I had a rather decent night's sleep... up until four
o'clock when one of the dogs made a concerted effort to shove me out of the
bed. I shoved back as best I could, but didn't really get back to sleep after
that.
I made toast and watched the last episode of "Peep
Show". It was a good episode; a good show really, but like so many TV
shows went on for two or three more series than it needed to. There was
definitely vibes of flogging a dead horse toward the end.
I had a quick look at the Internet; nothing of note had
happened so taking care not to disturb “er indoors TM” and
the dogs I got ready for work. I walked out the front door just as the bin man
was bringing our recycling bin back from the bin lorry. On seeing me he made a
point of putting the bin back tidily... unlike the dozens of others he'd just
strewn down the street. As I smiled at him and went off to find my car he
grabbed two more bins and nearly (but not quite) bounced them off of
parked cars as he took them to be emptied.
As I drove to work the pundits on the radio were talking
about the two by-elections that had happened overnight. Both were relatively
safe Conservative seats, but many ex-Conservative voters had voted for other parties this time.
More of these ex-tory voters voted for Labour than for any other party and so
Labour didn't so much win the elections as the Conservatives lost them. Rather
worryingly the Reform (right wing and nasty) party came in third place
in both elections.
And that idiot Donald Trump was mentioned... He's suggested
that the Russians might like to invade NATO countries who aren't paying their dues
to NATO. Did you know that only about half the members of NATO pay up what they should?
Perhaps he's being a tad harsh, but Mr Trump might have put
the wind up the cheapskates.
I went to work via Sainsburys where I got a load of cakes
for tea time what with me having a birthday next week. I'm always quick to
scoff a cake when there's some going so I don't mind getting one or two myself
when it's my turn.
As I scoffed some of the cake at tea time so my phone
beeped. The EarthCache I'd spent most of yesterday preparing had gone live. Late last night I'd had the thumbs-down on
it. I'd made a mistake with one of the waypoints (the one showing where the
chalk was), it had been pointed out that I could be a bit more descriptive
of what chalk and flint looked like, and my spelling of "Earthcache"
was wrong. It should be "EarthCache".
There are those who think this might be a tad picky;
personally I think this is a good thing. So often any old rubbish is accepted
in geocache descriptions; raising the standard isn't necessarily a bad thing.
My edits did the trick and it had gone live... and just under an hour and a
half later I had a message to say it had been found for the first time.
In theory today was my last day of full time working and I
worked all day long… Mind you over ten years ago I blogged about my last ever
night shift and that turned out to be wishful thinking.
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