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My last day of work before the Easter vacation starts… it’s raining today, hopefully that doesn’t continue for the next two weeks!
It will be good to relax for a few days.Then on Monday we’re flying to Sarajevo,a short trip but I like that city a lot, probably my favourite city in the Balkans.
Why do people insist on dying eggs with natural colourants? You don’t even eat the shells. And those onion beetroot red cabbage whatever never looks as nice as garish synthetic dyes. And they’re safe as well.
I wonder if I should go the other way and make completely unsafe dyed eggs for Easter. I don’t have the most cursed pigments, but I do have cobalt blue and manganese violet. Maybe I can get a brown egg and dye it with titanium white for shits and giggles.
Whale update: Timmy the whale seems to have freed himself again but he’s nowhere to be seen. I hope he’s resting somewhere and got something to eat.
Company network down. No one can log on. Anyone up for a game of tiddlywinks?
I went hiking near a wealthy neighborhood. They love boats and golfing, so there’s a huge marina as well as private piers for them to access those boats. There’s also a public golf course for some reason. Their houses look pretty nice and big too. Very different vibe from poor area I drove in on my way back.
Anyways I saw some wildlife:
* Turtles. I saw a shit load of them. They’re pretty small, aquatic turtles that don’t like me looking at them apparently.
* A snake. It was sitting right on the trail as I approached it. I was pretty freaked out since it’s the first time I’ve seen a wild snake. I took another path. It looked a bit less meter long, but quite small in diameter. I later look up a list of snakes; I think it is Eastern Garter snake judging by the skin pattern and its habitat next to the water. It’s quite a dark and rather large individual if it was one though. I also found a couple of holes in the ground that may be burrows for this species. The species isn’t particularly dangerous to humans, but tolerate human presence better than most snake species.
* Cranes. Looks like they’re back.
Finally a train passed by the other side of the inlet. It took 2.5 minutes for every part of the train to pass through from head to tail.
Edit: Oh yeah this wasn’t a living animal, but I think I saw a extremely decayed body of a fish that died and was washing to shore. It was being scavenged by insects.
tuesday morning and my brain is already on easter mode tbh. my mom called from greece last night to tell me she already started preparing the tsoureki dough and i got unreasonably emotional about it. something about knowing your mom is in the kitchen doing the exact same thing she has done every single spring since you were born and youre just… not there
anyway. the netherlands is doing that thing where its sunny for exactly 12 minutes and then rains sideways. classic. at least the office has good coffee today. small wins
When people ask me who was my childhood hero, I’m going to say Victor Wembanyama.