One of the smaller dogs moved in their sleep last night and
Treacle got very agitated about it. She can be quite the grump when woken up in
the small hours. But she has no difficulty in getting back to sleep. I dozed on
and off for a couple of hours, then gave up trying to sleep, and made toast,
Rather than watching "Shameless" I watched more "Star
Trek: Lower Decks" which was rather good; today's episode had loads of
references to what had gone before; quite possibly too many. I suspect people
who hadn't been watching Star Trek twenty-five years ago would have had no idea
what was going on.
I then had a little look at the Internet (my mornings
follow a definite routine); there were still “likes” and comments
appearing on the photos from Wednesday’s meet-up. And since then I’ve been
thinking… I can distinctly remember that there were twelve people along to our
first-ever trekkie meeting in May 1993. Five of us were at the pub on
Wednesday. One was (and still is) in America. One was (and still is)
in Hastings. I can picture three others who have completely disappeared… and I
can’t remember the other two at all.
Taking care not to disturb anyone (especially a grumpy
Treacle) I got ready for work and set off through a very dark and foggy
morning. As I drove the pundits on the radio were talking about how President
Biden has announced that (unlike Poland) he is continuing to fund the
Ukrainians' war efforts. I suppose the difference between Poland and the USA is
that Poland can't afford to pay for someone else's war and that the Russians
are very nearly on the Polish doorstep, whereas the USA is only too happy to
fund the war against Russia that they dare not actually fight themselves.
And a year after ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss
comprehensively poggered the UK economy the Labour party has suggested that any
major changes to the UK's financial policies be reviewed by the official watchdogs.
That's a very good idea. But why not extend this beyond the
Treasury. Why not have the same for education and health? It's no secret that
every change to the country's health policy has been instigated and abandoned
on the whim of the current political climate without a thought for whether or
not a policy might (or did) work.
I went to work via the petrol station where they didn't
have any sandwiches. having forgotten to make any this morning I needed some
scoff. So I drove over to Sainsburys where I got lunch. And again my piss
boiled. I managed to work the self-service checkouts as I'm not entirely
useless. However quite a few other customers did struggle with them. There were
several rather bored members of staff standing round idle. Those that weren't
fiddling on their phones were sneering at the customers who were having trouble
with the checkouts. You'd think they'd put these staff on the manned checkouts,
wouldn't you? After all this is a very regular occurrence.
Work was work; I did my bit. But as the day went on I felt
progressively more and more grotty. I was glad to be on an early shift. But
once home early I didn’t take the dogs out. “er indoors TM” had
taken them out at lunch time and brought them home covered in poo. Dogs is foul
creatures.
By the early evening I’d perked up a bit, so we settled the
dogs and drove out to Badlesmere where there was a geo-meet going on. It was
good to catch up with friends I see oh-so rarely.
Three pints later we came home (via the kebab shop)
and watched more “Lego Masters: USA” in which each team of contestants was
given an extra team member – a dog. They then had to make a Lego model of their
canine team member. It turned out to be rather harder than it looked, with
three of the models collapsing into a thousand (or more) pieces at the
vital moment of judging.
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