Glass half full... making the most of WFH

Three cheers for this bloke; his is the attitude to be bringing.  Work From Home done well.  The alternative attitude: interminable lock down cycles, ground-hog days of hamster-on-the-wheel lunacy with no end-game plan at all...

Clearwater Bay Beach 1, early morning, February 2022

Latest phone camera La La Land

 I borrowed Ange's new phone last night and took this picture, hand held.  The light filling the sky comes from the chokka boats' lights out at sea.  While I took the pic because of the lit sky, the subtle reflection off the water, and for Hong Kong, the amazing clear air, there just wasn't as much light as there is in the photo.  So exactly what software and multi-lens bit of wizardry is at play here, heaven alone knows - but it is pretty awesome, outperforming a human eye.  What is real?

Passage test cricket

 I've gone through a bit of a patch feeling grim about the state of the world and the HK interpretation of this &@#*ing pandemic.  However, there are these little jeweled moments for which I am utterly grateful, like an after work, rainy and cold outside, game of ping pong ball passage test cricket; flicking, throwing, three meats for LBW ... definitely batter hostile :-)

A customised Big Blue

 My Chinese New Year holiday project involved customising Big Blue by changing its wheel size from 26" (36 spoke bombproof touring wheels) to 650B (or in plain language, the original wheel size of most adult bicycles, 27.5 inch) carbon road, 28 spoke, fancy hub, rolling road demons which weigh about half the originals.  I have a suspicion that your levels of interest in this only fractionally exceed that of the boys and Ange, and thank the lord for that;  I'm looking for early morning motivation and hopefully these provide it.  Visually, it looks largely identical (should have taken a before and after photo) however, nothing changes a bike more than fancy wheels, and these in particular (a Chinese OEM manufacturer, larny carbon, hand built) provide a very different and much more lively ride.  Delightfully, with a few modifications, I could even get the mudguards back on.  The aging version of me has got quite attached to not having that vertical ass stripe that riding through anything wet without mudguards leaves you with.  Hope your weekend is delightful.