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Popped up the road for my eye test. Verdict: no significant change over the last three years, so no need for new glasses unless I decide I can't live with the minor inconvenience of pulling my glasses a few millimetres down my nose if I want to read PowerPoint slides on the big telly
And on the way back, popped into Greggs for a late lunch of a steak bake
To be fair when we did electronic engineering ond we spent Wednesday afternoon in the metalwork shop, I made a vise and some gate hinges among other things.
Sounds like they had an employee who was part of the furniture they either retired or got a better job.
Walk briskly walked in the grey, rather damp-feeling evening; green and red rings closed
Slightly shorter than usual as I remembered to log the four-minute walk up to the optician (though not the walk back), so I had that already on the books and decided to skip one of the minor detours I usually include that makes it a round two miles
Forgot to put the TdF highlights on as was distracted by tinkering with my new router and wifi extender thingy I got in a bid to get better wifi in my office.
So, I now have Trucking Hell on. I think I watched up to S4E5 so there's lots to catch up with.
Woke up at 5. After struggling to get back to sleep gave in at 5:15, and started working at 5:20. Got a nice little suite of programs for downloading analysis for CodeCharta code visualiser. Looks like it could be useful for identifying technical debt.
Went for a swim at lunchtime at our local open-air pool. It's been about 25°C, but now it's raining heavily. Tomorrow up again at 6:00 or so, in order to take a freeloader... er... friend and his wife to the Hungarian embassy in Bern so they can sign for their new daughter's passport. Typical bureaucracy of the post-communist countries I guess.
To be fair when we did electronic engineering ond we spent Wednesday afternoon in the metalwork shop, I made a vise and some gate hinges among other things.
Sounds like they had an employee who was part of the furniture they either retired or got a better job.
And all that for a mere fraction of Giggly's £700/day.
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