Friday 10/20/2023
Yesterday I found the whitefly infestation of my begonias had rebounded from when I sprayed them with neem oil a few days ago. I need more oil and a better sprayer, and I wanted to deal with this first thing. So I started by driving to Home Depot where I bought a small pump sprayer cheap, but couldn’t find the neem oil that was supposed to be in stock. So on around to Summerwinds for that, and home. 9 miles, all on the battery.
Now I could copiously spray under all the leaves of two big begonias. Lots of delicate little white flies flew up and died, mwah-ha-ha. I’ll repeat this in a day or two.
Then I edited the video from EOL session 2, yesterday. I’m getting pretty good at editing video. I was again pleased by my 2-year-old MacBook Pro. Once you have completed editing in iMovie, you export the video to a final .mp4 file. I have done videos on my old (2016) iMac, and I know that to export a one-hour video takes at least one hour. Same job on the MacBook Pro with the Apple M1 chip? Just over 15 minutes. Sucker cranks.
Anyway did that and uploaded it to Vimeo and distributed links to the videos to the people who cared, and it was barely 11am. Damn I’m good. Played a little guitar, at which I am improving. Had lunch. Did some other stuff.
At 3 I started putting together a mismatched set of clothes. The 4th floor has this month’s TGIF and declared it would be “Crimes of Fashion” day — come wearing clothes that should not be worn together. I wore my best fedora with a t-shirt, shorts, and sandals with socks. I was astonished by the eye-hurting combinations my neighbors had put together. Here’s a tiny sample.
Almost everybody who turned up — the penthouse was crowded, so maybe 70 or 80? — had dressed up, or rather down, or maybe sideways. It was amazing and hilarious.
Codgerville 