Crossposted from Tux Machines

arlier this month we went on holiday/vacation, which we are very much enjoying. Weeks earlier we published press releases [1, 2] about a hearing that ended 4 weeks ago. We were clear about what happened.

Garrett told a bunch of nonsense in public. Maybe was was made to believe this nonsense, as he had not attended his own hearing. Why? Go figure…

Garrett’s lawyer and barrister only spent a few years in this occupation. It’s the same lawyer and barrister who work for his friend, Graveley. They work on this together.

My lawyer and barrister have both spent decades in this occupation and are vastly more experienced, they know the two men above are “bullies” and have “basically lost”… it’s “embarrassing to them”.

Some dumb words in social control media won’t change this.

E are exactly two weeks away from Rianne’s birthday and gift ideas need to be based around sentimental value this year, not monetary value. Jewellery and other ‘vanity items’ have always been a waste of money (hard work and sometimes child labour for a bunch of pebbles or metals or whatever). Over the course of three weeks a lot can be done to convert time into joy and joy lasts much longer in the mind than in the shop.

It takes courage and work to make gifts that aren’t just something one scans at the checkout (till) but instead produces one way or another.

The older I get, the more obvious it seems gifting in the “Traditional” (with capital T) sense became merely consumerism and we’re far detached from real scarcities, which aren’t something one can purchase. I was never fond of consumerism and birthdays; over time it becomes easier to explain the “whys”.

Slow down.

T is the 10^th of August today (day 3 of vacation) and we have 3 weeks left in this vacation, which is warming up. I am more relaxed than I’ve been in decades and so far I only do with I enjoy. We fed the birds at Mayfield today and tomorrow we plan to mostly relax. This afternoon/evening I pulled out one of the 1997 hits CDs; I still use optical drives a lot, the music from that era is on average a lot better than the contemporary stuff and there are no ads. With the drive working concurrently with the PC there is also less CPU toil (no signal decryption or decompression necessary).

Looking back at my 20s, I was “racing” a lot of the time and it seems rather common among people that age. What are they really racing towards? What is this “Rat Race”? Sooner or later they will realise that life is not a contest, social control media isn’t popularity (just shallow voyeurism/vanity), and health matters more than speed. About 2 years ago I began sleeping a lot more after 2 decades of trying to limit myself to 6 hours per night. Why? It was not healthy, that’s for sure. That had no point to it…

All around me I see anxious, nervous people – some to the point of being dependent on medication. Many of them have debt, obligations, and a lifestyle they cannot afford, which is connected to why they took loans in the first place.

Heatwaves aplenty, fifth one coming this week

HAVE been checking wet places to go (somewhere nearby, we want to not get too far away from the Net… not for very long anyway). The Therme Manchester facility will take at least another year to complete. “The cost of the scheme has ballooned from £250m to £400m since it was first announced in 2019,” BBC reports.
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There is some news regarding stadium expansion nearby, but it seems like ‘vapourware’ for now unless Carrick can perform very well.

The expansion of nearby shopping facilities depends a lot on the local team. The Lowry across the water (from the stadium) is almost totally dead. Even Trafford Centre has many units unrented, boarded up.

On the lower end of the scale, there are some very large water parks nearby that are free to walk around (taking equipment costs money). Debdale Park is always nice and not too far; many birds there that one can feed.

There’s still time to decided. 3 more weeks of vacation left for us.

HE firm that has bullied us for 2.5 years seems to have entered “cost savings mode” and is still not revealing financial details despite it being well past due date and end of the financial year. Their papers and their envelopes became visibly cheaper; they are budgeting their inventory in the office, what’s left of it anyway.

In the Court, they have very few staff attending (minimal crew). So what happened?

Let’s consider what people said about IBM this week: “This is typically expense control because customer travel is charged against cost of sales while non customer travel is charged as a regular operating expense. It is a symptom of financial pressures due to sales numbers not as great as hoped…”

Another said: “Having $70B of your market value in one day is pretty much an indicator that the company is in serious trouble regardless of how much they try to explain it away. Surprises me that so many people at IBM are in a bubble and think they are working at a growing and thriving company.”

And also “that’s what dying companies do, start cutting back on all the unnecessary expenses” (yes, it said “dying companies“).

‘ve just realised that it is a lot worse than I thought for the narcissist who chickened out of his own hearing. Their letters give away their weaknesses, however it’s veiled and disguised as some kind of “strength” or “virtue”.

How much more money are they willing to waste to cover up what they did for the two Americans?

Something seems missing, no?

am not an accountant and I don’t pretend to be one. It seems to be like someone tries to duck obligations or delay them by several months.