2026 w46 midweek accumula
Hope it doesn't awaken anything employable in me.
Power prices dominated our decisions Sunday to Tuesday. The induction hob (800W) and the little steamer pot (350W) each run off the big Anker so we enjoyed the classic meals 'rice & bits' and 'pasta with bits & jar'. By Wednesday we had got used to it behaviourally (radio, reading, laptop) but the dimness and cold was also getting to us so we ordered pizza.
In the year since we last had a pizza, they've hired a driver who doesn't carry a torch, knocks very hard on windows on their way to the door, and tries to wrench the door? So that's the last delivery pizza. Isn't it interesting to have decided when something was the last? Like when you're the one operating a relationship breakup and you know which are the last kisses or the last breakfasts, & they don't.
I finally got around to reading Magnifica Humanitas, which is a delight. & then to give myself context I went back & read Dilexit Nos (not for me at this stage, let's say) & Laudato Si (extremely for me) & it seems I will have to read Rerum Novarum. Hope it doesn't awaken anything employable in me.
On opening the browser briefly, like a jar of maggots, we learn that yes, the rich man did bang the lady & make business decisions based on it, but we also learn that only messageboard gremlins are questioning the timing of the assertion. The news spigots are simply frothing over it - it's been years since they got to put sex in a tech story. I hope she's safe.
We also learn from the browser that the Americans have flounced out of another UK RAF site. My spells are working. In fifty or seventy years we might learn what that July visit was for, too.
Shalu Yadav
Top-notch headline.
Study: I'm supposed to be writing 500w (the length of this post, as it turns out, but coherent) about the ways the first four weeks of the current module have affected my ability to consider systems, evaluate outcomes, reflect on values, and suchlike job-creating terms. I must remember that the marker did not set the questions & does not deserve the acid-hose. I must type as though I have been changed for the better. I must not wonder if my peers are asking the chatbot to type it for them. My peers are their own concern.
I reread The Remains Of The Day, which has more to say than it thinks about whether your peers are your concern & makes some assumptions about who your peers ought to be.
Lofi.town is still the best thing to happen to my laptop screen in months.
elsewhere as always: storygraph & tumblr. sit up properly, see you at the weekend.