Wind and rain today in California.
Soggy House Finch.
Soggy house finches and house sparrows (maybe a fox sparrow too) sheltering on grape vines from the wind and desperately needed rain.
Installed two of three Caseta switches. The 3rd end of run circuit neutral is miswired somewhere as bulbs flicker when the Caseta PD-6ANS switch is off. Off shouldn’t trickle voltage through lights like the dimmer. Off is off - the point of the neutral wire. 🤷 I’ll revisit soon.
Caseta dimmer switches are easier since they don’t care about hot versus load wires. But the jokers that lived here before connected the upper switch ground directly to the lower switch and… didn’t connect the actual house ground. Also daisy chaining like that is not the way. 🤬
I’m getting really good at installing Caseta switches. A no-contact voltage tester pen is key for safety & to get the hot wire right the first time.
First beer I ever brewed is now bottled and will be carbonating for a few weeks. I tasted it and it is definitely a Hefeweizen. ~4.3% ABV. Not quite 5.1% listed on the product page but I had ~3°F swings in temperature around 68°F. Two weeks and it’ll be ready to drink! 🤞🍻
Finished reading: The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett 📚 ★★★★
Beer bottle label graveyard. Tomorrow is bottling day.
Moravian star - the most festive our house gets on the exterior.
Our front yard cultivated native fuchsias are still blooming. All summer, with minimal added water, and into winter. Amazing plants.
The household chef making sandwich melts. I was just trying out the Kodak T-Max 400 film “recipe” found at FujiXWeekly.
Mushrooms!
Mural at La Corona Mexican Restaurant, Orland, CA.
Better B&W Recipe Detection and exif Keywords added to macOS "What was my Fujifilm Recipe" Shortcut
I know that many people choose Fujifilm cameras for black and white photography. I hadn’t explored B&W photography yet so the original macOS “What was my Fujifilm Recipe” didn’t include one specific B&W recipe ingredient: BWAdjustment (Warm/Cool aka WC). So to better match black and white recipes, I’ve added the BWAdjustment exif tag that includes Warm/Cool (WC). Unfortunately, Magenta & Green (MG) setting for black and white toning doesn’t seem to be available in exiftool. So only WC is in BWAdjustment. Despite that, BWAdjustment with Saturation and White Balance should help make B&W film recipes to be a bit more unique for matching.
Finally, this latest Shortcut now can be silenced and keywords can be added to a photo that has a recipe match. By default, the Shortcut will add to a photo separate keywords “Film Recipe” and the matched Recipe name. During setup you can override this by deleting AddKeyword or changing it to anything else. The shortcut also now allows you to disable alerts in case you need it to be silent such as for scripting/further automation. You can override this in setup by deleting NoAlerts or changing it to anything else.
Go to the macOS Film Recipe Shortcut page or download the updated shortcut here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/eb2aff4ed3654b00a0b3bbf972ebf851
Shortcuts for macOS really makes me want to say many oaths 🤬
Turkey Milanese. A great use of leftover white meat.
Turkey Pho (well, inspired by Pho).
Stuffing waffles for post-Thanksgiving breakfast is now 100% a tradition.
My partner in crime sure does know how to cook a golden, juicy bird.
