I've just opened up a rabbit warren for hector to go down, if they aren't already in it.
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Sainsbury's has been successfully gone to, including a visit to the petrol station bit
Lack of masks on everybody else as usual
But the Christmas Viz is out
Lunch, once it's heated up in the "air fryer" (aka convector oven), will be a Pukka steak slice
I must pop over to Iceland some time to get some frozen Greggs supplies. Which reminds me that I went past the old place, where the chestnut tree still has a few leaves here and there but is generally well along with moulting for the season
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Darn it. Heading off to lead creative writing group this morning and car wouldn't start. Fortunately a nice bloke came and picked me up. Don't know when I can get it fixed, local garage can't send anyone until Monday, hate the idea of being stuck at home.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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16:30 got a text message to say that they hadn't told her when her surgery would be.
17:15 she was out of surgery and could see well enough in one eye to send me a text message…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Tea has been a roast duck leg with orange and maple source, and chips
The duck was yellow-stickered at Sainsbury's, so I thought I'd give it a try. Very nice; I might have that again, depending on what the real price is
And it was accompanied by a bit of Trucking Hell in which the Northumbrian lot go about pulling a ferry out of a reservoir
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I noticed at lunchtime that I hadn't received any emails on my main personal domain since about one this morning. Going to the hosting provider's site to see if there was an outage, I discovered that my mailbox was full
Years ago, I set up my Mac mail client to only delete downloaded messages from the server after one week. This was because hotel wifi is often rubbish and I wanted to be sure I had local copies of everything before it was removed. It turns out this had stopped working in April 2018, meaning mail had been accumulating since then; 5GB of it
This also explains why that mail account has been so slow. Because of the way POP3 works, the mail client has to download the IDs of all the messages on the server, compare that list with the ones it already has, and then request the full message for the ones it doesn't. So there's been a list of, I assume, many thousands of email IDs being downloaded and checked every time one of my computers or devices has checked for new mail
There's a "Delete now" button in the Mail app's settings, so I used that and it got rid of them all. I just need to check again in five years or so and see if it's still working
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She’s got a sore head tonight. I think they rushed her through a bit, but we know that tomorrow the patch will come off and things will be better.
The advice would be:
1. Go private, it’s not that expensive
2. Don’t go for the full varifocals, go for the intermediates - yes, you’ll need to wear reading glasses, but you’ll cope better than the varifocals..
3. Do it sooner rather than later.
4. Don’t be too shocked by the improvement.
5. For partners of those who have it done - support, ask them to spot things, and listen to them describe colours and scenes you might have seen, but they’ve never noticed before.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Not one but two major motion picture premieres tonight! First up: Pacific Rim (2013), a sci-fi thing in which giant things-like-robots-but-controlled-by-humans-inside-them battle giant monsters-from-the-ocean-deeps-but-actually-from-another-dimension-or-something-like-that. I suspect this is based on a computer game but, as with the Resident Evil ones, it isn't actually that bad as these things go. I'll probably never bother watching it again, but it didn't feel like a complete waste of time
And then from the ridiculous to the sublime with Rain Man (1988) in which Tom Cruise discovers he has an autistic brother who looks very like Dustin Hoffman, and learns how not to be such a self-centred arsehole as a result. It's one of those that everybody else saw years ago but I somehow hadn't, and it's excellent
Goodnight all
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