I didn't realise just how
much staging last night's little geo-shindig had taken out of me. I
slept like a log, waking only minutes before my alarm this morning.
I got up and watched a
rather lame episode of "Earth 2". The stories are
getting rather shabby now. Having flown interstellar distances to a
virgin planet, our heroes are finding more and more other intrepid
travellers who have got there before. And the stories are getting
silly. In today's story the lead character met someone whom she's
hitherto nudey-sauce-romped in her dreams.
A rather tawdry premise
which was dragged out over forty minutes.
As I watched the telly I
shared my toast with my dog. He is rather lazy at toast time; it
seems to be as much as he can do to open his mouth for me to put the
toast in. I suppose that for him toast time is still at least two
hours before breakfast time. In his world it is still the middle of
the night.
Bearing in mind the
dreadful weather lately I had a good drive to work this morning. As I
drove I listened to the radio. There was a lot of unmemorable hot
air, but one article made me sit up and take notice. It turns out
that the Prime Minister was felt to have been evasive at yesterday's
Prime Minister's questions. The deputy chief whip of the Labour party
told
the world about this via Twitter.
Am I alone in feeling
that here is something fundamentally wrong for a leading politician
to be communicating to the world in the way that a teenager would
tell his cronies an item of the utmost trivia?
Personally I dislike
Twitter...
And so to work. I did my
bit. Perhaps not as much as I might have done, or as
enthusiastically. Today was not so much dull as something of an
anticlimax after last night's successful geo-astro-bash.
As I drove home I
listened to the radio. There was an interview with the president of
the court which considers complaints brought against the intelligence
agencies. It could have been riveting. It wasn't. It was rather dull.
I drove home via Park
Farm where I dropped off "Dobbie". "Dobbie"
is a rather huge Dobsonian telescope which has been in the back of my
car since Monday night. The idea was to have done stargazing with it
yesterday, but the weather was against telescoping. Much as it is a
good piece of kit it takes up space I don't have, and was glad to
foist it back on to Denver.
Once home I popped the
lead on to "Furry Face TM" and
took him out. A new geocache had gone live during the day in honour
of "National Church Micro Day". We couldn't find it.
To be honest we didn't try that hard. I look suspicious enough when
hunting out plastic boxes; let alone doing it in the dark on a
playing field...
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