Because winter is coming and they need more heat (and T.L.C.)

managed to find some amazing bargains this morning. Equipment that typically costs about 100 pounds was sold to me for just 2 pounds. I took it home. Next we need to wash it and prepare it for the pets.

Maybe I’ll take some photos after it’s all done.

Our vacation comes to an end

his morning we published this latest part in a long series, explaining why – as our Jewish solicitor at the time might put it – Garrett ended up in a broch. His online behaviour for many years made this inevitable – he was mingling with the wrong people to cause trouble to people more far qualified than himself.

There’s a lesson somewhere in all this.

ime flies.

It’s almost the end of the week already! Before too long it’ll be Sunday (tomorrow night there’s a match at 8PM), then Bank Holiday, then everyone here will be back to work. The following Sunday marks 2 years since I sued Matthew J. Garrett and Rianne did the same, then some days later it’s our wedding anniversary.

Yesterday: Offline Birthdays

oday at 9AM we’ll leave the house and won’t return until it’s late. No E-mail, no Web surfing, nothing of that sort…

One of the best gifts one can have is peace of mind.

Of course I did buy some gifts, but those aren’t gadgets, they’re actually useful things.

T seems like “Sleepy” the bird is improving at keeping good balance on the doorknobs and eating the seeds without jumping on the jar and flapping her wings like mad. Unlike “Bot” (Bottle) and her friend, “Sleepy” is a reasonably recent recruit and she doesn’t have good table manners. Sometimes she climbs on the doors, she is fearless about it, and this used to result in a mess (spillages). We began calling her “Sweepy” because she was sweeping the seeds aside instead of eating them properly.

Progress is being made by discouraging bad habits.

began ‘breeding’ shells or snails last year. There are now well over 100 of them. They seem happy. I need to feed them more and more over time because their total number continues to increase. To me, they’re nature near the desk. They have their little colony and they don’t interfere with anything. I’ve never seen even one that is dead… so far.

How could I have missed this hobby of adorable pets (creatures) all those years?

want to say this without any baseless assumptions made about my intent/ion (in saying so). Planet Earth is overpopulated. There, I’ve said it. I know few people (in person) who disagree, but many are shy to say so because there’s some guilt associated with the position, as if one advocates eliminating (or killing) billions of people.

Last weekend I spoke to my father about how police deals with death threats. Overcrowded nations, he explained, cannot keep up with most death threats. In the past, he said, when the global population was a lot smaller (when he was a kid in 1960 the number of people was a lot smaller; see population size graphs, in the 1960s there were 3 billion known humans, now we approach 10 billion!) the cops could more or less deal with all cases in a timely fashion. Now the police is understaffed, underfunded, and ill-equipped.

It bodes not positively (to say the least) for our future. Controlling “the masses” is getting harder and harder. Law enforcement isn’t keeping up.