I had a terrible night's
sleep. I blame my dog. When he sleeps at the foot of the bed all is
fine. When he decides to try to push me out of the bed then that's a
different matter. Perhaps he should start spending the night in his
basket?
Over brekkie I watched
the latest episode of "Raised by Wolves" in which
Grampy refused to watch "In the Night Garden" and
baby Maria got her revenge by filling Grampy's pockets with custard.
Aretha then helped Germaine out of the closet.
The show is actually much
better than it sounds.
The morning's haul of
emails included one from St Helena asking me to reconsider my
decision not to spend a year on a rock in the South Atlantic. I must
admit part of me is still tempted to take a sabbatical.
I then had another look
at my geo-map problem. Perhaps I've been spoiled by having the
(perhaps illicit) use of decent maps for a couple of years.
I've figured out how to get the use of OpenStreetMaps. I suppose I
should make the most of these maps; everyone else seems to manage.
But then from discussions I've had it would seem that few people can
actually read what I would call a "proper map"; most
people are happy to have an arrow pointing in a certain direction and
blindly follow it. Unfortunately I am not. Given a decent map I can
see hills and valleys, churches and windmills, all sorts of features
to help me find my way around. I've often said that so many people
seem to make hard work out of geocaching; without a functional map
I'm beginning to see why this is the case.
I shall give
OpenStreetMaps a go before I dismiss them out of hand; but with no
contours or landmarks and only a fraction of the detail shown on a
"proper map" I can't see them working for me.
As I drove to work
through thick fog the news wound me up. There are plans to replace
the UK's nuclear-capable submarines. Apparently with 17000 nuclear
weapons in the world it is vital that the UK
have a nuclear deterrent. As a lad I was a member of the campaign
for nuclear disarmament. At the time the whole argument for having
nukes seemed daft. And it still is today. The whole concept of a
nuclear weapon being a deterrent didn't deterred the attack on the
New York Trade Centre in 2001, or the July attack on London, nor does
it deter anything at all, as evidenced by the ongoing war against
terrorism. If Islamic State were *really* a concern, why not
nuke them? Environmental concerns because nukes are so bloody
dangerous? Then why have nukes at all?
I got to work, and whilst
there did several wet ones (it's a serological thing) and then
over lunch practiced my saxophone. "Moon River"
doesn't sound at all like a wet one any more. Talking of sax, I
didn't have sax practice tonight; the music school was closed for
Easter. Instead we had our walk round the park rather earlier than we
might have, and "Furry Face TM"
got told off for being willful. Some times that dog can be a
handful.
Once home the postman had
been. Our new router has arrived. It plumbed in reasonably easily
but the ChromeCast seems to be having issues. Nothiing ever is
straightforward, is it?
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