Despite being woken by
the rain at some point in the night it didn't disturb me for long. I
slept for over nine hours last night. Presumably the after-effect of
two night shifts?
I put all the white
landry into the washing machine and then fed the dogs. Sidney
hoovered his food up; Fudge walked away, but at my insistence he came
back and nibbled at it for a bit. He's been off his food for the last
few days. I wonder what's bothering him. Mind you he's never been a
greedy dog.
Over my own brekkie I saw
three new geocaches had gone live nearby. The local "FTF-grabber"
had been out and done the "FTF-happy-dance" on all
three barely an hour after their publication and over an hour before
I'd woken up. Whilst he is doing nothing at all wrong in charging out
like that, I can't help but wonder if it would be good to give
others a chance. Especially when the local "FTF-grabber"
operates as a team of four. In many parts of the world many people
enjoy the race for FTF; in these parts no one bothers trying any
more.
Not much had happened on
social media. A lot of people were sulking that the Christmas
holidays were over. I must admit that I've had a rather good break;
and (in many ways) what with a biopsy tomorrow and a night
shift on Friday I've still got another week before I'm back to work
"properly".
I then took my wolf pack
(of two small dogs) for a walk round to the park. Today must
have been "National Pick Up Your Dog Day"; everyone
that we met who had a dog today picked their dog up as we approached.
What was that all about?
We had to adjust our
route through the park somewhat; everywhere we went was flooded.
We got home to find it
was mid day already. Where had the morning gone? I popped up the road
to the corner shop for a sandwich. Having looked at my blog archive
yesterday I realised that my sandwich cost the same today as it did
eight years ago.
As I scoffed my sandwich
I watched the weekend's broadcast of "War
and Peace". I've never read the book but what I saw was
rather good. I quite liked the appearance of Adrian Edmonson as Count
Rostov; it never fails to amaze me how the alternative comedians of
the 1980s are actually rather good actors. Both Rik Mayal and Alexei
Sayle have been excellent in straight roles. The actress playing
Natasha looked very familiar; but it took an Internet search to show
me she's actually been in Downton Abbey.
I got the second load of
washing hung on to the clothes horse just as the torrential rain
started and I then had (yet) another attempt to get proper
maps working on my phone's geo-app. This is something I've been
struggling with (on and off) for nearly a year. At Friday's
geo-meet I met the chap who'd given me instructions to set it up in
the first place, and he gave me one or two pointers. After a minute's
twiddling I now have it working.
Now the burning
question.... having got decent maps back on my phone do I still need
a GPS unit? The geo-admin is easier with a GPS unit, and the GPS unit
comes with a lanyard so it hangs round my neck. But with "proper"
maps on my phone (and tablet) there *really* isn't much
to choose between the phone and the GPS.
Whilst waiting for the
laundry to dry I spent a little while solving geo-puzzles with a view
to go for a walk at the weekend.
There's no denying that
whilt the morning flew past, the afternoon dragged somewhat.
With the laundry basket
*finally* emptied "er indoors TM"
came home with a ton of washing generated by "Daddies Little
Angel TM" and "Stormageddon -
Bringer of Destruction TM".
What with the usual
Tuesday crew being (nearly all) indisposed we had a rather
good bit of scoff and watched "War and Peace". "er
indoors TM" wanted to watch it, and I
wanted to watch it again to figure out what had been going on...
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