I slept better than I might have done. The original plan
was that I did last night’s night shift, but I’ve been taken off of those for a
while.
I made toast and peered into the Internet. There was quite
a bit of ranting about the antics of President Trump this morning. He’s now sanctioned the
International Criminal Court. The rights and wrongs of the matter are
immaterial really. It’s just his latest move; there will be more. People
ranting on social media this morning were bemoaning about how he might be
stopped. No one seems to think that it isn’t President Trump who is at fault
but the system. If people are to choose their leader by having them be the
winner of a popularity contest you are going to get flashy showmen elected.
This is precisely what happened in the UK with Boris Johnson. Caught out in his
own lies time and again, but no one cared. “Good old Boris” was the cry
of so many people. If we are going to persist in this frankly ridiculous way of
electing leaders by using a process in which the considered opinion of an
educated person is of no more worth than the whim of a half-wit, this is going
to happen time and again.
I Munzed and Wordled, and activated my latest geocaching Adventure Lab project. A little
walk down New Street. There used to be six pubs along a road you can walk in a
couple of minutes.
And with that live we got the dogs onto their leads and
took them to Dog Club. There were about sixteen dogs along today. Everyone
seemed to have a good time, but it was very muddy, and everyone got filthy.
There were baths for everyone when they got home. The bath was black by the
time our three had been scrubbed.
As we drove home Steve was doing the Mystery Year
competition on the radio. When did the two-pound coin come out? 1998. I thought
it was much earlier than that.
With dogs scrubbed I settled on the sofa and wrote up more
cache pages for my Kings Wood project. I got over half of the second major
series written up; that would be about as much as I could really hope for in
one morning.
And then we got ready for the afternoon. Geocaching dot com
had given me the opportunity to host a Community Celebration Event. This is a
bit like a regular meet-up of geocachers, but a usual meet just involves
getting together for at least quarter of an hour, saying hello, and that’s it.
Anything else is extra. A Community Celebration Event lasts for at least two
hours and is supposed to be a bit more than a standard meet-up. I ran one three
years ago on New Year’s Day when we all played Wherigos. Today I borrowed the
scout hut and we had an afternoon playing board games.
I must admit to a degree of trepidation beforehand. Would
there be much interest? Would people turn up? Would it be a flop? And then as
people posted their “Will Attend” logs I saw that so many people were
coming form London and Essex and far away. Who were these people – would they understand
what I was trying to do?
But (as I always do) I was worrying unduly. We had a
really good afternoon. I laid out four trestle tables and all of them were
used. Magnetic chess, open the box, Jenga, Yahtzee… people had brought games
and were playing them. I met up with old friends and made some new friends and
played Jenga and a wonderful card game about pirates.
“er indoors TM” boiled up a
rather good bit of dinner which we washed down with a very good bottle of plonk
whilst watching the New Year episode of “Bake Off”.
It’s been a rather good day today…
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