Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXII

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was a bit of Ra by qntm, and more of Eve’s Hollywood, in which it’s becoming increasingly clear that being a teenager in 1950s Hollywood was quite dissimilar to anything I’ve experienced, at that or any other age

Bit too hot again, isn’t it?
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[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans. Very nice, it was

Very similar to last night’s tea, due to sloppy management of Use By dates when shopping

This was accompanied by a thing on Netflix called Terrorism Close Calls. This episode is about a plan...

[NickFitz]

In other exciting news, I’m taking the last week of July off!

[NickFitz]

The chemist’s has been gone to, and also the surgery, as they want a bottle of piss for some reason and I wasn’t going to waste any of my empties on them

The promised cloud never arrived; if anything, there’s even less of it than there was before. It’s also 26°C out...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of leftover curry and naan, cold

I need to go to the chemist’s for the usual monthly bag of pills, which were delayed this month because of the annual medication review stuff meaning I haven’t got any of most of them left and can’t postpone it. Quite...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start and the weather app thinks we’re getting some light rain right now and for an hour or so, though we aren’t; maybe it’ll show up soon. It’s 18°C (“feels like” 15°) and expected to reach 26° before getting proper hot over the next few days....

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was Police Interceptors

And tonight I read more of Eve’s Hollywood. She’s a very good writer, with a distinctive turn of phrase

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The bed has been remade, thereby averting any cause for dismay

[NickFitz]

Apparently this guy’s helmet had broken in two when he hit the road so all in all, he was pretty lucky to have got away with a skinning ...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

[NickFitz]

I forgot to close the bedroom windows and blinds and it got up to 28°C in there by the time I remembered

But that was about three hours ago and it’s dropped back to a slightly more reasonable 24° already

I’d been meaning to change the bed over the weekend but...

[NickFitz]

He’d fallen off the back of the bike when his mate who was driving pulled a wheelie, so the whole of his back was skinned ...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover hot wings with ketchup

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Just woken up after the match last night? You’ll not get anything useful done today, so you may as well read this lot instead

• The Extremist in the Family - A tragic story of religious extremism: ”The Kerrs were devoted to one another and to their faith. But when one of their own rejected modern

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start as things begin to warm up again, and the wind which sounded very blustery last night has died down a fair bit, though it’s still there. Currently 18°C, it’s expected to reach 28° for a sustained period this afternoon. The barometers are...

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was 24 Hours in A&E. Turns out sliding along a road at 100mph without protective gear doesn’t do much for your complexion

And tonight, I started reading Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz, her book about growing up in Hollywood. She said it was a novel, but it’s...

[NickFitz]

Good idea! ...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs (out of the freezer) and chips

This was mostly because it was quick and easy, as I’d been working on new forum stuff all day and hadn’t realised the time

[NickFitz]

True, but bananas have potassium! And I like mango

Anyway, now I’ve got all this fruit taking up space in the freezer, I’ll have to use it up somehow ...