I said today "I can't taste this food", my beans on toast for lunch, and what do you know covid is back.
I am sweating right now, feeling a little unwell, but that's just because I've done a full day's work then painted the new bathroom before I could have my tea. This is so I can do a second coat after tea, before bed. There is barely time. It's only a "mist coat", half paint and half water on the new plaster. The plaster looked great, now it looks awful. I hope this is just the "half way through painting something white" that we always get.
So far the shower area is in, the shower tray is down and the plumbing is in, and that area is tiled (well, aquaboarded). The wiring is in place for the new cabinet and towel rail, but there still looks like a lot to do.
The others have gone to a quiz, I'm heating up my spaghetti bolognaise that they had, and trying the garlic bread in the Ninja for the first time. Looks like it'll do the job.
I knew it, I said to the wife yesterday I think this will happen, and it's been announced, it's happening, The Cure are headlining Isle Of Wight. It would have been Glastonbury if it was on. We may go, but wife says only if it is glamping. Tickets are on sale on Wednesday, could do without it really.
Hmm suddenly getting DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_SECURE_CONFIG on chrome on this laptop... it's that suddenly secure dns doesn't work. I wonder if it relates to this laptop as now being too out of date. Signal also says it's going to stop working on it. not sure I can update...
Raspberry Pi 500+ is a premium version of the original Raspberry Pi 500, complete with 16GB RAM, pre-installed 256GB SSD, Gateron mechanical switches, low-profile changeable keycaps, programmable RGB LED backlighting and more!
Looks a very nice little computer though, probably good to leave connected to the tv or something. I have to keep plugging this laptop into the tv as it's the only way we can get channel 4 on demand, it's not available through our tv for some reason.
I don't need to be buying myself new stuff at the moment though, not until the bathroom is paid for.
Not sure how far I got. I did Parkrun, it went well. Then we went for a walk to Hythe and back, and later for dinner for a friend's birthday. This was to Pomus, a fairly new place in Folkestone. It was very nice! Bit trendy with some odd things on the menu - chicken hearts anyone? I thought I wasn't going to find much to eat but it turns out loads of it was vegan. We had a "big plate" and a small plate each, and that was plenty. Wife had "pork chop" it was a huge plate of meat though. I had the squash, which came with vegan feta, and then our sides were potatoes and cabbage, but much more exciting than that. It was crispy hispi cabbage cut into segments with spicy dressing, and the potatoes were dressed in a vegan lemon butter.
There was lots of wine on the table, but I only had a taste of it as I was driving and not drinking. Still on call.
After we went to The Blind Pig, which is the fourth or fifth incarnation of this small bar on Tontine Street. I thought I knew lots of people in there but each time it was someone I don't actualy know but have seen around the town. Honestly, tiny place less than twenty people in there, and it happened with four people. One was someone who used to work in Chambers (I think he runs this place now), one was the lady from Burrito Boy, one was the Lib Dem councillor, and the other was a guy who drives a VW Beetle. Remember when I used to have a VW Beetle?
Yesterday we went to Canterbury, and that was lovely. I bought nothing, and we didn't even have dinner out, but we had a nice mooch round.
I'm done with my week of on call now. I did get called again by work, but somehow missed it. I got the text but the call had already been answered.
Folkestone parkrun results for event #504. Your time was 00:25:14.
Congratulations on completing your 202nd parkrun and your 182nd at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 101st place out of a field of 378 parkrunners. You were the 81st male and came 14th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Your best time this year remains 00:23:54.
That's not bad, first time back in three weeks I think. Entirely coincidence that I got a better time than expected and I was mostly not drinking this week.
The rest of the week has been quiet, since being called by work at bedtime on Monday. It has upset my sleeping pattern a bit though, been knackered all week. Work has been hard, there has been stuff that has gone wrong to deal with, but it has also been satisfying. Seeing something break that was not by fault and being able to help and fix it is what the job is all about.
Despite being knackered, and being on call, we went out last night. I drove and took my laptop, but we still went to The Hoptimist in Dover, and then on to The Booking Hall to see a tribute to The Cure. Firstly the pub was good, wish I could have had had more than one weak pint of real ale. Then the support band were really good, called Polo Lounge, they must have been doing covers that I don't know as the songs were really good. Then the tribute to The Cure, and they had properly put some effort in. They went for the authenticity, and played a great set. It was good to see a good crowd, including old goths who were pleased to be out and living their hey dey, and excitable new goths who got properly drunk. One girl had a massive spewing incident that basically closed the toilets by the end of the night. Luckily no-one was drinking by the time we got to this venue (poor bar, all cans) so weren't too put out.
Kind of nice for me to be able to taxi people around, I feel I am owed. And still no call from work.
🚶 14:16 Shepway Walking 15'43 - watch battery gave out part way through our walk to hive and back. been in the comic shop. going to collect a parcel or something and buy some wine for a friend's birthday
Some things missing from the graph since September 2023, working on getting them back just kind of hoping someone else will fix it and they'll come back.
This is not on! I only agreed to do on-call with the understanding that you never actually get called! When my phone went just as I was going to bed I thought oh this must be one of the times I've put down for first line on-call. But no, I'm second line, but the first line person just missed this incident. He came online the same time as me, and it was not a big deal but an ongoing thing we've had in the week. A tiny bit to do just to report on it, then back to bed.
After that disturbance though I slept very badly. Was awake very early, don't feel like I have slept at all.
Day three of the new bathroom, it's being plastered today. Apparenlty it's going to be about ten days in all, we were thinking it would all be done in a week. I think there's a two day gap in the middle for the plaster to fully dry.
I revisited Slow Horses on TV yesterday while the others were out at a quiz, as I'd finished it at the weekend and was still confused by it. Turns out I'd missed two episodes in the middle... so watched them and will watch up to the end again and then I'm ready for the new series. It starts today, but no-one else is watching it so I only can when they go out. This new one on TV will be book five, and I just bought book NINE, so I need to buy some more.
Nearly finished Inspector Imanishi Investigtes which I have been reading for months as it is a bit slow going.
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