I had another night when
I slept for over seven hours; I would have slept longer had I not
woken with my CPAP air hose in a tangle. I got up and had a little
look on the Internet. Nothing really noteworthy; lots of arguments
about pretty much every subject under the sun. Some were squabbles
I'd (inadvertently) started, some were squabbles of friends,
some were deliberate attempts to provoke fights. Disagreeing seems to
be human nature. It's a shame people can't disagree without getting
nasty about it.
Interestingly as I
scoffed brekkie I saw that I had a few messages from people who
joined that Facebook Wherigo site last week telling me that the chap
who was squabbling at me (about litigation in geocaching) is a
well known argumentative troublemaker. There really are people who
troll the internet on any subject just to provoke fights. Why do they
do this?
I noticed my dog was slow
in getting up. Time was he was like a coiled spring, since his recent
slipped disc he seems to take his time getting up. Perhpas its
back-related, perhaps he's just getting on a bit.
Once he was up we went
for a little walk round to a very wet Viccie Park where we did some
geo-maintenance on one of "er indoors TM"'s
geocaches (it wasn't there!) and went on to the vet's. We pop
in there from time to time; the idea is to get "Furry Face
TM" used to going in there. I have this
theory that if we go in there regularly he won't be frightened of the
place. When we just visit he is fine. Today we needed to see the
nurse to get his anti-flea treatment. Because of this he needed to be
weighed. He was terrified. How does he know when something is going
to happen?
We weighed him; he's lost
a tenth of a kilogram. Result (!) Mind you, he needs to loose
more; he looks like a little barrel at the moment.
We came home, and I
looked at my latest wheri-project. And decided I'm not going to
bother with it just yet. I put a *lot* of effort into putting out
three Wherigos last week and they've (so far) generated next
to no interest. So I looked at this week's lectures on my Coursera
course instead.
Today was all about the
early Earth, and I learned something new - the Faint
Young Sun paradox. Basically according to current theories of
stellar evolution the Sun was never hot enough for life to have been
on Earth as long as the fossil record would have us beleive. But
something kept the water from freezing. Somewhere one of science's
theories is wrong. And not for the first time...
I shall gloss over how
poorly I did in this week's test.
I then looked at some
more Sussex-based geo-puzzles, then plotted the Sevenoaks based ones
I solved on Friday. From the map two of them were clearly wrong. One
was an error in my calculations, one was a mistake in the published
formula (which had been commented on some time ago).
I then boiled up a rather
good bit of tea, then it was over to Willesborough for the weekly
meet-up. Insults were bandied, colons were threatened with
irrigation, and we watched episode two of "The Flash"
(Zoom! Zoom!). The show has potential - I like it so far...
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