Wednesday mood, explained by a koala. The Australian Koala Foundation: koalas sleep 18–22 hours a day to save energy, because gum leaves are fibrous, low in nutrition and hard to digest. The "drunk on eucalyptus" story is a myth. https://savethekoala.com/about-koalas/koalas-diet-digestion/

From my city: the Mirror Maze on Petřín, Prague. Built for the 1891 Jubilee Exhibition as a temporary pavilion, it outlived the event, like the lookout tower nearby. Mirrors inside, a battle diorama at the end. https://www.globalcityintelligence.com/places/prague/mala-strana/zrcadlove-bludiste/

Why chipmunks look so busy right now: they don't truly hibernate. They go torpid and wake every few days to eat stored food. One was seen with nearly 72 sunflower seeds in its cheeks. https://www.massaudubon.org/nature-wildlife/mammals-in-massachusetts/chipmunks

Myth: African wild dogs are just painted wolves with no story. Reality: highly social hunters with tight pack bonds — among Africa's most threatened carnivores.

Desert surprise: Yolyn Am, "Valley of the Lammergeier", a gorge in the Mongolian Gobi that holds an ice field metres thick by late winter. It once survived all year. Today it usually disappears by September. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolyn_Am

Travel plans change. The eSIM you already bought shouldn't be money gone. At eSIMky an unused eSIM, with no data used and the profile not activated, is refundable within 14 days. https://www.esimky.com/en/help

Phone-only paperwork tip: if a PDF holds anything confidential, protect it before it goes into a chat thread. Our PDF Editor app has Protect Files for that. iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6747341672 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.helperg.editor.documents

Tuesday, 4:40 pm, a meeting runs over. My face, accurately represented. 🐈

Shipping folks, a quiet trap: FAS, FOB, CFR and CIF were written for sea and inland waterway cargo. Used for a container dropped at an inland depot, they fit badly, because delivery isn't at the ship. LogisticID explains when it matters. https://logisticid.com/resources/incoterms

Tuesday nature fact: three-toed sloths climb down about every eight days to poop at the base of their tree. In one Costa Rica study, more than half the sloth deaths recorded were predator attacks on or near the ground. https://news.wisc.edu/whats-with-sloths-dangerous-bathroom-breaks-maybe-hunger/

Near misses are the cheapest safety lessons a workplace gets, and the easiest to lose. HRHelperG's near miss form page lists the typical fields. The one I'd never drop: what could have happened. https://hrhelperg.com/workplace-forms/near-miss-report-form/

Monday debrief. Nobody is presenting. 🐾

The question I'd ask any online PDF tool: does my file leave my computer? With PDF Edit Convert, no. Merge, convert and edit run locally in the browser; nothing is uploaded. https://www.pdfeditconvert.top/

One of my favourite pieces of everyday infrastructure: the Star Ferry, crossing Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong since 1888. A few minutes across, skyline on both sides. https://www.starferry.com.hk/en/

If you budget a Czech hire by gross salary, you're short by about a third. TalentPartnerID's calculator on 2026 rules: 32,000 Kč gross means 26,058 Kč net and 42,816 Kč total cost to the employer. https://talentpartnerid.com/

October forest find: the penny bun, a.k.a. porcini. No gills, just a sponge of fine pores that turn from white to yellow to green with age. The cap looks like a crusty bread roll. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/fungi-and-lichens/penny-bun/

Monday rate-table trivia from Twin Phone: calling a Hungarian mobile is cheaper than a Hungarian landline. $0.04 vs $0.15 per minute. Most countries on the list go the other way, so check before you dial. https://www.twin-phone.com/en/rates

Sunday-evening question for site owners: does your analytics tool store full IP addresses? WebmasterID zeroes the last IPv4 octet and cuts IPv6 to /48 on the server, so raw IPs never reach storage. https://webmasterid.com/privacy-first-analytics

Sunday afternoon in El Torcal, near Antequera, Spain: limestone weathered into towers that look stacked by hand. UNESCO's Antequera Dolmens site includes it as one of two natural monuments, landmarks within the property beside the ancient tombs. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1501

A small screen I'm glad we kept: preview before send. In the FAX app you flip through the scanned pages and retake just the bad one, not the whole contract. iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760895885 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.helperg.fax.app

A squirrel in October runs a sorting operation. Eastern gray squirrels prefer to cache red oak acorns, which stay dormant, over white oak ones, which sprout early in autumn. Red oak acorns about to sprout get eaten like white ones. https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/41/4/840/2046205

Meet the reason your trash can has a bungee cord. Raccoons reach food other animals can't because their front paws are nimble, almost handlike: branches, nuts, fruit, and yes, bin lids. https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Raccoon

Sunday farm fact: the seed in your rye bread comes from a crop that gives nothing in year one. Caraway is biennial. A rosette and taproot the first season, seed only the summer after, so growers often undersow it into a cereal to earn something meanwhile. https://agricultureid.com/crops/caraway

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Saturday night out. Life jackets on, expressions very serious. 🐶🌊

Said upfront: in our ZIP app, extracting and compressing are Premium, and the App Store list marks them so. Read & View isn't: peek inside a ZIP or RAR without extracting. iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6753772583 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ziparchivator.zip

Weekend status in two puppies: one has given up, the other is about to. 💤

Saturday-afternoon test you can run in 30 seconds: open helperg.com with DevTools on. The weather cards fetch nothing until you search a city or tap My Location. The card literally says "Nothing is requested until you act". That's the default I want across our sites. https://helperg.com

Paris from the Eiffel Tower: the Arc de Triomphe with avenues radiating out like a star, 12 of them since Haussmann's redesign. If you're there tonight: the flame on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is rekindled at 6:30 pm, every evening since 1923. https://www.paris-arc-de-triomphe.fr/en

Saturday DIY reality check. BuildDesignHub's list of when to call a structural engineer includes removing a possibly load-bearing wall, adding a floor, and movement: doors that suddenly stick, sloping floors. https://www.builddesignhub.com/questions/when-do-you-need-a-structural-engineer