Today I was in Sandhurst for the dedication of Ava, my friend Paul’s daughter. I didn’t really know what to expect other than “it’s a bit like a christening”, which it was.
Of course I was really there just to catch up with Paul and to see Ava for the first time, so I’ll skip […]
On Saturday I was invited over to Jenny’s dad’s open day for the narrow gauge railway he has in the garden. Yes, a train track in his garden that you can ride on! Except there was no way I was going to ride on it myself and risk looking very silly. I […]
(OK, the Gogol Bordello guy is from Ukraine not Poland but I am lacking in inspiration at this time)
At mbm/Mel/Tom’s triple (yeah, really) leaving drinks Friday night, I was talking to Kvik about his forthcoming wedding. It went a bit like this:
Me: When is it you’re getting married?
Kvik: August
Me: Wow, not long to go…
Kvik: […]
Text message from a relative:
hi andrew need to ask you a question when we open the laptop the screen goes all funny with lots of coloured line all over it any clues what up with it. And how are you
$ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename ‘*/new/*’| wc -l
123156
$ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename ‘*/cur/*’| wc -l
24244
If it’s not obvious, that means I have 123k unread emails and 24k read ones. I archive off read emails older than 60 days, but still, that’s pretty pointless and stupid. It’s time to have a purge […]
Day 3 of the conjunctivitis saga (Day 1 · Day 2).
Much improvement:
Hardly red at all, and no gunk. I have to keep using the eye drops for 2 days after the redness is gone. I’ll be working from home until the redness is completely gone (because it’s contagious until then).
Day 2 of the conjunctivitis saga (Day 1 · Day 3).
Today’s photo might look worse than yesterday’s to some people. I think that’s just because it’s a more detailed photo — it turns out that being able to see enables one to use a camera more effectively.
The whites of my eyes are much more […]
Day 1 of the conjunctivitis saga (Day 2 · Day 3).
This entry is just going to be me complaining like an old man about my various illnesses in a long rambling manner, so if that is of no interest to you I recommend you stop reading now.
I’m so sick of colds and associated illnesses. […]
I’m back now from our week-long narrowboat trip from Middlewich in Cheshire to Llangollen in Wales and back again. I had a fantastic time and was really happy to get away from it all; pity it’s back to work on Monday.
I think everyone else had a good time too. Despite a couple of rainy […]
My father talking about their new foster child:
Oh you’ll like her, you have lots in common: she’s vegetarian!
She’s also 14 (I’m 31) so presumably when we hit a dry spot in conversation we’ll always have Quorn.
Update: Having been up to Birmingham to visit family I find out she’s no longer vegetarian! Fortunately we did […]