Actually got some painting done! Took the car for the service this morning and they said not sure how long it will be, best go home and we'll call you. So forty minute walk back from Folkestone, then another forty minute walk when they told me it was ready. In the rain. Rigged up an elaborate device to sand the hall ceiling a bit before painting it, a bit. I have not done a proper job at all, just made it look slightly less worse than it did. It needs a proper job, probably a professional, so one for later in the year. I did the same on another ceiling where there had been an old leak and that looks ok. I did our bathroom again too, all the bits that now needed painting again because of the repairs to the new shower. The paint is not sticking so well at the edges, where the glue from the aquaboard has spilled out slightly, but it's ok, mostly you wouldn't notice. I have done some website updates, and listened to music on the new Sonos setup, and listened to a podcast about Jack The Ripper, so not a completely wasted day. Oh, and designed a logo for a project at work, that will be a nice treat for everyone.
They played the third night of the tour in Bristol, and while starting similarly I see from setlist.fm they swapped The Drowners out for Killing Of A Flashboy, and then also played Pantomime Horse which would be a treat. Portsmouth looks like the best night still to me
I read a review of Folkestone saying that the unamplifed unaccomanied song they did was a jaw dropping version of The Beautiful Ones. No it wasn't. I'm not linking to the review because I suspect it might be a technique to get the fans linking and sharing and going "HAHAH LOOK how the FAKE FANS made an MISSTEAK!!!".
Took the car for a service, they say go home, don't wait for it, so I walked back. I thoought if it was only a couple of hours I could go to a cafe or something, but it's wet and miserable and everything looks to be still shut, so I walked home instead. Will have my coffee at home, it will be better, and I can keep wallowing in my premium bonds disappointment. At least the shares are still racing up at the moment.
Guessing 3008 cups of coffee from my espresso machine1 prob'ly comes to 87.8p per cup (including 4+ years of the actual coffee beans and servicing1 but not the 'leccy).
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🚶 08:34 Shepway Walking 44'18 - Dropped the car off for service, they say it will be hours. Everything seems to be closed so not worth staying in town, walked home.
Dyson vacuum is broken. Switch is stuck. Search online, seems to be a common problem, a design fault. Luckily lots of people have had the same problem! I can get a replacement, but I might be able to fix it without that. Ultimately it's going to need the replacement switch though, and then probably a replacement vacuum cleaner. The replacement is not going to be a Dyson.
At least I can hear this youtube video, through my new speaker.
So yeah still no painting and I haven't made the dinner yet either.
I said I would not buy any more Sonos kit after they fouled up the app for about a year. Since that has all been working again and I can actually play my own music on my own expensive system again, I have softened slightly. Been wanting to stream music off my phone on the speakers and mostly Sonos don't do bluetooth, they use wifi. However the Sonos Roam does, it's a portable bluetooth speaker that also works with the Sonos wifi setup. So the idea is I stream to that and it passes it on to all the other devices. There was always going to be more to this, as I was tempted by the Roam before this, thinking I can take it out on the balcony or the garden, or even further afield to listen to music. It's wireless, rechargeable, and weatherproof, so good for general outdoor and travel things. But then there was a third reason; one of the macbook speakers is buzzing so basically unusable, but I can pair this speaker with that and give this laptop some more life.
It arrived today, and it's set up now, and all is good! Maybe next month I'll get another one to make a stereo pair, and then get the optional charging docks for them.
While setting this up I finally looked up what could be wrong with this laptop that I can't click on pop up dialog boxes on this laptop.
I can mostly work around it, if the box has a button you can hit enter, and the cursor keys, and escape to close it, so all good. But the bluetooth and audio setups weren't having this so I had to do some research. Turns out it's the macos dock on this one goes a bit made and hogs the interface. Restart that and all is good again. So this is now set up and everyone is happy again.
Still have not done any painting but I have dropped stuff off at the tip and the charity shop.
Wife is still hogging the TV, she just watched a film. But I should be painting now.
Wasn't as quick as I thought it was. I think I looked down at my watch right at the end and it said my pace was 4ʼ05, and I thought that was for the whole kilometre, but it must have been just for my "spring finish" of the last hundred metres or so.
Folkestone parkrun results for event #524. Your time was 00:24:47.
Congratulations on completing your 215th parkrun and your 194th at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 82nd place out of a field of 410 parkrunners. You were the 78th male and came 7th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Your best time this year remains 00:24:35.
Paulʼs blog - I live in A sleepy town, Kent. Wednesday and dad to 2, I am a full stack web engineer, + I do mostly javascript / node, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home-automation + other diy stuff, history, genealogy, telly 📺, squirrels, pirates, lego, + time travel.
