AI Comms Traffic

 I have made Blog posts on readership and statistics previously. This time it is about communications traffic skyrocketing again and it is all about AI to AI generated comms. AIs are scanning, talking and requesting information amongst themselves. I can see it myself in this Blog.  Whilst the human readership has gone up markedly, the overall views went passed 100,000 in a single month for the first time. It took 10 years of daily posts to get the first 100,000 views and now that number racks up in 30 days.  If I was to turn on adsense, this traffic would not help contribute to a payment, as Google knows human readership from webbot and AI generated stuff.   OK so I won't be a billionaire from this Blog.

Last Devil to Die

 There has not been a lot of reading time lately with a two week burst of continuous sunshine but we are not complaining. I did finish the fourth book in the series of the Thursday Murder Club.  There are quite a few bodies piling up in this one and as usual the octogenarians seem to be able to keep one step out of the way. There was a lot of time spent on dementia and euthanasia which came from Richard Osman's experience with his grandfather.  It is a topic for a retirement village but I am not sure if it is a topic for a murder mystery.  The fox on the cover gets a mention as well.

Scratchy tree

 This year seems to be more scratchy in the tree than I can remember. Then again you are always getting jabbed but maybe the previous pruning has left some gnarly bits in the way.  My totals seem to be getting smaller as I go. This time it was 5kg but I was filling a different sized container more suitable for the drink fridge as now I have to get creative to find refrigeration. This was a particularly green lot. I eased the scratches by going for a short dip across the road. I wasn't intending to but it was calm again and it did help the sore spots. 

Olive harvest continues

 I spent an hour in the tree again getting another 6 kg or so of olives.  It has been in a more inaccessible higher region of the branches so I am happy with the 13 kg so far in two mornings. Once I start I need to keep at it . Your mind wanders about the most efficient way of doing this stuff. I know about the tree shakers. Sometimes you think if I spread a tarp down there and just shake the tree with my hands will that work. It is a sturdy tree. What about having a concertina type hose with a funnel at the top and you let the olives roll down that into a bucket. Maybe not.

Late Beach

 Not sure what the record is for the latest beach day in Autumn but we gave it a go today. Originally they were saying 28° but when we arrived they were saying 25° and then it was actually more like 22°.  The clouds were starting to build so we retreated. Nevertheless we had a good lunch, which I made, if I don't say so myself.  I should mention the sausage rolls which I did not make.  Truth is, the bakery did most of the work but these cheesy rolls are good value, just add a bit of crunchy salad and some ham and there you have it. Everyone is happy. Except the Sun went away.

cheesy mites

April Tree Time

I have had a request for olives that are more green than ripe. With that in mind I have started picking the olives in April rather than in previous years where I have picked them in May. That was mainly because the group weigh in occurs in May for the combined oil crush. I have never added these into that scheme. I spent 90 minutes up the tree this morning on the sunny side where they would ripen more quickly so the theory goes but are now in the bucket where they will stay green in the fridge. The weight came to 7.2kg so that is not a bad start. The tree is heavily laden so am expecting a few more buckets. Now I have to make space in the other fridge. 

Jetty Pole Line

 I went back to the pole line where the class was having a canoe lesson. It seemed like unfinished business. The poles here are closer together and there is a lot of tall but spaced out grasses. It seemed  like good cover for fish and I did find a school of larger ones, maybe 10 fishes. My camera decided not to work. I went all the way out again, dried it off as best I could, found my glasses and read a media error. At great risk, with wetness and sand and grass etc, I opened it up, got the micro card out, reseated it back in and the error went away. The only way I can unload now is to take the media out each time, as the cable connection never works for uploading videos.  Of course when I went back in the water  I could not find the fish again, although there was a large orange cuttlefish that had just been bitten by something. It was laying on the bottom.