Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Soooooo…. yeah.
I applied for this job a little while back. I didn’t really think I had much of a shot at it, and I had been on nights so it wasn’t my best application ever. I ended up hurled the application together, and submitted it when I was barely happy with it because I really wanted…
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Happy towel day folks
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the…
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All hail my brain
So a few minutes ago I was looking at the ‘spreadsheet of optimistic numbers’ and was all “oh, yeah, we can *totally* afford to build the house. Easy”. When my wife helpfully pointed out that I’d neglected to include the actual cost of buying the land. Oops. Still, with a loan it should be do-able.…
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Today has been less positive than hoped
We spent some time talking to the strawbale architect consultant about building today, and the price for the timber frame alone is prohibitive, and startling given the costs we’d seen for kit-built-post-and-beam houses. Some of the cost assumptions we can tweak, because we’re happy to do things like using used components as long as they…
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And now, with wheels.
So the Rav4 EV uses an obsolete charging standard. J1773 – or Magne Charge is a nifty contactless inductive charging standard, where you stick a paddle into a slot on the car and lo, charging doth occur. It’s actually nicer in use, I think, than J1772. Certainly, it’s less fiddly. However, the charger is approximately…
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This is pretty tiring
I know, I’ve been pretty quiet on here. Work’s been…well, I’ve had night shifts, and they kill me. And we’ve been doing a feasibility study on some land that the owners accepted our offer on. It’s scary. And tight. And we’ll need a loan, almost certainly, to be able to build. There’s a slim, slim,…
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So that’s news
We put in an offer on some land today. Went from ‘never going to find anywhere’ to “oh that’s nice” to “sign here, and here, and initial here” so fast that I’m still quietly freaking. Course, they’ll probably decline and then there’ll be the back-and-forth of offer, counteroffer (which, incidentally, is what I’ve been doing…
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Moan ahead
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Abroadland
I didn’t think that moving to the US was going to be transformative in many ways. I mean, you take yourself with you wherever you go, and that broadly means taking your problems with you. There were some things I hoped it would change for the better. The destruction of the NHS, for example, is…
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Filthy, dirty little Roomba
So, our second hand roomba is quietly sat waiting a new vacuum box, and if that does the job of making it suck (rather than suck*) then it’ll get a new battery. Anyhow, Nikki proclaimed that I should strip down the gearbox before we started using it in earnest, as the 500 series roomba tends…