waymo – Stilgherrian

27 April 202528 April 2025

Weekly Wrap 778: I take the ferry to Manly during an inside-out week, for some reason

It’s a beach scene, looking out onto the ocean with small, gently-rolling waves washing up on a yellow sand beach. The water is turquoise in the shallows, grading to a deep blue on the horizon. Overhead, threatening clouds billow and brood, although for the moment the beach itself is in sunlight. In the right-hand foreground, an older man in dark green t-shirt and brown shorts carries a red and yellow surfboard toward the water’s edge. Never change, Manly. Minutes after this photo was taken, the entire scene disappeared into a grey blur of drizzle and cloud.

My week of Monday 21 to Sunday 27 April 2025, like the one before it, was inside out. It’s the public holidays and the weekend days which have been busy, with fatigue hitting during the week. So it was a trip to Manly on Tuesday, and podcast work on the holidays.

18 August 202422 August 2024

Weekly Wrap 742: A wallaby end to a wobbly week

A black-and-white infrared photo. Next to a tree stump, a swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolour) stares straight into the camera.

Productivity eluded me during the week of Monday 12 to Sunday 18 August 2024. I was so, so tired, perhaps because for the four days Saturday to Tuesday I didn’t get my usual afternoon nap. Or it could be all the Usual Things that screw up my sleeps patterns. Still, here we are.