Saturday, January 13, 2024

A Quiet Saturday

Having an unspecified day after a busy week (for a retired guy).  Been reading a variety of interesting papers and I'll list them here so I can find them again.  (Funny thing how bookmarks don't help me that much, now that I have so many of them.)  Been trading these with McGoey and that's always good for reciprocal infobricks.  

  • https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad108/7486329?login=false
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad059e
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504231201372 
  • The weather in ABQ is chilly but gradually warming over the next week.  If it stays sunny with no wind, I might manage a winter bike ride in the bosque.  Otherwise, it's walks in the Botanic Garden, at the Nature Center, or on the treadmill.  

    Which brings up the rationale for exercising:  England.  Plans are rapidly forming for a multi-week trip to the U.K. this fall.  Probably close to 3 weeks long in September.  Initial thoughts are to follow the pattern we used successfully in Scotland--fly in to London, stay a few days to get past jet lag, take a train out into the country, move on to a second rural destination, take the train back to London to finish up whatever we missed earlier.  Here's the link to the UK rail map, since that's a key ingredient.  https://assets.nationalrail.co.uk/e8xgegruud3g/1eaveB2ciZEVT5uBiavJBC/a589d57c574579b0ac430a3111be8c58/Blue_route_AS_Metro_map_v26.pdf

    As for a photo for the blog label, here's yesterday's attempt to get in the British culinary spirit with a London Fog Tea Loaf.  I managed to get it mixed, baked, cooled, and frosted yesterday before meeting up with Janine at Town & Ranch for an early happy hour. 





     

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