The CPAP machine might
not be overly comfortable, but with it doing it's thing I had another
night with six hours sleep. I'm rather keen on the device.
Over brekkie I watched
teh latest episode of "The Tomorrow People" as
"Furry Face TM" scoffed the crusts
from my toast. I do like that show - the plot is now going somewhere
and I don't fall asleep whilst watching it. I also spent a little
while clearing rubbish from the SkyPlus box. Having set the thing on
series link for a few shows it seems to have recorded the same
episodes a dozen times. I've now cleared about a fifth of its memory.
I checked my emails: a
new geocache had gone live along Church Hill, which is less than two
miles from home. Twenty minutes later I was parking my car along that
lane and chatting with Martin who was cycling past on his way to
work.
I don't like to give
spoilers about finding caches, but I will say that in this case the
map can appear deceptive; this cache looks like a find which can be
done easily as a drive-by. It can be *if* you aren't averse to
forcing your way through the undergrowth. So a quick dive through a
hedge saw me with the cache in my hand and I had scored another First
to Find only thirty minutes after the cache went live. Happy dance...
If nothing else this has
proved that I've set up all the geocaching stuff correctly on my new
phone. Which is a result.
And then on to work. The
radio was all abuzz about the latest scandal to rock the
supermarkets. Apparently several of them have been selling
Halal meat without labelling it as such. I'm no expert on the
subject, but from what I understand, Halal
meat comes from animals whose throats have been slit and have
then been left to bleed to death. This is done because those of
various superstitions feel that God has told them to do it. Whilst
I'm very happy to eat dead animals, I see no need for them to suffer
needlessly in this way before I eat them. As far as I'm concerned
this cruelty is just another thing on my list to discuss with the
Almighty when I get chance; I won't eat Halal meat. And I can't
understand why anyone would insist on the stuff.
It would seem I am not
alone in feeling this isn't a good thing to do, and one of my loyal
readers has got himself banned from Tesco's Facebook page for telling
them the error of their ways.
Something else on the
news which boiled my piss was the news that antibiotic resistance is
becoming acutely serious. It's no secret that as time goes by, so
bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics. So to counter this
problem our old friend science makes new and better antibiotics.
However it seems that the pharmaceutical industry isn't really
putting a lot of effort into developing new antibiotics any more. The
reason why? - there's
not enough profit to be made from it.
Sometimes I wonder what
goes through the minds of my fellow man.
At work I sulked. No sax
practice this lunchtime. I had a go, but a combination of cold, wind
and rain made things just too impractical to spend forty minutes
tonguing the Volga boatmen on top of their old smokey.
It was just as well the
rain had cleared up in time for "Furry Face TM"
to have his walk this evening. And with him walked I popped round for
some McDinner with the Rear Admiral. From there we went on to the
astro club committee where in between bandying nonsense we made five
minutes worth of decisions in an hour and a half. It's only been
twenty minutes since that meeting and my mind has gone blank. I do
hope Jason sends out minutes of what happened...
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