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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A couple of USland thoughts
It’s funny living here, because I am gradually coming to understand why Amazon sells food. In the UK it made no sense to me. I mean, very very occasionally I’d find something that I couldn’t get locally, but it was pretty rare. But of course, as I’m coming to realise, I lived in Bristol. Bristol…
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Oh the hilarity
I know you’re all bored of my laptop woes, but hey. After months of gradually decreasing battery SOC, and weeks of sitting with a maximum charge of 18-20ish percent (with sudden-death mode at anywhere around 15% – allowing a ‘run between wall sockets’ battery life), my laptop suddenly charged to 98%. Woot, I thought. After…
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Some things are just hard to come by
So, in the UK, this: is a lightbulb’s connector for a standard, basic, normal lightbulb. B22D. In the US, this: By KMJ – de.wikipedia, original upload 26 Jun 2004 by de:Benutzer:KMJ, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=242907 is your bog-standard lightbulb connector. E27. Now I knew this beforehand, and I knew that I’d probably have to look…
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Today was.
We spent today touring the local area to look at property. Our indecision on where we’re going to live long term continues, but the area we’re living in at the moment (Olympia) has much to recommend it. So we spent the day meandering and seeing what we could see that fit into our price range…
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Bonus yay/unyay
I think I may, just may, finally, have trimmed enough material off the back of the turntable mat that I can actually play most records. I will have to get a new mat at some point, and I’m slightly confused by the fact that pictures of the thing show it with a massive-great-thick mat which…
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I am reasonably convinced
I am reasonably convinced that we had a teapot. Silly things make me think that, y’know, like memories of sitting down at breakfast on a Sunday with pancakes and tea, made from leaf tea, in a teapot. Photos. The gift registry from our wedding which has ‘Teapot’ on it. y’know, silly, insubstantial things. But I’ve…
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Yay! Unyay!
I turned on my RiscPC and lo, “Thwooop” it went. Up popped: RISC OS 4.02 And then things went a bit wrong as it ran out of memory (it used to have 64ish meg, now I think it’s got 12 thanks to death-of-battery), but it made it to the desktop. And then I discovered that…
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Smooth as a grit sandwich
So I checked over the media server, spent ages making sure all the drives were plugged in correctly after shipping it over and then I turned it on. Well I tried to turn it on. Dead. I checked it over and made sure that all the connectors were definitely well seated, that there were no…
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Shiny shiny, shiny piece(s) of metal
Today was one of those days that felt, initially, like it was gently spiralling into being incredibly frustrating. You know those days when each and every time you go to do something it takes 20 times as long as you think it will, and every step involves 7 frustrating things you weren’t expecting. Eventually, though,…
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A+ Adulting (to steal a phrase)
So today I set a list of things to do, and incredibly exceeded it. I got onto optional items, and even nearly finished several of them. Main tasks were dull things like ‘cleaning the kitchen’ and ‘checking every single remaining box to see if anything’s broken’. Amazingly it’s looking pretty good. I may extract my…