As I did my thing ay work
last night I listened to the radio. A documentary about post
apocalyptic fiction, another documentary about sea monsters, an
article about the making of the film "Jaws" (can
you believe that film is forty years old now?) and a play which
totally failed to grip my attention. Sometimes the radio is riveting,
other times not so.
A lot of the time the
radio was broadcasting the news. The focus was on the Greek crisis.
I'm no expert but from what I can work out a previous Greek
government has borrowed billions of Euros from the rest of Europe.
Having struggled to repay their debts the Greeks have now voted in a
government whose election manifesto was "tell those to whom
we owe money to get knotted". And having been elected the
rest of Europe is rather worried that the Greeks are now about to
tell those to whom they owe money to actually
get knotted despite the fact that their banks are about to
collapse.
As I walked out to my car
after work this morning I checked my emails on my phone. The people
who do the admin behind dog microchips have finally got round to
updating Fudge's chip so he's now registered to our address. Since we
took "Furry Face TM" on from "My
Boy TM" (who himself acquired the pup
from someone else) I've always felt that my little dog was
something of a vagrant. Now that he's finally registered to me I feel
we've got a sense of permanance which has been hitherto lacking.
I also had an email from
the people who produce GSAK. For those who aren't aware of GSAK it's
a complete con. Well.. before I find myself crucified for
disrespecting GSAK let me qualify that. Because the software provided
by geocaching dot com isn't quite what it might be, in order to
actually be able to do the geo-hobby (with any degree of
practicality) you have to pay other people for their third-party
software. GSAK is actually a very good bit of software which does a
very good job, but I resent having to pay for it. I already pay for a
premium membership with geocaching dot com.
I don't resent GSAK's
developer getting paid for his efforts, but I can't help but feel
that the nice people at Geocaching dot com should either beef up
their software or pay for GSAK for me. I do resent having to pay out
more money because everyone accepts that what we already pay for
isn't good enough.
I was just about to drive
home when my phone rang. "Daddies Little Angel TM"
had located a cheap fridge-freezer and neeed someone to go get it for
her. The journey which took less than half an hour last night took
over an hour this morning thanks to "Operation Stack"
and the French being on strike again.
I picked her up and we
drove across Folkestone. Her latest acquisition was in a third-floor
flat in Cheriton, and what are Dads for if not to carry
fridge-freezers down flights of stairs?
Despite my whinging we
soon had the fridge-freezer picked up and installed. Apparently her
old one kept icing up. I suggested she might try turning it down; an
approach which hadn't yet been tried. Oh how I laughed when I heard
that..
I got home and took
"Furry Face TM" round the park
then scoffed a light lunch whilst watching last night's episode of
"Dark Matter". It's not a bad show. Mind you with
the exception of the sexy android its not good either.
Despite it being a hot
day I then went to bed to try to get some sleep. My hopes weren't
high but I slept for nearly five hours.
I got up and had what
would normally be brekkie for tea (I quite like jam on toast)
and then spent a few minutes rummaging on amazon dot com looking for
a decent book for my Kindle app. I have been reading Wendy
Alec's Chronicle of Brothers recently but it's a bit too "God
Bothering" for my liking. I've read up to the end of the
second of four books and in all honesty won't be bothering with the
third or fourth.
I've downloaded something
by Allen Steele to pass some time instead. If any of my loyal readers
could recommend a good read I'm up for recommendations.
Because I spent a couple
of quid on an eBook the nice people at Amazon have given me ten
quid's credit on their app store. If anyone could recommend an app
worth having...
I'm off for another night
shift now. I hear the entire county's traffic is at a standstill
because of "Operation Stack"...
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