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Week 188: Toasterhttps://po-ru.com/2024/08/14/week-188-toaster#weeknotes#blog

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I came across an old Japanese folding bamboo/paper fan while going through things we'd had in storage. I'd forgotten how amazingly effective they are.

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Currently stuck on the hardest part of setting up a mesh WiFi network: deciding the SSID.

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Ticket, hotel, and trains sorted for @haggisruby in October. I'm looking forward to a trip to Edinburgh!

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Copy of Hillbilly Elegy in the charity shop for £2.50. I didn't buy it.

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Week 189: Roaminghttps://po-ru.com/2024/08/19/week-189-roaming#weeknotes#blog

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It's very suspicious that both Mike Lynch and his co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain should die in separate incidents just a few weeks after winning their US fraud trial.I'm not saying it was the CIA...

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There's a massive floating glowing rotating 3D hologram advertising snack bars in the middle of the concourse at Waterloo, as if someone watched Blade Runner and thought, "Yes, that's the kinda of...

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Went to the Proms, mainly because my cousin was playing in the orchestra, but Holst's Planets is always a good time.

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I think a lot about how people who nominally profess no faith nonetheless believe in the Market, an angry god propitiated by monetary offerings and human sacrifice, who has the power to destroy...

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Trousers from charity shop: £4.45.Tailoring them to fit my stumpy legs: £15Still a good deal, I think.

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Week 190: Going coastalhttps://po-ru.com/2024/08/28/week-190-going-coastal#weeknotes#blog(Late because I broke the build)

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UKPol, railwaysPeter Hendy is unfit to be Minister for Rail if he's more interested in bullying @GarethDennis out of a job for the sake of appearances than in passenger safety. I have written to my...

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Enjoyed a good couple of anti-landlord songs on 6music just now: Sheriff Fatman by Carter USM followed by Death Trap by Chloe Slater.

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On the topic of landlords, I might have posted this before, but it's too good not to repeat.

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I'm not convinced by this proposal. For one thing, stolen phones that can't be reused as-is are already being stripped for parts. More significantly, though, I have a feeling that the problem of phone...

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We spent extra to get a private building control certificate for our house renovation because it was recommended as quicker and easier that the council route. In fact it's taken us months of hassling...

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Week 191: Merries-go-roundhttps://po-ru.com/2024/09/03/week-191-merries-go-round#weeknotes#blog

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Seen on sale at Deptford market: a three-quarters-full bottle of port. I hope I'm never that thirsty.

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You spend hours in an online queue to get tickets to an Oasis reunion gig.I spend hours in an online queue to get tickets for an art installation.We are not the same.

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