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October 26, 2024

a bit annoying

Filed under: diary — Trefor Davies @ 9:03 am

It’s a bit annoying. Every time I open a new doc, which is every morning to start writing this stuff a side pane opens to “make it easy for me to add tabs”. Finally googled this to see how I can get rid but google, seemingly proudly, tells me it is a brand new feature made available to all ‘workspace’ users to make their writing life better. Sigh. I now have to close the side pane every time I start a new doc. It hasn’t made my life better and google didn’t ask me whether I wanted this ‘benefit’ or not.

Sorry for the downbeat opening. On the plus side it looks quite bright out there to the point where I know THG will shortly appear and ask me whether we really need the lights on in the kitchen 🙂It’s alright for her. She will be off out to the Park Run shortly. It being a Saturday.

A full cafetiere of cawfee has just been plunged in front of my very eyes. I was staring at it thinking ‘that cafetiere has not been plunged’ when in to the kitch she strode and did the biz. She will have eaten breakfast a while back, the runner that she is. Proud of her.

I’ve started a shopping list. I operate an ongoing online shopping list where I just add a new date and items to the top of the page. Similar to my jobs list. At the end of the year it is a historical record of things I’ve purchaysed and jobs done, ish. Anyway all the shopping list currently has on it is custard and avocado. They are for separate uses. Custard doesn’t usually get served with avocado. Not in my book anyway.

A fresh pot of tea appears, as if by magic. Another leaf falls in the garden. Bird flies past the window. Didn’t quite catch the model/brand/make/breed/species. Decide for yourself. THG exits to the front of the house.

I quite like Saturday mornings. Even less time pressure than normal. Imagine as sitch where it doesn’t matter what you do or when you do it. Where you don’t have to be anywhere in particular to do anything, in particular. That is today. Nowt in the diary. A gentle stroll to a local market planned to buy custard and avocado. Perhaps a cawfee. That is today.

I do note that we have no mushrooms. I may add them to the shopping list but breakfast will have to be mushroomless. Mushlessroom. Lessroommush.See what I did there?

Some of my friends are making their way to Prague for the RIPE 89 meeting. Others I see have jetted off to the US of A. Bit of winter sun perhaps. Autumn sun at the very least. Our next jaunt will be to Bexleyheath, whichis for another day. 

Although I’ve been starting to get my brain round our next big overseas trip I’m not totes convinced I want to go. Trouble is there are places I have never been. The Antipodes for example or Hawaii. Do I want to go there badly enough to have to sit in an aeroplane for hours on end and then suffer with jetlag for a few days. The jury is still out. Most people have never been to the Antipodes or Hawaii so that isn’t really a biggie. I’ve never been to Aberdeen either. Actually there are lots of places I’ve never been.

Time will tell. I do quite like planning these trips. 

In the meantime I’m in the middle of sorting out the finishing touches for trefbash (tropical). These things don’t just happen yanow. Cocktail tastings to be arranged, accessories to order, playlist to finish. Stuff like that. Shirt to sort!

There is also the vexed question of breakfast. It isn’t really a vexed question, unless you consider the absence of mushrooms to be vexatious. That just rolled off the tongue. I do have sausage, bacon, tomayto and egg to play with together with sourdough. Twillsuffice. I did toy with the idea of potato rosti but decided against. More because it’s a bit more hassle than any other reason. Another time.

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