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[vetran]

I'd take the beer soaked bread, toast it and then and make croutons with it.

Man doesn't live by bread alone - now with beer!

Beer makes everything better.

"Oh, Lisa, you and your stories: Bart's a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now let's go back to that... building... thingie... where our beds and TV... is."

[vetran]

. "You must love this country more than I love a cold beer on a hot Christmas morning."

[vetran]

"Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will."

[vetran]

"Does whisky count as beer?"

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Dark.

Dank.

Dire.

Dreary.

Dreadful.

Grey.

White sky.

No current precipitation but it's hammered down overnight.

Sunless.

20.7 deg in here, I'll have to put the heating on if this continues.

996 mBar, 29.4 in Hg, 64% RH.

Friday.

Many troubling dreams overnight, waking every 2 hours or so.

The usual postapocalyptic nonsense.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM and into the TD.

Shirts in the WM.

Smalls out of the TD.

Shirts out of the WM & into the TD.

Cottons in the WM.

Shirts out of the TD.

Lunch: scrambled egg and poached tomato on Morrisons (slightly blue) wholemeal sunflower & spelt toast, bramble jelly on (non blue) same, red corner yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Car SOS: Ford Capril 3100 Mk I, not done in their usual workshop but done by Ric Wood.

Very impressive headwork done on a CNC mill.

Allegedly 220bhp at the end of it all.

Looked very nice.

Cottons out of the WM & into the TD.

Bath mat thingies in the WM (I thought it about time).

Engineering Disasters on Forces TV: I've finally watched the one about the exploding manhole covers, which seems to be A Thing in SepticLand(tm), refinery explosion, fatigue failure on railway track, the Air France flight into the mid Atlantic, woman crushed to death entering an elevator in NYNY, caused by a shorting link on the controller that hadn't been removed after a software update.

Cottons out of the TD & airing on the banisters.

Shirts roughly iRoned.

Bath mat thingies out of the WM & into the TD.

Bath mat thingies out of the TD.

Entertainment: the last 5 minutes of "The Kentuckian (1950)" with that Burt Lancaster chap.

Trucking Hell S3 E10: No Rory.

It's the one with the parcel artic at a funny angle under a low bridge.

Freecell score: 100% (of 11), running average 84% (84.1%).

Tea: Tesco breaded cod, some peach slices, a yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: DS9 S2 E19 "Blood Oath".

Abandoned Engineering.

Michael Ball's Wales.

"Inferno (2016)" with that Tom Hanks.

[vetran]

“All right, brain. You don’t like me and I don’t like you, but let’s just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.”

[vetran]

“Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.”

[vetran]

“Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution.”

[vetran]

“Ah, good ol’ trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.”

[vetran]

“Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”