Morgan slept through last night which was a
result. He was a bit fidgety at three o'clock, but isn't everyone?
I got up whilst it was
still cold, and as I shaved I had the bathroom fan heater running. The nice
builder who quoted for a new bathroom said we can't have a fan heater in a
rebuilt bathroom as that's against the building regulations. Stuff that - for
quite a bit of the year the room is too cold not to have one.
I made toast and
watched more "Alice in Borderland" in which the leading
characters took all their kits off in a prelude to "doing the dirty
deed" but decided against it at the last minute. Usually when on telly
the dirty deed is (supposedly) done whilst fully clothed. Not that I'm
advocating unmorality (!) but you'd think the program writers would make
their minds up, wouldn't you?
I set off to work. As I
went I had a little Munzee session. Among other things I captured two Vorpal
swords (as one does) and was rewarded with ten Zeds. Zeds are the
crypto-currency used in Munzee; ten Zeds is a shade over seven and a half
pence.
Suitably rewarded I
headed off west-wards. As I drove the pundits on the radio were talking with
some squash player or other (apparently whoever it was is famous?) about
how squash is to be an
Olympic event in the future. As is cricket.
There was also an
interview with the leading light of some exam board who have announced that
GCSEs will be done
on-line in future, starting with Italian and Polish next year. In theory a
brilliant announcement; in practice not at all thought out. Schools will need
to buy dozens of laptops, and at exam time pogger each one so that it can
access the exams, but not access Google so that that the kids can’t cheat. And
then un-pogger them all again afterwards so that the laptops can be used
properly. That will take some time...
There was also a lot of
air-time about how President Biden is heading off to the Middle East to try to
stop everyone killing each other. He's
not the first to try this, and sadly he probably won't be the last. Interestingly since it all kicked off in Gaza
last week, no one has mentioned Ukraine on the radio... Am I being cynical in
wondering if the Ukrainian situation is now (quite literally)
yesterday's news?
I got to work; I did my bit. I had a chat with
the pension advisers. The process for retirement seems quite straightforward
and simple. I've got a meeting on Thursday with the boss to thrash out the
details...
Having left home in the dark and arrived at work in daylight, I
left work in daylight and got home in the dark. “er indoors TM” boiled up a
very good bit of cauliflower cheese which we washed down with a bottle of
plonk. I quite like cauliflower cheese.
And in closing spare a
though for Kirsty Smitten; a pretty-much unknown
genius
who has quite probably saved the human race. With antibiotic resistance
becoming so prevalent, it is forecast that more people will die from
septicaemia than cancer by the year 2050, with untreatable infections causing ten
million deaths per year (one death every three seconds). However Ms
Smitten has developed nanotechnology that will do for bacteria just like
penicillin did for them a hundred years ago.
But Ms Smitten died last week. Aged only
twenty-nine.
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