I’ve got a standing desk, because I am, I’m afraid, very much That Guy….and I’m thinking about getting a wobble board.
I’d like to say I was late logging on this morning because I had laptop problems…but really I just forgot to turn my monitor on
My word of the day today is ‘rummage’.
Still watching the American House of Cards
There should be a spin-off series called Young Doug, in the same way that the Big Bang show has Young Sheldon
It would be a very different sort of show, really
He says something like “Britpop was mainly Oasis and the Spice Girls”….not sure it would say that in the Bumper Book of Rock Definitions
#TodayILearned that the drummer from Blur is, or was, a Labour councillor, and a solicitor
Dogs = dogs Otters = River dogs Seals = Sea dogs Sea lions = Overgrown sea dogs Dolphins = Fishy dogs Whales = Fishy elephant dogs
I’m not sure about penguins
#ZoologyForBeginners
By overwhelming public demand, here are my Desert Island Discs of songs from live LPs
London seems to suit my daughter
For her, it’s the Emerald City, obviously
Saw a plaque for Lord Denning.
My granny was always pleased when he got on the same train carriage as her, when she used to come to see me in London
Judges must have been a lot more famous in those days
I was on my way up to visit Kid One, who’s just moved up to London….so it was all a bit Circle of Life-y
The food was rather good, though
My word of the day today is ‘smudge’.
My new favourite thing is using Ctrl-Shift-M to Mute/Unmute in @MicrosoftTeams
Traffic was snarled up around here ( near the train crash ) just now….seems to have improved a bit
Something about @toriamos on telly this morning bigging up Cornwall with “Jam first” made me smile
Being from Wiltshire, I have no skin in that game….but she’s clearly wrong
My word of the day today is ‘guttering’.
Today I forgot for the 193rd time that Test-NetConnection allows you to specify a port, whereas Test-Connection doesn’t
#powershell
“If you try to control everything, you end up controlling nothing”
Interesting talk from @hated_and_dead - I didn’t know how ignorant I was about Indira Gandhi, tbh
“Mortality…the big one” twitter.com/TheFastSh…
My word of the day today is ‘embroiled’.
Kid two’s last season as a Teen member of @chelseafc
#WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes