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Tea has been a thick-cut ribeye steak with chips, fried onions, and beans
I haven't been going for the thick-cut ones so much recently as they're a lot to handle, but this one had such excellent marbling that I couldn't pass it by
And this morning I unmade the bed and left it to air, so this evening I've had to remake it, which has now been achieved
Tonight's major motion picture premiere was hot off whatever it is films come off, having been released to Apple TV+ today: The Gorge (2025) which starts out seeming like a standard black ops thriller, but then gets very weird. Like many Apple films, I found it an entertaining specimen of its ilk though not outstanding enough that I'm likely to watch it again
In that respect it differs from Train to Busan (2016) because I felt like something a bit more cheery and deranged zombies on a Korean train seemed to fit the bill, probably because the Korean movie industry is a bit more adventurous than Hollywood and happy to make a film involving numerous graphic deaths into something fun
And then another episode of Masters of the Air in which my contempt for the producers rose to new heights in the first few minutes, due to an airman being sent to a conference at Balliol College, Oxford and informed by the English serviceman showing him to his rooms that he probably wouldn't have much time to go "off campus"
Meanwhile on the 27th of December 2019 Brillo posted a lot in search of a PALI. .
Lunch: brunch.
Entertainment: FOOC. Bit of Money Box.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom. It didn't rain on me.
Freecell score: 90%, running average: 81%.
Tea: beans on toast etc.
Entertainment: 18 o'clock news.
Thing on BBC Alba "Beloved Wilderness (1970)" about the Highland & Islands Development Board: it's just mentioned the British Aluminium smelter at Invergordon that lasted a whole 10 years. Guess who was in power when it shut.
Thing on BBC4 about "The banks of the Bann" Ulster in Focus. His hovercraft was full of eels.
Grey damp day out, with rain expected on and off until teatime. Currently 3°C and soon to be 4° though it "feels like" -1° due to the light breeze, with the barometers down to 1007/1015mB
Tea was brought to me from Popeyes. Very nice again
They missed one item from the order though. It was only a small side thing I was getting as an experiment, so the lack of it is annoying rather than disastrous. Deliveroo have refunded me, but what the dish tastes like will remain a mystery for now
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