afternoon The afternoon part of the walking detail is usually shorter or, at least, slower. I’m not getting any younger, and keeping up with the two movieStars …

Mar 22, 2021: Trying Ulysses, again. Thanks to Macstories I have a three-month trial. If you’re interested in a longer period, follow the link.

Mar 22, 2021: Repeat Another warm day in the city. Perfect for a long walk.

Mar 21, 2021: Spring & Trees & Blue Skies Spring is finally here. International Day of Forests too and, since tinyMovieStar is already a big fan of trees (mainly the leaves part), we took her …

Mar 20, 2021: Managed to edit email settings on a TON of sites that were using an old email I want to retire. 1Password to the rescue, and a fair amount of time …

Mar 20, 2021: Suica I’ll keep updating this one, even though I have no idea when I’ll be able to use it again. Keeping my hopes up.

Mar 20, 2021: Late Afternoon Bairro Alto, close to sunset. Sometimes everything works out.

Mar 19, 2021: My mom just texted me “Message sending failed”. Not sure what to make of it.

Mar 19, 2021: Today was not an easy day.

Mar 19, 2021: Father’s Day We’re celebrating Father’s Day today, my first as… well… a father. It started with tinyMovieStar’s first work of art, an amazing piece, …

Mar 19, 2021: UMM A Portuguese classic, the UMM Alter. My uncle, and godfather, got one of these years ago. I still remember it fondly. After many years he traded it …

Mar 19, 2021: Back from the morning promenade, a ton of sticker photos, architecture, cars, the whole thing! Coming soon-ish…

Mar 18, 2021: Not a Soul Still from this morning, as the afternoon walk was not very productive. Hoping tomorrow will be a little better for photos, but …

Mar 18, 2021: Also got a new pen today, one I’m not sure I needed, but wanted. Not expensive, so no big deal, and it was the first sale of a local tiny shop …

Mar 18, 2021: Earthquake Day We went out again this morning. tinyMovieStar woke up an hour before the usual time, so she was sleepy and very VERY cranky! She kept moving, trying …

Mar 18, 2021: Worst than having peacocks screaming at this time in the morning ? Kids screaming at them. That’s what you get by reopening the schools! Also, …

Mar 17, 2021: Color | Black & White

Mar 17, 2021: Took the car, again, to have a new battery installed. It’s been stopped for months, so it was very much dead. Then on to the mechanic, full …

Mar 17, 2021: Today The happiest day in my life. March 17th. The day I was not expecting to have, the day when my life started again. We were surrounded by a few of our …

Mar 16, 2021: We had to get into the car and cross the river. What is usually a very pleasant drive turned into a nightmare when tinyMovieStar decided to cry and …

Mar 16, 2021: 3PM. Exhausted. Could sleep.

Mar 16, 2021: City View Another sticker hunting walk, missed the regular photos again. Old, older and newish. That’s what I have to share from this morning.

Mar 15, 2021: Balance A couple of weeks in and I’m thrilled with the way blot.im enables the sticker spotter photoblog. Still thinking about getting a domain for …

Mar 15, 2021: Lucky Us Yesterday I was joined by my friend, godfather, and official family photographer, Pedro on our walk. Today he was kind enough to send some of the …

Mar 15, 2021: Another fun project from the good people at HEY. Giiggle | H.E.R.L.

Mar 15, 2021: Class dismissed. Time to uninstall Teams.

Mar 15, 2021: You can hear a collective sigh of relief, around the whole country! We can have coffee outside again! From a coffee shop! We are reborn!

Mar 14, 2021: The Leftovers Our selfie by the subway station. This looks awful, it’s as ugly as it gets in the area. The buildings here are beautiful, but somehow this particular …

Mar 14, 2021: The Afternoon After a little rest we headed out again, this time movieStar at home, the two of us walking the streets again. Pedro joined us for this one, time to …

Mar 14, 2021: Over 130 stickers already! I also discovered a lot of them have a very short lifespan, they’re taken down and others show up in there place …

Mar 14, 2021: Sunday! That means movieStar is walking with us! Yay!

Mar 13, 2021: The day has arrived, I finally had to install Microsoft Teams… Hopeful that it’s for a couple of days only, I’ll probably uninstall …

Mar 13, 2021: Just came across this one on the bird network. A URL that will present you with a random post from HEY World. Nifty. HEY World Random Enjoy.

Mar 13, 2021: Walking Material I’m starting to think that our walks need to a little longer. Yes, longer. And I’m having a hard time believing I’m actually writing …

Mar 13, 2021: Oh! Also yesterday, a couple of close friends (actually my only close friends) came by with beer and a bottle of white wine and we had a belated …

Mar 13, 2021: March 13th. That means a year has gone by. For us the lockdown started a year ago today. We’ve had it open a little, then closing again, …

Mar 12, 2021: Yellowing Around… Today’s contribution to the HelloYellow series. Maybe not surprisingly I’ve been thinking about yellow, so it’s only natural …

Mar 12, 2021: Turned noise canceling today on my way to the supermarket, impossible to do when I’m with tinyMovieStar. It was just me and the music, almost …

Mar 12, 2021: Having a special promotion at sticker spotter today: Faces!

Mar 12, 2021: Time to turn in for the day. Past midnight, and my eyes are begging for some rest.

Mar 11, 2021: S02E01 Morning Walk with dark grey skies. No raign. Long, no photos, it was a mild one. After lunch we watched a live on Instagram, episode two of a series …

Mar 11, 2021: Photo-heavy post coming up… Wonderful light in town today.

Mar 11, 2021: Ghost Town People were complaining about the excessive number of tourists in town before the pandemic. Personally, I miss it. 💛 🇵🇹

Mar 11, 2021: Pack Your Bags Not so long ago, when we could go places and meet people. It’s taking too long. 💛 🇰🇭

Mar 11, 2021: So… it feels pretty much the same. No special insights to share. Back to the regular programming.

Mar 10, 2021: Proud Father (and Husband) One of movieStar’s sweetest traits is sticking her head inside the ramen bowl, slurping every last drop of the delicious broth when …

Mar 10, 2021: Half a century: check!

Mar 10, 2021: From the world, to the World After some serious consideration (maybe not so much) I think I’ll use my HEY World as a linklog. I love Micro.blog, and having my blog here. That’s …

Mar 9, 2021: To the Dentist, and Back Dentist days are equivalent to party days. Whenever we have an appointment, we’re giddy with anticipation. It means getting in the car …

Mar 9, 2021: parnuWall Yellow has been with me everywhere. Sadly it’s not my favorite color but, even so, it has stood by me through it all. 💛🇪🇪

Mar 9, 2021: All aboard, the train to the dentist is leaving soon. Here we go, crossing the river in a while.

Mar 9, 2021: The Bus We used to do a fair amount of photowalking in town. That stopped as well. 💛 🚌

Mar 8, 2021: busyBee Almost ten years ago, but could be one taken yesterday. This city changes very slowly. VERY slowly. 💛🇵🇹

Mar 8, 2021: depressedSunshine Many moons ago, the one I first thought about for a series, helloYellow. I might start sharing those next… 💛🇸🇪

Mar 8, 2021: I seriously hope movieStar has already ordered the cocoon I wanted for my birthday. One that’s totally soundproof. Please.

Mar 8, 2021: I missed Micro.blog and the microbloggians more than I thought I would during these past couple of days! Glad everything seems to be running smoothly …

Mar 8, 2021: Another one of those days. Finally back home, ready to relax a little. Only decision left for today: Vietnamese or Nepalese.

Mar 8, 2021: Those Were The Days On the Things I’d Love to Have At Home series, these finds on our walk this morning. And, right next door, this one. It would look …

Mar 8, 2021: Women I’m thankful for the women in my life. Everyday. These two and my mom made me into what I am.

Mar 8, 2021: Yes, Still… You didn’t think we were done with the umbrellas, did you ? Totoro lovers, unite! 🇲🇴☂

Mar 7, 2021: HEY there, newsletters! New place for newsletter reading, first try. You got the inaugural read, @jack.

Mar 7, 2021: Sunday Chores First thing this morning I drove to one of the local DIY stores, looking for a piece of wood, a beam, for the bed. Somehow it broke and needs a …

Mar 7, 2021: Good morning, everyone. Hope your Sunday is/was/will be a great one.

Mar 6, 2021: HEY I know, I know, I’ve said I wouldn’t subscribe, I’ve said I don’t need it, I’ve said… well, so many things. And …

Mar 6, 2021: HEY there. Done. After everything I said, I’m enjoying it a lot. More on this later.

Mar 6, 2021: ZAP didn’t make it to the timeline… Reposting. And wishing all the issues afflicting the service are quickly solved.

Mar 6, 2021: We check on Mom&Dad every day, but Saturday we do it in person. I like Saturdays.

Mar 5, 2021: ZAP Another one flew by! A walk in the morning, the menace of rain always looming, and back home for a quick trip to the supermarket. Spent a fair amount …

Mar 4, 2021: Toy Face Day It’s here! After I saw the amazing Toy Face @chrispederick had picked for his avatar, I knew I needed one for myself. A quick visit to Toy Faces, by …

Mar 4, 2021: Having fun with sticker spotter. Always nice having another purpose for our walks…

Mar 4, 2021: Romanesco Found these cute Romanesco cauliflower on our morning walk. Always thrilling.

Mar 4, 2021: SmugMug trial ends today, and I’m sticking with Flickr for now. Couldn’t get myself to test it thoroughly, doubting it would be a great …

Mar 4, 2021: Yesterday saw someone yelling “TAXI”, trying to flag down a cab. Felt very strange, like something from a long gone past. Like being …

Mar 3, 2021: The Bell Issue While walking today. Ten minutes later… “Attention, Bells Not Working”

Mar 3, 2021: The Live Highlight of the day: trying to help one person get on an Instagram Live with another one. Trial run for tomorrow’s live Live. I went live with …

Mar 3, 2021: There’s a week left on my first Half-Century! Not sure how I feel about being a semicentennial…

Mar 3, 2021: Must. Have. Coffee.

Mar 3, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 31 | defiance What ?? More Info

Mar 3, 2021: Finally got my Instagram account with no likes count. Feels great.

Mar 2, 2021: One of Those Gone in a flash. That’s almost all of it. The walk, the cooking, the taking care of,… that was it. Where have these 24 hours gone …

Mar 2, 2021: TIL Peacocks wake up way too early, or have really loud nightmares.

Mar 2, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 30 | privacy Keeping a secret. More Info

Mar 1, 2021: Waiting for an email. One that is taking too long to get here.

Mar 1, 2021: Another one added to the pile of Markdown editors: Taio.

Mar 1, 2021: It’s headache day! Two pills already, and still waiting for it to get better.

Mar 1, 2021: Back from the morning walk. A few more sticker photos, and a handbag full of new books for tinyMovieStar, as we found an open bookstore. Feels like a …

Mar 1, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 29 | light Lucky with light. More Info

Mar 1, 2021: 1:30AM, moved to IFTTT from Zapier for the Twitter syndication on sticker spotter, and tweaked the theme to make it look more like {micro maique}. Was …

Feb 28, 2021: Sunday, Again Just like that, another week is about to start. I expect it to be a lot like the one that’s ending today. I did manage to get the sticker spotter …

Feb 28, 2021: Tool Talk It’s done: there’s a blog with photos of Sticker Art being published on the Internet! Not the only one, I’m sure, but this one is mine. Following the …

Feb 28, 2021: Follow up to today’s Challenge word, the plane I miss the most. It’s been a while since we boarded this one. Also a while since this classic was up in …

Feb 28, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 28 | up Like most, by now I miss being up there. More Info

Feb 28, 2021: Yesterday We visited the parents, making sure everything is ok with them. We check on them daily via telephone, and message often with updates from …

Feb 27, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 27 | pompasetting Every once in a while movieStar will get something that I can’t help trying. Some fit …

Feb 27, 2021: Photo-Grid, Help Wanted Taking advantage of the collective knowledge of the community, here I am again, thinking out loud, looking for a way to get a project off the ground. …

Feb 27, 2021: The “Official” Day Even though we had our church wedding a couple of weeks later, today marks the day when we got married at the Embassy in São Tomé. Today, as far as …

Feb 26, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 26 | favorite My favorite. Everything. More Info

Feb 26, 2021: Hey hey Testing Ulysses Beta, please disregard.

Feb 26, 2021: Fancy Local stray cats have the fanciest water bowls in the land.

Feb 25, 2021: Odd, and Long Or should I just say “regular” ? All days seem longer, yet somehow shorter, and the normal is now odd. We walked our usual walk. We came upon a couple …

Feb 25, 2021: Bruised, but Home She’s back. Nuno is the best! As soon as she had a new battery, she promptly started working. Tires missing a lot of air, but she …

Feb 25, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 25 | code Not exactly a photo of coding, but I can easily imagine this as a scene in a movie. He would be …

Feb 25, 2021: Maybe your _plan_ isn't great Halfway through the SmugMug trial, barely used it. Get an email alerting me to the fact that I only have a week left, and “Don’t worry - …

Feb 24, 2021: Tomorrow, even with the rain we’re expecting, will be the day when we try to get the motorcycle running again, and bring her home.

Feb 24, 2021: Slow Day for Photos Walked as usual, but no real photos to rave about. Some items I had to find while out and about, and I did, but felt too tired the …

Feb 24, 2021: Finally managed to uninstall Dropbox. Cleared my hard earned 17GB, and what’s left is now safely stored in iCloud.

Feb 24, 2021: Wild Guess I’m guessing this was not made locally.

Feb 24, 2021: Morning walk: check! Next up: food run. Later on: afternoon walk. And we’re done for the day.

Feb 24, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 24 | baby Predictably, tinyMovieStar. The word baby got a whole new meaning after this day. More Info

Feb 23, 2021: Some days seem WAY longer than others. Today was one of those days.

Feb 23, 2021: The River New destination today: the river! tinyMovieStar loved it when she went to the beach, so today I decided to head for the river, that’s as close as it …

Feb 23, 2021: Not close to the end of the trial, but I’m finding it hard to justify Mailmate. A tweak here, a tweak there, but still not convinced. Maybe …

Feb 23, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 23 | banana I found more banana photos on my archive than expected, seems like it’s been a constant …

Feb 22, 2021: Challenge still not over, but had a few minutes of downtime, and got to work on the mbfeb page. Looking forward to the rest of the challenge, enjoying …

Feb 22, 2021: I’m getting ready for your day, @ohBananaJoe 🥳🍌 I’m sure a few are still missing, but still surprised by how many I have!

Feb 22, 2021: Back to it Since it’s Monday, we’re back walking for a decent amount of time. Today it was tinyMovieStar’s 10th monthiversary, we tried finding a new route. Most …

Feb 22, 2021: Thank you, @vincent. First time I’m mentioned on the developer notes! Just installed, I’ll let you know how it goes.

Feb 22, 2021: Ten Ten months of walks in Lisbon for tinyMovieStar! Yay!

Feb 22, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 22 | spell As soon as the camera arrived I went out looking for something to shoot. I came upon this girl. …

Feb 21, 2021: LonelyAnts In my quest to use Flickr a little more, there’s a new album, or set, or gallery. I plan to add a few more photos to it, but first I have to …

Feb 21, 2021: Sunday Report Rainy morning, so no walk. After lunch we started watching BlacKkKlansman, but had to give up midway, tinyMovieStar had a different idea. The weather …

Feb 21, 2021: Me. Today. energyLevel = -35 Thankfully we’re not allowed to go out and sit at restaurants, or this would probably be my current situation. 🇲🇴😴

Feb 21, 2021: Woke up feeling my night was cut short, by about 25 hours!

Feb 21, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 21 | colors Some countries are more colorful than others. This one has the colors, the smells, the …

Feb 20, 2021: New Services In the past few days I began testing a couple of services: Plausible, SmugMug and Mailbrew. Three services I don’t need, but somehow found …

Feb 20, 2021: On the “Crazy Places I’ve Found Myself In” series… Guesses ?

Feb 20, 2021: Too windy and rainy for our walk today. We’re stuck.

Feb 20, 2021: Note to self: remember to check often what settings have changed on the Apple Watch by tinyMovieStar touching it all day long. It might prevent …

Feb 20, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 20 | weather Felt like the sky had exploded, and clouds were blasted in every direction. More Info

Feb 19, 2021: One More The endless collection. Scrolling down my Lightroom library, I remembered I had this one going on. More here. 🇲🇴☂

Feb 19, 2021: Martim Moniz A part of the city that could be the coolest of them all, with all the immigrants and their shops and restaurants. Sadly it’s a mess of …

Feb 19, 2021: Have to find the time to get back to the 100daysToOffload, even though I’m not doing it as it’s supposed to. Miss sitting down and …

Feb 19, 2021: Rise and shine. Or just rise, and deal with shining after you’ve had a double espresso.

Feb 19, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 19 | alive The most alive person I know, and she makes others feel alive. That’s a super power, as far as …

Feb 19, 2021: Flickr Vs. SmugMug Just thinking out loud over here, and very premature as well, but today I was thinking about Flickr, and something came up. I’m on Flickr for …

Feb 18, 2021: Not getting a lot of use these days. A lot of ordering stuff going on, but too big to fit those in there.

Feb 18, 2021: The Day Before Came across this one yesterday, while looking for the challenge photo. Plastic maique was a hit. Someone thought the wedding couldn’t …

Feb 18, 2021: People kept asking us how loud were our peacock neighbors, and we kept telling them they were pretty quiet. Turns out 3AM is their Party Time!

Feb 18, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 18 | at home We’re lucky, we feel at home anywhere, as long as we’re together. But this is where …

Feb 17, 2021: I know what I want for my birthday this year: 24 hours in a quiet pod, no sound at all, nothing. Just silence. And sleep. That’s it.

Feb 17, 2021: Ugly There are plenty of ugly looking buildings too. A lot, in fact. Today we saw a few, but plenty more available if you’re into that. New and old, ugly.

Feb 17, 2021: 180 We started our morning walk today facing the opposite direction. Look where that took us, Mr @helgeg. 😊

Feb 17, 2021: Got a message, looking for a deal: I’d get a printer, on loan, in exchange for some photos on Instagram. A printer! On loan! This is getting a …

Feb 17, 2021: Challenge Leftover Another one I considered for today’s challenge. You find the most amazing people everywhere. The world is an incredible place with …

Feb 17, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 17 | still It doesn’t happen too often, it’s actually the opposite of my normal way of photographing, but …

Feb 16, 2021: Thai for dinner. So happy we did!

Feb 16, 2021: One week without watching the news for us. Feels great.

Feb 16, 2021: Down One Hill, Up Another One It’s always Up&Down around here. Some days I’m feeling too tired, and try to plan accordingly. I know that walking down this or that …

Feb 16, 2021: Memories Back in the day we’d skip classes in high school and spend our afternoons in here. Fun times.

Feb 16, 2021: The Kitchen Window Visit Keeping tinyMovieStar company while she’s having breakfast.

Feb 16, 2021: Príncipe, the Video Edition I keep talking about the island, because I keep thinking about the island, and how much we miss it and wish we were there. I’ve shown a few photos …

Feb 16, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 16 | erudite My father, the encyclopedia. The reference. I can keep trying, but I’ll never reach his level. …

Feb 15, 2021: Walking Been rather quiet, because not a lot has been going on. movieStar is back at work, we’re walking morning and afternoon. Sadder walks because …

Feb 15, 2021: Six months ago I wondered why I was still updating the travel apps on the phone. Still doing it. Are they bringing me down ? Or is there hope ?

Feb 15, 2021: For months I needed the AirPods, so I could listen to podcasts while tinyMovieStar slept on our walks. Funny how she NEVER sleeps now that I have …

Feb 15, 2021: They keep showing up, these Clubhouse invites. Four to give away, if you haven’t been able to get in and would like to see what this is all …

Feb 15, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 15 | reflection Sometimes it’s hard to say “No” to a mirror. More Info

Feb 14, 2021: Cousins joined us for our walk, one of them had an iPhone 12 Extra Super Fancy. Camera seems nice, but the damn thing is heavy!

Feb 14, 2021: Well, it’s sunny outside, it’s Sunday, today the whole gang is going out for The Walk ™️!

Feb 14, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 14 | compassion Have a heart. Compassion & Valentine’s Day combo. More Info

Feb 13, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 13 | make I don’t make things. I wish I could. I do use tools, to make what I make. Usually I don’t shoot …

Feb 12, 2021: Morning walk accomplished. Close to 10000 steps. It’s getting harder by the day, this tinyMovieStar is not that tiny anymore!

Feb 12, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 12 | sporg Jackfruit is the main ingredient in Sporg, a delicious dessert made only once a year on this …

Feb 11, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 11 | machine Struggled with this one. Vending machines, tattoo machines, cars, planes, trains, old and …

Feb 10, 2021: Far From Home How did it get here ? Thing you find walking in the rain.

Feb 10, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 10 | energy That one day when they decided to teach me how to make a canoe, by hand. The gentleman is 80 …

Feb 9, 2021: I’ve had a post about our weeding in writing mode for months now. While it’s not finished, I thought I’d share the video. A …

Feb 9, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 09 | muddy Took me a while to figure this one out, but chef Ants Uustalu came to the rescue with his …

Feb 8, 2021: First steps, on her own! Not holding on to anything, three steps. tinyMovieStar is on the move!

Feb 8, 2021: Damn you, @Gaby, spent I don’t know how long looking for a mud-themed photo for the challenge! I’ve seen plenty of mud, just seems like I forgot to …

Feb 8, 2021: Three more invites for Clubhouse available. If anyone is still looking for one, let me know.

Feb 8, 2021: Back from the morning walk, just in time to cook lunch, and go out again. Managed to listen to @monday’s latest episode. Great conversation with …

Feb 8, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 08 | hope There’s a fine line separating hope from doubt. You can spend your whole life going back and …

Feb 7, 2021: Weekends are slow Tomorrow we get back to it.

Feb 7, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 07 | craving This is a time for cravings. We’re missing everything! Food in a restaurant, family members, …

Feb 6, 2021: What a day! Cold, but feeling way colder, windy as hell, and rainy! Hopefully we’ll find something to keep us busy on Netflix.

Feb 6, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 06 | sport Never enjoyed shooting sports, although I’ve had to do it a few times. Matches were boring, but I …

Feb 5, 2021: Number 1 Back at it, with a couple more from the umbrella season. Busy days, with tinyMovieStar. 🇲🇴☂

Feb 5, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 05 | pets It’s been a while since I’ve had a pet. I’m a cat person, but too many of them passed away, I took …

Feb 4, 2021: AirPods Day Morning walk took us to Chiado, and to the Apple “Store”. We don’t have a proper one, but this does the job. Back home for lunch, and …

Feb 4, 2021: Sound On! Christmas came late. In February. After all the praise I read over here, they had to come home. Today was the day.

Feb 4, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 04 | layers So many interpretations for the word layers, and yet I can’t remember struggling so much to find …

Feb 3, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 03 | comfort If I had to pick a place where I’ve felt as comfortable as I could ever wish, this was it. …

Feb 3, 2021: Tuesday Could be any other day of the week, really, they still feel like the same one all over. If I had to be stuck in a day forever, though, this …

Feb 2, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 02 | morning beverage Wherever we find ourselves, there’s no way to get the day going unless two (or three) …

Feb 2, 2021: Walking Along Today my brother, who lives close by and hadn’t left his house for a few weeks, joined us for our afternoon walk, while movieStar works …

Feb 2, 2021: My legs kept telling me something was up. I guess they were right.

Feb 1, 2021: While I wasn’t able to sleep I managed to be invited to Clubhouse. I wanted to see what it was all about, and people wanted to see if I was …

Feb 1, 2021: Fittingly, today I’m the one that needs to hear that whole night Vs. day talk. Almost 3AM and I can’t sleep!

Feb 1, 2021: February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 01 | close up Starting with an old one, since I haven’t been doing a lot of close ups. More Info

Jan 31, 2021: Coffee Time This is what I was talking about, @mpmilestogo. I would be sooooo happy if I could have one of these right now! While looking for this one …

Jan 31, 2021: New cable for the charger, and another cleaning, and it seems to be charging. Ufff…

Jan 31, 2021: tinyMovieStar slept too early yesterday, so she thought it was a great idea to wake us all up at 4AM! Took us two hours to explain the whole night Vs. …

Jan 31, 2021: Yay! February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge is coming! It’s coming tomorrow!

Jan 30, 2021: Out and About Visit to check on my parents (everything is ok) and then… … another walk with tinyMovieStar.

Jan 30, 2021: F*&K The iPhone won’t charge! Tried several cables, cleaning the port, nothing! 1:30AM, I’ll wake up to a dead battery, and the places …

Jan 29, 2021: 17598 steps, 13.4km Yes, it was one of those days! Slow walking, but walking a lot. Other than that, ordered a couple of gifts for movieStar, and one …

Jan 29, 2021: Pick One, Only One Not much else to do but going to bed. I don’t think I’ll manage to finish this episode of Smartless. Enjoying it, as …

Jan 29, 2021: Quiet Another quiet day has gone by. We did get a visit from tinyMovieStar’s godmother, who’s going back to London in a couple of days. (Unrelated …

Jan 28, 2021: Panic Alert! No more coffee in the house. Can’t get coffee from the cafes anymore because of the lockdown. Need to go into supermarket because …

Jan 28, 2021: Moving Over A while back I tried to do the 100DaysToOffload challenge, and failed miserably. I got to Day030 and haven’t had the time and mind to write …

Jan 28, 2021: Not over with the umbrellas Still a few more in the bag. I warned you there were plenty of them… See you tomorrow! 🇲🇴☂

Jan 26, 2021: Same old, same old Morning walk. Lunch. Wait for groceries delivery. Netflix. That’s about it. Dinner in a while, and we’re done.

Jan 26, 2021: Closed We still walk, but we’re finding less people around. Now that you have trouble finding a place for coffee I guess there’s no point in going …

Jan 26, 2021: Before I go 3AM, will try to sleep now. Just one more for the road. I’ll be right back. 🇲🇴☂

Jan 25, 2021: Update: Well, Mondays always have a nice extra treat: Micro @monday! Today it was a pleasure to hear @ohBananaJoe’s voice 😊 Nice to hear you laugh, …

Jan 25, 2021: Ok then… Days are just coming and going, they’re all exactly the same. No real news to share, so it’s time for another umbrella. Maybe tomorrow …

Jan 25, 2021: Snow! (Not!) I wanted to see snow in town so much, but we’re not that lucky here. This is as close as I could get…

Jan 24, 2021: On the other hand tinyMovieStar now stands up on her own two feet. Still not walking, but keeping her balance while busy doing stuff with her hands. …

Jan 24, 2021: Election night. Time spent on Twitter goes up a bit.

Jan 24, 2021: Election Day, the venue My old high school. This is where we vote. Always nice to be back.

Jan 24, 2021: Election Day Today is Presidential Election Day. We’re voting in a while. I don’t want to get into the political part of it (it’s …

Jan 23, 2021: Also Lisbon Check on parents ? Done. All is good. Now back home with the movieStar ensemble, and Tacones Lejanos on HBO.

Jan 23, 2021: It’s been raining since we woke up. The kind of rain/cold mix that makes our walks harder. I’m just going out to check on my parents, and …

Jan 23, 2021: Rainbow Power Lockdown in place, dreaming of the time when we could stroll our lives away. 🇲🇴☂️

Jan 22, 2021: Calming Down ? During our little outing today it felt like there were fewer people out and about, and less cars as well. Still #1 country in the …

Jan 21, 2021: Back There The hunt for the umbrellas was on, and they were everywhere! All I could see by now. 🇲🇴☂

Jan 21, 2021: On and on Stricter measures, maybe this time they’ll work. Finding the same number of people out on the street. Some just don’t seem to get it. At …

Jan 20, 2021: Congratulations 🇺🇸

Jan 19, 2021: Stupidity Update: Yesterday people were walking imaginary dogs, today there’s a report that folks are now renting dogs (Portuguese only, sorry) …

Jan 19, 2021: All Packed This one felt appropriate for today. All photos have been edited, packed and WeTransfered to their destinations. Almost 40000 photos seen, …

Jan 18, 2021: LockedDay03 Monday. Guess what ? Everybody out on the street! Party Time! Never mind this is the opposite of what you should be doing. Never mind. …

Jan 18, 2021: Back to Work Today movieStar got back to work. She’s been on maternity leave since March and that ended today. Working from home, but less time to take care …

Jan 18, 2021: The Beginning and The End Sometimes things fall into place, unexpectedly. You’re going for a particular shot and, out the corner of your eye, a …

Jan 17, 2021: I miss the days when I didn’t have to open the laptop, and could leisurely go down the timeline, lying on the floor. Where have those gone ?

Jan 17, 2021: Exporting Day09! One to go! Maybe we can finish watching Princess Mononoke today after all!

Jan 17, 2021: Getting falafel for lunch from the Lebanese next door. We’re set.

Jan 17, 2021: One and a half days to go… Down to the last couple of days, I believe I’ll be done by Tuesday! I’ll be glad to see the back of …

Jan 17, 2021: The Umbrella Issue The umbrellas quickly became one of the things that started showing up on the photos when I browsed through the day’s catch …

Jan 16, 2021: LockedDay02 We got invited for a get together, but only after 2PM because they had a padel class before that! Our reply was short and to the point: …

Jan 16, 2021: Walking, always walking We spent most of our time in the old part of town, the casinos were not part of the plan. We’d go back to Taipa for the …

Jan 16, 2021: Worst Beach Ever It was probably the worst beach I’ve ever been to. But I never thought I’d find a beach in Macau, and it felt great to …

Jan 15, 2021: LockedDay01 Late afternoon we went out again, this time we had a pediatrician appointment. Still loads of people around. The consensus now seems to be …

Jan 15, 2021: Oops. Seems like my pick might be Castro after all. The public broadcasters who own Pocket Casts are selling the podcast platform, less than a year …

Jan 15, 2021: Locked Down But not too much! There’s a ton of people roaming the streets. This is more like a Soft-Total-Lockdown, if you will.

Jan 15, 2021: Final day of relative freedom was spent walking, having lunch with my parents, editing photos, having a beer with three friends, and listening to …

Jan 14, 2021: Taxi Line Dancer As soon as I left the Hong Kong - Macau ferry, while waiting for my brother to show up. We were meeting after months without seeing …

Jan 14, 2021: Seven down, three to go. Exporting and sending should take another hour, so I’ll be in bed by 02:30AM! Yay! Tomorrow we’re having lunch …

Jan 14, 2021: RIP Natália An actress I had the huge pleasure of shooting a couple of years ago, while doing set photography on a great show, passed away today. She …

Jan 13, 2021: Spooky… I had to go back and double check, and it’s a different one! Someone has a collection of vintage Porsche cars and a fetish for this …

Jan 12, 2021: Lockdown Coming Up Starting this week (Thursday? Friday?) we’ll be in complete lockdown until the end of the month. Again. Just like at the beginning of the …

Jan 12, 2021: Pretend it’s a City. So glad we decided to check this one. We’re laughing out loud the whole time! Fran Lebowitz by Mr Martin Scorsese. …

Jan 12, 2021: 3.30AM. Enough of this. Tomorrow Today is another day.

Jan 12, 2021: Usually I actually enjoy the editing process. But these assignments, while super fun to shoot, are booooooooooring as hell to edit. About halfway …

Jan 11, 2021: Another great episode of Micro Monday, this time with @portufraise as guest. A pleasure to get to know the members of this community. Well done, …

Jan 11, 2021: Back In Time We walked by the place where we used to have breakfast when movieStar was pregnant and had an appointment at the doctor’s office. Time …

Jan 11, 2021: Tattoo Day We were working on a joint exhibition. My brother would show his drawings, and I was using the trip to get a few photos for that show. It …

Jan 10, 2021: Day05: Done. Exporting. Yes, Sunday.

Jan 10, 2021: Another Sunday, another partial lockdown day. Plans for today: Walk with tinyMovieStar Edit a few more photos Watch a couple of Lupin episodes.

Jan 10, 2021: Macau That one time I flew to Macau to meet my brother. The city had been on my radar for decades (at a time I even thought about emigrating there) …

Jan 9, 2021: Talk about slow days! Left the house for an hour, it’s too cold to be out. Back in, finished The Flight Attendant, some editing, it’s …

Jan 8, 2021: Yellow The library up the road is now having a yellow phase. We did manage a freezing walk in the morning, lunch with my parents, and back home for …

Jan 8, 2021: A post by @patrickrhone earlier on prompted me to create our channel on Signal. Some people would love to be able to DM other users, and this might …

Jan 8, 2021: App Tip: a cool little app for macOS. I use it all the time, in a bunch of apps, and it’s so well integrated I actually had to spend a minute …

Jan 8, 2021: Day04 (of 10) is done, wayyyyy behind schedule. Exporting and preparing to transfer this batch before going to bed. I’ll be there before 1AM, I …

Jan 6, 2021: I can tell not a lot of editing is getting done tonight. Too much going on to be able to focus.

Jan 6, 2021: Closed Doors closed for now.

Jan 6, 2021: Trying something new. Clear Spaces to the rescue. Apps on screen might still change.

Jan 6, 2021: 02:49AM, WeTransfer is on the way. I’m living the life… 😳

Jan 6, 2021: Exporting Day 03 of the Finnish job. It’s taking me two days, and not one, to edit each day. Spend four lovely hours a day Uber-ing …

Jan 6, 2021: Making An Entrance We took a different route today, one I’d never done before. movieStar had walked up a huge flight of stairs once and thought it …

Jan 5, 2021: Seeing Faces. Again. We walked. It’s cold. Very cold. Now back to editing a few more photos…

Jan 5, 2021: We’re spoiled here. Spending time on Micro.blog makes me have less patience for other networks.

Jan 4, 2021: Food For Thought Today we walked in an area known for a few theatres and restaurants. These restaurants catered mostly to the tourist crowd. Overpriced and …

Jan 3, 2021: Hadn’t seen it in a while, and somehow movieStar missed that one, so today we watched Snatch again. It’s 20 years old. How ?? 🍿

Jan 3, 2021: Sidenote: Maybe I should do this waking up at 6AM more often! Loads of work done, enough time to browse the timeline, listen to podcasts, and… …

Jan 3, 2021: …the point of fake news isn’t just to make it so that no one can tell what’s true, it’s to make it so that no one cares anymore. Cory Doctorow …

Jan 3, 2021: Sleep at 3AM (thank you, Finnish people), up at 5AM (thank you, tinyMovieStar), editing by 6:30AM. It’s going to be a fun day. It has to.

Jan 3, 2021: S/MIME woes! Arghhhhhhh!!!! Why did I try to get to the bottom of S/MIME certificates?!?! The process should be smoother and more straighforward than GPG, but …

Jan 2, 2021: Day02 Still under mandatory curfew from 1PM onwards, we’re getting up and taking care of business before that time. Trying to edit a few more photos …

Jan 1, 2021: On the always exciting work front, I’m now looking at the 25000 photos from the nice Finnish folks… Happy New Year, starting this one …

Jan 1, 2021: PGP ? GPG ? It's Encrypted! Not that I’ve ever needed to sign, or encrypt, an email. But I wanted to figure out how to go about it. I’ve finally managed to create the keys, get …

Jan 1, 2021: First One Heavy rain for a couple of minutes, right before we were about to leave for our January 1st first walk. Waited a little and the sun finally …

Jan 1, 2021: What Else ? On that other network, the usual Top Nine of the year. Predictable, and delightful. See you all in a couple of hours, here we come 2021!

Dec 31, 2020: Not sure how much time I’ll be able to spend here from now on, but wishing you ALL a Happy New Year, and thank you SO MUCH for being so present …

Dec 31, 2020: Heating is working. Beer is cold. Vietnamese down the street has take out and is open. movieStars are happy. This is turning out to be the best …

Dec 30, 2020: Done with the Italians. A total of 2162 edited shots. On to the Finnish ones!

Dec 30, 2020: Home Situation Report That’s about it. The whole place looks like this. Our new challenge is walking without setting off one of the toys that calls …

Dec 30, 2020: Question: Anyone has any experience with Canary Mail on iOS ? Thoughts ? Somehow I find myself on a Change-Your-Email-Client phase…

Dec 29, 2020: Non-stop at the computer. My eyes are starting to hurt a bit, but need to take advantage of the fact that movieStar and tinyMovieStar went out for …

Dec 29, 2020: Up the street and back Today, narrowly escaping the rain, we went to Amoreiras, a local mall, trying to find some items. It was packed with people …

Dec 28, 2020: Ufff… Walked. Washed. Edited. Cooked. Ate. Washed. Edited. Walked. Edited. Cooked. Washed. Ate. Edited. Drank. Editing.

Dec 27, 2020: It really was an amazingly odd year, I don’t even know where to start. I’ll leave the Big Picture stuff to other people. It’s been …

Dec 27, 2020: Little House On The Prairie

Dec 27, 2020: No Pressure, Really I’m not feeling the Italians breathing down my neck, no. But… Whenever I leave the house… 50 meters to the left: 50 …

Dec 26, 2020: It’s past 5.30PM and we just realized it’s Saturday! We wanted to get some quick shopping from the supermarket and… lockdown! Darn, …

Dec 26, 2020: A favorite for a few years now, whenever I need to get work done editing photos, and not think about picking music for half an hour. And then repeat. …

Dec 26, 2020: I didn’t need any more distractions from the endless photos still waiting to be looked at, but MailMate is a HUGE rabbit hole, with all the …

Dec 26, 2020: Christmas is now behind us, and that means one thing: Ciao, ragazzi! Ciao, Lightroom! 😭

Dec 25, 2020: It’s not all rosy and shiny! We had to endure Jumanji!

Dec 24, 2020: A year ago I was far from imagining what 2020 would bring. I knew for sure tinyMovieStar was coming, but I no idea about Micro.blog, covid, and all …

Dec 24, 2020: Merry Christmas From last year. 🇬🇧🎄

Dec 24, 2020: Merry Christmas and thank you for making this a great year 🎄🎁

Dec 24, 2020: Not editing today and tomorrow. I bet they also have Christmas in Italy!

Dec 24, 2020: Also, given the circumstances, I’m very happy that we made it to the end of the year with the same number of parents, and an extra family …

Dec 24, 2020: tinyMovieStar’s godmother visited today, back from London. For the first time the little one stretched her arms to be held by someone other than …

Dec 24, 2020: First minutes of Christmas Eve, and I’m exporting another day of work, getting ready to WeTransfer a few more GB of photos to Italy. I’m …

Dec 23, 2020: Italians for breakfast, lunch and dinner. That’s all I see, all day long: Italians.

Dec 22, 2020: Honesty, or Anti-Marketing “Best Cake in Town”* *(probably)

Dec 22, 2020: The Evening Walk After the Italian Job editing was partly done, before the long night, we still had time for an evening walk. The weather was great. …

Dec 22, 2020: Nothing beats watching tinyMovieStar asleep.

Dec 22, 2020: 1.30AM. Done for today, can’t keep editing and trust I won’t have to do it all over again in the morning. Cya..

Dec 22, 2020: Almost midnight, and still stuck with editing (day 02 of 16, so there’s a lot ahead). Read @canion’s MailMate Review and, during brief …

Dec 21, 2020: While taking our morning walk we met the President of the island we call home. After a year relying on video calls, it was a thrill to meet on of them …

Dec 21, 2020: Cleaning Up Going through my older mail accounts, trying to reclaim storage space, a few photos from my time as a rookie photographer surfaced. Some …

Dec 20, 2020: Sunday Night, 22:22 On to Day02 of the show, today with Edward Snowden as company while going through the first task: picking the ones that will make …

Dec 20, 2020: Took me four times the usual time to edit a day of shooting. In the end I have twice the photos I usually send per day. Doing the math I believe I can …

Dec 20, 2020: There’s an inordinate amount of ambulances that drive by close to the new place. The old one is located in a quieter street in the area, and we …

Dec 19, 2020: I have to find a better system to deal with all these photos. Don’t want to miss the whole day with the movieStars, but taking care of stuff at …

Dec 19, 2020: We used Maps.me a LOT during our travels. A no-nonsense app, that provided offline maps and bookmarking features. We used it everywhere and saved …

Dec 19, 2020: The cat’s out of the bag This particular parking lot seems like a favorite spot for Porsche owners and cats.

Dec 18, 2020: Lightroom + (Castro + Darknet Diaries + Headphones) + ((movieStar + tinyMovieStar) Sleeping) = Editing On A Roll

Dec 17, 2020: Yes, it’s that interesting… Decided to have a beer, one of those 9% triple IPAs, and then imported these into Lightroom. Obviously …

Dec 17, 2020: Unexpected issue of the day: water coming in from the apartment above, through the bathroom ceiling. That’s how you spoil a perfect day for …

Dec 17, 2020: Up! Not working. I should be taking advantage of the fact that the girls are already in bed to get some work done, but instead I find myself too tired …

Dec 16, 2020: A beer was arranged with Pedro, who told Nuno, who called Miguel. Inês arrived with Pedro. I walked by Diana’s place and she came out to meet …

Dec 16, 2020: Hadn’t thought about trying new email clients in a while, but reading a post on Micro.blog made me download Canary for iOS, and I’m now …

Dec 16, 2020: Editing: GO! After three weeks on set I’m now looking at another three of editing. I’ve quickly browsed the photos while copying the cards, and they …

Dec 15, 2020: Back Home Woke up at 7AM (thanks, tinyMovieStar), but we all fell asleep again until 1130AM! It felt great. Still tired and sleepy we went for a walk. …

Dec 14, 2020: The Italian Job is now behind me, at least the shooting part. Not thinking about editing today, I just want to enjoy the moment, knowing I can wake up …

Dec 14, 2020: Best thing I did today: listening to @helgeg on @monday on my way back from work. Another great episode, full of interesting topics, and perfect …

Dec 14, 2020: Final day at work. As soon as I arrive on set I get the notification: @helgeg is on Micro Monday! I wanted this day to be over quickly already, now …

Dec 12, 2020: Italian Job status report: four down, two to go. Today was not an easy one, but it’s done. A few hours of sleep and I’ll be ready for …

Dec 11, 2020: Damn! I need some rest… please, please, please… Maybe today is the day I have TWO beers! Then again, tomorrow is Saturday and I still …

Dec 10, 2020: Back home, and back to getting photos out of the cards. It might be me, but I feel my card reader is getting slower as it ages. It didn’t take …

Dec 10, 2020: I had used AirDrop twice, up to a couple of weeks ago. In the past weeks I use it every single day, multiple times a day. Everyone here asks for …

Dec 9, 2020: FIrst day with Italians: check. Time for a beer, get the photos out of the cards. Batteries need charging, as do I.

Dec 9, 2020: xMas Spirit Taking part in a Christmas Photo Sale. Proceeds will go to an association that helps families of kids who are sick. Very reasonable …

Dec 8, 2020: HelloYellow Morning walk, ride out of town for Italian Job meeting (it’s going to be odd), and back home to get gear ready. I can tell you my Air is …

Dec 8, 2020: 645GB. That’s how many GB of photos I have to go through from the Finnish show. Darn.

Dec 8, 2020: Another clear sign I’m getting old(er). Went to the pharmacy (actually five of them) looking for diapers for tinyMovieStar. On one of them the …

Dec 8, 2020: Following a cue from @macgenie I would recommend her, and @vincent for Micro Monday. Every single time I visit Micro.blog, I’m using Vincent’s …

Dec 8, 2020: Tomorrow I’m going back into work mode. Not full time, just a meeting with new members of the crew, and checking out the changes at the studio. …

Dec 7, 2020: First Visit Feels like a lifetime ago. 🛵🇸🇹

Dec 6, 2020: Watching The Undoing and I have to give it to Nicole Kidman: she probably saves the wardrobe departments a ton of money. She always seems to wear the …

Dec 5, 2020: At Work Keeping me company throughout the day, these two have been great. Joana. And António. First part is done, joining them (and many many others) …

Dec 5, 2020: Tiny panic moment today when I woke up from a nap and realized there was light outside. First thought “it’s too late already, I should be …

Dec 5, 2020: Happy to be back home with both movieStars, even if it’s just for a couple of days. Missed being around them all day long, and actually missed …

Dec 5, 2020: Dora Yesterday Storm Dora caused a bit of a mess, today she gifted us a wonderful sunrise. Let’s see how the day progresses.

Dec 4, 2020: Small setback made the last day become the one before last, so tomorrow morning is still a wake-up-too-early-and-go-listen-to-some-Finnish day. But I …

Dec 4, 2020: CrewShots A couple more from today.

Dec 3, 2020: Felt the first stages of a cold, and it’s not a nice time to have one. Doctor on set gave a few pills. Feeling a bit better, but that …

Dec 3, 2020: Final covid test for the Finnish show today, tomorrow first me for the Italian one. This. Will. Never. End.

Dec 2, 2020: Two days left on this one, can’t wait for the weekend and some time with tinyMovieStar. Today I got home and movieStar was trying to keep her …

Dec 2, 2020: While We Wait In between takes there’s time for a bit of fun. Why not get some portraits from fellow crew members ?

Dec 1, 2020: The Commute Too early in the morning, after falling asleep in the couch late yesterday. Slept through the night, woke up just in time.

Nov 30, 2020: The one thing I dislike about these assignments is the embargo rules. I totally get them, it would ruin the whole point of the show, but sometimes I …

Nov 30, 2020: Back home from another day at the studio. TIL the thermometer they use to check us first thing every morning doesn’t measure temperatures under …

Nov 30, 2020: Morning Routine Coffee and cigarettes a mask.

Nov 30, 2020: Have a great week Here we go!

Nov 30, 2020: Just what I needed to start the week… 🤬

Nov 30, 2020: This challenge was great to reinforce my belief that words don’t come that easy to me. Done it, but it was harder than I anticipated. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 29, 2020: Today I became a pedestrian again, after a week of driving. Usually we get around by foot, but working outside the city forces me to drive. Like it, …

Nov 29, 2020: Day Off A lot of errands to run, but still time for a long walk, and all that before the 1PM curfew. Feels great to be home.

Nov 28, 2020: Back home for the day. Tomorrow we have the day off, and Monday we’re back, early in the morning, for another covid test and a day of fun and …

Nov 28, 2020: I believe the word generator is fixed! Mask? Mask?? Are we supposed to believe this is a “random” word? ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 27, 2020: Day Four? Five? Another one finished, we’re almost at the halfway point. Today António returned the favor and caught me while waiting for lunch. …

Nov 27, 2020: To write, or not to write. That is the dilemma. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 27, 2020: Done Finished for today. Three days in and my nose is bruised from wearing the darn mask all day long. Still nine to go, and the band aids are already …

Nov 26, 2020: This week I had to adjust. Can’t see tinyMovieStar awake, so I spend whatever free time I have going through the thousands of photos I have on the …

Nov 26, 2020: That Morning Mood Breakfast is such a happy moment at the studio…

Nov 25, 2020: Wrapping up before going to bed, for the absolute minimum amount of time that manages to keep me human-like, I realize it’s been three days …

Nov 25, 2020: Another day, another couple of thousand photos in the bag. Everytime I get home and see how many of them I’ve taken I immediately start worrying …

Nov 25, 2020: Hirigo!

Nov 25, 2020: I’m too close to the end to call this one off. But it’s not easy trying, and failing, to come up with something decent every day. Sorry about that. ✏️ …

Nov 25, 2020: MIss the times when I didn’t have to charge batteries for two cameras, and the powerbanks, and the phone, and the watch, …

Nov 25, 2020: Pitkä Päivä Almost 15 hours later, back home. Sorting cards, charging batteries, getting things ready for tomorrow. Will sleep a couple of hours and …

Nov 24, 2020: Day One: 14 hours and counting.

Nov 24, 2020: I have to start working today, must begin getting provisions for next year, make it a little different, better, than this one. Hopefully I’ll …

Nov 24, 2020: Ouch! Cold, foggy, rainy, and too early in the morning. Hmmmmm… I know someone who’s probably going to be happy. But it’s not me.

Nov 23, 2020: Afternoon Mix Last walk for a while, and a few errands.

Nov 23, 2020: Today it hit me: this is the first time I’ll be working on a show where I won’t understand a word!

Nov 23, 2020: Went to studio for a meeting and got tested for Covid Went to the shop to purchase a microwave oven Went to the old place, a few more boxes were …

Nov 23, 2020: Depressed City Just so you don’t think it’s all pastel buildings and sunny days… Smaller walk, and somber photos. It’ll be two weeks before I …

Nov 23, 2020: TIL a broken bottle of Teriyaki sauce makes a greater mess than I expected.

Nov 23, 2020: Morning Drive Drove out of town to the studio, enjoying the morning traffic and the view. A new testing procedure was implemented. A technician now …

Nov 23, 2020: Capture. That’s what I do, that’s what I’ve done for decades. Capture feelings, capture emotions, capture situations, capture stories, capture news, …

Nov 22, 2020: Remake On the way to the old place today we did a remake of what is one of my favorite movieStar photos. Autumn, and thousands of kilometers away from …

Nov 22, 2020: First test came out negative, as hoped and expected, and tomorrow I have the next one. Assignment only starts on Tuesday, and I’ll have been …

Nov 22, 2020: Final Pieces Trying to finish the Endless Move, made another trip to the old home, and loaded the car with a few more boxes and bags. Still some …

Nov 22, 2020: Again a word that covid made almost irrelevant in our lives, when it was was so common before. Border crossing was a regular event, these days we are …

Nov 21, 2020: After seeing it mentioned here on Micro.blog, WindowSwap is a site I visit in the evening, when my brain is not able to do anything else. Add a …

Nov 21, 2020: After a few weeks being bombarded with Apple news, and not watching a single event, I can say that I don’t need a new iPhone, but would love …

Nov 21, 2020: Curfew Weekend 02 We’re stuck at home, again, from 1PM today until 5AM tomorrow, and the same the next day. We went for another coffee run, ordered …

Nov 21, 2020: I love the weather around here, but wish we had a proper winter, complete with snow and all the trimmings. We get rain, a bit colder, but nothing …

Nov 21, 2020: Test result already in my Inbox, but it’s a password protected pdf. Now waiting for the SMS with said password. Anyway, took a little over 12 …

Nov 20, 2020: Good Morning Ouch!

Nov 20, 2020: Whenever the stick is inserted I slowly fade away… ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 19, 2020: On the Underrated List on my iPhone, PhotoSync. The app I use to upload photos to Flickr, my de facto archive. Thousands of photos made their way to …

Nov 19, 2020: Lucky Got lucky today. Cool light in the living room, and tinyMovieStar owning her nickname.

Nov 19, 2020: Let the madness begin! Tomorrow I’m being tested again, in what I expect to be the first of many in the coming two weeks. Get ready, dear nose …

Nov 19, 2020: All posts, or most posts, for Microblogvember so far are variations on the same theme: this year, and the pandemic. What was possible before, what we …

Nov 19, 2020: 1AM, my eyes are burning, just finished setting up a new page on the site with a couple hundred photos of a show I shot a while ago. Hope the Italians …

Nov 18, 2020: Picking photos can be hard on a good day. Picking them from thousands, at night, brain wanting to shut down, is just crazy. Having that choice being …

Nov 18, 2020: And feeling a little sad that there are so many post I’d like to reply, so much more to say, but can’t find the time to put a decent …

Nov 18, 2020: I wouldn’t call it a dependence, not just yet, but I do feel an urge to visit Mb first thing every morning, with coffee. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 17, 2020: Another 10K day, with close to no photos, and a guacamole at the end. That’s was about it.

Nov 17, 2020: Paris Match Love the photo. Nice cover.

Nov 17, 2020: Lucky Nice side effect of the move: my Mullvad stickers showed up! They were long lost, and I’m happy one can finally make it to the laptop.

Nov 17, 2020: When I was much much younger I would train a lot, twice daily, on the swimming team. A few years later I was responsible for younger photographers, …

Nov 16, 2020: Slow evening. Walked a bit, had a beer, talked a little, and came back home.

Nov 16, 2020: While I’m picking photos I’m listening to The Missing Cryptoqueen, now that I’ve gone through most of Swindled and Darknet Diaries. …

Nov 16, 2020: Girls in bed, I’m setting up another gallery for a new client. The end of the year is getting surprisingly busy! Keeping my fingers crossed, …

Nov 16, 2020: All shows have been paused. The Crown is back. 📺

Nov 16, 2020: Amoreiras & Street Art There’s a huge wall filled with Street Art in an area called Amoreiras, not far from the new place. They do new stuff every …

Nov 16, 2020: Auto-Palace, coolest garage in town.

Nov 16, 2020: Everything that happened before April is a distant memory. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 15, 2020: Rossio Leftovers from the morning walk.

Nov 15, 2020: Getting closer No one expects to have a normal Christmas by now, but the decorations are still being set up.

Nov 15, 2020: Curfew Day Two starts with a nice surprise from the neighbors across the street. Not a great photo, but it was a nice sight for us city folk… 🦚

Nov 15, 2020: I miss the times when we would go far. Feel blessed that we managed to do that for so long, and lucky for the reason that is keeping us from moving, …

Nov 14, 2020: True, there was a baby, and we moved to a new apartment. Other than that, moving to Micro.blog was the best thing I’ve done this year.

Nov 14, 2020: Curfew = Re-subscribed to Apple TV+. Long Way Up, here we go again.

Nov 14, 2020: I should have used a sharper one… 🤣😂😇 @helgeg @jemostrom @ohBananaJoe

Nov 14, 2020: Curfew Can’t leave the house from 1PM to 5 AM tomorrow. That’s how our weekends are now. Thanks, covid. We did our walks, our supplies were bought, …

Nov 14, 2020: It’s been almost a month since I managed to write something on babble. No ideas come up, and the ones that did would take too long to write.

Nov 14, 2020: 👻! Spooky! ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 13, 2020: tinyMovieStar is not a huge soup fan. She does like broccoli (a LOT) and a few other items: mango, papaya, and avocado. Can’t get enough of …

Nov 13, 2020: Friday, 13th It was a pretty normal day, everything considered. Final day before the curfew, so we did our two walks, had lunch with parents, watched …

Nov 13, 2020: I guess I really screwed up on that last post! Sorry. TIL Must edit better before publishing. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 12, 2020: During our walk this afternoon, tinyMovieStar strapped to my chest, phone in my hand trying to get a photo of a building. Someone came from behind us, …

Nov 12, 2020: Another phishing attempt. One thing I’ve noticed so far is that basic knowledge of the language spoken in your country will stop 100% of these …

Nov 12, 2020: Another day flew by. I have no idea where it went. Feels like not a lot was accomplished, yet here we are, getting ready to sleep. It’s 9PM! …

Nov 12, 2020: Nice one, @gluon @vincent 👏🏼

Nov 12, 2020: Managed to bring most of my clothes to the new place. Can already tell a LOT of them are not getting any use, for a long time, so we’ll be …

Nov 12, 2020: My brain is feeling the effects of wear and tear. I’ll probably add a new one to my Christmas list. I’ve been a (mostly) good boy all …

Nov 11, 2020: Done We walked, had lunch at our favorite pizza place, drank a bit, in-laws visited the new place, and Ubered dinner. movieStar spent half a day on …

Nov 11, 2020: Mojitos (yes, plural) for lunch. What could go wrong ?

Nov 11, 2020: “Yeah, I’m teething. Is that a problem ??”

Nov 11, 2020: Biggest life-changing feature of the new place: parking space! In a city like this, in this particular part of town, this has been the greatest thing …

Nov 11, 2020: Her Day Today is movieStar’s day. In reality every day is her day! She is the most amazing woman on the planet. We met on this day, and found out …

Nov 11, 2020: Hardest challenge so far on Micro.blog. I never know what to say. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 10, 2020: In a couple of weeks, fingers crossed, I’ll be working for a few days. Pro: money coming in. Con: Back to covid testing every couple of days. 📺 …

Nov 10, 2020: It was another one of those endless days… A mountain of boxes moved over from the old place. Today I had help from a dear friend. We ended up …

Nov 10, 2020: I did get some fog in the end…

Nov 10, 2020: No foggy photos today, just a foggy brain. Here, have some coffee! ☕️

Nov 10, 2020: The elderly. A theme that I’ve been thinking about often. Mom and dad, myself, my friends.. We’re all inching closer. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 10, 2020: In a couple of hours I’ll have to drive out of town and get a mattress from storage. We got the wrong one last time. Obviously the anxiety of …

Nov 9, 2020: This year has been so atypical that I have to force myself to do things that would come easy some months ago, while others I expected to be hard to …

Nov 9, 2020: Misty Morning It didn’t last long, but it was nice while it did.

Nov 8, 2020: tinyMovieStar pondering the upcoming curfew… 🦠

Nov 8, 2020: Best. Story. Ever. To clarify, President Trump’s press conference will NOT be held at Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia. It will be held at Four …

Nov 8, 2020: Can’t stop One thing that can’t be left undone: walking with tinyMovieStar. It’s tiresome but, at the same time, it allows my mind to relax. Nothing …

Nov 8, 2020: In a bind. Too much to do, too tired to do it. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 7, 2020: Still going through crazy full days, hoping thing will settle down a bit. Also have a couple of things to shoot this month, keeping my fingers crossed …

Nov 7, 2020: Time to let go… Tot has been great to keep this stock reply to everything the Orange Man said. Moving on.

Nov 7, 2020: 🇺🇸 Biden! ✊🏼

Nov 7, 2020: Found it, @vincent @gluon ! 👋🏼

Nov 7, 2020: Managed a small walk, early in the morning, before picking up a few bags and carrying them to the new place. Also, since it’s Saturday, lunch with …

Nov 7, 2020: One of my favorites from the area: the Institute for Vineyards and Wine.

Nov 7, 2020: How far will covid case numbers have to inflate before people realize some meetings can no longer exist ? ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 6, 2020: Downtown Lisbon, not the English countryside. This city has it all!

Nov 6, 2020: Having a Corona with movieStar. She asks “Is this beer alcohol free ?” That’s what you get when you’re used to IPA and double …

Nov 6, 2020: The new view. Miss the old one already.

Nov 6, 2020: Today there’s a lot less furniture carrying and moving, but we keep coming across things that are essentials and still back at the old place. Would …

Nov 6, 2020: The Boss One of the first things that comes to mind when I reminisce about Japan is the coffee from the vending machines. I loved it. I noticed Tommy …

Nov 6, 2020: I find it puzzling that I’m not sleeping by now. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 5, 2020: Should be sleeping, but it’s one of those nights. Too tired, after a long, full day, too much going on on my mind. Started watching The …

Nov 5, 2020: No photos to show, but it was a hard one. We’re spending the night at the new place. Ordered food, furniture still all over the place, a lot of …

Nov 5, 2020: Bizarro Day First part: done. Loaded truck with furniture. That was the easy part. Loading the rest and unloading all will be the hard part. Both …

Nov 5, 2020: Decided to skip a couple of steps and already updated Home location on the navigation apps!

Nov 5, 2020: 07:30(ish), getting ready for another drive out of town, I’m meeting the moving company guys, and helping them sort out what should be loaded in …

Nov 5, 2020: A word I never use, but could, and should ? Stoop! I do it all day long. With tinyMovieStar I’m on a stoop loop. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 5, 2020: Moving, DayOne Looooooooong day. Another one coming tomorrow. Cleaning the whole apartment (thankfully we had help), getting the internet transferred …

Nov 4, 2020: Away from Micro.blog all day, now trying to post a couple of photos and getting endless timeout errors, with iA Writer and Sunlit. So no photos today.

Nov 4, 2020: Please. Please. Please.

Nov 4, 2020: It’s 5AM. Too early to be up, and made the mistake of checking The Guardian for news of the election! Hope I can still forget them and go back …

Nov 4, 2020: Still ongoing, the moving process. The place is near, yet feels so far. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 3, 2020: It’s been a while without an abroad photo, but today we watched Somebody Feed Phil ‘s Singapore episode, so… 🏠 🇸🇬

Nov 3, 2020: On the news here: “Several US cities get ready for violence.” Reading this day after day doesn’t make it any less strange.

Nov 3, 2020: Tomorrow morning I’m turning the internet off in the old house, take the router to the new one, and the technicians are coming to turn …

Nov 3, 2020: Updated, now with Christmas decorations on the tree. Getting closer, and we’ll probably be on lockdown. ❌🎄

Nov 3, 2020: The new neighborhood, even though it’s very close to the old one, is not as interesting for our walks. I’m anticipating we will keep …

Nov 3, 2020: Will stop trying fiction as a genre for Microblogvember, as the result always fails to astonish me. ✏️ #mbnov

Nov 2, 2020: Utilities: Check. We’ll have electricity, water and natural gas, as well as internet. Done, done and done. Very productive morning.

Nov 2, 2020: No matter how much he tried, and he did, I can confirm it, he simply couldn’t concentrate. He was making an effort, and then some, but he was …

Nov 1, 2020: Full moon, or teething. It has to be one of the two, she’s too young to be possessed.

Nov 1, 2020: Walking and Listening Listening to Swindled while walking with tinyMovieStar. Only possible when we’re walking alone. On the other hand, lost on the …

Nov 1, 2020: IPA in one hand, podcasts in one ear, ready for walking duty.

Nov 1, 2020: Here we go…

Nov 1, 2020: We’re picking the last set of keys to the new place today. The agency is close, 15 min walk from our home, and 5 from the new place. We’ll …

Nov 1, 2020: He had it in droves: personality, fashion sense, taste in music, food preferences, car choice, even his name… every single thing about him …

Oct 31, 2020: Again feeling lucky that so many of our friends are photographers! This one by the very talented José Sarmento Matos.

Oct 31, 2020: About a year ago, we were having a great time in London It was our first trip with tinyMovieStar, even though she was still happily tucked away in …

Oct 30, 2020: Done! We got the apartment, after a few days of back and forth with the owner’s lawyers, and we’ll move in a few days. No worries anymore, just a lot …

Oct 30, 2020: What Do Foreign Correspondents Think of the U.S.? | The New Yorker Documentary

Oct 30, 2020: Happy McKid. 👾🇵🇹

Oct 30, 2020: Habemus key.

Oct 30, 2020: 5AM, awake for a hour already. Get. Back. To. Sleep. Now. Please.

Oct 29, 2020: Wish for tomorrow: sign the lease contract. We are moving, supposedly, next week, and still no contract, no key, no water, electricity, …

Oct 29, 2020: Restaurant menu on paper towel, taped to the outside wall. Can’t get any more typical than this.

Oct 29, 2020: Lawyer: “Please pick A or B” Me: “B” Lawyer: “So glad you picked C” Me: “???”

Oct 29, 2020: Did the Earn thing on Coinbase, for a few of the crypto currencies. Took less than half an hour, I now have around 50 USD sitting on the wallet. Equal …

Oct 29, 2020: Assignment: done! Back home after the quick assignment, rode back listening to the same song. The hospital sure looks good, akin to a nice business …

Oct 29, 2020: Today’s motorcycle ride music, Moonshine Got Me, by Daniel Norgen. Long enough to get to the hospital with one song.

Oct 28, 2020: Another quick assignment tomorrow morning, it’s back to the hospital for some portraits. Home by lunch time, not too bad.

Oct 28, 2020: A 2-year-old is like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it. Jerry Seinfeld Seems like it’s also true for a …

Oct 28, 2020: On our way to get some ice cream. Still have to get used to the new hours. Seems like it’s getting dark right after lunch!

Oct 28, 2020: Another month, another bag of money rolling in… Thanks, EyeEm!

Oct 28, 2020: Wear a goddamn mask! Almost 4000 new cases in the country today. While you’re at it, use it to cover your nose too! I know it’s hard to …

Oct 28, 2020: New Umbrella I needed a new, transparent, umbrella. I need to see where I’m going on our walks. We found the perfect one. On the way there: The cool …

Oct 28, 2020: Fun times with tinyMovieStar. She now crawls up to things, quite fast, and holds on to them to get up. She’s also “walking”, if we …

Oct 27, 2020: Mum’s Day & More Morning spent waiting for the package, and also trying to get a present for mom. Surprisingly some shops now open at noon (!), and I simply don’t get …

Oct 27, 2020: Freitag + Secrid It’s here, finally made it home. Front and center, the card I never use, but always keep in my wallet. Memories. Fittingly, the …

Oct 27, 2020: Another long day away from Micro.blog. A lot of catching up to do.

Oct 27, 2020: At home all morning, of course the delivery attempt was 10 minutes after we left. Damn you, delivery gods!

Oct 27, 2020: Still very dark outside, so I’m posting another one from yesterday…

Oct 27, 2020: Last two packages coming in were turned away by the Custom Services because there were no import papers, when papers were not required, I’m …

Oct 26, 2020: Street Art Car I know, I know, too many car photos from someone who’s not a car person, but how can I resist ? 😊

Oct 26, 2020: The Masked Days We walked for two hours today, pretty tired by the end of it. No matter how much I sleep, I wake up feeling I could go on for days if …

Oct 26, 2020: Update: I might need some sort of explanation about the whole DST myself. I don’t remember getting this messed up in previous iterations. Remind …

Oct 25, 2020: tinyMovieStar news from today: Someone should explain DST in 6 month old language. And we thought she had eaten a tiny piece of paper from a book. …

Oct 25, 2020: ABC 🍺 🇸🇪

Oct 25, 2020: My new favorite time of day ? Whenever tinyMovieStar is taking a nap! 🤣

Oct 25, 2020:

Oct 25, 2020: CMYK Van.

Oct 25, 2020: The Trash Can Remake. NotLondon. London.

Oct 25, 2020: Almost 12 hours later, I’m awake. I must be a little more tired than I wanted to believe.

Oct 24, 2020: Morning walk, farmers market, lunch with parents, out of town afternoon with in-laws, back to the city, late afternoon beers with friends, dinner. …

Oct 24, 2020: Today we’ll have to drive to a nearby town, where movieStar is originally from. Temporary lockdown is coming in a few days, and we won’t …

Oct 23, 2020: Regarding the new place, we got the contract for the lease, with a couple mistakes. Now waiting for the new, revised, edition.

Oct 23, 2020: Boots meant for walking. Finally movieStar has a pair of the same boots that have been on my feet for decades! Took them for the first walk, she’s …

Oct 23, 2020: When everything was possible. ☀️ 🇹🇭

Oct 22, 2020: One, Two, Three MAAT, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, is an iconic piece of architecture in town. This is where I had to work today, …

Oct 22, 2020: Fog! At least the view was nice, when I arrived at today’s office. Soon I’ll be back home with the movieStars….

Oct 22, 2020: Camera bag is ready. All I have to do is get up, take a shower, get dressed, and be on my way. Seems pretty basic stuff, but finding it particularly …

Oct 21, 2020: On a lighter note, I finally picked the Freitag wallet. Yellow and blue, @ajennische will probably like it 😊

Oct 21, 2020: 35.6c. Is negative fever a thing ?

Oct 21, 2020: You Are The Sunshine Of My Life The rain stopped, it seems, so we took off for another round of our walking… Slowly we made our way to Chiado, …

Oct 21, 2020: As slow as days get… After the rainy walk tinyMovieStar fell asleep for hours. Podcasts are making me sleepy, reading also not helping… …

Oct 21, 2020: The End is Near. This was it, for about ten minutes. Now the sun is shining, but it rained a LOT!

Oct 20, 2020: That one time… A friend was trying to get me a different kind of job today, on the other side of the camera, and asked for a link to …

Oct 20, 2020: Here I am again, a lifelong soup hater, making another yummy one for tinyMovieStar. Today: pumpkin, potato, onions, and broccoli.

Oct 20, 2020: A bit of rain won’t stop us from walking! Trying to enjoy the outdoor life in all weather.

Oct 20, 2020: Just saw a Jaguar doing the Uber thing.

Oct 19, 2020: Thanks to recommendations from Micro.blog members, I’m now juggling two books: Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow and Ivan Ramen by Ivan Orkin 📚

Oct 19, 2020: Best. Beef Jerky. Ever. Chef @helgeg is a beef genius!

Oct 19, 2020: Nice shade.

Oct 19, 2020: tinyMovieStar graduated from comando style crawling to Komodo dragon moves. She’s growing up sooo fast, and we feel blessed that both of us get …

Oct 19, 2020: Spend a couple of days looking at wallets on Freitag’s site. None is exactly what I wanted. Today THE wallet shows up, I’m ready to order, …

Oct 19, 2020: Wait for it… Quick walk before the storm hits the city.

Oct 19, 2020: One day we’ll go back. Not the two of us, now three. 自由な気分 🚲🇯🇵

Oct 18, 2020: I’ll blame @Gabz for losing his wallet and getting me thinking about wallets, and @helgeg for reminding me I wanted a Freitag forever and never got …

Oct 18, 2020: Don’t text, email, call…. Write Him a letter 😊

Oct 18, 2020: The ShowRoom, Part II.

Oct 18, 2020: The ShowRoom.

Oct 17, 2020: Saturday coming to an end. We visited the farmers market, had lunch with my parents and brother, a great afternoon nap, dinner, a little news, and now …

Oct 17, 2020: Finally, my own private angel! Someone thinks I’m a reliable foreigner and my business (?) will now have tons of money! Yay!

Oct 17, 2020: Shower time.

Oct 17, 2020: Reading All the talk about reading books vs using the phone/Kindle to read… We visited out neighborhood’s bookstore today.

Oct 17, 2020: Coolest app around, plugging it again. Everyone should have it on their phones. Today it took 10 seconds to help someone measure their blood sugar …

Oct 17, 2020: I was very happy with Reeder 4. But you had to mention Reeder 5, right ?

Oct 17, 2020: Shall we go in ?

Oct 17, 2020: Today’s wake up time ended up being earlier than expected. The tiny one still has to master the wake up after sunrise thing…

Oct 16, 2020: Radar. My radio love, day 030.

Oct 16, 2020: Whole day away from Micro.blog, the beach visit didn’t happen, but had a cool lunch and lazy afternoon with the in-laws. And still time for a …

Oct 16, 2020: IKEA task: check. We now have a Jättelik living with us. 🦕

Oct 16, 2020: Plans for the day include lunch with the in-laws, taking tinyMovieStar to the beach for a look at the sea before the rain gets to us, a possible quick …

Oct 16, 2020: 100 Days, Day 030 Radio I mostly listen to the same music. I have a handful of playlists, with a few hundred songs, and usually I’m listening to them on shuffle, and …

Oct 15, 2020: And yet another one for the street art on giant recycle bin collection.

Oct 15, 2020: Finished the Attenborough show. The floor is wet.

Oct 15, 2020: By now I think I have a pretty good collection of the cleaning staff on set of several shows. Can’t really show the actual photos from the show, but …

Oct 15, 2020: We managed to watch a little of David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet on Netflix, enough to be depressed for a few hours (or years) and I can tell …

Oct 15, 2020: Skipping Work Longer walk today, totally unrelated to the fact that I should be editing photos… Down to Av. Liberdade, Parque Mayer, and up to …

Oct 15, 2020: I can already tell I’ll have a lot of fun playing around with @vincent ’s Sublime Ads. Love the playful dashboard and, as I have no ads to …

Oct 15, 2020: Here we are… No way to postpone any longer. Yay for photo editing! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Oct 15, 2020: Need to edit both assignments, but that will take so long I’m trying to forget I have to do it. Been postponing for two days already, can’t do it for …

Oct 15, 2020: These past couple of days I’ve gone on one of the daily tinyMovieStar walks without mom and, even after almost 6 months, it’s nerve …

Oct 14, 2020: Compassion Water fountain for animals. “Show compassion towards the poor animals that help you live”. Clever word play too, “Sede” can mean “Be” but …

Oct 14, 2020: tinyMovieStar is not teething yet, but she surely acts like it’s time to!

Oct 14, 2020: Challenge Day We got off to an early start, trying to find something to shoot for the challenge. In the end it was just another walk, and that was …

Oct 14, 2020: 24-Hour Photo Challenge Location: Lisbon, Portugal Local Time: 09:35AM Still a bit depressed with covid, the city looks emptier. My backyard is this …

Oct 13, 2020: Back home after a long afternoon without the girls. Got home at exactly 6PM, so this one does not qualify for The Challenge… I’ll have to …

Oct 13, 2020: Spending the afternoon at the newest hospital in town. All is good, it’s just work.

Oct 13, 2020: Oops. In the end it seems four days of work turned into one, the other thing got cancelled. A little sad, but can’t say that I’m too …

Oct 13, 2020: So this is where they’re keeping them!! If you’re looking for Canned Portuguese, I finally know where to find them! 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

Oct 12, 2020: Micro Monday Time I had the pleasure of speaking to @macgenie for the latest episode of Micro Monday. I was quite nervous, first interview in English, and for a podcast …

Oct 12, 2020: Sweet Tooth Perks of having an airline captain in the family… 🤤

Oct 12, 2020: Lapa We turned right where we usually turn left, and ended up in Lapa today. Posh part of town. Was looking for a particular building to shoot, but it …

Oct 12, 2020: Just waking up, already booked for Tuesday through Friday! Darn, these early morning calls are usually bad news, not so much today.

Oct 11, 2020: I hate moving. Day 029.

Oct 11, 2020: While his mother tended to the vegetable garden, the sweet baby waited patiently. I often wonder how they’re all doing. 👶🏻🇸🇹

Oct 11, 2020: The Demonstrator

Oct 11, 2020: Cliché, but true. Felt like being in a movie. Or several movies, all of them crazy. Las Vegas. 🌴 🇺🇸

Oct 11, 2020: Early morning vintage walk Took off early today, and found a couple of clues of what the city looked like in the past. We had a lot of these, but …

Oct 10, 2020: Long day away from home and my girls. Hard. But saw a few friends that only meet when working. Still, would rather stay home.

Oct 10, 2020: 12 hours later, back home. Ufff…

Oct 10, 2020: Feel good moment of the day so far: an old friend I haven’t seen in over 30 years walked by me, I’m wearing my mask, and she recognized …

Oct 10, 2020: Back in the studio. First time for this show: The Voice. Obviously, since I’m already missing tinyMovieStar, it had to be the kids edition!

Oct 10, 2020: Predictably I couldn’t sleep much. Work has become an anxiety inducing experience, until I get to it. Once there, it’s like riding the …

Oct 9, 2020: Ended up on the usual beer place, with a lot of friends, with tinyMovieStar enjoying the party. She’s was up a bit later than usual, but seemed …

Oct 9, 2020: Why ? WHY ?? 🚽🎯 ??

Oct 9, 2020: Seems like I’ll be working tomorrow. Work has been so scarce that now it feels like an annoying chore. Can’t really say no, but would love to.

Oct 9, 2020: I stopped biting my nails decades ago. This would be a good moment to get back into that. I won’t, but it would.

Oct 9, 2020: Done a few trips on roads, but this was the one that could have been THE road trip. It only lasted 24hrs, but it was on the 66. 🎱 🇺🇸

Oct 9, 2020: Not ready for another day, but the sun is rising, so I guess that’s it. I needed around 23 hours of extra sleep today.

Oct 8, 2020: Too tired to use my thumb and scroll.

Oct 8, 2020: Meanwhile we crossed the 1000/day new cases line on the Covid front.

Oct 8, 2020: Around one hour on our walk, enough for 4K (we’re not running here, for sure), and still had to stop for a box of WaterWipes. Later is haircut time, …

Oct 8, 2020: The King. Party day at the island. 🎉🇸🇹

Oct 8, 2020: Woke up feeling oddly tired, and it’s still very dark outside. Quick watch check tells me it’s 4AM. Must. Go. Back. To. Sleep.

Oct 7, 2020: Soi Walked a fair bit today, ended up having lunch at SOI, an Asian Street Food place. Last time we’d been there was a while ago, on the day we found …

Oct 7, 2020: Two of these on today’s walk. New city… Old city… New city… Old city…

Oct 7, 2020: Yesterday I picked up a catalog from IKEA for us, along with a bag full of baby’s toys. Guess what tinyMovieStar has been playing with ever …

Oct 7, 2020: This could work for me. But I hate the extra step of having Shortcuts launch before the actual app shows up.

Oct 7, 2020: Last year, KLM unveiled an initiative that sounded like a plea for less business. “Do you always need to meet face to face? Could you take the train …

Oct 6, 2020: Just in case, already making a list on Things. And it’s a big one. Hopefully all the must haves are quicker to get done than last time I had to …

Oct 6, 2020: So.. we, probably, almost for sure, have a new home; I only forgot one item from the IKEA run; tinyMovieStar is just fine and eating like a champ, but …

Oct 6, 2020: Five photographers walk into a brew pub… Guess what happens next…

Oct 6, 2020: Got to IKEA a couple of minutes before opening time, thinking I was being super clever. Didn’t go during the extended weekend, trying to skip …

Oct 6, 2020: Things are looking good. Fluffy elephant (Jättestor) is getting a new friend and, almost sure, a new house! 🐘 🏡

Oct 5, 2020: Another one for the street art collection… 👾 🇻🇳

Oct 5, 2020: We had a possible tenant today at our place, and he was lovely. Now all we need is the ok from the place we’re looking into. The puzzle pieces …

Oct 5, 2020: National Holiday Nationals have the day off today, so most people walking in the morning are tourists and their trolleys, noisy on our streets. We …

Oct 5, 2020: I might need cash today. It’s been ages since that happened! It so odd to find a bill that can’t be settled with the phone these days!

Oct 4, 2020: Another thing these last few months have shown us, personally, is who can we count on. We’ve had happy surprises and, sadly, also a few …

Oct 4, 2020: Sunday mood Went to a new place for brunch with a couple of friends and their daughter. Nice place, healthy food, good vibes. Right next door was a …

Oct 4, 2020: Sometimes the city looks like a war zone.

Oct 4, 2020: Leftover from the Valladolid story, the usual visit to the barber. I try go get a haircut whenever we stop for longer than a couple of days at the …

Oct 4, 2020: Rougher night, tinyMovieStar has some tummy pain.

Oct 3, 2020: Valladolid Prompted by Michael, on Mastodon, I’m reminiscing about that special boozy day in Valladolid. We’d been in Mexico for a few days, slowly making our …

Oct 3, 2020: Tried downgrading my ProtonMail account, but it was impossible. No matter how much I tried, after deleting all the premium services, the downgrade …

Oct 3, 2020: tinyMovieStar was invited to her first birthday party. It was a first for us as well. Luckily the baby who turned one is the daughter of the beer …

Oct 3, 2020: Back from Mom&Dad’s. Trying to get some sleep. Not easy.

Oct 3, 2020: First time using Micro.blog on the desktop for months. Gotta say the update looks great, and @burk’s script is working like a charm.

Oct 3, 2020: movieStar is clearing some space on her phone by deleting photos, and she’s finding a lot of memories while doing it. Working hard in Príncipe. Rainy …

Oct 2, 2020: I could fill a bucket with tears I cried watching today’s episode of Ted Lasso! Sad this was the last one!

Oct 2, 2020: It’s not even 9PM and I’m lying in bed, waiting/wanting to fall asleep! The little one is getting heavier!

Oct 2, 2020: Testing Sunlit… Racer edition.

Oct 2, 2020: This just showed up on my Mastodon timeline. I don’t usually share these, but somehow it felt right this time… 💬

Oct 2, 2020: Guess where we ended up for lunch, again,… 🐼 🍜

Oct 2, 2020: Ohm…. 🇯🇵✌🏼

Oct 2, 2020: Still looking at houses to rent. We now have this routine well oiled: movieStar as good cop, myself as the not so nice one…

Oct 2, 2020: 10AM and I already know I’m done with Twitter for today. Enough of the crazy stuff, it’s Micro.blog only for the rest of the day.

Oct 2, 2020: I LOVE Carrot.

Oct 2, 2020: Raining again. On the other hand: Ted Lasso & Long Way Up.

Oct 2, 2020: tinyMovieStar and her first a-b-c lesson…

Oct 1, 2020: The usual vehicle themed post… Today with “Spot the original Italian Vespa and the Indian ones”… … and the “Straight out of the …

Oct 1, 2020: Lazy Afternoon Today’s schedule was dictated by the delivery companies, as we can’t leave the house when something is being delivered. I took care of the morning …

Oct 1, 2020: On a brighter note, now reading Ivan Ramen, thanks to a great recommendation from @helgeg. 📚 🍜

Oct 1, 2020: Package Situation Update: Electric bike ride to pick up the parcel, expecting to get the same one on the way back. Package size a little bigger than …

Oct 1, 2020: I miss Tokyo’s alleys and being surrounded by Japanese coolness. ✌🏼🇯🇵

Oct 1, 2020: Yesterday’s out of town day made us miss a package delivery, so now I’ll have to go get it at their office. Tried calling a dozen times …

Oct 1, 2020: 100 Days, Day 029 Moving I don’t like moving. I love moving around, but the place I call home has been the same for 20 years (has it been that long ??) I kept thinking …

Sep 30, 2020: Long Day Today was a long day. A very long, yet happy, day. tinyMovieStar woke up too early and, strangely, didn’t fall asleep after a light snack. We needed …

Sep 30, 2020: Long day ahead. We’re going to Cascais and visit the in-laws at their new place (no pool!). We’re also bringing our car back to town. …

Sep 29, 2020: I blame a gas station in Arizona (not pictured) for my love of beef jerky. One, and only, time in the US, and that’s one of the things I got out of …

Sep 29, 2020: Guacamole for dinner (I’m getting quite good at this), and got White Chocolate M&M and three different brands of beef jerky at an …

Sep 29, 2020: Micro.blog 2.0 is live on the web! Can’t wait for the new app…

Sep 29, 2020: I wish package deliveries had tracking systems like the food apps. I know for sure the Uber fellow is one minute from my place, but the package will …

Sep 28, 2020: Got an email about a job in Dubai, an ad campaign to raise awareness to the importance of hand washing in the containment of covid. First thought: …

Sep 28, 2020: AAAA Pirate Van.

Sep 28, 2020: Comment editing can’t come soon enough.

Sep 28, 2020: Kitchenware ?

Sep 28, 2020: Just before tinyMovieStar grabbed a handful of yummy ramen! 🐼 🍜✌🏼

Sep 28, 2020: I’ll probably skip the midlife crisis part of life. I have no time for that with the baby! Would love to go on a shopping spree, and doing crazy …

Sep 27, 2020: You were so right, @Gabz! tinyMovieStar is slightly more mobile now, and we can’t let her out of our sight anymore! She crawled out of her …

Sep 27, 2020: Brunch So… brunch at the beer place is manageable. Not too easy, but definitely doable. TIL: eat something before you drink a 9% ABV beer. It …

Sep 27, 2020: Not sure if brunch at the beer pub is such a great idea, but I’m willing to give it a try.

Sep 27, 2020: Forgot to post these yesterday, from the afternoon walk. Nothing fancy, but I’ve always love the art on that wall.

Sep 27, 2020: Soup Report: not a huge success, but something we can work with. The soup was yummy. I guess it’s an acquired taste, she’ll get around to …

Sep 26, 2020: First soup coming up in a little while. Hope she likes it! 🥔 🥕 🧅 🔪

Sep 26, 2020: Yesterday was a good day.

Sep 26, 2020: Just spotted this on Twitter! Imagine how awesome all Ted Talks would be if they were just all talks by Ted Lasso. Sean Heber

Sep 26, 2020: It’s 5AM, little one! I know you have no idea what that means, but I’m telling you it’s too early to be up! There’s nothing to …

Sep 25, 2020: I wish Ted Lasso was like a tele-novela, 250 episodes long.

Sep 25, 2020: Pollux I’m not one to enjoy shopping. I don’t shop for clothes until my shirts are quitting on me. I always get the same brand of boots. Trousers are almost …

Sep 25, 2020: Getting ready to introduce soup to tinyMovieStar. Not today, but it’s coming soon.

Sep 25, 2020: Depressing Portuguese Composite ™

Sep 25, 2020: There and Back We walked to Pollux. Took a slightly different way to get there, a more scenic one, trying to get different photos to post here. Walked …

Sep 25, 2020: Nice side effect of the VPN: I don’t have that many ads shown to me but, when I do, they’re in Swedish. As I don’t speak a word of …

Sep 25, 2020: Not the biggest waterfall, not by a long shot, but it feels great after the hike to get there. Another thing we miss from the island. 💦 🇸🇹

Sep 25, 2020: We need filters for the Brita and bags for the trash can. There’s only a place one can go to get those: the venerable Pollux! I’m always …

Sep 24, 2020: Today’s “Almost Copyright Infringement” goes to… Fast And Serious! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Sep 24, 2020: iOS 14.0.1 is out. BRB.

Sep 24, 2020: Another great idea! I will happily take part on the A Day In The Life of Our Online Community: A Global Photography Challenge. Thank you, @macgenie, …

Sep 24, 2020: Steamy! That’s how today feels. Like a sauna. We did manage a 4.5K walk, a nice one with Italian ice cream and everything, but it’s too humid for a …

Sep 24, 2020: The rain messes up our routine, and the little one gets a little anxious when she can’t walk around as usual. We might need new toys!

Sep 24, 2020: Still rainy around here, still dreaming of sunshine and beach… 🇰🇭☀️

Sep 23, 2020: I just died a little! Both movieStars were in the bathroom, having a bath. I was in the living room. Suddenly movieStar screamed “Help!” and I jumped. Rushed to …

Sep 23, 2020: Always a thrill to cross Vasco da Gama Bridge, and we did it again today. Perks of going to the dentist! Longest bridge in the EU, and a beautiful one …

Sep 23, 2020: ID Cards: Check! We now have brand new cards, all three of us, and it only took us around 5 months to get them! Yay for bureaucracy! On the way back …

Sep 22, 2020: Fed up with widgets on homescreen and the constant mess it was turning into every time I tried to add another to the smart one I was using. Apps get …

Sep 22, 2020: 10K today, again. We’re getting fit thanks to tinyMovieStar.

Sep 22, 2020: Not the nicest looking part of town, but it’s the view from the pediatrician’s office. And we just found out another friend is pregnant! That’s the …

Sep 22, 2020: Showed Ted Lasso to movieStar and she loved it! We watched all of it. That’s the second time for me. And I would do it again, truth be told!

Sep 22, 2020: So far, so good… Managed our walk in the morning, met a friend by chance and talked for a while. This afternoon there’s the pediatrician …

Sep 22, 2020: The Raven, our city’s bird. Portrait mode screwed it up a bit, but…

Sep 21, 2020: Really nice way to end the day. We didn’t get our afternoon walk, but did meet @helgeg, so that was more than worth it. A couple of beers were …

Sep 21, 2020: Thank you, tinyMovieStar, you’re very thoughtful. We appreciate that.

Sep 21, 2020: Vroom Vroom… Who’s there ?

Sep 21, 2020: Three is the magic number… 🇩🇰 3️⃣

Sep 20, 2020: Done with the weekend and looking forward to this week. It’s a busy one: tinyMovieStar’s fifth monthiversary, pediatrician appointment and …

Sep 20, 2020: There’s an IPA festival happening today at the local brewpub. Not sure we’ll be able to make it… 😔 🍺

Sep 20, 2020: Sunday morning Rain stopped for a while, it seems, so we went out and walked again. São Pedro viewpoint, down to Carmo, Rossio and the Station, and up …

Sep 20, 2020: And we’re seeing a rise in infections in the country. Not good.

Sep 20, 2020: 5.18K Managed our walk, no rain so far. A little over 5K, but some hard climbs en route. Photos in a moment.

Sep 19, 2020: Today we found out tinyMovieStar doesn’t like entertaining at home. Very social outdoors, but don’t even think about meeting us at home! She cried her …

Sep 19, 2020: I forgot I was supposed to attend a workshop this weekend and made other arrangements! That’s what happens when there are so few appointments on …

Sep 18, 2020: That one time a teacher made me cry so hard I tried hiding the tears with a camera, and couldn’t. 🇹🇱 😭

Sep 18, 2020: tinyMovieStar is almost crawling. She’s doing the commando-style, arm-powered on her belly thing, but almost able to use her legs! It’s …

Sep 18, 2020: Set up one of the smaller square widgets on the homepage and the other apps kept getting moved around. So now the widget is gone.

Sep 18, 2020: Afternoon walk cut short by a malfunctioning umbrella and a bit more rain than expected. A warm bath was picked as replacement program. No harm done.

Sep 18, 2020: 🐼 Panda Cantina There’s a new Panda Cantina, and it’s sooo close to home. Yummy ramen whenever we feel like it. Yay! movieStar was way more excited …

Sep 18, 2020: Waiting for the downpour to pause, we need our walk and there’s a new ramen place down the street we’d love to try…. 🐼

Sep 18, 2020: Raining outside, what are we gonna do ?

Sep 18, 2020: Not looking good… Except maybe for you @helgeg.

Sep 17, 2020: movieStar’s side, and mine 🍺

Sep 17, 2020: Shazam with Picture in Picture! Now there’s a game changer for me! And Things widgets. So many cool updates since yesterday.

Sep 17, 2020: Today’s car sighting, a Volvo. Not a car connoisseur, but the Volvos always look good to me.

Sep 17, 2020: Rain stopped pretty quick, so we did manage the morning walk. Sorry about that, @helgeg. Maybe more rain will come later…

Sep 17, 2020: Orange Power! @odd Chef Ants Uustalu, from Ööbiku Gastronoomiatalu in Estonia.

Sep 17, 2020: Close to five months old and seeing rain for the first time. What kind of sorcery is this ? Water coming from the sky ? Where is all that blue above …

Sep 16, 2020: New routine for tinyMovieStar: every day she gets extra sleepy, and yet refuses to fall asleep without half an hour to an hour of screeching and other …

Sep 16, 2020: No rain Rain still hasn’t shown up, so we went to a new grocery, and walked a bit around the block. Some more businesses are closing, while others …

Sep 16, 2020: Calçada Replacing the old (super slippery) pavement with newer one, with less slippery blocks thrown in. Calçada Portuguesa is a beautiful thing, but …

Sep 16, 2020: Rain will probably keep us from walking today. So we’re reminiscing… 🇯🇵📱

Sep 15, 2020: Time spent on Instagram today: 0 minutes.

Sep 15, 2020: Busy Day With the house visit and the back and forth to get the borrowed car, drive to the dentist, and return the vehicle, not a lot of time left. …

Sep 15, 2020: Leftover from Burgau, that bus stop… 👾 🚌

Sep 15, 2020: Afternoon plans: visit another house, as we’re still planning on moving to a bigger one, and go to the dentist. The house is 50 meters from our …

Sep 15, 2020: Managed to survive 30 years as a photographer with no back problems, yet not five months with a baby left me in this sad state ?

Sep 15, 2020: Yesterday I had a small pain in my back. Today I woke up and some movements are much harder, almost hard to breath at times. Must have thrown my back …

Sep 14, 2020: On the other networks, it’s hard to justify the cost of hosting my own Mastodon instance. For less than that I could get that Apple TV+ …

Sep 14, 2020: I’ve been using Instagram a lot less these days, but now it’s a challenge! movieStar, a dear friend of ours, and myself are on a …

Sep 14, 2020: Friend’s covid update: the person that spent time with my friend got his test back, negative. Luckily he didn’t get infected by the sick …

Sep 14, 2020: movieStar, quietness expert.

Sep 14, 2020: While waiting for new episodes of Ted Lasso, tried finding something else to watch on Apple TV+, and nothing caught my attention. With Netflix and HBO …

Sep 14, 2020: Feels good to be back home and resuming our neighborhood walks.

Sep 14, 2020: Iconic And iconic.

Sep 13, 2020: Maps We live on the first floor, on an area with a few tourists, we got used to the sound of Google Maps’s sound telling then where they should turn …

Sep 13, 2020: Estrela Went up to Estrela Garden to meet another couple with a baby daughter, long time friends of ours. The kids playground has a ton of police tape …

Sep 13, 2020: Last night I started watching The Social Dilemma, but after a few minutes I was nodding off. Will try again today. 📺

Sep 12, 2020: Slow afternoon Lunch with mom&dad, afternoon nap and walk after that. Slowly, still recovering from the week down south.

Sep 12, 2020: There’s a new screech in tinyMovieStar’s repertoire. Can’t say it’s my favorite of the screeches.

Sep 12, 2020: Mom. I would say somewhere in Germany, sometime in the late 70s. As cool as it gets.

Sep 12, 2020: I blame my parents. It’s Day 028.

Sep 12, 2020: Thank you, thank you each and every one of you who said something nice about Ted Lasso. Episodes 1 through 7 back to back. I’ve laughed and …

Sep 12, 2020: 100 Days, Day 028 I blame my parents. movieStar thought it would be a good idea to get the show on the road, and introduce her tiny version to the beach. We picked the …

Sep 11, 2020: Everyone praised Ted Lasso so much, I decided to check the free episode. Next up: paying the subscription. It’s wonderfully sweet.

Sep 11, 2020: Back Home. We’re back in town and I’m already missing these past few days. It was amazing. Tiresome, but amazing. The girls are awesome, I feel lucky …

Sep 11, 2020: Side note: obviously, since I’ve only had one assignment since March, while we went away (for three days!) I got contacted for three things! …

Sep 11, 2020: It was really fun, but it’s time to go back home. Very short vacation, but felt so great after all these months in the city. And great choice of …

Sep 11, 2020: One thing I’ll never get: noisy people banging doors in hotels. Especially in the middle of the night.

Sep 10, 2020: A friend of a friend of a friend tested positive for covid, so we’re going back home tomorrow instead of spending an extra day with him in the …

Sep 10, 2020: Another sweet day at the beach… 🥰🌴

Sep 10, 2020: Street Art also available in Lagos… 👾 ☀️

Sep 10, 2020: Yeah, I know how you feel…

Sep 10, 2020: Breakfast and it’s off to the beach. Today we’re trying the earlier shift, hoping there’s a nap later on at the hotel. One can …

Sep 9, 2020: I’m carrying not one, but two cameras on this small trip. They’re still stuck on the bag, not a single shot fired. Damn iPhone is just too …

Sep 9, 2020: Lagos, Day Two Lots of driving around, but ended up at the same place as yesterday: Meia Praia. Went to Sagres and Ponta da Piedade, and Alvor …

Sep 9, 2020: Slower day today. Zavial for lunch.

Sep 9, 2020: New word I learnt today: pulchritudinous. I already know I won’t remember it this afternoon.

Sep 9, 2020: What getting tinyMovieStar to sleep looks like… There’s a fair amount of back and forth involved.

Sep 9, 2020: Dona Ana. The one I went to 40 years ago. Looks a little crowded, but still manageable.

Sep 8, 2020: Lagos, Day One We made it. Took us a bit longer than it would with no baby but, on the other hand, we now know ALL the service areas on the highway. …

Sep 8, 2020: Lagos, CR7. Couldn’t help it, @ajennische, the first photo from Lagos…

Sep 8, 2020: Up. Next on the list: coffee. After that, grab an electric motorcycle, ride to the other side of town, grab the car, come back and pick up the girls, …

Sep 7, 2020: Tomorrow we have a long drive ahead of us, if any drive in this country can be considered long. Even so I’m still curious about how …

Sep 7, 2020: Added the Booking confirmation to Apple Wallet. It’s been months since I’ve had the pleasure. Never thought booking a room would feel odd, …

Sep 7, 2020: Packing is almost done. Took us most of the day.

Sep 7, 2020: Morning Took off with tinyMovieStar for a 6K walk, while movieStar was busy finishing the packing process for tomorrow’s trip. She joined us a bit …

Sep 7, 2020: Packing for a few days out of town with tinyMovieStar. It will be her first trip. Packing is VERY different now. Mom’s bag count: 1. Dad’s …

Sep 7, 2020: The Wedding Day One of the stops we made during our extended honeymoon was Bali. I had been only once, for a single night, on a layover to another, more remote, …

Sep 6, 2020: Apollo for Reddit is still on my homescreen, but I haven’t used it in months. Many months.

Sep 6, 2020: Back home after a very full day, with a lot of people. Still find it mildly uncomfortable to be around more than five humans at a time.

Sep 6, 2020: Already at the in-laws. Stopped along the way at an aunts house, one tinyMovieStar hadn’t met yet, and another quick stop by the side of the …

Sep 6, 2020: Celebrating this day with a photo from the coolest wedding I’ve been to, besides my own. Invited for this sweet party in Nusa Penida. 👰🏻 🇮🇩

Sep 6, 2020: Today is my in-laws 40th anniversary, so we have to get going in a while anyway. Might as well start that coffee machine and get on with the day.

Sep 6, 2020: Woke up with the noise from the laptop’s fan going full speed! Why is the darn thing waking up from sleep on its own ??

Sep 5, 2020: Same Same Today’s report is: regular day. Nothing fancy. We went out in the morning, through the farmers market. Bought nothing, as we’re going out of …

Sep 5, 2020: I could have nothing but this warm French bread and butter from the Azores for lunch! Amazing combo.

Sep 5, 2020: For International Beard Day…. Bearded maique on the island.. 🧔🏻🌴

Sep 5, 2020: Morning meetings were like…

Sep 4, 2020: After weeks of peaceful nighttime routine, today we’re having some difficulty getting tinyMovieStar to fall asleep. Nothing too serious, yet, …

Sep 4, 2020: Coffee run We ran out of coffee, so the destination of today’s morning walk was decided: Chiado. A break in the editing chore and off we went, 5K …

Sep 4, 2020: Back at it. Hope to be done with this today. Still three days of shooting to go through…. Starting with Antony and The Johnsons - Knockin' On …

Sep 4, 2020: Too hot to sleep.

Sep 3, 2020: Throwback to many years ago. Talking about longer hair got me thinking of other times… @dominikhoecht @vincent A much younger me, fewer tattoos …

Sep 3, 2020: Not a lot to show for today, spent most of the day locked at home editing photos. Two walks as usual, one at a mostly boring part of the neighborhood, …

Sep 3, 2020: A pause from editing for our afternoon walk, and we stopped at the ice cream shop down the street and got a HUGE box. I guess I know what we’re …

Sep 3, 2020: When all this editing is done, we’ll probably take a trip down south, to the Algarve. Usually it’s full of tourists but, this year, it …

Sep 3, 2020: Afternoon editing session is ongoing… Listening to Goree - Nuru Kane.

Sep 3, 2020: Another day of shooting edited, so only four left to go! Time for our morning walk…

Sep 3, 2020: Now playing: Singing Saw - Kevin Morby. I LOVE music and haven’t been getting enough of it.

Sep 3, 2020: Good thing about editing: music is on all day long.

Sep 2, 2020: Editing Day (first one) Lunch with parents and brother, after editing a ton of photos, then back home to edit a few more, out for a walk, and back to …

Sep 2, 2020: Photos edited today: a ton! Also, renewed WeTransfer for a month, I could already tell the 2GB wouldn’t be enough for my transfers. As usual.

Sep 2, 2020: Screeching and editing do not go hand in hand. I can tell you that already.

Sep 2, 2020: Back from lunch at Mom&Dad’s. Editing. Editing. Editing. Damn.

Sep 2, 2020: Baby news update: tinyMovieStar now squeals from time to time, but not much, and is able to quickly turn herself around and lie on her tummy. Still a …

Sep 1, 2020: You are correct, sir!

Sep 1, 2020: Photos edited today: 0.

Sep 1, 2020: Short afternoon outing. After the longer morning/lunch walk, tinyMovieStar had to sleep a bit longer, so we decided to cut the afternoon walk short. …

Sep 1, 2020: We’re walking, again. After a week when the girls had to walk alone, here we are, back at it together… We finally made it to Campo de Ourique, …

Sep 1, 2020: mbaug It was a great month! I had a great time going through the archive, looking for photos that would fit the daily prompts for the month long …

Sep 1, 2020: Some parts of it were fun, though. Like going up on the tall crane to get a drone shot!

Sep 1, 2020: Every time I go on one assignment that takes days to finish I come home with thousands of photos that need editing. A couple of days without looking …

Aug 31, 2020: First batch of photos edited, a very small batch, it’s now time to go for our walk with tinyMovieStar! I missed these!

Aug 31, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 31 Today’s theme: love Love. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 31, 2020: Still not done, but I’m feeling happy already! 9h27!

Aug 30, 2020: It’s a wrap!!

Aug 30, 2020: Test results this week: ❌ ❌ ❌ Still safe.

Aug 30, 2020: Last day on set, someone finally remembered they could (should) use the studio’s sound system to play some music during the down time. Bless …

Aug 30, 2020: Ready to go. The new normal.

Aug 30, 2020: There it is, the sun coming up over the river. We’re on our way, it’s the last day!

Aug 30, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 30 Today’s theme: discovery We’re thrilled, ecstatic, scared, hopeful, inquisitive, a bit lost, …

Aug 29, 2020: It was not an easy day. A LOT of work, but grateful that most of the crew is really in sync and super professional. Almost ready to sleep, and face …

Aug 29, 2020: You know what trucks should be electric and manned by a non-yelling crew ? Garbage trucks that collect in the middle of the night!

Aug 29, 2020: Back home. Sunset already behind us, but dusk still here. Tomorrow is the last day. Happy.

Aug 29, 2020: Where doors go to die.

Aug 29, 2020: Hoping today I make it home on time to catch tinyMovieStar’s bath time! She seems to love it when I’m there to dry her up and cuddle! And …

Aug 29, 2020: Yep. Another one.

Aug 29, 2020: Here we go… Two more!

Aug 29, 2020: Picked up way too early, we stopped at the first available gas station for coffee and now enjoying the night ride.

Aug 29, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 29 Today’s theme: flake Can I get away with a photo of a gazillion flakes ? That’s how far my …

Aug 29, 2020: Here you go, @gregmoore, the most recent one I could find. Along with a Fuji, quite new, from a friend.

Aug 29, 2020: 0530AM. Up. Damn. I’m not getting younger. THAT I can tell you.

Aug 28, 2020: Done for today. It’s a little over 9PM. I’m getting picked up at 6:20AM tomorrow. Don’t think there’s enough time to go …

Aug 28, 2020: Keeping my eye on the proverbial prize. Two more days. Two more days and I’m back with my movieStar couple, tiny one and regular sized. …

Aug 28, 2020: Upgraded to the 95 series. Feels a bit nicer, but still a pain to have one on the whole day.

Aug 28, 2020: Would you mind turning that one on ? No, no, the other one!

Aug 28, 2020: Sun rising in a bit, we’re on the road already. Managed to have a coffee, so it could be worse.

Aug 27, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 28 Today’s theme: emotions Not mine, but I’m in it. Apologies for that. I’ve never felt so …

Aug 27, 2020: Tomorrow’s rendezvous time? 0650AM. Very short night today.

Aug 27, 2020: This is so awesome! My package walked from NYC to Miami! How cool is that ?? 🤣 Not your lovely one, @Gabz, that on is sitting still somewhere😔

Aug 27, 2020: Done. Ugh.

Aug 27, 2020: Three days since I’ve been tested, so today I’m having that awful thing shoved up my nose again. Yay for that too.

Aug 27, 2020: Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

Aug 27, 2020: Today’s meeting point is a little closer to home, but a bit earlier. So same amount of sleep. Everyday I get one of these to get to the location.

Aug 27, 2020: Leaving for Day 03. Let’s see how this one plays out.

Aug 27, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 27 Today’s theme: overcome Thinking about the millions of kids who are dealt a very unfair hand, many …

Aug 26, 2020: Hopefully this one won’t break the NDA! 10 hours stuck inside, and this is it.

Aug 26, 2020: Sooooo unproductive I had time for a Nyan Cat! That’s what happens when I can’t share photos from the work I’m doing…. 🎨 📱

Aug 26, 2020: Back home after a very unproductive day. Nothing I can do about it, my work this time is part of a very large group effort, and getting all the gears …

Aug 26, 2020: Fun and games.

Aug 26, 2020: Adding insult to injury, today’s meeting point is in the middle of nowhere! And I need coffee!

Aug 26, 2020: Here we go again. Day 02, and I almost cried leaving so early in the morning. Just wanted to stay home!

Aug 25, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 26 Today’s theme: relentless They fought relentlessly until all the occupiers left their country for …

Aug 25, 2020: Also missed Micro.blog more than I expected. This week will definitely feel a lot longer. No wife, no daughter, no friends in the afternoon, no …

Aug 25, 2020: Long day coming to an end. My body aches in places I haven’t felt pain in many many months. Tomorrow will be even harder, with longer hours. …

Aug 25, 2020: Hot. As. Hell. And a beSeated for the collection.

Aug 25, 2020: 32C and mask on all day = unhappy maique.

Aug 25, 2020: Waiting for the driver, but I have no idea what he looks like, or what’s he’s driving. Guy next to me speaks American English, so I …

Aug 25, 2020: Feels very odd to be out and about this early in the morning, in the business part of town. A TON of people going to work, haven’t seen this …

Aug 25, 2020: Good morning. Here we go.

Aug 24, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 25 Today’s theme: hope There is always hope. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 24, 2020: Ok, no turning back now. We’re on, starting tomorrow early in the morning. Still have a strange feeling in my stomach knowing I’m getting …

Aug 24, 2020: Oh, the Fuji X100T! 🥰

Aug 24, 2020: Another Day, Another Walk As soon as I got home from the test it was time to go for our walk. It’s probably the last one I can take until I’m back from the assignment, as I’ll …

Aug 24, 2020: Tested. Day 027.

Aug 24, 2020: Waiting to be tested. Can’t wait to get back home with the girls…

Aug 24, 2020: At the COVID testing site. Arrived a little early, still not open for business.

Aug 24, 2020: Also, I’m blaming those fried cheese and jalapeño thingies for the sleepless night!

Aug 24, 2020: Maybe that alarm wasn’t needed. Woke up at 3AM, now I can’t go back to sleep. Hard day ahead. On the plus side, it’s now 4AM and …

Aug 24, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 24 Today’s theme: frosty The ice-cream man of Mandalay. Frosty and yummy and, if I ever write a book, I …

Aug 24, 2020: 100 Days, Day 027 Tested An empty parking lot, a huge one, and two tents, like the ones you’ll find at a wedding reception, if it’s that kind of wedding. A ton of …

Aug 23, 2020: Setting up an alarm on the phone. It’s been six months since I’ve done that.

Aug 23, 2020: Slow and Steady As we missed the morning ride, we grabbed a beer and walked one of the (by now) usual routes, but at a slower speed. Already thinking about the week …

Aug 23, 2020: Back to Work, and it’s Day 026.

Aug 23, 2020: It’s Fashion Sunday over here. Dad not in picture, but looking rather dandy 🤣

Aug 23, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 23 Today’s theme: graceful I could have picked any of the amazing people who live at Roça Sundy, they …

Aug 23, 2020: 100 Days, Day 026 Back to Work Happy and not happy. Or not happy, but has to be done. Getting back to work was taking some time, but I was quite happy without working. …

Aug 22, 2020: I’ll sloooooooowly make it there…. 🐴 🇲🇽

Aug 22, 2020: Actually sad that I’ll have to work next week and only get to see tinyMovieStar in the evening. Haven’t done that since she was born! I …

Aug 22, 2020: Ok! New assignment, starting Tuesday. You know what that means, right ? COVID test on Monday. Should be fun, haven’t had one since April!

Aug 22, 2020: Here you go, @gregmoore, not sure if this is good enough, it’s the other one. Different shades of green, the mix looks good.

Aug 22, 2020: Quick run to the market, got there too early, some stalls still being set up. We ended up going for a stroll, again, in Bairro Alto. And then it’s off …

Aug 22, 2020: Also, on these four months, I’ve only been congratulated twice for my granddaughter! Both times by really old people, and one of them was …

Aug 22, 2020: Four months of this. We must be doing something right 🥰 👶🏻

Aug 22, 2020: Saturday is back. Farmers market and lunch with parents. Love Saturdays.

Aug 21, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 22 Today’s theme: home According to the lyrics, Home is Wherever I’m With You. The photo that …

Aug 21, 2020: Afternoon Walk We made it in the afternoon, grabbing the mandatory beer at Cerveteca and making our way down to Santos, movieStar wanted an ice cream …

Aug 21, 2020: Usually tinyMovieStar falls asleep during our walks, when she’s overdosing on visual input. As our walk today was shorter than usual she did …

Aug 21, 2020: I forgot I had purchased Pillow Pro years ago. Such a nice surprise when I decided to check if restoring purchases would do something, while keeping …

Aug 21, 2020: Today’s walk was cut short, both our brains are working really slow, we forgot we had scheduled something at home. Had to come back as fast as …

Aug 21, 2020: We found the place where they test the colors!

Aug 21, 2020: Guarding the heart. 💖 🇩🇰

Aug 21, 2020: Mostly quiet, albeit short, night. No coffee yet. That’s it.

Aug 20, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 21 Today’s theme: crunch I miss the sound of that sand under my feet. Gentle crunch sound, true, but …

Aug 20, 2020: Chiado We managed to go to Chiado and get four new books for tinyMovieStar, she was tired of the other ones, probably found them more appropriate for …

Aug 20, 2020: TV series shooting an episode on the next street. It’s one of those shows where they seem to shout a lot, all the time. Again tinyMovieStar …

Aug 20, 2020: Rainy day at home, what is one supposed to do ? Reminisce. It rains a lot in Príncipe as well, but somehow rain doesn’t feel the same over there. 🌴 🇸🇹

Aug 20, 2020: One rainy day in town, and we’re already missing… well… yesterday! If things don’t brighten up, and it’s probable they won’t today, that …

Aug 20, 2020: On the positive side, I finally got Pillow to work. Sleep tracking is so much harder when you have tattoos on your wrists..

Aug 20, 2020: Too early to be up anyway, let’s try to go back to sleep.

Aug 20, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 20 Today’s theme: change Easiest pick so far. Everything changed at 09:28. Every. Single. Thing. 📷 …

Aug 19, 2020: The yellow place 💛 🇩🇰

Aug 19, 2020: Back. Day 025.

Aug 19, 2020: What have you done, @helgeg ?? We were supposed to have one TOGETHER! Not like this 😂🤣 Thank you so much! When are you coming back ?

Aug 19, 2020: Made it to the barber, feels great to see old friends again and get a decent haircut with a beer, and walked home. Feels odd leaving the house without …

Aug 19, 2020: Way to go USPS! Denver on the 11th, San Francisco on the 15th, NY on the 19th. I should get my package by Christmas. Yay! 📦 🎉

Aug 19, 2020: A few laps around the house in my arms and tinyMovieStar slept for an hour. Two deliveries already made, and she slept through it all! Yay!

Aug 19, 2020: Little one up most of the night with tummy aches, gassy. Mom is exhausted. Also supposed to go away tomorrow for a long weekend, but friends we were …

Aug 19, 2020: 100 Days, Day 025 Back to old places. “O bom filho a casa torna.” Today I went back to my old barber. Years ago I used to go to a barbershop close to home. He was an …

Aug 18, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 19 Today’s theme: ribbon After the ribbon has been cut. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 18, 2020: Actually excited about tomorrow’s haircut appointment. It’s been too long since I’ve been there. Love the guy.

Aug 18, 2020: One of the podcasts I enjoy listening to is Darknet Diaries. Always an incredible story, superbly narrated, and great production as well.

Aug 18, 2020: What else did I do today Setting up a page for my photo contributions to the August Photoblogging Challenge. I’m getting them all together on a page, and noticed the …

Aug 18, 2020: Back from the afternoon walk. It was a rather normal one. Not a lot more to add. We’ll try to watch the news, but no promises.

Aug 18, 2020: Torel Shorter walk, but harder one, the hills are alive! We walked by my barbershop, appointment made for tomorrow! I’m finally getting a proper haircut, …

Aug 18, 2020: Rise and shine. We might see some rain on the next days, so time to go for another walk while we can.. But first: coffee! ☕️

Aug 17, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 18 Today’s theme: grid Nowadays I’m walking everywhere, no longer in the grid. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 17, 2020: Still using Telegram to debrief everyday with movieStar, after the little one is asleep. Still afraid to wake her up.

Aug 17, 2020: Still thinking about the VPS. Still no time to do anything about it.

Aug 17, 2020: Have a seat. And drink a CMYK.

Aug 17, 2020: Afternoon walk in a minute. We had our fun with a story about fruit friendship, and another one about a giraffe who turned a big bad lion good, and …

Aug 17, 2020: 10 minutes, that’s how long my afternoon nap lasted. Better than 9 minutes, sure, but we need to work on this a little.

Aug 17, 2020: The River We finally made it to the river! It’s not far, but we’ve been stretching the walks a bit every day, figuring out how far we can go before the little …

Aug 17, 2020: People tell me it’s Monday, so it’s time for a Micro Monday suggestion… Living in the same city, only one as far as I can tell, Mr …

Aug 17, 2020: Starting the week with another set of memories, a year ago, visiting friends up north. First visit to the country, enjoyed the city a LOT! 🚲 🇩🇰

Aug 17, 2020: On other news, a few packages are on the way home, but none seems to be moving for days now. C’mon, USPS, I know you’ve got bigger fish to …

Aug 17, 2020: Today we woke up thinking about the river. tinyMovieStar hasn’t seen the river yet, so we’re making that our destination for the walk. …

Aug 17, 2020: 4AM. Insomnia. Girls sleeping, why am I not ? Tomorrow (later today) is not going to be fun 😳

Aug 16, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 17 Today’s theme: cuddly As cuddly as they come. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 16, 2020: Another day has gone by in our little corner of the world. A visit to the botanical garden, a short walk in the afternoon, some ice cream to top it …

Aug 16, 2020: Back in the day I used to carry a heavy camera bag. This is what I’m carrying now… 🤣

Aug 16, 2020: Afternoon walk. Dropped by Cerveteca, picked up a can of Porn in the IPA, a rather nice Triple IPA, and we walked a bit around the block. …

Aug 16, 2020: Trying to keep her entertained is getting harder by the day. And she’s not even thinking about walking yet!

Aug 16, 2020: And down the street, back home. Hoping for a quiet afternoon. Maybe a nap.

Aug 16, 2020: Botanical Garden The Botanical Garden is just up the street, so it was picked as today’s walk destination. We messaged Pedro and he joined us for the duration of the …

Aug 16, 2020: Open one eye, feels rather early, no sound whatsoever coming from the street. 06:15AM. Damn! I won’t survive the whole day if I wake up now! …

Aug 15, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 16 Today’s theme: stationary Sometimes you just have to stop for a little while. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 15, 2020: Nothing. Or everything ? Day 024.

Aug 15, 2020: Finally turned on the tv. Modern Family is on. Ok.

Aug 15, 2020: I had read about Castro’s queing system, and didn’t quite get it until I tried it. I love it.

Aug 15, 2020: Back home for a couple of hours now, tinyMovieStar asleep all that time.

Aug 15, 2020: Lunch with my parents. Crying fit. She’s always in her best behavior when at home 🤪

Aug 15, 2020: Saturday Morning Waking up a bit earlier than expected, again, so why not go to the market and get a little produce ? On our way! Today there was no Arts&Crafts, …

Aug 15, 2020: We’re officially renaming tinyMovieStar. Henceforth she’ll be known as Kim Jong-Clara. She’s good at this dictatorship game 😊

Aug 15, 2020: On a wall far far away… 👾 🇲🇾

Aug 15, 2020: Managed to get one (quick) coffee while the little one woke up for some milk. Hopefully she’ll get back to sleep for another hour or so.

Aug 15, 2020: 100 Days, Day 024 Nothing. I feel I’ve been doing nothing lately. Nothing besides taking care of movieStar and tinyMovieStar, the two most important people in my life. …

Aug 14, 2020: Girls asleep. Core Int playing on Castro, headphones on. Need to sleep, badly, but would love to deal with this one before I nod off.

Aug 14, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 15 Today’s theme: silhouette A part of town I don’t visit often, far from the center. This whole …

Aug 14, 2020: Ice cream: check!

Aug 14, 2020: There’s a liter of ice cream (coconut and cinnamon) on the freezer. We’d LOVE to have some, but there’s a baby refusing to go to …

Aug 14, 2020: Ordering out today. We have no energy left to cook. Both exhausted.

Aug 14, 2020: Good news: Hello Kitty is back, ready to fight the virus! 😻

Aug 14, 2020: Total: 10.5KM with tinyMovieStar. I’m as good as dead.

Aug 14, 2020: That Car Life

Aug 14, 2020: movieStar is getting a haircut, so I’m walking tinyMovieStar back and forth, shooting the occasional photo and just humming along to keep her …

Aug 14, 2020: Estrela & Wurst Going on the opposite direction of the way we usually take, up the other hill (there’s always a hill over here!), you’ll end up in Jardim da …

Aug 14, 2020: This is so cool… Poolside FM

Aug 14, 2020: Killing time before our daily walk by testing the new Kodachrome presets. Something a bit more local, Azenhas do Mar. About an hour outside the city. …

Aug 14, 2020: Plan today is to go up (and it’s a really steep climb!) to Jardim da Estrela. Let’s see if we make it.

Aug 14, 2020: Out fishing… 🐟🇸🇹

Aug 14, 2020: Must have coffee, but afraid the machine might wake the girls up. Might need a bigger house.

Aug 13, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 14 Today’s theme: among Friends. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 13, 2020: That looks comfy… 👰🏻 🇻🇳

Aug 13, 2020: Also, I’m without notifications half a day, because tinyMovieStar keeps touching my watch and changing the settings whenever I’m holding …

Aug 13, 2020: That feeling when I start to enjoy a new filter on Lightroom and I start wondering “How would that One look with this one ?” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Aug 13, 2020: It was a lovely afternoon. Pedro’s father also joined the fun, and we talked about life and photography. What can be better than that ? 🍺

Aug 13, 2020: Back from our afternoon square meeting. A couple of beers, again, with friends and we even got our Polaroid taken! Family outings are even nicer with …

Aug 13, 2020: Follow up to the umbrella post, here’s another in in use during actual rain. Nature being cool and humans, sometimes, cool as well. ☔️🇸🇹

Aug 13, 2020: Girl with umbrella. ☔️🇸🇹

Aug 13, 2020: Yay! 🥰 @vincent @gluon Done! Thank you soooo much 😊

Aug 13, 2020: Oh, no, you didn’t!! 💖 Thank you, @vincent and @gluon!!!

Aug 13, 2020: Another day, another walk We needed coffee, so we decided to walk down to Chiado and get a few packs from Starbucks. A bit, but not much, longer than the usual walk, today we …

Aug 13, 2020: 5:30AM, up for an hour. I have to go back to sleep, otherwise today will be HARD!

Aug 13, 2020: Next up: Unnatural selection by Mara Hvistendahl 📚

Aug 12, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 13 Today’s theme: filter Filtered light. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 12, 2020: VSCO now has a Kodachrome inspired filter, KC25. Free for a while, then part of the X subscription. 🌴 🇸🇹

Aug 12, 2020: Here it is, the National COVID tracing app.

Aug 12, 2020: That’s how we do it. A couple of chairs and a couple of beers 🍺

Aug 12, 2020: The airport in Príncipe is the smallest one I’ve been to. A daily flight from STP, weather permitting, is the main link to the world. People …

Aug 12, 2020: bSides not forgotten, one more for the bridalBliss series… 👰🏻 🇻🇳

Aug 12, 2020: Busier afternoon, with laundry, dishwashing and a restless tinyMovieStar who won’t sleep, even though she’s soooooo sleepy. Also waiting …

Aug 12, 2020: Using Too Good To Go for the first time. It’s a great idea and I’m happy it was shown to me. Give it a try, you might end up with a nice …

Aug 12, 2020: Santos & Madragoa Not a lot of wider shots, today I was drawn to the details. But we did our usual 5K walk, around these other two neighboring areas. We’re really …

Aug 12, 2020: The house right behind us has a pool. The pool is abandoned. Don’t ask me why, it’s summer, in the city, downtown, and they have a POOL! …

Aug 12, 2020: Here we go! Another day is starting… ☕️

Aug 11, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 12 Today’s theme: sound Still keeping it very literal, but this one brings back memories of the sounds …

Aug 11, 2020: Another unexpected side effect from the pandemic: I’m now, kinda, following along a Brazilian soap opera, something I hadn’t done in over …

Aug 11, 2020: I want to learn how to cook properly for a long time, and I’m doing some light cooking at the moment. This has increased my will to learn more, …

Aug 11, 2020: In Beirut, 160 were killed in part due to government negligence and the whole government resigned. In the US, 160,000 people have died due to …

Aug 11, 2020: Old school Lisbon. New school Lisbon.

Aug 11, 2020: The paint job Going through the Bairro Alto you can’t help notice that almost all the buildings have a different shade of paint on the ground floor, newer, and the …

Aug 11, 2020: Chiado and back. A big circle today, to Chiado, Camões, grabbing some pastéis de nata at Manteigaria, and back though the Bairro Alto, but different …

Aug 11, 2020: Best coffee ever Talking with @helgeg I was reminded of the best cup of coffee I’ve had in my life. And also how sometimes I forget the little things that are, …

Aug 11, 2020: tinyMovieStar is talking most of the time she’s awake now. Love the sounds and her face looks when she does that, as if having a real …

Aug 10, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 11 Today’s theme: transportation “Needs a little work, but it’s mine.” 📷 #mbaug

Aug 10, 2020: Still trying to figure out the whole VPS thing, but I already reached one conclusion: I’d have to spend a lot of time sitting at my computer …

Aug 10, 2020: One, long, walk in the morning. One smaller one to the square in the afternoon. A couple of beers with another couple of friends who have a daughter …

Aug 10, 2020: Day 023, it’s about walking.

Aug 10, 2020: Today we went a bit further, and into the neighborhoods next door. It was the Yellow Walk. Went down to the parliament, up again close to Elevador da …

Aug 10, 2020: Just have to remember to always keep smiling… 😃🇸🇹

Aug 10, 2020: Waking up to another day. This one starts out cloudy, but soon we’ll have our lovely sunshine back. tinyMovieStar is very talkative, looks like …

Aug 10, 2020: 100 Days, Day 023 Walking. I have always walked a lot. I’d walk alone, for hours, taking photos along the way, lazily smoking my cigarettes. I met movieStar and she …

Aug 9, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 10 Today’s theme: windows After many years waiting for the perfect time, I finally made it to Macau. …

Aug 9, 2020: Really want to try the VPS thing, install a couple of apps and try this yunohost I hear about, but, at the same time, I already know I won’t …

Aug 9, 2020: Quietness is what I miss the most. That’s it. I’m pretty much ok with everything else. But not having a minute of the day without sound is …

Aug 9, 2020: Back home, and already ordered Ramen from our favorite place in town. In a while we’ll be in Japan, if we close our eyes. Maybe.

Aug 9, 2020: Afternoon view… Kids all over, but nice IPA on the fridge. Play Date for them and for us as well.

Aug 9, 2020: We missed the panda. We did. 🐼🎋

Aug 9, 2020: I had forgotten how much cooler the weather is up here. tinyMovieStar slept without complaining for the first time in almost two weeks.

Aug 9, 2020: Getting ready for bed after a very long day. Still keeping our moods up, but our home really is our safe haven, and everything that gets us out of …

Aug 8, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 09 Today’s theme: black-and-white Doing the whole challenge in black and white, unusual for me, made …

Aug 8, 2020: Back at the in-laws for the night. Tomorrow we’re having a play date (yes, now I’m that kind of person) close by, and then it’s back …

Aug 8, 2020: Saturday is farmer’s market day in the park, and some arts & crafts as well. We got some tomatoes for a salad we’re having for lunch, and a sweet …

Aug 8, 2020: Missing the open road. 🚗 🇸🇹

Aug 8, 2020: It now takes two espressos just to get things started. One is not enough anymore. My brain is working on caffeine alone most of the time.

Aug 8, 2020: We’re spending the night at my in-laws today, going back for the first time since we left. They’re still in the middle of the moving …

Aug 8, 2020: So so right, on so many things… Very much worth a read. How Covid-19 Signals the End of the American Era - Rolling Stone

Aug 8, 2020: I have a VERY nosy upstairs neighbor, always perched on her window, trying to figure out who’s coming and going. When the time came to name my …

Aug 8, 2020: Punk’s not dead. 🎨 ☠️

Aug 7, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 08 Today’s theme: view Woke up to this view on my first night on the island. Still my favorite, all …

Aug 7, 2020: Another fun note: around 20% of the voices we hear, clearly, belong to Portuguese people. The rest, even with the pandemic, are foreign languages.

Aug 7, 2020: You can tell it’s Friday night from the amount of perfume coming in from the street through the open window.

Aug 7, 2020: There she is, asleep. Where ? It doesn’t look like her bed, right ? 👶🏻🤣

Aug 7, 2020: Getting the baby to sleep is getting harder and harder by the day. Both at night and when sun is out. We’re pretty tired by now, 24/7. Still …

Aug 7, 2020: Today’s walk around the block. Still showing the neighborhood to tinyMovieStar… A restaurant close by. Another building (not sure what this one …

Aug 7, 2020: Read @manton’s 5 years later post before leaving for our morning walk, and found this on the way. Seems like a nice fit.

Aug 7, 2020: Looks like I’m not getting any more sleep today. Sad, but there you go… ☕️

Aug 7, 2020: Still on the fence about going somewhere out of town next week. The heat might ruin the whole plan, and we’re just getting things under control …

Aug 6, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 07 Today’s theme: daytripping Around the island by boat. Be back for dinner. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 6, 2020: Incoming from Boise! Thanks @Gabz, very very much appreciated 🙏🏼 You shouldn’t have, and I’m thrilled to have it coming my way. Photos as soon as it …

Aug 6, 2020: Mission: Getting tinyMovieStar back to her bed for the night, and out of ours. Day 01. So far, so good. A bit of protest, but eventually she fell …

Aug 6, 2020: At the moment I can only play games that don’t take to long, and can be interrupted at all times. This one fits the bill. Sage Solitaire

Aug 6, 2020: Back from the pediatrician. Felt like going to the moon and back.

Aug 6, 2020: Two hours before we have to leave for the appointment, and already I want to stay inside and skip that. It’s too hot to go outside. Girls asleep …

Aug 6, 2020: The cool couple. 🤙🏼 👰🏻

Aug 6, 2020: Trying to keep the house as cool as possible, fan has been going for hours! Outside the tarmac seems about ready to melt.

Aug 6, 2020: Making of yesterday’s photo. Our guests for the day loved the tour, and sent us a few photos… It really was a good time.

Aug 6, 2020: Checking the weather all day long now… Activities outside are now Carrot-dependent.

Aug 6, 2020: I guess I can keep pretending I live in Tokyo after all… The average floor area per home in Tokyo is 65.18 square meters Tokyo’s Crowded …

Aug 6, 2020: Still a lot of them around town, a favorite with the tourists and pickpocketing professionals.

Aug 6, 2020: Up again, ready for another day of wonder and amusement. Oh, and a visit to the pediatrician!

Aug 5, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 06 Today’s theme: bisect Splitting the desert, moon looking over. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 5, 2020: The tour took around three and a half hours, with stops for beer, margaritas, pizza and ice cream. tinyMovieStar slept through it all. As soon as we …

Aug 5, 2020: Today’s walk finished at the usual place, with the usual people. Friends, gotta love ‘em.

Aug 5, 2020: Another one of the When Friends Come to Visit… This is my favorite beach in the world. They always like it too. 🌴 🇸🇹

Aug 5, 2020: Long story short, my father was supposed to drop by, we ended up going to my parents for lunch. Like we used to do, just leave, spur of the moment. …

Aug 5, 2020: Second coffee, a shave and a shower. Starting to feel alive again.

Aug 5, 2020: The shy couple… 👰🏻 🇹🇭

Aug 5, 2020: Update: we’re all alive. 10:30AM, both girls still in bed sleeping. Must. Have. Coffee.

Aug 5, 2020: Sometimes, when she’s extra fussy, she gets to sleep in our bed. She might be addicted to it by now, so we’re trying to talk her into …

Aug 5, 2020: Teething can not be harder than this. I’m ok with normal crying, but the wailing is just too much! We can’t figure it out. Almost 2AM and …

Aug 5, 2020: Street cleaning day, men are outside with their huge hoses, washing the street. 1AM, it’s noisy. I used to love this, and other sounds of the …

Aug 4, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 05 Today’s theme: flow Buddhist monks during a walking meditation. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 4, 2020: Tomorrow we’re doing another tour of the neighborhood, but we’ll have company. A cousin married a Finn and she moved there. They’re …

Aug 4, 2020: The dream house. 🏡 🇸🇹

Aug 4, 2020: Day 022, the non-post. Thanks, @ajennische 🙏🏼

Aug 4, 2020: It’s been days since I’ve had time and the right mindset to write one of the 100daysToOffload posts. Usually I’d do it after the …

Aug 4, 2020: Finally made it to the end of the AXIOS. I’m exhausted. What. A. Moron.

Aug 4, 2020: The Príncipe Real part of the walk. There’s a huge garden too, but no photos of that, sorry. Feeling very blessed that we get to live here, even …

Aug 4, 2020: Today’s walk took us to Príncipe Real, again, and a bit of Bairro Alto. This is where I’d spend my nights when I was a young boy. Still a favorite …

Aug 4, 2020: A lot more tourists than I expected, but almost everyone is wearing a mask, even outside. Inside there are marked paths you have to follow.

Aug 4, 2020: My favorite electric motorcycle share-a-ride app is shutting down. I still have so many credits on it I decided to ride one to get some coffee. Feels …

Aug 4, 2020: Trump on AXIOS. It must be so hard to interview a person so so very dumb! “The United States numbers are better than many countries.” …

Aug 4, 2020: 100 Days, Day 022 Still here. I actually have some ideas on my mind, but have no time to sit down and write them. I’m too exhausted when night falls and the girls …

Aug 4, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 04 Today’s theme: peace I never felt at peace until I met her. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 3, 2020: A walk around the house and some singing to tinyMovieStar, and she eventually fell asleep in my arms. I’m guessing she was tired of the singing, …

Aug 3, 2020: On the baby front, same episode as last night: quiet during the day, crazy as soon as the sunset comes. Restless, yelling, nothing will stop her.

Aug 3, 2020: Micro monday, so putting @gabz and @helgeg on the line. Everyone on the community is worth a follow as far as I can tell, but these two are a must.

Aug 3, 2020: I’m thinking today is Uber Eats day. Then again, I always feel the same way when I’m done with my Triple IPA.

Aug 3, 2020: Uncle Pedro came to visit. Time for a beer in the square, and back home for bath time and dinner. Slept most of the afternoon, while trying to get up …

Aug 3, 2020: The smaller apartment is challenging at times, coming from a big house. No garden, no pool, no three floors to stroll with tinyMovieStar. TV is like a …

Aug 3, 2020: Lunch is now behind us, with delicious ice cream for desert. Fingers crossed for an afternoon nap..

Aug 3, 2020: Everyone is up. Time for some coffee and just noticed we need diapers! Only five left, so I guess I know what I’m doing next.

Aug 3, 2020: The bride and the bridesmaids, just before movieStar and I were married. Best time of my life. 💖 🇸🇹

Aug 3, 2020: We made it through another night in the end. Took a while, but tinyMovieStar eventually fell asleep and into her regular quiet night routine, only …

Aug 2, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 03 Today’s theme: bug That’s as close as I’m getting to this thing! 📷 #mbaug

Aug 2, 2020: Today is the day when she’s not sleeping. Not interested at all! It’s going to be a fun night, we’re both exhausted, and she’s …

Aug 2, 2020: Another quick walk around the block before dinner. tinyMovieStar has to leave the house from time to time, and so do we. Life is slowly getting back …

Aug 2, 2020: My investment in ETH has tripled in value. Sadly the investment was 10€.

Aug 2, 2020: Three months in and we’re still trying to find the balance that will allow us to watch a movie once in a while.

Aug 2, 2020: Also today, a new kind of mailbox. Seems safe enough.

Aug 2, 2020: Spotted on my way to the supermarket. “The future belongs to code”. New school opening in town. Free tuition.

Aug 2, 2020: Walking around the neighborhood. tinyMovieStar enjoys getting to know the area. This is where she’ll grow up, hope she loves it as much as we do.

Aug 2, 2020: The area where we live is mostly quiet, but can get a litlle busy on weekends, as there are a few bars around. Things are nicer now, covid means …

Aug 2, 2020: I was about ready to sleep, tired and wanting to lie down and nod off, but decided to wait until midnight arrived so I could post today’s photo …

Aug 2, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 02 Today’s theme: floating Always very literal, I am. 📷 #mbaug

Aug 1, 2020: Done. Beer (beers, schhhhhh) have been had, now back home thinking about dinner. In the end it turned out to be another great day, thanks to friends …

Aug 1, 2020: A cozy corner of the island, there are dozens of these… 🌴 🇸🇹

Aug 1, 2020: Back home, waiting for the temperature to go down a bit and then we’ll go down to the square and have an ice cold beer. Gotta love.. Saturdays …

Aug 1, 2020: I believe teething might be starting. That, or tinyMovieStar has developed a temper 😝

Aug 1, 2020: Small stroll in the square for coffee before heading out to grandma and grandpa for lunch. tinyMovieStar enjoys these walks as much as we do.

Aug 1, 2020: August 2020 Photoblogging Challenge Day 01 Today’s theme: up First one for the challenge, and I might just try to do it all in black and white. …

Jul 31, 2020: Tomorrow is family time again, and in the afternoon we will share a beer and say thank you in person to a friend’s brother we haven’t yet …

Jul 31, 2020: 4PM to 8PM, zZzZ… All of us. Felt great.

Jul 31, 2020: The lonely fisherman. 🐠 🇸🇹

Jul 31, 2020: Still pondering if we’re going somewhere in August. Traveling abroad is obviously out of the question, and the baby situation makes everything a …

Jul 31, 2020: The neighborhood vibe… old school all the way.

Jul 31, 2020: Today tinyMovieStar is having her second go at vaccination. Five minute walk to the place where she’ll get them.

Jul 31, 2020: Yes, that’s the sunrise over there, 06:30AM, up since 01:30AM. I’m going to blame the pepperoni, ok ?

Jul 31, 2020: Another friend from the island, and one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had in my life. 🐢🇸🇹

Jul 30, 2020: Back in business! Uncle Mansinho came to Pracinha, artisanal beer, Roman pizza and oysters! This is the coolest square in town, and we’re …

Jul 30, 2020: Found out about BabyTV on cable. We’re not letting her watch TV, but were curious about channels for babies/infants. There’s a LOT of …

Jul 30, 2020: The backyard view. Jockey’s Cap in the distance. 🌴 🇸🇹

Jul 30, 2020: When friends come to visit us at the island… 💖 🇸🇹

Jul 30, 2020: Very long story short, this is where movieStar and I met, where I proposed, where we got married and where I first seriously considered becoming a …

Jul 30, 2020: Today I’m missing the island a bit more. I wouldn’t be surprised if some photos start showing up over here… I’m going through …

Jul 30, 2020: ID cards are ready. Next available date to pick them up ? Sep 23! Sometimes this is a very sad country.

Jul 30, 2020: Another night has gone by, and we’re still alive. Heat has gone down a bit, and tinyMovieStar eventually fell asleep. We should try to have her …

Jul 30, 2020: 100 Days, Day 021 No time. We moved back to our own place and I have close to no free time. We’re now graduated to Full Parent status, with no help from the …

Jul 30, 2020: No time left. Day 021.

Jul 29, 2020: Standing there, naturally… 👰🏻 🇻🇳

Jul 29, 2020: Extra sleep in the afternoon = fussy tinyMovieStar in the evening.

Jul 29, 2020: Currently reading: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 📚 Testing the new book search. Great work, @manton, seems to be working just fine

Jul 29, 2020: Came back from the appointment, went to the grocery and mini market. movieStar fell asleep, and so did we. We slept most of the afternoon away. Trying …

Jul 29, 2020: Social distancing at the hospital is being enforced with flowers. Sweet idea.

Jul 29, 2020: Coming back to this apartment feels like we moved into a flat in central Tokyo. It’s TINY!

Jul 29, 2020: movieStar has an appointment at the doctor’s in a little while, so things are underway for that operation. Not far from home, but that’s …

Jul 29, 2020: Things you notice when using a laptop: Posts made with Sunlit display photos in a bigger size. Nice.

Jul 29, 2020: I wish there was a decent Micro.blog Linux client. Maybe even an official one…

Jul 29, 2020: Today I would love to be here. Not the fanciest place, but felt good when we were there… ☕️ 🇯🇵

Jul 29, 2020: We need everything. We have no supplies at our place, a food run is very much in order. tinyMovieStar, with her endless suply of milk, is the only one …

Jul 28, 2020: Here it is, first one at the regular place, where we hadn’t been since March. A pint of Porn in the IPA, a Double IPA, from MUSA 🍺

Jul 28, 2020: Getting ready to spend the first night with tinyMovieStar in our home. Getting used to the city sounds again, afraid one of them might wake her up. …

Jul 28, 2020: Where’s Waldina ? We have a lot of unpacking to do, but we’re leaving most of it for tomorrow. Essentials have been located, that’s good enough for …

Jul 28, 2020: Back home also means back to the computer, so it’s Manjaro time. A ton of updates….

Jul 28, 2020: Drove home with help, two cars, and unloaded everything in our flat. tinyMovieStar seems to be enjoying the city life, and we went down to the local …

Jul 28, 2020: Back home. City life…

Jul 28, 2020: Getting ready to go. Car is loaded. Teddy is coming along, with a view.

Jul 28, 2020: Moving in this heat is not fun.

Jul 28, 2020: My bags are packed. Turns out my bags are about 10% of the whole thing. Half of those 10% are cables, chargers, cameras, computer, disks, watches and …

Jul 28, 2020: One more tick on the ToDo list: email to the neighbors, letting them know they should expect some baby-related noise in the following days weeks …

Jul 28, 2020: Moving… 🛵 🇲🇲

Jul 28, 2020: The day is here. As soon as the girls are awake the packing will resume, we’ll load the cars and ride to town. Today we’re sleeping at home, our home. …

Jul 27, 2020: Last night at the Quarantine House. We had a lot of fun, good times, amazing support from the in-laws, and we’re taking a lovely memento back …

Jul 27, 2020: Remembered I had the old Netatmo station and managed to turn the main module and and get it working. Outside module needs replacement, but this is the …

Jul 27, 2020: Back home after a thorough fridge cleaning and a wonderful ride on the seaside road that connects the city to the house where we’re staying. …

Jul 27, 2020: Only thing that will get done before the move actually happens: fridge will be turned on. Getting on the motorcycle and going to town to deal with …

Jul 27, 2020: Social Media usage, for Day 020.

Jul 27, 2020: We could be waking up here instead. Not worrying about the move at all… 🏡 🇮🇩

Jul 27, 2020: Up again, still a bit sleepy, but that’s the new normal. Tomorrow is the set date for The Move but, other than packing a few things, nothing has …

Jul 27, 2020: Next time I’ll follow Brian’s advice and switch from coffee to one of whatever this is… 👾 🇹🇭

Jul 27, 2020: 1AM. I’m thinking that 5PM coffee was not a good idea. Not even a so so idea.

Jul 27, 2020: 100 Days, Day 020 Social media. Five months, going on six, and social media usage has changed a fair bit for me. Using a lot less: Instagram Reddit Twitter A lot …

Jul 27, 2020: “Happy” Days 👰🏻 🇻🇳

Jul 26, 2020: Day is coming to it’s end, and the whole moving thing was postponed. Did nothing of the sort today, we ended up going to the beach, a dip in the pool, …

Jul 26, 2020: I’m this close to changing my bio to Diaper Changer. It is, after all, my main occupation.

Jul 26, 2020: Visits at this place are almost done, today was probably the final one: cousin who lives in Finland, she won’t have many chances for face time …

Jul 26, 2020: We’ve been living next to the beach since March but haven’t been to the actual beach until today. It’s a five minute drive, but pandemic and …

Jul 26, 2020: Sunday spot. A couple of beers and back home.

Jul 26, 2020: I believe today we’ll start out own moving process. Loading the car in a bit and drive the first load home. Turning on the power again, fridge …

Jul 26, 2020: Ready, set, go…! 🏁 🇹🇭

Jul 26, 2020: As the years go by I find it harder and harder to endure noisy environments. I don’t remember being bothered by them, but now find noise …

Jul 26, 2020: Months have gone by, and I’m still amazed movieStar gets up in the middle on the night, picks up the little one, breastfeeds her, and both go …

Jul 25, 2020: Snowden is on but, again, not sure if I’ll be able to make it to the end. Too tired, and it’s not Citizenfour… 🍿

Jul 25, 2020: We had the pleasure of another visit. A mother and son combo, one of our dearest friends, and a neighbor in the city. Always great to entertain …

Jul 25, 2020: Hello, yellow. 👰🏻 🇲🇲

Jul 25, 2020: The moving process is ongoing, house getting emptier by the day. Down to one tv on the living room. The one left is the smaller one, stupid set, the …

Jul 25, 2020: Everywhere you look, there’s another couple… 👰🏻 🇬🇧

Jul 25, 2020: The amount of silliness we’ve seen in this house over the quarantine… It’s like living in a comedy tv show!

Jul 25, 2020: As usual when a new chapter is about to begin, I start wishing we were there already, and not having to deal with all the moving details and nostalgia …

Jul 25, 2020: New life ahead. 👰🏻 🇻🇳

Jul 25, 2020: Not a perfect night. Kept waking up, had to move downstairs because somehow I got a stuffy nose and was afraid to wake up the baby (she’s very …

Jul 24, 2020: Felt good to ride a bike again, even if only for a couple of hours. The ride back, with a friend, was even better. It’s been a while and the …

Jul 24, 2020: No matter where you are… 👰🏻 🇯🇵

Jul 24, 2020: Went to town, picked up the parcel, teamed up with a friend and we both rode back, met another one at home, had a wonderful dinner with plenty of …

Jul 24, 2020: Way way back, right next door. 👰🏻 🇪🇸

Jul 24, 2020: Another $1.20 from sales on EyeEm! Soon I’ll be able to retire! Yay!

Jul 24, 2020: While going through the albums, another series presented itself. While we were honeymooning we came across a few of these shoots. Next up: mixing some …

Jul 24, 2020: Hypothetical highlight of the day: I might, or might not, get on my father-in-law’s Harley and go to town to pick up something for him. It would …

Jul 24, 2020: Friday is upon us. Grabbing a coffee, girls back to bed trying to get an extra hour of sleep. A friend is coming over later today, other than that it …

Jul 24, 2020: 1AM, back playing “Why can’t I sleep?”. This game is getting old, I would rather be playing “Happy Cotton Candy Dreams”, …

Jul 23, 2020: Her best friend so far1 🎨 📱 Not including her dear parents! ↩︎

Jul 23, 2020: The closer we get to the date, the sadder I am. Not crying sad, but a little sad. This really was the perfect place to quarantine. We’ll miss you, big …

Jul 23, 2020: Battery life SO much better on beta 3, but homescreen shortcuts no longer work, and Telegram contacts on share sheet how have no photos.

Jul 23, 2020: Went the the market, last minute thing. A bit stressful, but I guess most things are these days. Baby in the front, backpack in the back, hat, mask, …

Jul 23, 2020: “How is it ? Good enough for Instagram ??” 👸🏻 🇻🇳

Jul 23, 2020: Good morning, good morning. Two days before the weekend, we’re doing fine. Today I’ll have to leave the house to pick up something a …

Jul 23, 2020: A quiet evening, and we’re now in night territory. All is fine for now, hoping we’ll make it to dawn with no issues. This baby is the …

Jul 22, 2020: Enjoying the last days at the house with the lovely pool. Soon we’ll be back in town, small tub in the bathroom is as close as we’ll get to …

Jul 22, 2020: Getting ready for today’s salad making. Yesterday was such a hit that MovieStar requested the same one again! The tiny one will have the same …

Jul 22, 2020: Picked up groceries for today’s salad. tinyMovieStar is ON FIRE today, cranky and nagging all day long, we can’t figure it out. Eating all …

Jul 22, 2020: Three months of this 👶🏻🥰

Jul 22, 2020: One love. 👾 🇹🇭

Jul 22, 2020: My humming skills have also grown in the past months. Considerably.

Jul 22, 2020: I don’t know why I still bother to install updates to all the travel apps on the phone.

Jul 22, 2020: Light sleeper no more. Day 019.

Jul 22, 2020: 100 Days, Day 019 On sleep. Before the baby came along, I was a light sleeper. I would wake up with every little sound. My wife, on the other hand, wouldn’t wake …

Jul 21, 2020: Contact tracing app is being launched in the country in a few days. Beta testing is about to start. I’m taking part of a voluntary study, daily …

Jul 21, 2020: And, if I may say so myself, I’m becoming quite the expert at salad making.

Jul 21, 2020: Went to pick up a rocking chair for tinyMovieStar from a friend’s place today. Cicada noise was so loud I immediately thought about Japan. Also …

Jul 21, 2020: Three Madeira generations in a sweet photo from movieStar. Can’t tell which of us is happiest 👶🏻

Jul 21, 2020: Since we’ll be pool-less in a week, we’re enjoying it as much as possible! Afternoon swim done, and thunderstorm won’t stop me from …

Jul 21, 2020: Back home, and it’s this kind of day… 🐈

Jul 21, 2020: One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the amount of help you get from other moms & dads. We got a TON of stuff for tinyMovieStar, and will …

Jul 21, 2020: Almost time to start getting ready for today’s outing. We’re doing three stops today. One and a half hours to go, just enough for all the …

Jul 21, 2020: Anyway, here’s to the little ones, wherever they may be… 👾 🇲🇽

Jul 21, 2020: Having my first coffee of the day, still thinking about the thunderstorm last night. Amazing how the little one sleeps through dozens of huge blasts, …

Jul 21, 2020: Lifestyle. 🛵 🇲🇽

Jul 21, 2020: The thunderstorm is right on top of us! Huge blasts! My wife woke up startled, with a jump. tinyMovieStar still sound asleep. I guess we know who she …

Jul 21, 2020: Ok, now there’s a thunderstorm. I love thunderstorms, but they make me sleepy and I have a ton of things to read before I nod off.

Jul 20, 2020: That one time, at band camp… Day 018

Jul 20, 2020: It feels a bit weird knowing this is the last week we’re spending at this house, and that we’ll never be able to come back. We always …

Jul 20, 2020: Pretty standard afternoon, with some moving preparations, a quick run to the supermarket, family visiting, and not much else. Tomorrow we’re …

Jul 20, 2020: We’re getting ready to move back to our own place. In-laws about to move out of this house. Brother-in-law about to move out too. Everyone is …

Jul 20, 2020: As we’re even having a bit of rain around these parts today, we’re in total London mood… 🚗 🇬🇧

Jul 20, 2020: Mother-in-law away for the week, helping out another family member, we’re home alone with father-in-law. Fun times ahead.

Jul 20, 2020: Finally found manga I’m REALLY enjoying! Yakuza turned house husband ? Yes, please! Gokushufudou: The Way Of The House Husband

Jul 20, 2020: Monday! There’s a whole new week ahead. Let’s all try to make something out of it…. 🚧 🇬🇧

Jul 20, 2020: 100 Days, Day 018 I’m sure I’ll manage… Reading a post from Gabz reminded me of one thing that happened to me a while back. A long while back. At …

Jul 19, 2020: One thing I’m not going to miss when we move back home, is the dozens of dogs barking all night long. Love dogs, mainly our sweet boxer, but …

Jul 19, 2020: Girls up in the room trying to sleep, I’m down in the living room trying Castro to figure out if it will dethrone Overcast.

Jul 19, 2020: As soon as the heat goes away, she’s back to her old self. Happy as can be. This is the sweetest baby ever, and I’m not saying that because she smiles …

Jul 19, 2020: Sometimes it’s just easier to not get into Netflix search mode, and deal with whatever TV is playing at the moment. Today we got The Intern. We …

Jul 19, 2020: No shoes for Day 017.

Jul 19, 2020: Father-in-law went out and got a newspaper. A real, printed, newspaper. I’ve worked for over 20 years in newspapers, and today it felt strange …

Jul 19, 2020: Great weather for a bike ride.. 👾 🇸🇬

Jul 19, 2020: Woke up to a cold(ish), foggy, day. After weeks of scorching sun beaming down on us, it feels great. Surely tinyMovieStar will appreciate it too.

Jul 19, 2020: Also, wear a mask! 😷 ❌ 🦠 🎨 📱

Jul 19, 2020: But for a brief period there, Twitter was ruled by the followers, not the followed. Twitter Is at Its Best When Verified Accounts Can’t Tweet | WIRED

Jul 19, 2020: 100 Days, Day 017 Barefoot. Short one today, but I had a flashback. Back in the day I worked at a laidback place, and spent six months out of the year barefoot at the …

Jul 19, 2020: … I didn’t make it to the end. Maybe it’s just too late, but found it a bit sloooow and somewhat boring.

Jul 19, 2020: Girls trying to sleep upstairs. I found Invictus on TV. Not sure if I’ll be able to make it to the end, but I’m enjoying it enough that …

Jul 18, 2020: We need to find something new to watch, just in case we have some tv time1. We have all the Ghibli movies to revisit, and still deciding if Eurovision …

Jul 18, 2020: Late night. 👾 🇲🇽

Jul 18, 2020: Cross-posting to my own instance on Mastondon. Old mothership account still enabled, but I’ll try to run business from maique.xyz for a …

Jul 18, 2020: Update: no nap this afternoon. tinyMovieStar decided to skip sleep today, and has this great addiction to walking. So we’re going walking her up …

Jul 18, 2020: Happy days… 👶🏻

Jul 18, 2020: Grilled fish for lunch, by the pool. Damn flies make me mad, other than that it’s a perfect day. Cooler, much cooler, than the previous days. …

Jul 18, 2020: This all comes down to crisis management. That’s what I’ve been learning these past few months.

Jul 18, 2020: Vibrant urban scene. Or not. No gas powered vehicles on the island, so the taxis also look extra nice. 👾 🇲🇽

Jul 18, 2020: Looks like it’s a lot cooler today. On the other hand no one slept properly last night. Mixed feeling about this one.

Jul 18, 2020: With movieStar helping out with the modeling, last one of this series in Georgetown. 👾 🇲🇾

Jul 17, 2020: The garage was not big enough. Ages ago, when Bogas was a young car.

Jul 17, 2020: Day 016. I do love my car.

Jul 17, 2020: No matter how bad your day is going, someone is having a harder one.

Jul 17, 2020: Boy, do I love this car! Longer post later, when I get back home. One of the 100 days will be about it.

Jul 17, 2020: Dentist day again. Today I’m taking my own, old, car. Battery has been fully charged, let’s see if I’m not stranded a few Kms down …

Jul 17, 2020: On a sadder note, unexpected effect of the pandemic: my in-laws are renting this great place from a pilot for a BIG foreign airline that is firing a …

Jul 17, 2020: Making-of of yesterday’s shot with Enric. He was not in the mood for a dip, and I had just finished the pool maintenance job, but went in, shirt …

Jul 17, 2020: 2:40AM | 26C | 78.8F Will we ever manage to sleep around here ?

Jul 17, 2020: Kinda worried. 🎨 📱

Jul 17, 2020: 100 Days, Day 016 I love driving. Cars, not so much. Except my own. Over two decades ago I got new job, a nice one, the dream job. Along with it, came the need for a …

Jul 17, 2020: Lucky to have such great friends, and extra lucky because most of them are also amazing photographers. Photo: Enric Vives-Rubio

Jul 16, 2020: We’re rowing, and rowing… 👾 🇲🇾

Jul 16, 2020: Footnotes look amazing on the blog, less so on the timeline, and really bad when crossposted to Twitter and Mastodon. Shame.

Jul 16, 2020: Long day, all things considered. Great surprise visit from Enric1, but tinyMovieStar refused to sleep all day long. It’s just too hot for that. …

Jul 16, 2020: Busy afternoon, the good busy kind, so not the usual time to browse the timeline as normal these days. I’ve got my work cut out for tonight.

Jul 16, 2020: The hardest one to get a hold of, the elusive Catalan, Mr. Enric, decided to show up today. A good surprise indeed.

Jul 16, 2020: Pool maintenance job this afternoon: trying to unscrew a couple of screws and remove the cover of the drain1 on the deep end. Not very glamorous, …

Jul 16, 2020: Here you go, @gabz, the bicycle one… 👾 🇲🇾

Jul 16, 2020: I could also go for a ride, but have no clue how the bike is doing. Haven’t seen her in months. 👾 🇲🇾

Jul 16, 2020: Back from the food run. It’s not fun doing this alone, I can tell you that much. Managed a full cart, but needed three extra ones for the whole …

Jul 16, 2020: Fresh new day. We’re getting low on food supplies, a food run has to be organized. Sadly my usual partner for these is not around1, so things …

Jul 16, 2020: If this heat is here to stay, we could at least be somewhere else… 🌴 🇰🇭

Jul 16, 2020: 2AM, 24C1, no wind whatsoever. Guess who’s not getting any sleep tonight ?? No, not tinyMovieStar, sound asleep on her tiny bed. …

Jul 16, 2020: Footnotes and stuff I Love footnotes!1 I’m really happy2 that I can finally start using plug-ins on my site! First one had to be Bigfoot, by @jsonbecker. I had to. …

Jul 15, 2020: The fisherman. 👾 🇲🇽

Jul 15, 2020: Another day is ending. Not a lot to add to what these past months have shown us. Less sleep, a lot more happiness, more smiling, and days that have …

Jul 15, 2020: Sunset at the pool, tinyMovieStar is getting used to this.

Jul 15, 2020: Please disregard this one. Test. Just testing 1 footnotes, maybe this is the one plugin that will work on my site. That would be great… Lucky …

Jul 15, 2020: After lunch, still digging through the street art. The Fan Lady. 👾 🇸🇬

Jul 15, 2020: Day 015 is about helping someone.

Jul 15, 2020: Girls still asleep, me lying on the couch, spamming everyone with street art. Sorry about that… Another great place to see some art is Holbox, …

Jul 15, 2020: I used this one as a wallpaper for the iPhone for a while. Still love it. 👾 🇯🇵

Jul 15, 2020: Half my timeline on Twitter is already muted and still it’s hard to find the posts I want to read without getting depressed while looking for …

Jul 15, 2020: Starting this one with a little Neko love 😻 👾 🇲🇾

Jul 15, 2020: Wind has stopped, baby has slept, I have coffee. A new day is about to start. Yay for that.

Jul 15, 2020: 100 Days, Day 015 Be My Eyes. Taking a couple of minutes out of your life to help someone is always a great idea, and this app enables just that. Be My Eyes is a great …

Jul 15, 2020: It’s On! 👾 🇭🇰

Jul 14, 2020: Windy as hell. movieStar hates wind, can’t sleep and goes a little crazy. I LOVE wind. A lot. Hopefully the tiny one will be a little like me 😊

Jul 14, 2020: tinyMovieStar 🥰

Jul 14, 2020: It’s Street Art Day over here, so I did Day 014 about it.

Jul 14, 2020: It’s been a week since I opened the laptop. Miss it for some things, but I hardly got any time left, and opening it up would remind me of the …

Jul 14, 2020: I can smell pancakes for tea.

Jul 14, 2020: Love it when Discover and the Photos timelines get updated. Always find someone I wasn’t yet aware of and worth a follow.

Jul 14, 2020: Hopefully you won’t mind, time for yet another elephant. This time, a cutie! 👾 🇹🇭

Jul 14, 2020: Fell asleep listening to a podcast, and woke up just in time for a diaper change. Some days are just harder, I guess 😂

Jul 14, 2020: Still on the elephant trail… 👾 🇹🇭

Jul 14, 2020: Family lunch at home today, more crowded than usual. Feeling extra tired too, even though I slept most of the night. I guess the lack of sleep and the …

Jul 14, 2020: Elephant love is strong. 👾 🇹🇭

Jul 14, 2020: All together now… 👾 🇲🇾

Jul 14, 2020: Ready for another hot day with nothing else to do but worry if tinyMovieStar is too uncomfortable. Priorities DO change with these little …

Jul 14, 2020: A quick one, testing the filter. London was one of the places where we found amazing art… 👾 🇬🇧

Jul 14, 2020: HK street art. I think I’ll get a few of these and put them together on a separate page… I’ve been drawn to street art forever, I might as well …

Jul 14, 2020: Today I had a dream: tinyMovieStar spoke her first words. She did not say Dada or Mama, instead she went full sentences, complete with very complex …

Jul 14, 2020: Not one to get all “I told you so” on myself, but it’s 1:30AM and here we are, looking at a baby having her 12th meal of the day. Or …

Jul 14, 2020: 100 Days, Day 014 Street Art. I love street art. Ever since I can remember I liked graffiti, and loved how it has evolved into something so fantastic over the years. …

Jul 14, 2020: Basically, the message is that you should find the truth through vomiting and — so sorry — maybe even death. Opinion | Zuckerberg and Facebook Never …

Jul 13, 2020: The (extra) eager salesperson… 🎨 📱

Jul 13, 2020: Sweet dreams are (not) made of these… 👾 🇬🇧

Jul 13, 2020: Time to start thinking about turning in for the night. I’ll probably be around for a couple of extra hours, but wishful thinking never hurts!

Jul 13, 2020: High five! Almost 9PM, still warm. Today was a hot mess, but we made it. Went to town, took care of business, got some Pastéis de Belém (no wait …

Jul 13, 2020: For this Micro Monday two Japanese related suggestions: @davidrmunson, living there and great photographer, @chaitanya, learning the language and all …

Jul 13, 2020: And spotted this rarity. Not a car you see everyday in town. Note: I know nothing about cars. Nothing. But this was the car I wanted to drive when I …

Jul 13, 2020: Back home. tinyMovieStar has a new ID card, and so do her parents. Both of us got a new name! Also first time baby went shopping! City life!

Jul 13, 2020: Favorite color. 💖 🇲🇽

Jul 13, 2020: I was a punctual person. Now it’s harder. Day 013, a few left to go…

Jul 13, 2020: The virus can ravage many of the body’s major organ systems, including the brain and central nervous system. More on COVID and Brain Damage

Jul 13, 2020: 01:30AM, girls asleep, me wide awake. This happens so often these days I have to stop posting it.

Jul 13, 2020: 100 Days, Day 013 Being on time. Since I can remember I’ve always been a bit of a fanatic with being on time. This whole country takes the fashionably late to a …

Jul 12, 2020: Just realized tomorrow I’m having my photo taken for the national ID card, one that will stick with me for 5/10 years. I haven’t gotten a …

Jul 12, 2020: Tried dipping tinyMovieStar’s feet in the pool. That did not go well.

Jul 12, 2020: Quick dip in the pool. It’s too hot, and tomorrow will be even hotter!

Jul 12, 2020: The Long Wait. ⏰ 🇲🇾

Jul 12, 2020: TIL: You can double-tap the current observations on CARROT app to quickly switch between main data source and DarkSky.

Jul 12, 2020: I believe NOW is the time to panic: we ran out of coffee!!! Have to make a quick run to the supermarket and get a few packages, otherwise we risk …

Jul 12, 2020: Soon…

Jul 12, 2020: Slow Sunday it is. Up since 8AM, girls still sleeping. No plans for today.

Jul 12, 2020: Workshops might be on the horizon. I really must find something to do while this whole freelancing thing picks up again, if it ever does. It’s …

Jul 12, 2020: Moving time is getting closer. Day 012 of the 100.

Jul 12, 2020: 100 Days, Day 012 Missing our home. We moved here in March, three days after my birthday. A little over a month later the baby was born, and we had moved because of …

Jul 11, 2020: The Vlogging Mermaid. 🧜‍♀️ 🇹🇭

Jul 11, 2020: Still no fever, tinyMovieStar had a great day with everyone at the pool. A couple more months and she’ll be swimming with the gang.

Jul 11, 2020: After BBQ. Nice times with friends.

Jul 11, 2020: Decided to grab a nice, strong, IPA to drink while prepping the BBQ. Forgot I hadn’t eaten yet… Oops. Let the good times roll.

Jul 11, 2020: Me: “Since there’s no workshop, how about a BBQ ?” Me: “That’s a great idea!”

Jul 11, 2020: The cleaning supplies lady. 🧹 🇹🇭

Jul 11, 2020: The workshop that I was attending this weekend was postponed. The person who was organizing the thing was in close contact with someone who tested …

Jul 11, 2020: tinyMovieStar went through the night without any fever, and that’s great. We were told a rise in temperature was expected after …

Jul 11, 2020: Weekend again, or so they tell me.

Jul 10, 2020: Maybe the time has come to go back to town. Being at home today made us feel homesick, a little more than we expected. It’s been too long.

Jul 10, 2020: Such a strong baby! A yelp, and that was it. 💪🏼 👶🏻

Jul 10, 2020: Home! After months away, we finally made it home. Only for a little while, but it feels great. First thing I noticed: noise! Sweet city sounds! Cars …

Jul 10, 2020: Oh, how I missed dealing with bureaucracy and the sweet sweet civil servants of our fair country….

Jul 10, 2020: Out fishing… 🐠 🇮🇩

Jul 10, 2020: Long day again: today is vaccination day for tinyMovieStar, a quick visit to our place in the city, and lunch with my parents. Then back to the …

Jul 10, 2020: 100 Days, Day 011 I miss walking. There’s not a lot of things I miss at the moment. As I’ve said before, I’m in a position that I’m enjoying, …

Jul 10, 2020: I miss walking. It’s my Day 011 out of a hundred.

Jul 9, 2020: Uneventful rest of day. Walking around carrying the little one, she falls asleep, she wakes up, she poops, eats, sleeps. Bath time, eat, poop, sleep. …

Jul 9, 2020: Having a quiet afternoon with uncle João. He plays beautifully. Gets the tinyMovieStar Seal of Approval (TM)

Jul 9, 2020: Listening to Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You. She wins. Everything.

Jul 9, 2020: Done with The Meeting. Quite nice, actually. Still not sure about the future, but some more things to ponder. Also doing a workshop this weekend, so …

Jul 9, 2020: Wishing we could end this day on this exact spot. 🌴 🇹🇭

Jul 9, 2020: Also quite stoked that (finally!) we’re getting our new Citizen Cards on Monday. All of us. Mine expired over a year ago, tinyMovieStar is …

Jul 9, 2020: Ready for a new day. Yesterday was cool, sold a photo to a nice magazine, today I’ll have a meeting (first one in months!) trying to figure out …

Jul 8, 2020: First time alone with tinyMovieStar, movieStar went out to meet a friend for an hour or so. It was the scariest moment of my life!

Jul 8, 2020: We’re not grumpy ALL the time! From time to time we even crack a smile! 😃👶🏻

Jul 8, 2020: One thing I miss, a lot, is driving for hours in unknown roads… 🚗 🇲🇽

Jul 8, 2020: Conundrum: how will I ever get back to work and miss having tinyMovieStar around 24/7 ? I don’t want to be one of those sorry-I-missed-that …

Jul 8, 2020: Seeing that we’re done with The Great, maybe today is Eurovision day. Seen it recommended a few times here already… 📺

Jul 8, 2020: A new day rises in the westernmost country in Europe, this time a cooler one. Temperatures should stay lower throughout the day. tinyMovieStar is …

Jul 7, 2020: Never too tired for a dance with tinyMovieStar. 💃🏻👶🏻

Jul 7, 2020: Ok, so iOS 14 beta 2 feels super snappy, but the battery goes FAST on my X! Super fast! I can see the damn icon thinning before my eyes!

Jul 7, 2020: Second brother-in-law showed up for a dip in the pool, we had a wonderful dinner outside, tinyMovieStar always looking around, she’s brilliantly …

Jul 7, 2020: Just a reminder that Flickr is still working. Uploaded a few photos, you’ve probably seen them before. Anyway, my Flickr account is up, maybe …

Jul 7, 2020: Baby crying like crazy on the house next door. For a second my heart was racing.

Jul 7, 2020: Booted Manjaro again on the laptop, simply because I can’t stand the heat and the fan noise from the stupid Photos.app going full blast 24/7, …

Jul 7, 2020: Went to the Swedish Embassy. Can’t say it’s my favorite trip, @ajennische 😂

Jul 7, 2020: Quick run to IKEA for a new bathtub for tinyMovieStar. She’s not enjoying the bucket as much as I do. And I guess what SHE likes is the …

Jul 7, 2020: 01:30, bouncer time! 🎨 📱

Jul 7, 2020: 100 Days, Day 010 HOT It’s too hot. I have a few ideas going on around my head for a couple of posts, but the long one is (still) on the works, and the heat that …

Jul 7, 2020: movieStar. I will follow her to the end of the world. 💖 🇲🇽

Jul 6, 2020: 22:40 movieStar doing laps around the pool to get the little one to sleep. The house is finally getting quieter, and she should be asleep. Life, it …

Jul 6, 2020: I needed a Micro.blog themed wallpaper for the iPhone, so I decided to make a playful one with Procreate. If anyone else wants it, feel free to get …

Jul 6, 2020: Nothing big to report: tinyMovieStar is having a blast (literally, there’s a huge fan in the room), no heat stroke, no nervous crying, just …

Jul 6, 2020: Ciao, HEY

Jul 6, 2020: When we were back at that special yellow place. 💛 🇲🇽

Jul 6, 2020: tinyMovieStar still relaxed. Mom is swimming in the pool, we’re both watching her. Well, I’m watching, baby is sleeping in my arms. Heat …

Jul 6, 2020: Here you go, @ajennische , one of my father-in-law’s latest. The bench/fence set, complete with paddle and tiny boats 😊

Jul 6, 2020: Tonight was on and off for me, waking up and falling asleep. Woke up early(ish) and tinyMovieStar a little after that. She’s in a good mood, all …

Jul 6, 2020: What do you get when you add a full moon night to a hellish hot day ? A - Restless Baby B - Restless Baby C - Restless Baby

Jul 5, 2020: Time for a couple more episodes of The Great before we go to bed. If we manage that we will finish it. Great show, by the way. 📺

Jul 5, 2020: Posted a photo on Instagram today. It would have been two weeks without a post tomorrow. I don’t think I’ve ever been away for so long.

Jul 5, 2020: Climbing the Kilimanjaro! 📷 👶🏻

Jul 5, 2020: I could have a margarita (or two) right about… now. 👾 🇲🇽

Jul 5, 2020: I ate with these when I was a little boy and my mom kept them all these years. It’s been probably 40 years since I had last seen them.

Jul 5, 2020: Back from the city. The temperature difference is incredible! 27C where we are, 38C in the city. 20kms apart! Sorry, US readers, you’ll have to …

Jul 5, 2020: It’s SOOOOO HOT!!!! 🥵 🥵 🥵

Jul 5, 2020: Sometimes you don’t realise the pivotal moments in history until it’s too late. And sometimes you do. It’s not quite yet too late. Just almost. …

Jul 5, 2020: Some say she kinda looks like me…. 👶🏻

Jul 5, 2020: Prepping has started for the road trip to nana’s house. My mother is probably already well underway with her cooking as well…

Jul 5, 2020: It’s going to be a hot one. Anyone has a time machine they can spare for a couple of days ? 💖 🇰🇭

Jul 5, 2020: Baby brother finished his post-Brazil quarantine, he’s meeting us tomorrow for lunch. First time he’ll be able to properly see his niece.

Jul 4, 2020: It’s past 9:30PM and I feel I have accomplished nothing today. Not a single thing.

Jul 4, 2020: Dinner time. 🍲 🇲🇾

Jul 4, 2020: Also, I’m test-driving a fresh avatar, but the old one has been in use for so long I’m not sure I’ll get used to a new one. As you …

Jul 4, 2020: I would like to have a tally of the diapers we’ve been through, but also scared of having a tally of the diapers we’ve been through.

Jul 4, 2020: Scorching hot today. MovieStar might go into the pool, it’s cool afternoon for me and tinyMovieStar inside, where it’s (a bit) …

Jul 4, 2020: A couple more episodes of The Great before lunch.

Jul 4, 2020: And a Happy 4th of July for those on the other side of the ocean. 🇺🇸 🎉

Jul 4, 2020: Photographers and their apps. Mansinho came over for the BBQ and had just installed Photoshop Camera. tinyMovieStar and proud dad 👶🏻

Jul 4, 2020: We have this routine now: tinyMovieStar wakes her mother up at 7AM/8AM, she’s hungry. I wake up, run downstairs, have a cup of coffee. They fall …

Jul 4, 2020: New day, there’s a lot to learn. 👨🏻‍🏫 🇹🇭

Jul 3, 2020: Now on episode 4 (or is it 5?). We’ve done nothing else. tinyMovieStar is asleep for hours, we’re enjoying the quietness by adding a tv …

Jul 3, 2020: Quiet afternoon at home, even though tinyMovieStar is still having some tummy issues. Milder ones.

Jul 3, 2020: Episode 1 of The Great. Funny. Not too funny, but some very entertaining bits. 📺

Jul 3, 2020: Here, @hollyhoneychurch, a very VERY rough sketch 😂🤣

Jul 3, 2020: Gentlemen, start your engines! One from Malaysia. The girls are sleeping, and I needed one to get the Malaysian page started. 🏎 🇲🇾

Jul 3, 2020: Running around. Another time, at another country. bSides Thailand, starting today. Still a few more to go, it feels great to revisit these places in …

Jul 3, 2020: Let’s try to make it through today without any major accidents.

Jul 3, 2020: 100 Days, Day 009 An Instance With some extra time on my hands, and not enough time at the same time, I’m looking for things to do when I’m allowed a break …

Jul 3, 2020: One of the older projects is still going strong. palmLove! 🌴 🇭🇰

Jul 2, 2020: On another front, the imbeciles at the US Embassy in town are having a 4th of July party, 1000 people attending, “masks not required”! WTF …

Jul 2, 2020: This has been a loooooong day. A bit of a headache to top it off.

Jul 2, 2020: Day 008, a short one, while we wait for the bigger post (I’m on it!)

Jul 2, 2020: The burnt rubber smell is gone, but we’ve been on cleaning duty for hours now. The whole kitchen was covered in micro rubber bits!

Jul 2, 2020: The New Pacifiers.

Jul 2, 2020: The Ex-Pacifiers

Jul 2, 2020: Ok. Everything is ok, but we stress tested that ikea fire blanket. It works. TIL: set a timer on the phone when you’re boiling pacifiers.

Jul 2, 2020: Only way she can sleep properly today is on the Boba wrap.

Jul 2, 2020: Tummy aches. It’s not easy.

Jul 2, 2020: The Gatekeeper! 🎨📱

Jul 2, 2020: 2AM, she’s asleep, for now. I believe this is the time for me to do the same. If nothing too dramatic happens, I’ll join you again in the morning, …

Jul 2, 2020: 100 Days, Day 008 Busy, busy, busy… We’ve had a (small) fire in the kitchen Trying to write a (very) long post Cleaning up the fire damage Getting new …

Jul 2, 2020: The band played on.. 🎵 🇰🇭

Jul 1, 2020: Downside of the wonderful heat, tinyMovieStar is restless again. Close to no sleep during the day. That means one of two things: she’ll sleep …

Jul 1, 2020: I have no idea why the thought of having my own Mastodon instance keeps going around in my mind! I have better places to spend my money, why is this …

Jul 1, 2020: The boys came over for a visit and BBQ lunch. Yes, they brought beer! 🍺

Jul 1, 2020: We inherited a Concord stroller/crib/thingy for tinyMovieStar. She’s happy, we’re happy. Today I decided to check out the brand, as …

Jul 1, 2020: Picanha + Beer + Pool.

Jul 1, 2020: The night strollers. 📷 🇸🇬

Jul 1, 2020: TIL: Doomscrolling. The current year is nothing if not a marathon; trying to sprint to the end of one’s feed will only cause burnout and a decline in …

Jul 1, 2020: Good morning, good morning. Uneventful night behind us, coffee in hand, ready for that second half of the year! Thank you for the reminder, …

Jul 1, 2020: While we waited… Slightly Misconfigured Robot. 🎨📱

Jul 1, 2020: We expected tinyMovieStar to wake up for her feeding, she decided to oversleep for two hours. We waited. She’s happy and relaxed, we’re a …

Jun 30, 2020: Let there be light! And sound! Here it is, @eyetinerary, my take on the Gardens by the Bay by night 😊 🌴 🇸🇬

Jun 30, 2020: Great afternoon by the pool, with friends. Tomorrow we have a BBQ lined up. It’s going to be a fun day too.

Jun 30, 2020: So far, so good.

Jun 30, 2020: Done with lunch, now setting up for a quick drive to a friend’s place. Spending a couple of hours over there and then it’s back to the …

Jun 30, 2020: movieStar also got a present today, ‘Nico’, the amazing book from Studio Nozes. It’s a delicious book written and drawn by Maria …

Jun 30, 2020: tinyMovieStar got her first package in the mail. The name was a bit off, as was the address, but the mail person figured it out, and believed me when …

Jun 30, 2020: Play with me. 🧸 🇬🇧

Jun 30, 2020: Still looking for a nice Mastodon client for macOS, today I came across toot, a cool CLI for Mastodon. Mastodon feels a lot geekier with this …

Jun 30, 2020: Day 007, the stay-at-home dad thing. I would really enjoy this.

Jun 30, 2020: I have a Wired subscription, again. Didn’t really need it, but 5USD for a year is worth not having to go around the paywall, if nothing else. …

Jun 30, 2020: 100 Days, Day 007 Stay-at-home dad. A couple of days ago I posted something on Micro.blog, and a conversation started with TimeAffluent that got me thinking about a lot …

Jun 30, 2020: Classic 🚗 🇬🇧

Jun 30, 2020: Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Today I came across a toot, talking about a tweet, and I could totally relate to the concept. “報復性熬夜” (revenge bedtime procrastination), a phenomenon …

Jun 29, 2020: Going to love looking back through this Micro.blog in a few months, and see the mess of baby stuff, old photos, geekier stuff, covid, and all the …

Jun 29, 2020: Still have to figure out why she sleeps so well during the day, and keeps us up at night. We’re keeping it cool and relax on afternoons, trying …

Jun 29, 2020: The Same For Everyone 🎨 🇬🇧

Jun 29, 2020: Got a call for a casting. Good. On the email there’s a sentence: “avoid showing tattoos”. Not sure how that’s gonna work.

Jun 29, 2020: Soooooo… pediatrician does not recommend using the Boba wrap as much as we love it, something about spinal injury! That is a shame and a huge …

Jun 29, 2020: Went ahead and removed another Google service from my life. Google Analytics is no longer active on my main photography site but, as it’s hosted …

Jun 29, 2020: Purple Life. 💜 🇬🇧

Jun 29, 2020: Micro Monday is here! This week I’d like to share two accounts, again. Being a Portuguese photographer, I’m sharing a photography account …

Jun 29, 2020: CoffeeTime, and then it’s back at it. Another lovely day, this time it’s a Monday it seems!

Jun 28, 2020: Another day is almost done. Loving this baby routine more every day. I can easily see myself as a stay-at-home dad.

Jun 28, 2020: beSeated, London edition. 🪑🇬🇧

Jun 28, 2020: Drove with my brother-in-law to the gas station for iQos cigarettes and a pint of Häagen-Dazs for movieStar. Total time spent outside the safe zone …

Jun 28, 2020: Even without the new features, iOS 14 feels so much better than 15.3 on my phone. It was barely usable, now it feels I have a new iPhone. Glad I did …

Jun 28, 2020: Same same, all over. @robertbrook got me thinking about London, so today the city is added to the bSides project and it’s the first one not in Asia. …

Jun 28, 2020: Woke up at 7AM, baby Clara crying a bit, stomach aches, it seemed. Picked her up, a stroll around the house and she fell asleep in my arms. Slept for …

Jun 28, 2020: 00:27, in bed! What’s wrong with me ? Am I going to have a regular night’s sleep ? Is this a dream ? I’ll probably just read for a …

Jun 27, 2020: Considering Mastonaut for macOS but, at the same time, the stock Mastodon and Pinafore feel good enough for my desktop Mastodon experience. Anyone …

Jun 27, 2020: Another side-effect of the quarantine: I have a renewed respect for people who keep their promises.

Jun 27, 2020: On the baby front, everything is fine. She’s relaxed and smiles all day long now. Looks like she’s a happy baby. 👶🏻

Jun 27, 2020: I would be forever thankful and in debt to someone who manages to kill photoanalysisd and photolibraryd once and for all! These two are responsible …

Jun 27, 2020: Everything seems to be running smoothly. Time for a cup ? ☕️ 🇮🇩

Jun 27, 2020: I’m back. iOS 14. Working. Now let’s read MacStories and see what’s new, I’m very behind on my reading list.

Jun 27, 2020: Against reason, due to lack of sleep, some boredom, and advice from @gabz, I’m installing beta 1 of iOS 14. See you on the other side, or from my Air, …

Jun 27, 2020: Long before the artisanal beer craze, I remember this one. Sovina has been around forever. Don’t recall the IPA, but it was nice to see they’re still …

Jun 27, 2020: It’s Saturday. I just realized that, right now, because someone wished someone else a good weekend on Mastodon.

Jun 27, 2020: The garden. 💡🇯🇵

Jun 27, 2020: Finished it, sorta, the one about my brother-in-law. One of them, really. It’s Day 006 of the 100. 94 to go!

Jun 27, 2020: 100 Days, Day 006 Brother-in-law. I never had a brother-in-law before, and I’m close to 50 years old by now. I got married for the first -and last- time a couple …

Jun 27, 2020: Haven’t done one of these in a while, so a quick one before I try to get back to sleep. 🎨 📱

Jun 26, 2020: The simple life: Micro.blog, Toot!, and Drafts. Still struggling with a new post, it’s about my brother-in-law, and I really want this one to come out …

Jun 26, 2020: Back home! tinyMovieStar is perfect, according to the doctor, mom is perfect, according to the other doctor. No one saw dad, so we have no idea how …

Jun 26, 2020: What was supposed to be the last stop (pediatrician) is now the one before last. Baby Clara is also visiting her uncle Pedro, who managed to escape …

Jun 26, 2020: Second stop: check! My mom cooks the most delicious food and today was not a disappointing meal! I’m so full I could just lie down and die!

Jun 26, 2020: Praying she won’t get hungry again when mom’s not close. 🙏🏼 🇻🇳

Jun 26, 2020: First stop: OBGYN. Crying for while mom’s away. Getting a bit hungry and cranky. Mom came down, everything is back on track. Sadly I can’t …

Jun 26, 2020: Plans for today : pediatrician day (finally!), visit my parents and OBGYN for movieStar in the afternoon. We’ll be out of the house most of the …

Jun 25, 2020: Micro.blog emoji at Mastodon.Social Ask, and you shall receive! I wanted to be able to add a Micro.blog emoji to my profile at Mastodon.Social. The administrators at another instance had …

Jun 25, 2020: I know it’s common knowledge, I’ve heard it a thousand times too, but babies DO smell nice! 👶🏻

Jun 25, 2020: “How does that sound to you?”, he asked.

Jun 25, 2020: Uncle Nuno came for a visit, we had a couple of beers, and updated each other on last month’s news. Feels really nice when friends come to visit.

Jun 25, 2020: Looking for a nice Mastodon/Pleroma client for the desktop ? Sengi seems like a good bet. Versions available for macOS, Windows, Linux, and browser.

Jun 25, 2020: Done. New sticker is already happy in her new home.

Jun 25, 2020: Back from out weekly supermarket run. This time we went before lunch, it was ok. Now on to baby duty.

Jun 25, 2020: There is also a dog in the house, Rosa, the mustachioed boxer. She is sweet as can be, and also thinks she’s baby Clara’s mom!

Jun 25, 2020: Yesterdy I tried having a Manjaro Day. Didn’t quite work, nor did the post… Anyway, it was Day 005 of the Hundred Day Thing.

Jun 25, 2020: The cat at my in-laws spends most of his time roaming the neighbourhood, and is always getting into messy fights. He’s a sweetheart at home, but …

Jun 25, 2020: Breakfast time at the monastery. 🍚🇲🇲

Jun 25, 2020: 100 Days, Day 005 Manjaro Day. Or hour. Less personal this time. I have a couple of posts I want to write, but they’ll take longer, there’s just no time …

Jun 24, 2020: We were also told that bath would leave the baby sleepy, but our tinyMovieStar did not get the memo! Loves bath time, and is super relaxed while in …

Jun 24, 2020: Thinking the post I should be writing for the 100Days challenge, but too tired to focus. Lying on the couch for a while. BRB.

Jun 24, 2020: Logistics. 🛵 🇮🇩

Jun 24, 2020: Another side effect of sleep deprivation: getting the appointment dates wrong. Drove all the way into town, found out it’s Friday, not today. …

Jun 24, 2020: Today is pediatrician day for tinyMovieStar. Last time we were there the verdict was ‘Spectacular’. I wonder what she’ll say today …

Jun 24, 2020: Look what came in the mail! Thank you, @macgenie ! Guess I know where this one is going! Lovely packaging too, a sweet card and a cute sticker sealing …

Jun 24, 2020: Smoke break! 🚬 🇻🇳

Jun 24, 2020: Booting Manjaro for the first time in months. Let’s see how that goes.

Jun 24, 2020: Today I came across a toot by Kev Quirk with a thorough and yet simple tutorial on how to set up an h-card on your site. A few hours later, after baby …

Jun 23, 2020: Busy busy day. No time left for the usual internet things… maybe after tinyMovieStar is asleep.

Jun 23, 2020: I’ve tried HEY for the past couple of days, and I’m not feeling the WOW factor. On iOS it actually feels half-baked. It doesn’t …

Jun 23, 2020: Another visit to the dentist, and today I drove extra slow. Getting up to speed with Core Int, and a couple more episodes of Micro @monday. Today: …

Jun 23, 2020: Noon. Up for hours. Waiting for the girls to wake up, again 😊

Jun 23, 2020: Timeline: don’t watch WWDC keynote sleep like a baby wake up check Micro.blog see a post about Big Sur check to see if roadie (MacBook Air …

Jun 23, 2020: Feeling blessed for a long time. ☀️ 🇰🇭

Jun 23, 2020: 100 Days, Day 004 Micro.blog, and the state of the internet. My internet. Special thanks to @manton, for all the work he’s done, is doing and …

Jun 23, 2020: 100 Days, Day 004 Micro.blog, and the state of the internet. My internet. For years I’ve been doing the same, as far as social media goes. My main network is …

Jun 22, 2020: Close to midnight, we’re not that scared of the night anymore. Things have settled down a bit, usually, so a bad night is now something out of …

Jun 22, 2020: This is probably the first time I’ve completely missed the WWDC keynote. I’ll read about it on a couple of Apple news sites, so far …

Jun 22, 2020: Back home, back to bSides. Praise him. Or them. 🙏🏼 🇲🇲

Jun 22, 2020: Hey. My invite came through, and even though I’m pretty sure I won’t be sticking around much longer, I still have the two invites to …

Jun 22, 2020: My notes for São Tomé and Príncipe, v1.0. Still working on it, but links are updated and should already work. This one was written down as an …

Jun 22, 2020: While everyone seems to be talking about WWDC (Hey!) today, I’m just thrilled I discovered a toothpaste that blew my mind. Colgate Max White Charcoal, …

Jun 22, 2020: My wife is lying in bed next to me, and we’re talking on Telegram. That’s how we prevent tinyMovieStar from waking up, after she finally …

Jun 22, 2020: Now hoping for (another) quiet afternoon. The rest of the week will be spent running around with doctors appointments, routine things. Dentist for …

Jun 22, 2020: The Guides One of the things I started doing a while back, is write down a few notes about some of the places we visit, when a friend mentions he might be going …

Jun 22, 2020: 100 Days, Day 003 On friends. In the end that’s all that matters.

Jun 22, 2020: Two months of this 👶🏻🥰 Happy second Monthiversary, tinyMovieStar! Thank you, movieStar 😘

Jun 22, 2020: 100 Days, Day 003 On friends. The thing I miss(ed) the most during the whole pandemic/lockdown period, as I guess most people did, were my friends. I don’t have a …

Jun 21, 2020: It was the most wonderful day. So much so, we’re spending the night! Good friends are a treasure one should really cherish. Feeling grateful.

Jun 21, 2020: 100 Days, Day 002 Ok, managed to do another day. We’re rolling!

Jun 21, 2020: Also nice inside. Look what I found, classic! 🛵 📚

Jun 21, 2020: Afternoon view.

Jun 21, 2020: A cliff fit for a baby. 🦖 🇮🇩

Jun 21, 2020: The best place to listen to podcasts, in my opinion: while driving. I can never focus on them as much as when I’m behind the wheel.

Jun 21, 2020: Baby Clara’s first words, via Telegram, of course. “Aww qqqqq11qqqqqqqqqqqq1qq1q1qqqq qqqqqqqqqqqqqwwwwwwwwwqqwwwwww …

Jun 21, 2020: Coffee time. Then packing time. Then quick supermarket run for beer. Then trip to the other side of the river. Long and, hopefully cool day ahead, …

Jun 21, 2020: Enjoying The Guardian’s coverage (and side notes) of the Orange Man’s rally.

Jun 21, 2020: Added 50 new quotes to @PhotoQuotes. More coming up, but that should be enough for a good run already… Hope you enjoy them! Photography is …

Jun 21, 2020: 100 Days, Day 002 There is a lot to learn. A lot. TinyMovieStar is now a day short of two months, and this has been a ride. We can count ourselves lucky, she’s …

Jun 21, 2020: Started my attempt at #100DaysToOffload, a great idea from Kev Quirk. Not sure if I’ll make it to the end, but I’ll try. I’ve been …

Jun 20, 2020: Dinner-wise, it was UberEats day, Indian. Nice, but not as tasty as our sweet Nepalese restaurant close to home.

Jun 20, 2020: Two years ago to this day, it was nun day. Still one of my favorite days, and photos, from the whole trip. 📷 🇲🇲

Jun 20, 2020: Before the honey was applied… 🥞 🍯

Jun 20, 2020: Back inside, watching an IndieWebCamp Personal Website Introductions video on YouTube. Afraid I’ll get too many ideas out of it, then I’ll …

Jun 20, 2020: Vitamin D time.

Jun 20, 2020: PhotoQuotes bot I long time ago I made a bot for the bird network and today I woke up thinking I might port that one to Mastodon. Why ? I’m spending more time …

Jun 20, 2020: Speeding along, that’s one way to do it. 🛵 🇮🇩

Jun 20, 2020: Looking forward to tomorrow, we’re going out of town again. This baby must be infected with the travel bug, just like her parents were. …

Jun 20, 2020: Good morning. It’s Saturday, but it could be a Tuesday, maybe even a Friday. Every day still feels the same, so there is really no point in …

Jun 20, 2020: Time for a quick bite. 🍜 🇻🇳

Jun 20, 2020: 01:30AM search: “What to do when your baby won’t fart ?” That’s where my life is at the moment. 👶🏻

Jun 20, 2020: 100 Days, Day 001 I don’t have a lot to say. I don’t. I do have a lot on my mind, though. Maybe some of them should be written down, I’m sure most …

Jun 20, 2020: Cigarette break. 🚬 🇻🇳

Jun 19, 2020: Pretty good day! Visit from Russinha and Pina, beer, happy baby, happy mom, happy dad… Hoping the night will also be a nice one!

Jun 19, 2020: Great company. 🍺

Jun 19, 2020: MovieStar, my amazing wife… (It doesn’t really look like her, she’s much nicer looking. (Sorry about the Instagram link…) 🎨 🥰

Jun 19, 2020: And now, as a little cherry on top of a close to perfect days (as perfect days now go), a very good friend is making his way over here with a very …

Jun 19, 2020: Don’t want to jinx it, but smooth sailing today! Sleeping, eating, not crying. 👶🏻

Jun 19, 2020: Waneella Maybe you’re into pixel art, and maybe you’re into Japan. If you’re into one of these or, luckily, into both, you might have already …

Jun 19, 2020: Also, I really need to find work! All these months locked at home made a real dent in my savings…

Jun 19, 2020: NOT today’s morning walk. Sadly. 🌴 🇮🇩

Jun 19, 2020: Hoping for a quieter day today.

Jun 19, 2020: Update: this episode is a bit boring. Always the same characters, no plot twist, monotonous soundtrack,…

Jun 19, 2020: Apple’s decision strikes me as consistent with its rules and policies, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right decision. Rules correctly applied that …

Jun 19, 2020: Watching the Baby Trying to Sleep, Season 1 Episode 59. 👶🏻

Jun 19, 2020: That “dangerously close to death” selfie mood. 😱🇮🇩

Jun 18, 2020: Baby Clara was a bit anxious, but she’s now asleep inside the Boba Wrap. She’ll have to be transferred to her tiny bed, it’s 11PM …

Jun 18, 2020: Anyway… End of Day beer, today we’re having Coruja IPA. Not the best IPA around, actually closer to worst IPA around, but the cap is nice.

Jun 18, 2020: Anyone finding 13.5.1 super slow and funny on iPhone X ? Never had a problem with it, and now the camera won’t shoot, crashes a lot, reboots.. …

Jun 18, 2020: Long and messy days. I’m not used to socializing with over two people at the same time anymore. It’s exhausting!

Jun 18, 2020: Is Micro.blog back yet ? These other sites are not cutting it anymore… 📱🇻🇳

Jun 18, 2020: A ton of people came to visit. I’m overwhelmed.

Jun 18, 2020: Micro.blog down = new domains up! I now own two new ones! Please come back!

Jun 18, 2020: It’s not easy when Micro.blog goes down. Hope they manage whatever issue is plaguing the site.

Jun 18, 2020: The bear who thought he was a Zen master. 🧸 🎨

Jun 18, 2020: I used to think I was a prolific photographer. That was before my baby girl was born.

Jun 17, 2020: Street food is just a part of it. Street barbers are on another level. 💈 🇻🇳

Jun 17, 2020: Brother-in-law and I made really nice guacamole and fajitas for dinner. Forgot to take the mandatory photo before we ran out! That’s how good it …

Jun 17, 2020: Giving up on the news. 📰 🇻🇳

Jun 17, 2020: Oh! And baby brother finally made it back from Covid infested crazy Brazil! Uff! He had to hop on a flight to São Paulo from where he was staying, and …

Jun 17, 2020: … and then she smiles, and I no longer remember I didn’t sleep at all. All is well. 👶🏻

Jun 17, 2020: Someone is keeping an eye on you. 🎨 🇻🇳

Jun 17, 2020: It’s was not an easy night, and that is putting it mildly. I had to deal with an HBT, a Hostile Bed Takeover! I’m now positive the two of …

Jun 17, 2020: The heat is on. ☀️ 🇱🇦

Jun 17, 2020: 05:30AM. Guess who’s still up ?

Jun 17, 2020: People spending more time at home with their families, fewer people were commuting to work and delays to the start of the school year are seen as …

Jun 17, 2020: It’s one of those nights. Baby Clara is cranky, won’t sleep for over 10 minutes straight, she won’t stop eating, and is acting like …

Jun 17, 2020: Movie set vibe. Maybe I’ll dream of this if I manage to fall asleep. 🚗 🇱🇦

Jun 16, 2020: Trying a couple of episodes of Dave before we try to sleep. 📺

Jun 16, 2020: “There’s a bear out there, he’s driving a Tesla!” 🧸📷

Jun 16, 2020: Darn! Tomorrow’s shoot has been postponed, yet again. I was actually looking forward to shooting again. On the plus side, since I don’t have to wake …

Jun 16, 2020: Tomorrow I have to leave home and shoot a portrait. Haven’t done that in over three months! Time to dust off the old camera 🧹📷

Jun 16, 2020: Just testing Embedding microblog posts with Quotebacks. It was there, right before our eyes, and it was the most beautiful one we’d seen so far. It …

Jun 16, 2020: One thing I noticed since I moved to Micro.blog: time on Instagram is down to near zero. Time on Twitter also seriously down. Time on Mastodon …

Jun 16, 2020: My first Micro Monday suggestions would have to be @ajennische and @timeaffluent. Great to have found both of them here, lovely members of the …

Jun 16, 2020: Kuang Si Yesterday I posted a photo from Kuang Si, and the reactions were so nice I thought about posting a few more. That is a very special place indeed. From …

Jun 16, 2020: Seven hours straight. That’s how much I slept today! Love you, movieStar, you’re the greatest!

Jun 15, 2020: Breakfast, Luang Prabang style. Alms for the monks. 🍚🇱🇦

Jun 15, 2020: Very early today, not even midnight, and already in the room with the girls, trying to get the baby to sleep. Maybe we can all have a great night …

Jun 15, 2020: Back from this week’s food run. Done. Everything quiet on the home front.

Jun 15, 2020: Watching 8:46 by Dave Chappelle. I’m trying to limit my intake of news these days, must stay as stress-free as possible, for my sake and the …

Jun 15, 2020: I need a shower, and this would be the place where I’d like to have it today. 🧼 🇱🇦

Jun 15, 2020: Now I also understand the building-sized diaper packages. They go through a LOT of them!

Jun 15, 2020: ☕️ Hello ☕️ there ☕️ good ☕️ morning ☕️

Jun 15, 2020: The clock keeps ticking, and still no sleep. Sun is up, I’m up, it’s going to be a great day, I’m sure. Giving it another try, but …

Jun 15, 2020: Almost two months gone by, and these sounds baby Clara makes while sleeping still scare the shit out of me! It’s past 4AM again and I’m …

Jun 15, 2020: The wandering dishwasher. 🍽 🇰🇭

Jun 15, 2020: You’re right, Will Smith, babies should come with a manual. Or, at least, a QuickStart Guide!

Jun 15, 2020: Where are you ? 📱🇰🇭

Jun 15, 2020: Not a lot to say about today. We had visitors, but I’m really not in entertainment mode. Slept through most of the afternoon, I needed it. …

Jun 14, 2020: Done: spent most of the afternoon sleeping!

Jun 14, 2020: I could use another hour (or maybe 20) of sleep.

Jun 14, 2020: You get a fan! And you get a fan! Everyone gets a fan! 💨 🇰🇭

Jun 14, 2020: My father-in-law has a new motorcycle and he’s also sick of being stuck at home. So he’s trying hard to find things we really need and …

Jun 14, 2020: Social distancing, the old fashioned way. 🏝 🇰🇭

Jun 14, 2020: Time for another double espresso, I won’t make it to lunch time without it. ☕️

Jun 14, 2020: Hi. It’s that 05:05AM check. Some people are up already, some at the gym, some at work. I’m only missing some sleep. Will I get it in the …

Jun 14, 2020: 03:30AM, time for another feeding session for Baby Clara. It’s my window of opportunity to get into the room without waking them both up and …

Jun 14, 2020: Look away! 😵🇰🇭

Jun 14, 2020: There’s nothing more outdated than a jetski! My Wife

Jun 14, 2020: Finished DEVS. Not my cup of tea, but made it to the end. Had company watching it, otherwise I believe I wouldn’t finish it. 📺

Jun 13, 2020: After the initial “I miss people” phase of the lockdown, I’m now at the “I’d be glad if I could only see maybe 4 or 5 of …

Jun 13, 2020: Boy, do I love quiet days!

Jun 13, 2020: Hang in there, I’ll be back in no time! 🛵🇰🇭

Jun 13, 2020: After my earlier exchange with @ricky, I felt I had to… 🦩🎨

Jun 13, 2020: It cannot get any simpler! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear

Jun 13, 2020: Santos Oh! It’s that day gain, our town’s holiday! Saint Anthony’s day, when everyone should be going out, drinking a ridiculous amount of …

Jun 13, 2020: A very short four and a half hours later, and we’re ready to do it all over again. Good morning, internet!

Jun 13, 2020: 04:30AM! That does it! Go to bed, young man!

Jun 13, 2020: It’s messy, sir. Messy and noisy! 🍹🇰🇭

Jun 13, 2020: Sleep deprivation makes it so much harder to read and write, I’ll stick to what I can do with my head feeling like a zombie: editing old photos …

Jun 13, 2020: Let me think about it… 🧐🇭🇰

Jun 12, 2020: Sickening. Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop

Jun 12, 2020: Fediverse related podcasts ? Any recommendations ? What should I be listening to ? Thanks.

Jun 12, 2020: Baby-wise the day has been uneventful. That’s what we like. Cuteness and not much else.

Jun 12, 2020: PSA: Mastodon instance move. I’ve moved my Mastodon account to @maique@writing.exchange. If you were following me before, I’d appreciate …

Jun 12, 2020: Mother-in-law is back, and I can smell a cake in the oven! Who said rainy days aren’t the best ? 🍰 🌧

Jun 12, 2020: Adding a /now page to my list of things to do… NowNowNow

Jun 12, 2020: By the way, this Safari > GoodLinks > Drafts > Micro.blog workflow is working really nice for me when it comes to sharing links with a small …

Jun 12, 2020: 1PM, crying already. This time it’s me, not Baby Clara. Dads is a heartfelt and humorous documentary that celebrates the joys and challenges of …

Jun 12, 2020: Done! Babble it is!

Jun 12, 2020: Classic. 📷 🇭🇰

Jun 12, 2020: Need a subdomain for the new Write.as blog, even though I still have no idea what’s going to show up there. Thinking… Thinking… …

Jun 12, 2020: It was, again, a very short night. A few hours after I finally crashed and feel asleep, here I am again.

Jun 12, 2020: I love palm trees. I do. So here’s a 3AM one. (Still a loooong way to go with my drawing skills…) 🌴 🎨

Jun 12, 2020: Go left! Go right! 🚕 🇭🇰

Jun 11, 2020: Left the city for a while, felt good to drive again for a bit longer than the usual food runs we’ve been doing. Baby Clara’s biggest trip …

Jun 11, 2020: Lovely afternoon, looking at palm trees and the sea, Baby Clara peaceful and very quiet. Now that we’re back home she won’t sleep, …

Jun 11, 2020: See you next time, Sesimbra. It was a pleasure.

Jun 11, 2020: Seashore for the afternoon. The place where I used to spend part of the summer when I was a kid, and dive a lot when a bit older. 🌴☀️

Jun 11, 2020: If someone asks me about the one thing I’d recommend to new dads, the one I couldn’t live without, I know what I’m saying: Boba …

Jun 11, 2020: Busy, busy… 🏃🏻‍♀️🇭🇰

Jun 11, 2020: Wife went out for a walk, stress levels increase a bit. I know I can take care of the baby in every way except one: if she wakes up hungry, I’m …

Jun 11, 2020: Quiet, even relaxing, albeit short night. Still a bit groggy from not sleeping as much as I should, but I have a feeling it’s going to be a …

Jun 11, 2020: 03:15AM. Watching them both peacefully asleep. Hard to find words to express how this makes me feel. Bliss ? Thrilled ? Elated ? 👶🏻🤩

Jun 11, 2020: 1:30AM. Same place as yesterday. Same everything as yesterday. ☕️ 🇭🇰

Jun 11, 2020: Photoshop Camera is now available. Not sure how/if this will fit in my life.

Jun 10, 2020: Effective today, we are providing SmugMug and Flickr Pro accounts to photographers who are creating and documenting recent activity around fighting …

Jun 10, 2020: A review on MacStories, and a post from @dandycat later, and I’m now a user of GoodLinks. Now let’s get those 5440 items out of Pocket.

Jun 10, 2020: Instagram makes people feel like shit about their lives. Twitter makes them feel reviled. Facebook destroyed democracy. Devs, S01E03.

Jun 10, 2020: It’s been a while since we left home.

Jun 10, 2020: The bSides project gets it’s own page. So far 🇯🇵Japan and 🇭🇰Hong Kong, but others will follow. Got to keep busy. Feel free to visit and let me …

Jun 10, 2020: It’s Portugal Day. Yay.

Jun 10, 2020: In the end, this is all that matters. Hoping this little one will be as strong, loving, caring and smart as her mother. Her mother, by the way, also …

Jun 10, 2020: Good morning. Ready for another day of sweet baby holding, one-handed iPhone handling, and coffee drinking. Maybe, if I’m lucky, I’ll even …

Jun 10, 2020: 2:22AM. Had that coffee. I’m doomed. ☕️ 🇭🇰

Jun 10, 2020: 1AM. Feel like having a cup of coffee. That would mean no sleep, at all, today. Not sure I want to sign up for that.

Jun 9, 2020: Working on {micro maique} on the iPhone is something I do from time to time and, even though the theme is close to what I like, I’m always …

Jun 9, 2020: Loved the time we spent in HK. We rented an AirBnB apartment, only one on the whole trip, and I loved going out for a smoke and a can of coffee from …

Jun 9, 2020: Drafts is the place where post, messages, and everything else text is born for me. Easily my most used app. For newcomers, though, it can be a bit …

Jun 9, 2020: Another simple, regular, day. There’s a lot to say, but it always feels the same: great, baby sleeping on my belly is amazing, she’s …

Jun 9, 2020: Wedding bells ring. 👰🏻 🇭🇰

Jun 9, 2020: Killing time until Baby Clara has to eat again. They’re both asleep in the room, and I’m afraid to wake them up. Rather wait a bit longer …

Jun 8, 2020: theDuckKiller Russinha, Baby Clara’s Russian Godmother, came for a visit, and she’s now part of theFencePortraits. Having special …

Jun 8, 2020: Quiet, peaceful, day. Waiting for her godmother to visit and then it’s off to get Baby Clara a ton of diapers, some WaterWipes and other baby …

Jun 8, 2020: Go to Netflix Find “13TH” Watch Learn

Jun 8, 2020: Write . Debate 📷🇭🇰

Jun 8, 2020: Started watching 13TH on Netflix, but it’s past 3AM so I should be thinking about getting to bed. It looks really intense and a very educational …

Jun 8, 2020: Ok! 2AM, let’s try to get this baby to sleep! Maybe today is THE DAY! 👶🏻🤞🏼

Jun 8, 2020: Inspired by a conversation, I’ve decided to start making some of the uploads to Flickr public again. I’ve been using it mainly as an …

Jun 7, 2020: What was left of the day was spent in the now usual family cocoon, with Baby Clara sleeping wrapped around me and eating and pooping and eating and …

Jun 7, 2020: Grandma/Grandpa Back from my parents. It’s the second time we’ve been there since baby Clara was born, over a month and a half ago. On our first visit my mom wouldn’t …

Jun 7, 2020: Baby Clara meets Grandma, with InstaToon. 👶🏻👵🏻

Jun 7, 2020: Usually I miss the road enough already. But being stuck at home is making the feeling grow. Not knowing when we’ll be able to do this again makes me …

Jun 7, 2020: Still unable to sleep with all the strange and scary noises coming out of Baby Clara. They are supposed to be normal, but sound scary as hell. Managed …

Jun 7, 2020: That proverbial slice of heaven. 🌈🇭🇰

Jun 7, 2020: The Englishman. 🇬🇧 🎨

Jun 6, 2020: I can clearly see one job in Baby Clara’s future: DJ! That’s what her sleep/awake patterns are telling us. Asleep all day, yelling and arm …

Jun 6, 2020: Trying to find a way to get my Medium posts into Micro.blog. There’s an import, I know, and I’m trying that, but they looked sooooo good …

Jun 6, 2020: That Vegas feel…. Looks like a storm is coming. Night almost here, Baby Clara spent most of the day asleep. Lovely. 🦆 📷

Jun 6, 2020: Going with White Lines. Not as good as it could be, not as bad as people made me believe it would. Nuno Lopes is pretty pretty good. 📺

Jun 6, 2020: Shine on, bright star, shine on. 🌟🇭🇰

Jun 6, 2020: Quick ride on father-in-law’s Harley into town and back. Feeling like new! Well… new-ish.

Jun 6, 2020: Finally found a way to try Ghost for free and hassle-free: DigitalPress. Let’s see what this is all about.

Jun 6, 2020: We (barely) made it. Baby Clara fell asleep, on and off (mostly off), all through the night and is now sleeping. It’s 10:30AM! How long will …

Jun 6, 2020: One-day delivery ? Maybe. 📦 🇭🇰

Jun 6, 2020: Lots of crying, lots of drama, no sleep. At all. This is going to be a long one….

Jun 5, 2020: And it’s on! hkBsides it is. It’s been a couple of years, we miss the city, it’s going through hell (again) and we would love to go …

Jun 5, 2020: Walking right into it… 👨🏻‍🍳🇭🇰

Jun 5, 2020: Easiest award ever! Basically it’s a “Get off your butt (*for a very limited time) and you’ve got this” award! 🥇😴

Jun 5, 2020: The japanBsides is about done, so I’ll be moving to the next bSides series pretty soon. Plenty of countries to cover, pondering if I’ll do …

Jun 5, 2020: Yes, it’s a French dentist… ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 🧑🏼‍🎨 📷

Jun 5, 2020: Here we go… 🦷 📷

Jun 5, 2020: Baby Clara is now over a month and a half old, I believe it’s time to let her know about Horace Andy.

Jun 5, 2020: Also, I need a little geekiness back in my life. Got to find something to do, easy enough to get it done with all the constraints. Hmmmm…. …

Jun 5, 2020: Today it is: the dentist visit. But we’re all going! Still getting used to the all-family-outing routine, extra backpack to get ready, life support …

Jun 5, 2020: Slightly Stressed Scientist 🧪🎨

Jun 5, 2020: I’ve reached the point where the news are making me physically sick.

Jun 5, 2020: Old School Corner ヴィンテージ 👨🏼‍🦳🇯🇵

Jun 4, 2020: Another visit, another couple of photos up on theFencePortraits. Photographers are a close knit group, and we’ve had plenty of those around! …

Jun 4, 2020: Dentist appointment postponed. Tomorrow it is. I was actually looking forward to the car ride, baby Clara always falls asleep when we’re driving …

Jun 4, 2020: Welcome to the dark side! ダークサイド 🥃🇯🇵

Jun 4, 2020: All things considered, the night wasn’t so bad. Managed to sleep around 6 hours, not bad at all. Dentist appointment later on, those hours will …

Jun 4, 2020: I’ll have to try again, get everything right, but the Trumpmoji is live.

Jun 4, 2020: Now that baby Clara is a star (who told her that??), she’s sleeping in our bed with her mom instead of her (lovely) crib. Guess who’s …

Jun 4, 2020: Permanent Catwalk スタイル 👖🇯🇵

Jun 3, 2020: Some people are a just too intense! 🥋🎨

Jun 3, 2020: Night is coming. Hoping for the best, fingers crossed!

Jun 3, 2020: Lazy afternoon. 📷🌴

Jun 3, 2020: I feel grateful every day. And then there are days like today! Can this get any better ?

Jun 3, 2020: tinyMovieStar & movieStar A month and a half later, tinyMovieStar is on a magazine, along with her mother… That was fast! Ahahahahah… Thank you, TimeOut Portugal, …

Jun 3, 2020: Tasty 8-bit. 8ビットラブ 👾🇯🇵

Jun 3, 2020: 5AM. I guess we’re in All-Night mode today. Thank you, Baby Clara. 👶🏻😭

Jun 3, 2020: While on the subject of Mastodon, and in-between diaper changes,… 🐘🎨

Jun 3, 2020: Note to self: Stay away from that 7PM cup of coffee. ☕️

Jun 3, 2020: 3AM, trying a new Mastodon client, as one does. This time: Toot!. So far, so good.

Jun 3, 2020: Another good thing about taking care of the baby: I don’t remember the last time I got one of those “Time to Stand Up” messages from …

Jun 2, 2020: Paolo From Tokyo We’re not big YouTube users at our place. We always make sure to watch the usual Colbert/John Oliver/Seth Meyers/Trevor Noah videos but, other …

Jun 2, 2020: We’re back. Baby Clara survived her first outing, and she ended up meeting her godmother! Girls will be girls, so it was oysters for them. Steak …

Jun 2, 2020: Going out for lunch for the first time in over three months. We’re taking this Baby Circus on the road! Wish us luck! And we’re meeting …

Jun 2, 2020: So…. Spam on Micro.blog ? Both vansunglass and samedayloans seem sketchy, right @help ?

Jun 2, 2020: Woke up to a #blackOutTuesday campaign on Instagram. Today I’m only liking photos with this tag, and none others. Maybe that’ll do …

Jun 2, 2020: Anti-Fascist icon. Get Your Own, if you don’t mind having it in Portuguese.

Jun 2, 2020: The motorcycle riding captain. (Still no idea what I’m doing, but at least I’m having fun. That should count for something, right ?) 🛵👩🏻‍✈️

Jun 1, 2020: Back from the food run, almost two hours picking stuff from shelves and unloading them when we get back home. On the plus side, we’re set for …

Jun 1, 2020: Ready to roll! Supermarket, here we come! 🦠 🛒

Jun 1, 2020: Rough day today, I’m even looking forward to the food run to the supermarket.

Jun 1, 2020: Having a new motorcycle in the house is making me miss mine a lot more. Hadn’t thought about it for months, and now I just want to ride it.

Jun 1, 2020: Mr Eggy. 🎨 🥚 🍳

Jun 1, 2020: While talking to MovieStar yesterday she remembered this one. Oldie, but felt appropriate. 📷

Jun 1, 2020: Yesterday I started trying to figure out this shadow stuff. Doing it manually, but there has to be a better way, one I still have to discover. 🎨 📱

Jun 1, 2020: The Fundamentals of Caring looks so nice I had to stop watching. This is one I have to share with my wife. (Thanks @joaovale!) 📺

Jun 1, 2020: Going for Level 2. ビデオゲーム・趣味 🕹🇯🇵

Jun 1, 2020: And today, for night time entertainment, we’re going with #blackAF. Again, no high hopes for this one. I need help. 📺

May 31, 2020: We had a wonderful day today, Baby Clara slept most of the day, as a proper baby should, and is now getting ready for a nice quiet night. Fingers …

May 31, 2020: Surprised Neko. 🐱 🎨 📱

May 31, 2020: Apple Watch feature request: consider walking about carrying a baby on your arm exercise, and add that to the Activity rings. If you’re counting …

May 31, 2020: The duck is back, and ready to fight. 🦆 📷

May 31, 2020: We finally got some sleep. Luckily, we got it together! Want to feel amazing? This will do it! 👶🏻 📷

May 31, 2020: Total Sleep Time today: 3hours. Not good.

May 31, 2020: Wanna buy a car ? 🎨📱

May 31, 2020: Regretting that hour I slept before dinner. Was too tired not to crash, but now I should be sleeping and not bingeing on a tv show I don’t …

May 31, 2020: The waiting game. 待機中 ⏱🇯🇵

May 30, 2020: Nothing beats holding a crying baby and having her fall asleep in your arms in 5 minutes. It feels like you have a superpower!

May 30, 2020: Father-in-law has a birthday party tomorrow, he decided to pick up his present a day earlier. 🛵🤘🏼

May 30, 2020: Two episodes in, and Space Force is not as good as I expected it to be. Not laughing, not even a smirk most of the time. Have I been influenced, or is …

May 30, 2020: My new master! My life is now ruled by diaper time! 👶🏻

May 30, 2020: TIL if baby sleeps too much during the day, no one sleeps at night. 👶🏻

May 30, 2020: Managed to sit through four episodes (thank you, baby Clara!) of Somebody Feed Phil, he’s the sweetest food show host we’ve ever seen, and …

May 29, 2020: Together. 🎨 📱

May 29, 2020: More reading, less talking. Please. 本は友なり 📚🇯🇵

May 29, 2020: Temperature is going down, thankfully. We have our happy baby back! 👶🏻

May 29, 2020: Pride As I had to go into town today, and back home to get a few more items of clothing better suited for the hot weather we’re experiencing at the moment, …

May 29, 2020: Paletro I did it! I managed to spend a whole day without buying an app! Obviously I caved on the second day, and got Paletro. I loved using ⇧⌘P on Sublime …

May 29, 2020: It will forever be our happy place. 幸せな場所 😆🇯🇵

May 29, 2020: Quick drive into town. Sometimes I miss our neighborhood, we really have to start thinking about going back.

May 29, 2020: Not a big accomplishment, I know, but now I know how to use Procreate to add a nice shadow effect to words. Slow, but steady…

May 29, 2020: 4AM, thinking about breakfast already. 🧇 ☕️

May 29, 2020: Ok, ok, don’t be mad, I miss you too! 寂しいよ 💖🇯🇵

May 29, 2020: Baby Clara is going through hell with this heat wave. When the night comes she’s so exhausted, she’ll sleep an extra 30 mins between …

May 29, 2020: I miss you so much! 寂しいよ 💖🇯🇵

May 28, 2020: Yay! Finally Tot has Share Sheet integration, and Widget.

May 28, 2020: They met today. Already best friends.

May 28, 2020: What’s keeping me awake ? Coffee! Tons of coffee. And today, when someone turned the damn hear all the way up, it needs a big lump of ice. 🧊☕️

May 28, 2020: Trying to focus on something for longer than 15 minutes is impossible at the moment. There’s always something that needs to be done. Always. No …

May 28, 2020: The japanBsides project is coming along nicely. Wondering already about what countryBsides I’m doing next.

May 28, 2020: I wish I could fly. 飛べたらいいのに 🦋🇯🇵

May 28, 2020: Had to re-visit all the photos from the pregnancy up to now, looking for a dozen shots for an upcoming piece about fatherhood during the pandemic. I …

May 28, 2020: This night wasn’t as bad as the previous one, thankfully. Here we are, ready for another day of intensive diaper change and all around baby …

May 28, 2020: Also worth noting (but probably not) that baby Clara has developed a talent: she waits for a diaper change and then, when barely five minutes have …

May 28, 2020: Here we are, as I feared. 2:30AM and no signs of sleep coming soon. Trying to decide if I should read a bit, write a little, or spend a few more hours …

May 27, 2020: Ready for another long night ? I know I’m not, but the temperature won’t go down, so I guess that’s that.

May 27, 2020: When you’re trying to make a photo go away in a chat you’re having…

May 27, 2020: Hot weather = hydrate! 水分補給を忘れずに 💧🇯🇵

May 27, 2020: There’s a new theme on Micro.blog: Archie. A couple of weeks ago I was browsing Hugo’s themes directory and loved Archie. Tried to install it on …

May 27, 2020: Procreate: the perfect app when you don’t have a lot of talent for drawing, and some time to kill. Love it that I can do a bit, take care of the baby, …

May 27, 2020: Going through a heatwave at the moment. First one for Clarinha, she went through a very hard time tonight. And when she does, we do too! It’s …

May 27, 2020: Hot nights be like… 👶🏻🎨

May 27, 2020: A lot of our friends are having babies at the moment, we’re all going through the same routines. We end up meeting at odd hours on Instagram. …

May 27, 2020: Lights out, trying to get the baby to sleep, still on my selfieSeries, now with Procreate and a whole new set of palettes. 🎨✌🏼

May 27, 2020: Maybe we should take it easier, not speed along all the time. 速く行く 💨🇯🇵

May 27, 2020: Hi, I’m Nicy, The Armless Robot. 🤖😌

May 26, 2020: Things that really matter: baby Clara is healthy and growing strong. Doctor impressed, parents happy. All is well.

May 26, 2020: There is an incredible amount of resources for those wishing to learn how to work with Procreate Pocket, everywhere on the web. If you prefer a book, …

May 26, 2020: Here we go… out for a stroll. 📷👶🏻

May 26, 2020: Procreate Pocket Another one I didn’t need, or even have the skill to use. Why ? Why did I get this one too ?

May 26, 2020: Time travel would be such a treat. 私に電話をかけてください ☎️🇯🇵

May 26, 2020: One advantage I’ve already found with iA Writer over the other apps I can use to publish on Micro.blog: if the images included on the post are …

May 26, 2020: YIL Yesterday I had to visit the dentist, and took advantage of that drive to listen to the latest episode of Core Intuition. I’m in love with CarPlay, …

May 26, 2020: Prepping for a new drive into town. Today’s plan: a visit to the pediatrician.

May 26, 2020: Obviously we needed one of these to go with the previous post, didn’t we ? We did.

May 26, 2020: It was not an easy night. Not used to this anymore… 🍺 Sabino, by 8a Colina. TIPA 11% 110 IBU

May 25, 2020: Then again, maybe the good times have to be put on hold. Ducky is dead! 🦆 💀 📷

May 25, 2020: It’s that day again. Here we go… 🦷 📷

May 25, 2020: That was fast! It took the better part of an hour to tap that damn button! Let’s see what this is all about, I am now the (proud?) owner of a copy of …

May 25, 2020: Trying hard not to buy iA Writer. Don’t need it, don’t write enough long posts to justify that, I’m more than happy with Drafts for …

May 25, 2020: Let the good times roll! The season is open, still Staying at Home… 🦆📷

May 25, 2020: We need the feeling of being connected. 接続された 🤝🇯🇵

May 25, 2020: Here's to a new year One year of Micro.blog just started with the new subscription. While I don’t have a lot to say, I’m enjoying the flow of posting here, as …

May 25, 2020: Trying a new one today. Not sure if this one’s going to be around for long, but anyway… Still not able to sleep. 1:30AM.

May 25, 2020: Time for a quick pink one before I try to sleep. (I’ll probably be back in a little while, when I give up on that brilliant idea!) ピンク 💝 🇯🇵

May 24, 2020: I’ve had no advertising on Instagram since I first opened my account, eons ago. It seems I was part of a focus group, studying how people use it …

May 24, 2020: Watching TV, and realising people still have workdays and weekends on their lives feels so strange now. Quarantined for almost three months, with …

May 24, 2020: 🍺Metropolitan, a nice Pale Ale from Dois Corvos, for today’s lunch.

May 24, 2020: Be kind. Always be kind. 優しさ 🥰🇯🇵

May 24, 2020: That “It’s getting too close to 4AM” feeling again!

May 24, 2020: “We went down to the river,…” 愛してる 🥰🇯🇵

May 24, 2020: Book Recommendation, Day07 A photography book, I had to pick one. William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 by William …

May 23, 2020: 🍿Watching Hidden Figures. Amazing story, great performances.

May 23, 2020: Check video setup for today’s interview: Done.

May 23, 2020: I do not miss some parts of the city. At all.

May 23, 2020: Spent part of the night reading most of Micro.blog’s help pages, and now I need a custom iOS home screen icon. Taking care of that….

May 23, 2020: Told you there were others… Just one of the many things to love about the country. Kawaii! 顔が見える 🏡🇯🇵

May 23, 2020: Is tonight the night when the spell is finally broken ? Fingers crossed!

May 23, 2020: Book Recommendation, Day06 Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth Love Hong Kong, loved the book. The Telegraph Opium dens and …

May 22, 2020: Deleted 12,000 already. Can’t stand this anymore, my MacBook Air is burning my legs! HATE Photos.App! (Have I said that already ??)

May 22, 2020: I want to cut down on my iCloud monthly subscription. There are close to 100,000 photos over there, and I can’t seem to bring that number down …

May 22, 2020: 20267 dead so far, 185 today. Thinking about my little brother, still stuck in the country. He’s been there for months, no idea when he’ll be …

May 22, 2020: Kawaii everywhere, even where you’re not expecting it. 顔が見える 🏡🇯🇵

May 22, 2020: Happy Monthiversary, baby Clara! You made our lives even better! 👶🏻🎂

May 22, 2020: We’ve been away from home for three months now. Soon we’ll be back to the city and the drinking games can resume. With moderation, obviously, but …

May 22, 2020: They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they’re crying, they need to do one of the three and they’re having trouble doing it. Real simple. Matthew …

May 22, 2020: Tomorrow we’re having lunch with my parents, who’ve been in lockdown for months now. I miss them dearly, and they haven’t had the …

May 22, 2020: Cycling, or walking. I would gladly do any of these for a while now. サイクリング 🚶🏻‍♂️🇯🇵

May 22, 2020: United Nations COVID-19 Response @unsplash

May 22, 2020: 5AM. Should. Sleep.

May 22, 2020: Still no sleep, but Clara is a month old today! We all survived the first month, so kudos to the three of us! Yay! 🎂 👶🏻

May 22, 2020: Book Recommendation, Day05 The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll The first book about …

May 21, 2020: Month #1 Wow! It’s been a month. Already. Seems like it went by in a flash but it also seems it took forever. On one hand I can still vividly remember …

May 21, 2020: In their view, freedom of expression is also affected by server ownership. When you confine your online activities to so-called walled-garden …

May 21, 2020: Earlier than usual, but also more tired than usual by this time.

May 21, 2020: This is what I’m dealing with…. 👶🏻🥰 Sure, can’t sleep. Sure, can’t focus on tasks that take longer than 15 minutes to complete. Sure, whatever …

May 21, 2020: I can see a whole crime novel on this one. 犯罪小説 👮🏻‍♂️🇯🇵

May 21, 2020: I can keep doing this forever, there are almost 100,000 photos on my phone. Picking a few unedited ones and posting them is something I can do with …

May 21, 2020: Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands. Shah of Shahs - Ryzard Kapuscinski 💬

May 21, 2020: Still on the same mood: still Japan, and still coffee. Need more of both! ボスコーヒー ☕️ 🇯🇵

May 21, 2020: “Tougher” night today, with less sleep. Baby a bit restless. Afraid she’s getting into a “sleep by day, party by night” …

May 21, 2020: 2:22AM. We’re on a “10 mins sleeping - 5 mins of crying - 10 mins sleeping - you get the idea” cycle 👶🏻

May 21, 2020: This arrived with the new update, now we’ll have to wait for the app to be developed in the country 🦠

May 21, 2020: Book Recommendation, Day04 Another Day Of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski I read the book in a day, couldn’t put it down. Amazing reporting, from a …

May 20, 2020: On the baby front, everything is fine and dandy. Sleeping, eating, pooping, a little crying sprinkled throughout the day, no big drama so far. Pretty …

May 20, 2020: Finished picking the photos for the interview. Today I went through my own town’s shots. You don’t need to go far to find something …

May 20, 2020: There’s always time for another cup! コーヒー ☕️ 🇯🇵

May 20, 2020: This is going to be fun! Miss everything about this… かんぱい 🇯🇵📷

May 20, 2020: Stoked about this japanBSides thing. Went through the Tokyo photos, and picked 77 for a closer look.

May 20, 2020: One good thing about the quarantine: having this one around to play with 🐶 Here she is, doing her Monsieur Poirot.

May 20, 2020: I WILL find the time to go through all the photos from Japan I didn’t edit, and get a bSides album ready. There are still hundreds of photos to …

May 20, 2020: Every time we go to the supermarket, getting supplies for the week, we get one of these to try out. I suppose eating one a week won’t do much harm. …

May 20, 2020: Leaving Instagram will never happen, but one can dream about fresh starts, right ? Pixelfed would work, and I would spend my time in Pixelfed.Tokyo.

May 20, 2020: Book Recommendation, Day03 Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain The Guardian review: Escoffier on speed For the Micro Challenge Sprints. 📚

May 20, 2020: If the web is a river, Micro.blog is water, where Twitter and Facebook are dams. inessential: weblog

May 20, 2020: Not even 1AM, already (or is it “still”?) like this!

May 19, 2020: Me at the supermarket these days…

May 19, 2020: Said it before, will probably say it again (a few times): the community at Micro.blog is simply amazing. Feels like the old days of the Internet.

May 19, 2020: No Codecademy for a month now! It’s been impossible to find time to focus and go at it. I was doing just fine and then… Baby! 👶🏻 = ❌💻

May 19, 2020: Yeah, yeah, we’re all waiting for those summer days…. 🐶

May 19, 2020: Book Recommendation, Day02 It’s close to noon around here, let’s do this. Really enjoyed this one, couldn’t put it down. A new way …

May 19, 2020: Status Report: one day later, around 02:30AM. Red eyes. Tired body. Brain operating at around 29%. Morning can’t come soon enough. She’s …

May 19, 2020: Book Recommendation, Day01 Permanent Record by Edward Snowden The Guardian review – the whistleblower’s memoir For the Micro Challenge Sprints. 📚

May 18, 2020: On the other hand I’m a Pro at the baby stuff. Diapers, dressing, bathing, calming, … 👶🏻

May 18, 2020: Thing I’m still trying to deal with: how to manage tasks that take longer to finish when I never have enough time in one go, and I’m …

May 18, 2020: Just made Carbonara for the family. Actually kinda proud it turned out quite good, I’m sorry to say I don’t cook (yet?) that much. Sadly I …

May 18, 2020: So… Seems like I’m being interviewed on Saturday. We’ll be talking photojournalism, travel, Príncipe and about my favorite subject: my …

May 18, 2020: For those wishing to import Jekyll (and Hugo and Blot) posts into your Micro.blog (and why wouldn’t you?) @manton has made available a new …

May 18, 2020: Thankfully these never stopped coming… Nice APA from Cerveja MUSA 🍺

May 18, 2020: Life is getting back to normal.

May 18, 2020: What’s the first thing we’re doing now that we’re slowly easing the restrictions ? Around here: dentist appointments. Gotta take …

May 18, 2020: “How is it going ?” How do you think it’s going ? It’s 2:30AM, this is how it’s going!

May 18, 2020: Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby …

May 18, 2020: On the OneYearAgo series. I’m betting I can always find a photo in Príncipe if I search for “x years ago”. There’s probably not a day in the year we …

May 18, 2020: 1AM, crying. Hard. I believe we have a long night ahead of us. See you in a couple of micro posts.

May 18, 2020: Going through some of @monday’s Microcasts. Getting to know the community. Starting, as I believe one should, with @manton. 🎙

May 17, 2020: And this is it. Almost a month old, and it’s been easier than expected. Some days are a bit tougher, but nothing crazy. Just need to sleep a bit more, …

May 17, 2020: Boiling a pacifier. Also on the list of “Things I never thought I’d say”… 👶🏻

May 17, 2020: Day is ending soon. Maybe time for a couple of episodes of After Life. Loved season one, and season two does not disappoint. 📺

May 17, 2020: A skill I picked up this last month: managing life with one hand only. I am now OneArmedMaique! 👶🏻

May 17, 2020: Much quieter today. Maybe tinyMovieStar knows about Sundays already… 👶🏻

May 17, 2020: Maybe beautify your devices with one of the Pride Wallpapers 2020 @mattbirchler made. They’re amazing! 🌈

May 17, 2020: Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Please respect everyone. Today, and everyday 🌈✌🏼🏳️‍🌈

May 17, 2020: Here we go, second one today. Gotta keep sharp! 👶🏻☕️

May 17, 2020: Not a lot of sleep tonight, but a really nice way to start the day. Thank you @ricky for such a boost this morning, you made my day already. One of …

May 17, 2020: Hi, there! It’s me, your friendly 4AM micro post. Today I’m bringing you a quote. Enjoy. 😴💬 Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have …

May 17, 2020: A year ago, in our happy place. Nothing beats home, and that place is ours. Video called the island yesterday, checking up on everyone, and talking …

May 17, 2020: Still a bit early for that (2:30AM), but I’m already dreaming about that hot cup of coffee I’m drinking in a few hours, probably after …

May 16, 2020: RIP Fred Willard 😢

May 16, 2020: Crying fits. That is today’s entertainment. Maybe because I said it was a slow Saturday earlier on… I’m keeping my mouth shut from …

May 16, 2020: 🎙 Listening to Core Intuition, Ep 420 The Last Release Ever Listen on Overcast

May 16, 2020: Sloooooow Saturday. Just the way I like them.

May 16, 2020: Why Micro.blog ? A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about Drafts on xanatoNet. That got me thinking about blogging again, and I started looking for …

May 16, 2020: Almost ready to call myself a BabyWipesExpert! Favorites so far: WaterWipes.

May 16, 2020: Also, no one ever told me about this whole range of scary sounds newborn babies make!

May 16, 2020: Really helpful bookmarklet, now able to post links straight from Safari to Micro.blog app on Mac. Thanks, @ricky post link and optional selection to …

May 16, 2020: And, just like that, it’s Saturday again. Not that I’m keeping track, or anything.

May 15, 2020: Finding a movie I can have going in the background, while I do other stuff on the laptop, before I try to finally get some sleep.

May 15, 2020: See ya, Giphy!

May 15, 2020: Getting ready for another night with partyBaby👶🏻, the one who only likes to sleep during the day. Just like her daddy!

May 15, 2020: On the way back, a very different atmosphere on the bridge.

May 15, 2020: Back from a lovely drive to the other side of the river, had to go visit the dentist. You wouldn’t necessarily know there’s a pandemic …

May 15, 2020: On my way to the dentist. Feels nice just driving around, after staying home for so long.

May 15, 2020: On the other hand, I’m using the wee hours of the morning to tweak the theme on {micro maique}. Not the easiest thing to do on the iPhone, but …

May 15, 2020: Five short hours (or was it three ? maybe two ?) here we are again, ready for a new one. There’s a visit to the dentist later on, so this will …

May 15, 2020: Testing, please disregard.

May 15, 2020: Getting close to 5AM. New day, and feeling blue. 📷🌈💙

May 15, 2020: The (by now) regular 4AM post! Why do babies sleep.. well, like babies, during the day, almost a whole day, and then act like tiny demons all through …

May 15, 2020: As I’m looking at another sleepless night, I might as well jump right into this one again. 📚Sarah Frier - No Filter, The Inside Story of …

May 14, 2020: Sweet Rosinha. She’s thrilled about the new baby in the house, and (not so discreetly) acts like she’s Clarinha’s mother… 🐶

May 14, 2020: Trying to finish “23 Hours to Kill”. Maybe today is the day! 📺

May 14, 2020: Day ending soon. Nothing to report except the usual diaper changing routine (today we had a BIG one), bath, and using the Boba Wrap for the first time …

May 14, 2020: Maybe I’m being weird but I find it strange when someone goes on TV and the text that’s being shared on the chyron reads …

May 14, 2020: Time for another yummy Lagunitas IPA 🍺 Great with lunch.

May 14, 2020: Late to the 📷🌈 but trying to take part in the Photo Challenge Sprint anyway. I believe today’s color is green, so here we go… 💚

May 14, 2020: Two years ago, we were right in the middle of our 4 month long honeymoon, having the time of our lives. Also, today is my little brother’s …

May 14, 2020: Still can’t get tinyMovieStar to burp properly. Am I the only one thinking there should be a 👶🏻 topic on the Discover page at micro.blog ?

May 14, 2020: How did it take me this long to find out about this? This is life-changing! When typing on your iPhone, press and hold your spacebar. You’re now …

May 14, 2020: What ?? Is it morning already ? I know sleep deprivation is hell. Like you’re on some kind of crazy drug. But I find this sleep two hours - get …

May 13, 2020: I will actually be a bit sad when this whole thing goes away, and theFencePortraits comes to an end. I’ve been having SO much fun with it and …

May 13, 2020: Please don’t screw this up! Please don’t screw this up! Please ??

May 13, 2020: Clarinha is 3 weeks old. It’s been wild & crazy & adorable.

May 13, 2020: On the “Great Things That Come From Catalonia” series: Cacaolat, Batut de Cacau, since 1933. Yummy! 🤤

May 13, 2020: Sadly I’ve gone through all the episodes on the latest season of Better Call Saul. Waiting for the (final?) season 6, but it’s going to …

May 13, 2020: Nice new masks from a friend, love them. Protected and looking good!

May 13, 2020: Today was the day I really messed it up! Couldn’t sleep till 8AM, so now it’s close to 2PM and I’m waking up! Good… morning …

May 13, 2020: Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. Jon Stewart

May 13, 2020: We’ve been stuck at home for a long while, and we miss our time on the road. Will it work embedding photos from my Flickr account ? 📷

May 13, 2020: “So… what have you been up to ?” As I couldn’t sleep, again, I decided to fully subscribe to micro.blog, and set up {micro …

May 13, 2020: That 3AM diaper routine. Thankfully I’m now able to do it with my eyes closed most of the times. 6AM is the killer one!

May 13, 2020: AC👶🏻DC

May 13, 2020: Soon (very soon) I’ll be one of the world’s experts on diapers, wipes, and all the other baby paraphernalia.

May 12, 2020: Dogs get most of the love around here, but I’m a cat person at heart.

May 12, 2020: Even though we have no night/day, as regular people tend to, the ‘day’ part seems to go surprisingly fast. Diaper change, diaper change, diaper …

May 12, 2020: Lagunitas IPA + Tyrrells Sweet Chili = Relaxing Times

May 12, 2020: So, instead of spending wayyyy too much time on Twitter and Instagram, I now spend wayyyyy too much time on Twitter (two accounts), Instagram, …

May 12, 2020: If you’re using Micro.blog on iOS, Gluon (https://gluon.app) seems like a really nice way to interact with it.

May 12, 2020: Things are getting back to “normal” at the supermarket, with “normal” being masks on everyone’s face and still getting …

May 12, 2020: Breakfast (a cup of coffee) at noon. That’s what you get when your baby cries through the night.

May 12, 2020: I keep forgetting about Mastodon! I’m also available in that flavor: mastodon.social/@maique

May 12, 2020: “Did you know that in Japan there are 3 ways to say “I love you”? You say “Daisuki” for friends and guys you like, you …

May 11, 2020: Today: set up a Wordpress (.com) for microblogging. Connect that to micro.blog. Set up @draftsapp to post to Wordpress. I can now write in Drafts and …

May 11, 2020: I will try to spend a week without buying another app. I will try to spend a week without buying another app. I will try to spend a week without …

May 11, 2020: Tomorrow is a new day, I’m betting it’ll be very similar to today.

May 11, 2020: Another one getting close to the end.

May 11, 2020: Today’s entertainment courtesy of Kingpin Bowling (https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/kingpin-bowling/id1279551167?l=en)

May 11, 2020: Thinking, thinking, thinking..

May 11, 2020: LINE Friends + Purell = I’m in heaven.

May 11, 2020: Stock reply to everything The Orange Asshole says..

May 11, 2020: Back on the noodle train.

May 11, 2020: Again testing, micro.blog to Wordpress. Complete with image.

May 11, 2020: Some things are harder to understand. This is one of them. I’ll get it, I will, but this one will take a bit longer.

Apr 7, 2020: Drafts Drafts, again, maybe forever ? A couple of weeks ago I got back into the Drafts train. I’d been a user, on and off, for years, but always found …

Jan 27, 2019: Adobe Portfolio The site is moving. I’ll leave Squarespace and move my domain to Adobe Portfolio. I don’t really use Squarespace’s multitude of …

Jan 10, 2019: Wordpress Oh, no, not again! {: .align-center} Here I find myself again, staring at the login dialog for another Wordpress install. I didn’t miss …

Jan 8, 2019: GitHub Updates The new pricing for GitHub was announced on a post by the company, New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified …

Jan 5, 2019: Old School One of the nice things about Linux is that I’m finding a ton of new applications. Some are big, stuff you can use instead of those apps …

Nov 19, 2018: Really cool, thanks for sharing. Really cool, thanks for sharing.

Apr 18, 2018: Getting Ready Getting Ready It’s time to get going Boi Beach, best in the world We’ve had a hell of a year so far, four months on the lovely island of Príncipe, …

Dec 14, 2017: Cape Verde It’s one of my favorite places in the world, one of those countries where I feel at home. And one of the few that’s not in Asia. That’s saying a lot. …

Dec 14, 2017: Morocco, Far Away Country Right Next Door Morocco, Far Away Country Right Next Door If there’s a place I can say I’ve gone to so many times I don’t even know exactly how many, that place is …

Jan 18, 2017: That Secret Place Everyone Talks About That Secret Place Everyone Talks About There’s a secret place in town. The most popular and talked about secret place in the world. Shared so many …

Mar 24, 2016: DinkiWinkiMinkiWinki Now this is something that’s been on my mind for a while now, and last Saturday was the day I finally took the time to do it. I went ahead and …

Jan 28, 2016: Photo Boys And Girls Photo Boys And Girls One of the (few) things I’ll miss from editing is the amount of cool photography one gets to see in a normal work day. I was …

Jan 26, 2016: Week One As usual I’m updating my Instagram account on a regular basis. Less words, more photos, what could be sweeter ?

Jan 19, 2016: I keep a strap from an old M6 as I’ve never found a better system and system. I keep a strap from an old M6 as I’ve never found a better system and system. It’s now on my Q and I love it. I would also prefer to have some buttons …

Jan 17, 2016: Gave up on being rich a long time ago. Gave up on being rich a long time ago. Happiness is all that matters in the end, right? 😊 Thanks for all the support through the years, hopefully I’ll …

Jan 16, 2016: Exciting times, for sure. Thanks for everything. Exciting times, for sure. Thanks for everything.

Jan 16, 2016: ✌🏼Adventure time. ✌🏼Adventure time.

Jan 15, 2016: No Country For Freelancers No Country For Freelancers All along the years I’ve spent at the paper there’s been a constant in the photojournalism market around these parts: this …

Jan 15, 2016: What’s Going On ? What’s Going On ? Starting fresh. Page one. That’s what’s going on. About a week ago I decided to jump ship on the most perfect job ever. My job. …

Jan 14, 2016: Todoist Todoist I have memory issues. And I need to keep track of a lot of things, as one usually does. The two don’t go well together. A recent post on …

Jan 13, 2016: Out and About Out and About I went out today. I did. After a week when I barely left the apartment, today I went for a walk. I had to meet a couple of friends for …

Jan 13, 2016: Meeting Ulysses Meeting Ulysses Everybody was talking about the app. I found references to it everywhere, rave reviews, people loved the app so much, “best writing …

Jan 12, 2016: Been trying to find the perfect app for blogging on a Mac, and a cool way to post to Medium. Been trying to find the perfect app for blogging on a Mac, and a cool way to post to Medium. So glad you’re making them both available in one product. …

Jan 8, 2016: Emoji One Emoji One I have to find a way to use Emoji One on one of the (too)many projects I’m doing! I love it. It’s the coolest set of emoji around, and free …

Jan 8, 2016: 12 Netflix Tricks You Aren’t Using (But Should Be) 12 Netflix Tricks You Aren’t Using (But Should Be) I came across 12 Netflix Tricks You Aren’t Using (But Should Be) and I’m glad I did. From the …

Jan 6, 2016: The Portal The Portal I wonder if I’ll ever drive through the portal. What would I find on the other side if I did ? Something worth the trip ? Shall we find …

Jan 6, 2016: Mapped Mapped Now that I have all these collections on Medium, I thought it would be nice to map them to domains I own. Wouldn’t you know it, Medium now …

Jan 3, 2016: (Still) Missing (Still) Missing Glad I have a decent VPN at hand…

Jan 3, 2016: Dona Aurora Dona Aurora The Weather Station is on. Still trying to get it’s bearings, the outside temperature is still a bit off, but already turned on and …

Jan 3, 2016: iOS Apps I Loved in 2015 iOS Apps I Loved in 2015 The year is coming to an end, I guess I should make a list, right ? As usual a few apps have been added to the list of …

Jan 3, 2016: Rendang and Old Times Gold Teeth Rendang and Old Times We hadn’t been out of the house yet this year, with the moving and the unpacking and the cleaning and all that. So, …

Dec 18, 2015: Thanks. I’m doing this as soon as I get home. Thanks. I’m doing this as soon as I get home.

Dec 8, 2015: Is there a way to embed our recommendations on a page ? That would be super. Is there a way to embed our recommendations on a page ? That would be super.

Nov 27, 2015: It’s an older model, really old by now. It’s an older model, really old by now. You can get them dirt cheap, but the viewfinder, slow autofocus and other stuff really show her age. It was …

Nov 27, 2015: I still keep the X-Pro1 and an X-T1. I still keep the X-Pro1 and an X-T1. I love their cameras and lenses and need them for work. missQ is my everyday camera at the moment, but now it …

Nov 23, 2015: São Tomé e Príncipe São Tomé e Príncipe Leve leve ? Another assignment for the travel magazine. Boy, do I love these. This time around we flew to the tiny archipelago …

Aug 20, 2015: Bons Sons Just got back from another edition of Bons Sons, the coolest festival in town. Always a pleasure, one of the highlights of my working year. Happy …

May 31, 2015: Gran Canária Another one of those quick trips materialised late last year. This time we would be going to Gran Canária, a Spanish island off the coast of Africa. …

May 21, 2015: Barcelona New AF Handbook (.pdf) — http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/pdf/x_t1_x_t10_af_handbook_01.pdf Full lens lineup — …

Apr 25, 2015: Crossroads We were getting home, after a nice drive to Cascais where we had a very cool Thai lunch. As soon as we left the tunnel theLovelyWife noticed something …

Apr 3, 2015: Ceará As usual you can find a few more photos on a Flickr set. Here. Enjoy.

Mar 30, 2015: Estonia If you’d like to see a few more photos from the Estonian trip, feel free to visit the Flickr set. Enjoy.

Mar 29, 2015: First colour Twenty years ago I got my first tattoo. It was a small black thing on my leg, one that’s long gone by now, covered by a much larger piece since then. …

Mar 10, 2015: LINE friends I want to live in a country where LINE is the main messaging app. I want to live in a country where LINE friends are all over the place. LINE …

Mar 9, 2015: Bangkok (Part Two) Final Bangkok gallery on maiquemadeira.com, if you’re still up to it.

Mar 7, 2015: Hua Hin Not too inspired in this one, but here you have a couple more photos : maiquemadeira.com. Enjoy.

Mar 4, 2015: Koh Phayam More photos ? Sure, head on down to maiquemadeira.com. Enjoy.

Mar 3, 2015: Chiang Mai Boy, do we love Chiang Mai. This will be a long one. The day had started with another one of those lucky moments when everything seems to magically …

Feb 26, 2015: Sukhothai As usual you can find a few more photos at maiquemadeira.com. Have fun.

Feb 25, 2015: Ayutthaya A few more photos are available at maiquemadeira.com. Hope you enjoy them.

Feb 25, 2015: Bangkok (Part One) A few more photos at maiquemadeira.com. Enjoy.

Feb 25, 2015: Elephants in Thailand You can check these and a few more at maiquemadeira.com. Enjoy.

Feb 24, 2015: Transportation During our month-long journey through Thailand we walked a lot. A lot. But we also used a ton of other different options for moving about. If I’m not …

Feb 20, 2015: Sak Yant How To Get There / How to find it Google Maps search : Soi Niran Villa 24, Khwaeng Bang Chak, Khet Phra Khanong, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10260, …

Jan 17, 2015: whatsInTheBag v1.0 whatsInTheBag We’re leaving in a day, so the time has come to start packing. My flight carry-on, the bag that will also be with me 24/7 while on the …

Dec 8, 2014: Two Shots A few more photos from both stories can be found at Flickr, at the Ceará and Timor sets. Or feel free to visit maiquemadeira.com, plenty of stuff …

Dec 7, 2014: missT More information and reviews: FUJI X100T :: FIRST LOOK at dedpxl.com Fujifilm FinePix X100 In-Depth Review at dpreview.com Fuji X100T at …

Nov 18, 2014: Alentejo The alentejo. Easily my favorite part of the country, and there’s a lot to love in this country. Lunar and hot, with roads so empty they’re filled …

Aug 9, 2014: Back to Sines In the old days, no two ways about it, we would go to Sines, and attend that year’s FMM edition. Period. It was the coolest music festival around. We …

Jul 18, 2014: Tourist in town The time came for a little break from work. As theLovelyWife is, as usual, buried under a couple of her work projects, I’m taking the time to walk …

Jul 15, 2014: RGB Rgb rGb rgB

Jul 1, 2014: Luxembourg and the X-Pro1 A few weeks ago i was seriously considering taking the x100s as the only camera on an assignment. That got me thinking, a bit more, and I got the …