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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Rest is for the weak
It has come to my attention… well, okay, let’s say that I’ve been aware for some time that I can be very bad at relaxing. Which seems like an odd thing to say, because whilst I’m perfectly content to sit and binge watch some show, or read far too much in the way of my…
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’tis the season for stupidity
I spent quite a while trying to work out what was up with Logitech Media Server trying to work out why it wasn’t adding the files… …and then I realised all the permissions were wrong. LMS didn’t have access to read the files. Which explains why it didn’t add them. I am, it turns out,…
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Late night thoughts
So, as of late there has been much stress around. We’re planning to move to the States. Forever. Although we’re propping open the return-to-the-UK door with Kathryn getting UK citizenship, it’s not something we’re intending to use. It’s just insurance. Not terribly cheap insurance, but insurance. In addition, neither of us is drinking (alcohol) at…
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In addition
So yesterday, whilst I was dinking with the media server I found the missing rips! Because I’d not known which disks were missing (I could have fished out the CD Boxes and worked out which disk I’d got up to then worked backwards to find them, I suppose, but that’s a bit much like effort)…
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More gradual progress
Happily, I’ve continued painting my way around the corridor. After, essentially, 8 years of continuously decorating I must admit I’m feeling a little less enamoured with the process; although oddly, that hasn’t stopped me wanting to build a house when we get to the States. Anyhow, moderate lack of enthusiasm notwithstanding, I am strongly aware…
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Nervous Energy
So, we sat down yesterday and toyed with citizenship and immigration forms. It didn’t exactly go smoothly, and ended up with us just largely throwing our hands up and going ‘uh, we can’t until X, Y and Z have happened’. Which was frustrating. A requires B which requires C which requires D to have happened.…
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2015: me and it may not be friends
Not that I wish to be negative, but this year’s only 10 days old and not going so well. Swiftcover have declined to accept my No Claims Discount transferred from another policy. It was frozen in aspic the year I switched to driving the Minor full time, and has been waiting to be used since…
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RISCy OptionS
So, my poor old RISC PC may be dead. It may be having a strop about the monitor. The power supply might be dead. It’s a bit of an unknown at the moment. The first time I powered it up I thought YAY! for about the time it takes for the self test to run.…
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Assembly is the reverse of disassembly, but with more cleaning
So it’s back together. I’m leaving it another day until I turn it on for the alcohol to fully dry out… I ended up dremmeling the memory with a polishing wheel to attempt to get the contacts clean enough to have some hope of reasonable connections being made… You can actually see the fluff on…
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Dear USian tv shows
Please, please do a better job of pretending when doing the UK (also probably the rest of Europe). It really makes it hard to stick with my suspension of disbelief when nothing, absolutely nothing looks right. Elementary’s London looked an awful lot like the US. And it turns out The Librarian’s ‘London’ looks nothing like…