Last night I did that thing where I woke far too
early. I woke feeling full of energy and raring to go… at ten past one. I then
dozed on and off until half past seven when I gave up and got up.
I stood on the scales. Having had quite a pig out this
weekend I was pleasantly surprised to see that my weight had held constant over
the last week.
I made toast and had a look at the Internet. There
were lots of people saying nice things about yesterday’s geo-event that I’d
organised. I rather enjoyed it myself and was very pleased at how it went.
On the other hand there were far more people saying
nasty things about the new “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy”. Back in the
late eighties the die-hard Star Trek fans hated “Star Trek: The Next
Generation”. Twenty years ago it was the reaction of the (so-called)
fans that led to the cancellation of “Star Trek: Enterprise”. And here
they are doing it again.
And there was some chap claiming to be a real ale fan
who was bigging up some beer describing it as “second only to Guinness”,
and getting rather miffed that such a statement meant that either he didn’t
know the first thing about beer, or that that what he was selling was mediocre
at best.
I Munzed, and got Wordle on the last try. “Waxen”
– they are putting some seriously silly words on there at the moment.
I got the leads onto the dogs and took them up to the
woods. As we drove there was talk on the radio about the use of artificial
intelligence in academia. One expert on ancient Rome was saying how there’s
something or other that never happened in ancient Rome (I can’t remember
what it was) but all the artificial intelligences will tell you that it
did. Apparently this sort of thing is happening more and more and is known as A.I. hallucination, and is a bit of a
problem… The University of Manchester is tackling this head-on and is giving
all its staff and students access to the Microsoft 365 Copilot and asking them to use
it and challenge it.
This will be how the world ends. Not through malicious
A.I. but through A.I. mistakes.
Being a bit warmer today the dogs didn’t have their
coats on. They don’t like their coats, and I can’t help but think that they
just hold cold water and make the dogs colder. And Bailey’s coat seems to rub
in places. But because it was a tad warmer the mud had melted and the dogs got
a bit grubby.
The birds were singing a lot today as well. My
birdsong app detected a common
greenshank or
so it claimed. I’ve never heard of them before.
We walked a slightly different route today. I’d had
some reports that some of my geocaches were missing to I took some
replacements. Of the ones that had been reported as being missing, one was
missing, two weren’t. And we found something of a mystery. Last week as we
walked I saw one of my caches was missing. It simply wasn’t there. When we came
back this morning it was where it was supposed to be. What was that all about?
We got back to the car and came home for baths. I made
us both a cuppa then did the admin for the geocache maintenance I’d done.
I chased up English Heritage about that EarthCache I
was hoping to set up at Camber Castle.
I arranged Treacle’s vaccinations.
I marked a trainee’s portfolio work.
I settled in front of the telly underneath a pile of
dogs and watched some episodes of “Four In A Bed”. Today’s ones were
particularly vicious. Everyone underpaid everyone else, there was a lot of
snarling, and even some swearing. It never fails to amaze me that the
contestants in this show don’t seem to realise it is a TV show and that
everything is filmed. If a contestant finds piss all over a toilet or a load of
hairs in the bed, then we see it on the screen. Contestants denying it and
claiming that it was all lies aren’t fooling anyone and just make themselves
look silly.
“er indoors TM” boiled
up a decent bit of dinner then went off bowling. I sparked up Netflix and
watched a couple of episodes of “Soulmates”;
a rather good sci-fi show on Netflix. Imagine a system that could find your ideal
and perfect partner… and how that might be abused…
Oh – and today was supposedly Blue
Monday – the most depressing day of the year. Was it?
Probably not for me. I’ve just had a rather good weekend and a good walk round
the woods today. I’m quite enjoying helping the trainees with their portfolio
work. Working up this EarthCache is giving me a little project. There’s more
geo-meets and games nights in the pipeline. I’ve got a day at work tomorrow (which
I rather like these days) and more walks in the woods later in the week.
I’m reminded of a post on one of the local Facebook
pages I read over the weekend in which some billy-no-mates was bemoaning
just how terrible he felt Ashford was, and in the subsequent arguing it became
apparent that this chap did nothing with his life but sit and whinge and rarely
(if ever) leave the house.
For all that life can conspire against you, it helps
if you try to make the most of it.
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