Rather than do my usual calcio practice this morning, I decided to go for an extra long walk down to the Puckey's Estate Reserve in Fairy Meadow. And it was indeed planned to be a walk, not a run, since I took the E-M5 II with me with the intention of capturing some shots from the Reserve while it was bathed in the glow of sunrise. If you're running you don't want a camera bouncing against you, not even a relatively light E-M5 II. (Albeit with the relatively heavy 7-14mm f/2.8 Pro ultra wide angled lens up front.)

Now, while I said that it wasn't a run, the return WAS a pretty damn fast walk. That's because my fitness watch jammed at 05:52:39. So I got to Puckey's Estate and checked the time. "Hey, not even 06:00 yet! I've made really good time!" I should have calculated a little more. Or thought a little more. A bit further down the track I look at the watch again and... still not 06:00. "Hang on, how is that possible with this light?" I look at the watch again. I notice that the seconds aren't changing. "OK, either I've fallen into a black hole, or..." I check my phone. 06:23. And I need to get to the coffee shop for breakfast when it opens at 07:00 because it's Christmas Eve. I want to be way, way out of there before the last minute shopping madness starts because I really do not need to deal with that guano. So while I did indeed walk back, I did it at a rate that left scorch marks on parts of the concrete.

Thankfully while the display on my watch was jammed, the watch itself wasn't, and it was still phoning home to the app on my phone keeping track of my steps and calories and such like. It would have been a waste otherwise since I've been using it to track my sleep as well over the last couple of days, including the whopping 4 hours and 14 minutes that I got last night including 9 minutes of deep sleep.

And I wonder why I'm always tired.

While I did get up earlier than normal this morning, the sun gets up even earlier as we pass through summer. If I want sunrise photos at Puckey's Estate I'll have to start there rather than end there. In the meantime, here's one of the sunrise over Towradgi Creek at Corrimal Beach.

In other news today, Qantas flight QF1, Singapore to London, had to put down in Baku, Azerbaijan because... smoke detectors on the A380 were giving false positives. Again. Just like my flight did in 2019, when we lost a day in London and were stranded in Singapore for 24 hours. Even after three years (not that I believe that these were the only two flights that would have been affected), Qantas still can't make 19th century technology work.