Over brekkie I had a
look-see on-line. For all that I an an avid hunter of tupperware I
don't actually go on many geocaching e-groups. Let's be honest; the
hobby is a tad silly..... someone goes and hides a sandwich box and
everyone else goes to find it. It always amazes me how so many
people get so nasty about the topic. On Saturday nigt I read a
particularly vicious rant from someone based in Brighton who was
cursing a good friend of mine about being unable to find one such
box. This morning I read a rather nasty squabble about who did or
didn't get FTF on something in the Liverpool area.
I suddenly realised just
how wonderful the Kent geo-group is. There is no nastiness. There are
disagreements, but people disagree and give reasons and discuss the
matter. The line taken is the line I try to take: "I disagree
with you for the following reasons" not " I disagree
with you because you are stupid".
In retrospect the Kent
geo-group is probably the major reason why I keep up this daft hobby.
Were the locals as argumentative as everyone else I would long since
have packed up.
I get enough arguments
everywhere else...
I popped the lead onto
"Furry Face TM" and we walked over
to Newtown where we met "Daddies Little Angel TM"
and "Stormageddon - Bringer of Destruction TM".
Together with Sam, Sid and Buster we walked over to the orbital
McDonalds. It was a cold day; we've been spoiled by the last few
weeks being so mild. But McBrekkie warmed us all up, and we had a
rather pleasent walk along the river on our way back again.
I had planned to spend a
little time emptying the rubbish from the front garden this morning
but "er indoors TM" had done that
over the weekend. So instead I sterilised the beer barrel (a job I
should have done a month ago), made a start on the laundry and
then had a spot of lunch. I say "lunch"; I just
scoffed whetever leftovers I could find laying round the kitchen
whilst watching last week's episode of the re-booted "X-Files".
I never really liked the original series of the "X-Files";
I'm not sure if I like this new version. But I shall give it a chance
before dismissing it out of hand.
I then spent the
afternoon learning. It has been a while since I did anything with
Coursera. I've enrolled on a five-week course: "From
the Big Bang to Dark Energy". It is provided free by the
University of Tokyo. The first week was all about stuff I already
knew, and today I completed the first week's worth of lectures and
got full marks in the test. I was pleased about that.
Rather than carrying on
with the second week's worth of lectures I had a little tidy-up. Or
that is I intended to have a little tidy-up. I would have done much
better had I been able to put stuff in the loft space. I couldn't do
so as my ladder has gone walkabout. I can remember leaving it with
"Daddies Little Angel TM" in her
flat in Folkestone. When they moved there was talk of the thing going
into storage. I wonder where it has gone?
And with so much more I
could be doing on a precious day off I had a little sleep; night
shifts, day shifts and poor sleeping had taken its toll so I took
myself off to bed for a couple of hours.
I woke still feeling a
tad grim, so I spent the evening slobbing on front of the telly.
"Killjoys", a documentary about trainees joining the
Royal Navy, and "Gotham" is on later....
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