I had booked a day off
work today. So with no need to be up early I was watching "Game
of Thrones" and "Life's Too Short" before
6am. I suppose I shouldn't grumble; in days gone by it would have
been before 4am. With this CPAP thing blowing air up my nose I am
getting (probably) two more hours sleep every night. Mind you
I am feeling far more tired now I'm getting this extra sleep.
I then spent a little
while doing a little maintenance on my lap-top. It's not the fastest
of machines, and for all that I am so quick to tell everyone else to
scan for .tmp files and to defragment regularly, it turned out I'd
done neither on my lap-top for over a year.
To the dentist; after all
this was the reason for my having a day off. Just a check-up today;
I sat in the hot-seat to find that the dentist has instigated a new
scheme. As part of the check-up you get a little bit of paaper
giving you your "oral health score" (whatever
that is). I got 94% which I am told is quite good.
I quickly mowed the
lawn, and we then made the most of our day off. First of all a quick
drive out to New Romney. A mult-geocache had gone live yesterday and
was still waiting to be found for the first time. After a quick
search we got to do the happy dance as we claimed joint FTF bragging
rights. If a "normal" cache goes live locally it is
found within minutes. But no one bothers chasing First to Find on
multis.
We then drove up to
Peasmarsh where we took "Furry Face TM"
round the woods and found another ten geocaches. They were rather
beautiful woods; somewhere we'd never have found if not for the hunt
for plastic boxes.
From there we made our
way to Four Oaks where we had a rather good spot of lunch in the Rose
and Crown.
We then went on something
of a mission. There was a puzzle
geocache nearby. I'd spotted the conundrum nearly two years ago.
It was Star Trek - themed. I'd been trying to solve this one for
nearly two years, and last week (after just the teensiest hint)
I figured out the answer.
So as we were in the area
we had to go get this one.
As we walked back to the
car so the rain started. The rest of the plans for the day went out
the window and we came home. Via the cake shop.
Once home I had an email.
Yesterday I said that the Forestry Commission weren't replying to me.
I was being hasty. They have replied and they are very happy for me
to stage a geo-picnic in Orlestone woods.
I'm pleased about that.
There's no denying the whole geo-picnic subject boiled my piss last
night.
I'd mentioned the
problems I was having on a geo-forum, and several people gave
reasonable and sensible replies. That really wound me up; everyone
was utterly missing the point. The point being that there is no room
for common sense when dealing with petty bureaucracy. Over the years
I have come to find out (the hard way) that if someone with a
rule book says that black is white, then you should just grit your
teeth and accept it. There is no point in trying to reason, argue or
discuss. When dealing with that person, black *is* white.
But nil desperandum; the
day is saved and we are "all systems go" for
geo-picnic.
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