I was up well before the
lark this morning and watching the latest episode of the re-imagined
"The Tomorrow People". For all that it's a really
good series I can't help but find myself looking back over the last
couple of months and asking myself what has actually happened in that
show. And I must admit that the answer is "not much".
The morning's drive to
work was dull. I listened to the news as always. And the news had
very little to report. There was talk of the Russian annexation of
the Crimea which is now a done deal. There was talk of the missing
Malaysian air liner, but all the time it remains missing there
are no actual facts to report. The Shadow Chancellor was intereviewed
about yesterday's
budget and upset the pundits by (surprisingly wisely)
refusing to comment in depth until he's actually worked out what was
actually in the budget speech.
In fact the most
interesting news item was the discovery of a new species of dinosaur
which (in a thinly veiled attempt to whip up public interest)
has been dubbed "the
chicken from Hell"
Once at work I did work
things until lunch time. My new working pattern gives me a much
longer lunch break, and I've taken to going for a lunch time stroll.
Today I found a field full of cows which on closer inspection turned
out to be all bulls. I didn't realise you could keep bulls together;
I thought they fought or squabbled? This bunch seemed surprisingly
relaxed.
This evening I took
"Furry Face TM" for his walk.
There's no denying that he's far better behaved on morning walks than
evenng walks. I wonder what is different that causes him to play up
in the evenings.
And once home I checked
my emails. Good news. I was planning to do a load of geocache
maintenance this weekend; much of it has been done for me by some
geo-buddies of mine who were in the area yesterday. I was pleased
about that. There's no denying that I enjoy traking down a concealed
sandwich box. And so because I hunt so many I feel obliged to make my
contribution to the hobby by hiding caches too.
But with hiding them goes
the responsibility of maintaining the ones that I've hidden. This
isn't so much of a problem on caches that are nearby or on my way to
work. But with the recent changes to my working pattern I have much
less time mid-week to spend on replacing missing magnetic key holders
and fake ducks; especially ones that are nowhere near where I would
normally be going.
Of the seventy-nine
caches I've hidden I'm beginning to seriously think about archiving
thirty (or so) of them.
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