Hmm, maybe a nice and noisy blade.

Clicked. And clunked. And crashed the Mac Pro.

Happy new year. One drive didn't make it last night.

Can’t remember but unlikely as Chinese New Year would be the tome for that

So many places in HK I’ve never seen. Decided to take a few new routes today…messed up just a little by not realising that this pier only has 1 ferry every 30 minutes, as opposed to every 10.

Think I’ll go to an island I haven’t been to in 10 years tomorrow.

Went to the other apartment to clean up a bit. Discovered a plastic tub filled with leaky wine bottles. Rescued what I could, including a bottle of Quinta do Noval 1970 vintage, and a bottle of Camus Napoléon cognac — half of which had been lost to evaporation. Saving the port for another night (I'm optimistic, given how hardy this stuff is). The Camus tastes like it's at best 30% ABV now but the flavours and aromas are still stunning…perfect with some cheese to end a grimy night of wiping mould and goopy vinegar off fragile labels.

Sichuan food for dinner.

Haven’t done this in a long time. Just an hour of my mouth half numb and smouldering from the chilli and pepper. Beautiful flavours: citrus and flowers with a hint of pithy bitterness once past the fire.

Now off to one of my favourites for dessert and cocktails.

Give it 5 years…

Yearly maintenance.

You forget, it’s never cold enough to need heating in HK. It’s 22°C and sunny today. Having scheduled maintenance in summer is what would be unbearable.

Scheduled power cut in 12 hours.

I’m out all day and night which means I have to shut down now.

The problem is that shutting down all this stuff takes a while…