Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 11

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Maybe I wasn't very observant in the past decades but I've seen this year a greenfinch for the first time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfinch and it is visiting my garden often. Usually I get to see bluetits, blackbirds, house sparrows, red robins, the common crows and doves, magpies, sometimes geese on a flyover and swans at the lake, storks on the odd chimney.... What I want to say is: Most of the common birds I haven't seen. On this overview I have barely seen a fifth of birds in Germany https://www.nabu.de/tiere-und-pflanzen/voegel/portraets/

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WTF. A month has passed and my ordered smartphone still hasn't arrived.

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It's a shame that plastic explosives aren't called **blastic**.

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I don't like what I was seeing the the Naked Gun trailer.

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Aw man... Rick & Morty... That's not how the Harz mountains look like... To be fair: Places in the show are always f-ed up.
Fun fact: A small village in the Harz mountains is called "Elend" which can be translated to misery.

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The mystery of the mysterious poop in my garden has been solved. A few weeks ago I was cleaning up some poop from behind my grill. Before that I had some poop on my lawn. Today I found the culprit: A hedgehog. Somehow there is a hole somewhere in the fencing and a hedgehog found its way in my garden. I encountered it when I was checking for rain to collect in buckets. While that I found the hedgehog standing absolutely still on my lawn. I grabbed a few sticks and pushed it gently out of my gate since I don't know where it could exit otherwise and I am certain that it wouldn't survive in my garden.

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First day of 30°C temperature. It is disgustingly uncomfortable.

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My train ride was suspiciously smooth. No big crowds. The train was on time. I had no issues with my folding bike in the train. However my trust in Deutsche Bahn has not improved. Other trains had delays of 20+ minutes and I had to switch platforms.

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While ICE slams minorities in the USA, ICE is crashing against a horse with 300km/h (186mi/h). ICE is an Inter City Express train in Germany.

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I bought myself the first train ticket ever. I rode by train many times before but back then either the school teacher bought them for excursions, or it was included with my university ID. I have to travel because of work and would have preferred the car, however it is both time efficient and financially efficient to take the train, also car parking sucks at the destination, and the train station is very close to the destination. I have to use is my folding bike as the distance to my train station is further than I am willing to walk in the night when I come back (about 2.5km). I wish my folding bike wasn't so clunky to fold and carry. Bromptons are out of reach and the necessity for folding bikes outside of this is way too rare to justify the costs.

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I'll miss the CBS show "After Midnight". Sadly it'll be canceled soon. It was the right amount of cringy humor that my brain doesn't reject outright. Also I really like the host Taylor Tomlinson and her standup routine and the vibe she radiates: "I don't give a grape" and "panic anxiety".

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Preordered a Taiga Saejima figure... Still need Ichiban Kasuga.

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Yesterday I saw the anime "Paprika". I knew someone whose favorite movie of all time was this. I was quite sleepy when I started it but I don't think it is why I find the movie stupid. I liked many elements but the motivation of each character was unexplained or nonsensical. I dare to say it was banana on a technical story-telling level. It is a movie that lives on the vibes of dreams and dreamscapes but the non-dream story glue didn't held up in my opinion.

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It's pride month. For me it's pide month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0%C3%A7li_pide

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I've built 3 more boxes for my eight remaining tomatoes. Per box there will be 2 plants planted, so two plants will be left behind for now. The paint has to cure a little bit and then I can place them in my garden.
In total I'll have 36 tomato plants. I don't know if I make another box. I already spent a lot. I guess it should be enough... What am I saying? Of course it's not enough!

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Rick and Morty is back. Dark episode but good.

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Got rid of 8 tomato plants (i.e. gave away). Still have 8 left. I guess I give up and just plant the rest myself despite already having enough and more than I planned. I bought another set of buckets and a full load of dirt, as well spiral rods. Next year I'll add more other plants than tomato. I have a few salad plants, cucumber, and jalapeno, and a few beans. First some bushes have to go to make more room.

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Fleamarkets are wonderful. I bought the exact same model of backpack that I have since 2008 and got me through university. The price was 5 times as much as I bought today, for only 18€. The old one is still in a fairly good condition but there is a hole forming at the bottom from sliding on the floor and there are abrasions in the lower back area. The good thing is that I don't have to readjust to a completely new backpack once the old one falls apart. I was eyeing on some backpacks but they are flawed as they often don't provide an extra big secondary compartment for stuff like a rain poncho, umbrella, bicycle repair tools and such. And if they do they are behemoths and cost too much.

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I have a wild strawberry plant in my garden that stem from the previous owner. A few days ago I saw some fruits that were almost ripe. My mother likes them and would have been ripe when she visits me again. Today I saw that they were lying on the ground. It's either mice or birds that plucked them. I think it's rather the latter than the former. Mice would have gnawed on the fruit. My guess is on pigeons. I saw a few of them landing my garden several times and I trust them that they are dumb enough not to eat the berries.