Got the new Covid vaccine tonight
Asian pears are ready for fresh eating! The yellow ones are New Century and the brown ones are Hosui. Our nectarines were hammered by the heat and recently got bug infested. But we harvested what we could & cooked them down. #HomeOrchard #AsianPears 
Last Sunday, caught this Navy E6-B bird flying west of the refuge. Apparently they were on a west coast tour. #E6B #AvGeek 
Saw a bad-ass Tarantula-hawk Wasp at the refuge. I haven’t seen tarantulas around these parts, though. #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Pepsis #TarantulaHawkWasp 
Rabbits all day at the refuge this pleasant summer morning #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Rabbits 
In X-Plane 12, flew from KLAX to KJFK in the classic 747-200. I came in hot and then a bit low, but everyone got off the plane in short order so guess everyone’s happy 😅 #XPlane12 #FlightSim #YawmanArrow
My RaspberryShake detected the M7.1 earthquake from super early this morning Pacific time. Here’s the USGS link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nith/executive
#RaspberryShake #Earthquake #CitizenScience #Japan
It’s really disappointing that Amazon can’t be bothered to make reasonable delivery schedules in my own nick of the woods. It’s not a new problem! UPS is unionized & they do fine.
On Geekwire: “Driven away: Overloaded by Amazon, rural delivery companies reach the end of the road”
Well, I cannot help but be excited that Tim Walz is a Geographer and a GIS practitioner.
If you have a Yawman Arrow Controller, X-Plane 12, and the Felis 747-200, here’s my amateur-hour FlyWithLua script (on GitHub) to enable the Yawman Controller to have multifunction buttons to control the aircraft #YawmanArrow #FlyWithLua #Lua #XPlane12 #FlightSim
Smoke from thr Park Fire has, for the first time, obviously made it to the surface of the west side of the Sacramento Valley. I can smell it and the Purple sensor reports above 170 AQI #ParkFire #CAWx #AirQuality
Plex is nice. Random album radio FTW. Even better that I can augment my local library by adding albums from Tidal 🥳
The temperatures are in the 70s and it is quite overcast with clouds and smoke. So we took advantage of the fall-like weather and went to Black Butte Reservoir. Here are Western Grebes, a Double Crested Cormorant, a Robin, and an Osprey 
I guess this is one way Scrubjays cool themselves off? All splayed & fluffed out with its beak wide open. This jay is very comfortable around us so it often hangs out under our patio messily gorging on seeds for caching elsewhere. It likes to bravely stare at us 😆 
A better view of the Park Fire pyrocumulous from the other side of the Sacramento Valley. #ParkFire #CaWx 
Park Fire from way across the west Sacramento Valley near Orland ☹️ #ParkFire #CAWx 
Today’s Sonos app update restores most local library functionality. Here I go with app and firmware updates 🤞
At Medford, Oregon airport, two fire fighter tanker aircraft on final approach on July 17, 2024. A DC-10 (registered N522AX/TKR512) and a C-130 (registered N382CG/TNKR138). #AvGeek #C130 #DC10 #PlaneSpotting #TankerAircraft
Apple moving drivers away from kernel space to user space on macOS suddenly makes sense. #macOS
With all the CrowdStrike insanity, glad I’m off work today. But hoping my org didn’t get hit too hard!