It
was still pouring hard when I chivvied the puppies out this morning. Constant
heatwave and drought a couple of months ago; constant hossing down now. It’s a
shame the weather can’t be somehow evened out, isn’t it?
I dumped two soaking
wet puppies onto a sleeping “er indoors TM”, made toast, and
once I’d watched an episode of “Big Mouth” I had a look at the Internet
to see what I’d missed overnight. Not much really. I read the same instalment
of the latest developments in the life of some German woman half a dozen times;
I know I tell the world about my life every day but I do it here on my own
blog. This German woman blogs daily too… but posts the same update on all of
the Sparks-related Facebook pages. And now some American woman is posting her
weight loss journey to the Facebook Bill & Ted group.
Being a nosey person I
quite like seeing what they are up to, but some people really don’t understand
how social media works.
With
nothing else happening on the Internet I got ready for work. Not that I would
dream of complaining, but the drive to Maidstone this morning was far easier
than the cross-country drive to Pembury had been for the last two weeks. As I
drove, the pundits on the radio were interviewing the leader of the Dribbling
Democraps about the state of the country's finances. Sir
Whatever-his-name-is missed no opportunity to tell the world how crap the
Conservative party is but had precious few practical propositions of his own.
The Labour party are much the same at the moment as well. And isn't this why the country is in such a
state?
On
the one hand British politics has the Conservative party having a go at running
the show (albeit not that well), and on the other hand are all of the
opposition parties saying how crap the Conservatives are. And the electorate
has to choose between one lot with policies that no one really likes very much
(and *are* crap), and two other lots with no policies other than finding
fault with everyone else.
Interestingly
there was also some interviews with American politicians and voters this
morning (in the run-up to their elections) in which it seemed that
American voting was akin to cheering on your favourite football team. No one
was voting for any policies; they were all voting the way they did because they
always have... and also wondering why they got idiots like Donald Trump in
charge in the past and are looking set to get him again.
Democracy,
eh?
There
was also talk about the Prime Minister going off to the COP 27 climate talks for the simple
reason that Boris Johnson is going (not that anyone seems to know why)
I
got to work and deployed a Tree House. That should do some good for the
Munzee-ing. And at tea break I got a message
that our clan had reached Level One in the Clan War even though we'd
only been at it since last Thursday. Result!
My
phone also told me that I'd been using it (on average) for one minute a
day whilst driving this last week... ! What was that all about. Admittedly I
did have a little Munzee mission on the way to work, but I make a point of
leaving the phone in my pocket until the car is stopped, out of gear, handbrake
on and engine stopped (even though I'm the only one in the car!) as per the
government's instructions.
Why did the phone think
I'd been using it whilst driving? Did it spring into life whilst in my pocket?
I used it quite a bit yesterday when “er indoors TM” was
driving and it didn't have any grumbles?
Work
was actually rather busy; today's theme was "iron deficient".
As I looked at the hypochromia and microcytosis I found myself thinking about
days gone by. Years ago there was a chap who used to appear all over the
medical-related parts of the internet about his theory that God made all the
elements except iron. Iron had been made by Satan, and there was no such thing
as iron deficient anaemia. He would plague all of the biomedical websites only
too willing to show off his misunderstandings and getting extremely aggressive
with anyone who dared to disagree with him.
I
wonder whatever happened to him?
I came home and after a
quick bit of dinner “er indoors TM” went bowling. The dogs
are showing no sign of settling; not having had four miles round the woods they
will be hyperactive until she comes home…
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