I
didn’t sleep well last night. I blame the dogs.
Over
brekkie I watched more “Trailer Park Boys”.
They stole a model rocket and launched it to the planet “Juniper”. It’s a wonderful show. I then sparked up my lap-top, and
once it had eventually finished its updating I had a look-see at the Internet. There
wasn’t a lot going on with Facebook, so I had a look at my emails. Amongst the
masses clamoring to join my LinkedIn network I had a request from someone I
actually know. Can you believe it?
I
had an email from Geocaching dot com advertising their latest gimmick. They’ve
got some new souvenirs based on “Hidden
Creatures” which starts in a few weeks’ time, and to advertise the thing
they had a questionnaire to find out which hidden creature you are. You can do
it by
clicking here – I got “Fairy”.
With so much that could be improved on their app, with absolutely no
consistency in the reviewing process and with people drowning in storm drains
you’d think that there would be other things that the people at Geo-HQ might be
concentrating on, wouldn’t you?
I set off to work; I
took a little detour to the Biddenden vineyard for geo-purposes. Before I
rotate back to Maidstone for work I thought I’d get a geocache by the vineyard
as it is sort of on the way I drive to work when I am at Pembury. This one was
in a rather beautiful setting and had originally been hidden in September 2001.
Judging by the state of it, it looked like it was originally hidden in
September 2001. I thought about offering to adopt the thing as it was such an
old one, but the last time I offered to take on an old cache I never heard back
from the owner, and this one had already been adopted out once anyway.
I drove on to work. As
I drove the pundits on the radio were talking about the demise of the UK
mammal population. However they didn’t make any mention of the
mammal app they’d suggested I download a few weeks ago. Mind you, I couldn’t
help but wonder if everyone else who had downloaded it had had as much “success” as I have had with it. Having
only found three mammals to log on it, perhaps it is best brushed under the
carpet.
There was also quite a
bit of concern voiced about possible football thuggery at the World Cup. In
years gone by it was the British fans who were the troublemakers. Nowadays it
seems that it is the Russians
who are the problem. I realise that the violent fans are in the
minority, but does any other sport have such a fractious following?
Work was hard work; I
came out to find my petrol tank had lost half its contents during the day.
There was no evidence of a leak, but there was a whiff of petrol. I’ve spoken
with the nice people at the garage who wonder if when I hit a pot-hole
yesterday I might have bumped a seal open, and I’ve got some evaporation going
on. That would be a pain. I’ve booked some repairs.
Once home I walked the
dogs round the park. I say “walked” –
have you ever played the old video game “Sheep”?
You
can download it here. Herding Fudge round the park was akin to
playing that game this evening.
With time against us, "er indoors TM" got KFC for dinner.
It was OK, but (to be honest) given
time she boils up better.
I got the beer into the
barrel – maybe I might have an early night?
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