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Tuesday, November 3

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☀️Today's plan

  • 6:37am Fog at sunrise. The porches in Oakwood go soft and the Dix Park hill loses the skyline; it burns off within a couple of hours.
  • 7:50am Ride in on the greenway. 42°F at the start, W wind 7 mph. Merino base layer, wind jacket and the lobster gloves.
  • 10:00am Design critique (robot fleet dashboard). Your alert-states frames are up second; the deck is in the shared drive.
  • 4:42pm Golden hour. The skyline front-lit from the Boylan Avenue bridge, a ten-minute ride.
  • 10:00pm Feed the starter for tomorrow's dough (1:5:5).

🔎One thing I found

  • Burst less on perched birds. About 73% of bird frames in the last two months are near-duplicates from bursts on a bird that did not move. Single shots on perched birds would halve culling time.

Today

📅Calendar

  • 10:00am · Design critique (robot fleet dashboard)
  • 1:00pm · 1:1 with your manager
  • 3:30pm · Weekly product sync

↳ Last night: the Hurricanes beat the Jets, 3–2. Blue Ridge Parkway in 17 days (Nov 20–22, booked). A light day. Room for a lunch walk around Five Points.

📬Inbox (11 new)

  • UPS: Out for delivery: trail running shoes.
  • Northline Rewards Visa: statement closes in 5 days; autopay is on.
  • Library: your hold on Several Short Sentences About Writing is ready at the Cameron Village branch for the next 7 days.
  • eBird: 2 new needs alerts for Wake County overnight.

↳ Nothing needs a reply before noon.

Money

💸Money

No spending yesterday.

↳ Nothing unusual, and no new subscriptions.

Body

💪Recovery

  • Recovery: 66% (yellow). HRV 62 ms, resting heart rate 52.
  • Sleep: 7h 27m, asleep at 11:15pm, up at 7:18am.
  • Yesterday: strain 6.9, mostly the commute.

↳ Fine for the commute; keep anything hard short.

Craft

🌤️Weather & light

  • 66° / 42°: Partly cloudy. W 7 mph. Dry.
  • Sun: up 6:37am, down 5:18pm. Golden hour from 4:42pm, blue hour until 5:44pm.

Verdict: worth going out at the end of the day. High cloud can catch color after sunset.

📷Photo

  • Last outing (Sunday): 313 frames at Lake Johnson, 140 minutes with the 4.3-539mm f/2.8-8 (P1100).
  • Porches series: 7 of 20. Soft light this morning: a porch day in Oakwood.
  • To cull: those 313 frames are still unflagged in Lightroom.

🐦Birding

Late fall: most warblers have gone south; sparrows, kinglets, Yellow-rumped Warblers and the first winter ducks are the story now.

Worth a look

  • Lake Johnson: Ring-necked Ducks (12) reported on the lake yesterday. Go early, before the boardwalk fills with runners.
  • Feeder: Dark-eyed Juncos and White-throated Sparrows are back under the feeder. Swap the dogwood perch for the pine sprig so the winter frames match.

This week

  • Surf Scoter: 7 reports this week (Jordan Lake, Falls Lake).
  • Red-throated Loon: 8 reports this week (Jordan Lake, Falls Lake).
  • Next outing: Nov 7, Eno River State Park. Fall warblers on the Cox Mountain trail.

Notes

📚Reading

  • A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit: page 75 of 209. On pace to finish this week.
  • Saved: a guide to reading winter tree buds

🔮Predictions I'm committing to

  • Golden hour will be worth it: 61%.
  • Recovery tomorrow above 56%: 64%.