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carol o
@carolou.bsky.social
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Mostly non sequiturs. She/her. Sports (WNBA, MLB) and stationery/fountain pen fan. AsAm, but the east coast kind. Vegas local. Some posts also shared on https://mas.to/@carolou Personal website https://notes.partlark.com
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TIL it's possible for your iphone to receive voicemails even when your carrier voicemail (which kicks in when your phone is in airplane mode) is full. judging by the diff number of VMs, i think my carrier VM box has been full for more than a year lol
like i'm pretty sure i've never been close enough to actually notice the brushstrokes or texture(?) before, which is pretty neat
still thinking about some of the oil paintings i saw at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. am uneducated in art certainly, but i don't think i've ever really appreciated oil painting as a medium before? did go on a random uncrowded weekday, so was able to linger and just admire more
lol I guess a trip's gone on long enough if you start feeling weirdly fond of gate agents with American accents 😂
saw this outside of the National Gallery of Victoria yesterday. thought it was some sort of interesting traffic calming strategy, but it's actually one of the museum's installations!

www.ngv.vic.gov.au/julian-opie-...
and I might need to start following other forms of basketball, if only so I have an excuse to post this brick exhibit before next WNBA season begins 😂
p.s. was in the rocks/minerals exhibit when game 7 began, and I think this piece of fluorite was trying to call the winner...
Melbourne Museum goes pretty hard.. probably the best history/natural history museum I've been to on this trip! it does cost money, but only about 12 USD for general entry, which is a bargain for how much there is to see
now in Melbourne, at a hotel that I'm pretty sure totally forgot to tell me my room was ready, but also upgraded me to a suite so shrug emoji?
in my chicken schnitzel pub food era

(it's apparently a common pub food in Australia!)
psst, check out the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery if you’re ever in Hobart. not sure I’ve ever felt so engaged by a museum’s blend of natural history and art!
minor upset stomach yesterday. also the first day this entire trip that I haven’t had a flat white. coincidence????
if i were on an Antarctic expedition, i’d 100% want to be responsible for the penguin scrapbook

(probably not the actual name. exhibit at the Australian National Maritime Museum)
waiting for the ferry at the Cockatoo Island wharf. Sydney ferries have been a pretty scenic way to get around, tho definitely more crowded today than earlier in the week ⛴️⛴️
tortoises at the Taronga Zoo reminding you to eat your vegetables
✅ had some vegemite on toast
at some point I should look up what chicken salt actually is, but I can tell you it’s really good on fish and chips 😋
been using Apple Pay more on this trip, which means looking at my Apple Pay transaction history for the first time in a long time.. and lol, why does RTC (public transit) in Vegas display as "Price 4 Limo Party Bus Las Vegas". shows as RTC Las Vegas on my actual cc statement, so funny quirk i guess!
is it really a vacation if I don’t take a vid of water moving?

also just sucked down a flat white with oat milk, so this trip to Australia is off to a great start!
remain amazed and delighted that the Aces are in the Finals! will be out of the country for most of the games unfortunately (on a trip I booked in July when the Aces were .500 ahem) but that just means morning basketball in my future! ☀️🏀
have been a little checked out of baseball this year but figured i'd at least score one game before the season ended. picked Skenes' last start of the year and thought maybe i'd quit when Skenes left the game, but i wound up watching all 11 innings! (pls ignore where i lost a little steam) ✏️⚾️
working on a half-baked theory that A'ja's consistently better the 2nd game after winning MVP than the 1st

granted it's a small sample size and could use more data.. A'ja just has to win more MVPs I guess! 😜

(most stats from basketball ref, mvp announce dates taken from press releases)

#WNBA
fastmail trial has been promising so far... initially the trial account was weirdly limited in ways not described in the doc (couldn't send any test emails at all or create even one alias/masked address), but a support ticket (resolved on a weekend!) took care of that.
lol Bam with the trophy 😂 also Jackie fixing A'ja's hair 😭

full vid also has Mark Davis w/pink wig. do enjoy every time it seems like he loves the Aces more than the Raiders
As if we thought we couldn’t top last year’s surprise 🤭

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, Roscoe, Eva, and her favorite Olympian from out of town dropping in to deliver the news!

Full video: lvaces.wnba.com/SurpriseAja