With no alarm set I slept through till four o’clock
when I got up for a tiddle then went back to bed until just before eight
o'clock. That was a result.
I opened the Lego Advent Calendar – a small cat. What was
I supposed to say about that?
I made toast and had a look at the Internet. It was
still there. Squabbles persisted; this morning there was some serious bickering
on the religion and politics pages which the Facebook bots told me might be of
interest to me. Sometimes it strikes me that if one person was to say “I
disagree for the following reasons” and list their reasons, and the other
person was to read them and think about them then the world might be a far less
divided place. Sadly everyone treats their opinion like they treat their favourite
football team; to be followed through thick and thin regardless.
I Munzed, opening a qrate (as I do every ten days
or so) and Wordled. Today I started with “think” and didn’t get a
single letter. So I tried “space” and got the c and e; but not in the
right places. “Bless” gave me the last three letters in the right
places. The only word I could then think of (with the available letters)
was “dress” but that wasn’t right. And then I realised the answer was
obvious. Guess.
I took the dogs out. As we drove to the woods “In Our Time” was on the radio.
It’s a show which spends half an hour investigating pretty much everything and
anything. Previous episodes have included Roman Emperors, quantum physics,
medieval churches… todays was about a poet
from two hundred years ago and was amazingly
interesting for something that you’d think would be amazingly dull.
We got to the woods and had a slightly different walk
to our usual one. As we went round there was a surprising amount of other
people in the woods. We saw two on horseback. Riding along next to each other,
everything they had to say was shouted, and so we had plenty of notice that
they were coming. We found a glove which someone had dropped. I put it on a
waymarker; hopefully the owner will find it.
We got back to the car; as always my watch felt we’d
walked quarter of a mile further than my phone felt we’d done. I always snigger
when people on the geocaching and hiking websites bang on about how accurate
their GPS is and quibble about distances walked and accuracy of GPS… there’s no
two devices which agree. I once stuck my GPS on the windowsill and left it
whilst I went to work. It thought it had covered four miles during the day when
it had never actually moved anywhere.
As we drove home Professor Brian Cox was on the radio.
I generally don’t like listening to “The
Infinite Monkey Cage” as the show seems to
really over-simplify things. Today they were talking about clouds and it was
really interesting. I suspect that they’d really over-simplified things but as
I don’t know much about clouds I was none the wiser.
We came home for a wash. The dogs were surprisingly
clean; they probably wash themselves on the drive home. I wish they would wait
for bath time rather than licking the mud off.
I hung out the dog bedding I’d put in to wash earlier
and put more in to scrub. I ordered up a Christmas pressie for grandson (which
should be delivered tomorrow).
And realising that earlier I’d found out that I knew
nothing about clouds I signed up with the Open University and started a free course on the subject. Supposedly taking ten
hours, I completed it this afternoon and then had a look at what other courses
they’ve got. There’s nearly nine hundred.
Having done my maths degree with the OU all those
years ago it’s good to be back with them again. I still remember my old student
number…
I hung out the second load of washed dog bedding, wrote
up some CPD and
then played chess, finally managing to beat the
level 1000 bot. I finally had an idea what I might say about today’s instalment
of the Advent Calendar,
“er indoors TM” boiled
up dinner which we scoffed whilst watching a Christmas film. “Bad Tidings” was
rather good, but in retrospect was something of a low-budget remake of “Home
Alone”.
After that we watched the last episode of “Celebrity
Race Across the World”. I won’t say who won, but I will say that I was
pleased with the result.
And I’m now going to spark up the Infinity table and
download as many games as I can… apparently the firm that makes them is going
out of business tomorrow… oh well… as long as the table keeps working for
now…
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