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vital functions
Dec. 5th, 2021 11:40 pmReading. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman. Still finding the tour of terminology in the general subject area useful (intensity matching!); still deeply annoyed by all sorts of the details -- not least the breathtaking misunderstanding of the function of high water marks and the total lack of standard deviations, p-values, etc on all of the values being quoted.
Playing. Several games of Scrabble!
Cooking. Dehydrated ALL the apples, or at least almost all of the ones taken to Cornwall, less the ones my mother wanted left hydrated for her own purposes.
Exploring. The Cornish Seal Sanctuary! Particular delights included the rescued pups; the common seal that was Extremely Aware that it was feeding time and was flolloping around frantically near the gate as the buckets approached; the target-training with a Boopy Stick (for Booping Snoots) as part of feeding time; and the plaque that explained that one of the rescued seals had been released back into the wild after some time in captivity but alas needed a permanent home at the sanctuary because it had learned, extremely thoroughly, that The Place Fish Come From is... Buckets. (I was also very fond of all the permanent residents with hypothyroidism, and A particularly enjoyed the one with IBS.) Other highlight: the EXTREMELY HONKY Humboldt penguins.
Observing. In addition to the seals (and the rainbows): choughs. Choughs started reappearing in Cornwall in 2001, of their own accord, and have been monitored and protected ever since. The population has (via a certain amount of drama) been steadily increasing. My mother & A spotted a pair of them along the cliffs near the mouldering ancestral pile when we were down at the beginning of November and this week I saw them all on the beach and the cliffs immediately above it -- we counted five in all! This is delightful and I am delighted. :)
I also poked around and did find some green sea anemones (in a rockpool with their tentacles out), but didn't actually go scrambling on the rocks to see if I could find any of the red-and-green spotted ones, given that the tide had turned and was definitely on its way back in.
Playing. Several games of Scrabble!
Cooking. Dehydrated ALL the apples, or at least almost all of the ones taken to Cornwall, less the ones my mother wanted left hydrated for her own purposes.
Exploring. The Cornish Seal Sanctuary! Particular delights included the rescued pups; the common seal that was Extremely Aware that it was feeding time and was flolloping around frantically near the gate as the buckets approached; the target-training with a Boopy Stick (for Booping Snoots) as part of feeding time; and the plaque that explained that one of the rescued seals had been released back into the wild after some time in captivity but alas needed a permanent home at the sanctuary because it had learned, extremely thoroughly, that The Place Fish Come From is... Buckets. (I was also very fond of all the permanent residents with hypothyroidism, and A particularly enjoyed the one with IBS.) Other highlight: the EXTREMELY HONKY Humboldt penguins.
Observing. In addition to the seals (and the rainbows): choughs. Choughs started reappearing in Cornwall in 2001, of their own accord, and have been monitored and protected ever since. The population has (via a certain amount of drama) been steadily increasing. My mother & A spotted a pair of them along the cliffs near the mouldering ancestral pile when we were down at the beginning of November and this week I saw them all on the beach and the cliffs immediately above it -- we counted five in all! This is delightful and I am delighted. :)
I also poked around and did find some green sea anemones (in a rockpool with their tentacles out), but didn't actually go scrambling on the rocks to see if I could find any of the red-and-green spotted ones, given that the tide had turned and was definitely on its way back in.