After a
rather busy night I was rather disappointed to see it was raining this morning.
I’d planned to take "Furry Face TM", "Daddy’s
Little Angel TM" and "Stormageddon - Bringer of
Destruction TM" for a little walk round Great Chart this
morning. Geocaches don’t maintain themselves you know. But where I had in mind
is liable to flood, so we abandoned that idea and walked round the park and out
to Singleton Lake instead. We got some bread and flung it to the ducks. I say “to”, little Jake was trying to throw it
“at” the ducks. The ducks were
entertaining; each duck that actually got any bread immediately got bitten on
the backside by all the other ducks that didn’t get bread. Ducks can be rather
nasty to each other.
As we
walked the fine rain persisted. The annoying fine ran that doesn’t look as
though it is enough to worry about, but after five minutes leaves you
absolutely soaked.
We came
home, and I set an alarm for a few hours and went to bed. I woke shortly before
that alarm was due to go off because someone’s car alarm was going off outside.
So I had a late lunch (whilst watching
South Park”) then had a look-see on-line. There were a lot of posts on
social media about people “going back to
work” today. Sometimes teachers boil my piss. They get *very* touchy whenever it is implied that
they work less than twenty-five hours every day, but have made great show of having
just had six weeks paid holiday over the summer. Do they realise that this one
holiday is far more time off work than most people get all year?
I also
saw there had been absolutely no takers whatsoever for the astro club’s event
which is planned for this Saturday. The astro club’s been asked to help out
with a stargazing event at Dungeness. Admittedly I’ve got other plans, but the
membership has been asked if they might like to take part. No one’s replied. On
the one hand this might seem discouraging. On the other hand should we expect
people to be getting involved. When they join the club what exactly are people
signing up for? I’m fast coming to the conclusion that all the punters want is
a once-a-month show. That is something we do very well. Maybe we shouldn’t be
trying to do any more than the monthly meets?
As is always the case after a couple of night
shifts I found myself feeling rather tired, so I sat quietly and carried on
working on the Batcamp Archives. I got stuff about
three more camps up, including another archive of photos, this lot from 2005.
"er indoors TM" boiled up a
rather good bit of dinner, and with her bowling I managed to stay awake through
some of yesterday’s TV that the SkyPlus had recorded for me. “The Last Ship” was OK, and I quite liked
“Poldark”.
And in closing today, did you know that as well
as this diary, I write another blog. For professional
reasons I am legally obliged to keep a record of all the ongoing
extra-curricular studies I do which are work-related. I have to read journals,
reflect on case studies, read professional newsletters… it is all rather dull
really but every year one out of every twenty registered biomedical scientists
is required to prove they are actually doing continuing professional
development. I find writing what I do as a blog works for me. Every time I do
something worthy of note (which is three
or four times a week) I make a few notes, then every so often I write up my
notes and publish them. I’ve made the blog public; when I first started the
thing I did so as an example to the trainees. Now things are rather different (I don’t supervise the trainees any more)
but I’ve never bothered to change the privacy settings. And over the years the
thing has developed a cult following. I published a few entries on Saturday,
and yesterday ninety-eight people logged on to read them.
I wonder what people expect to get from that
blog; it is rather dull.
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