I had a reasonable
night's sleep I suppose, and seeing that the weather was good I got
some washing into the machine. Lisa arrived and I forgot all about
the washing.
We went out to play
geocache and I got my two thousandth find. Not bad in just under ten
months. Mind you we completely failed on one that went live a day or
so ago. To qualify for a find we had to spot a trig point near Ham
Street. We had the co-ordinates of the trig point, but we couldn't
find it. After twenty minutes searching we wondered if we had the
instructions wrong so we gave up, collected her mum and Cassie and
drove off to pick up a few caches as drive-bys. As we pootled about
so the weather deteriorated, and as we came home so the heavens
opened.
Shortly after coming home
we checked out our geo-stuff-up on line and found that we had ben in
the right place after all, but that the trig point was under thick
stinging nettles. Woops (!) I spent a few minutes terrorising the
dog, and then got a bucket of beer on the go in readiness for
Brighton Kite Festival. It's still a little way off, but preparation
is everything.
And with little else
going on I watched more psychology lectures. Today we covered
Pavlov's dogs in which Pavlov demonstrated how dogs learn.
Conditioned reflexes are great - there's a good
video of the concept here Give it a go - it'll raise a smile.
Basically the theory is what I did with "Furry Face TM"
and the whistle. Whenever I give Fudge a treat I blow a whistle.
Whenever he hears the whistle he expects a treat and comes to find
me. I say "whenever" - I blow the whistle when I
give him a treat about ninety percent of the time. He comes when he
hears the whistle about fifty per cent of the time. But it's a good
theory.
The phone rang - it was
Tina Poole from National Moneysavers asking if I would do a three
minute survey for her. I was a bit bored so I agreed. I made out that
I had everything she was selling and didn't want to change. After
three minutes she thanked me and said that some Argos vouchers would
be in the post. I wonder if they will be. We shall see.
And just as I'd had my
evening's ablutions and settled down for the evening so the rain
stopped. We could have gone looking under the stinging nettles near
Ham Street, but they will keep. Instead we had a rather good chilli
and a bottle of plonk. Hic... !
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