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Getting a nice long walk in now seeing as I won't be leaving the house for the next 2 days. Except for cat duties.

This is our rules. 10 cards each. If you pick up from the middle you've gotta pick them all up. And if you pick them up then you've gotta put down 4 of a kind. That's it.

Wallace and Gromit for me thinking about how there's a tradition of British men inventing something in their shed that's a specific answer to a problem no one had before.

Things that come to mind are the Brompton folding bicycle, that 3 wheeled car from Mr Bean, and the L96A1 sniper rifle.

Does anyone know of any others?

Set up a cheap telescope Miniest got for Xmas. She wanted to know what that bright light in the western sky was and I told her I thought it was Venus. She insisted we set it up and take a look tonight. I don't hold much hope for a great view but it should be interesting anyway.

Edit for vague direction of bright light.

Second layer of jelly has been poured. I'm ready to take on the weekend now. As long as I don't have to go outside. And as long as the power doesn't fail.

My latest obsession is watching little motors be blown up in various liquids. I mean, isn't this just how life feels sometimes?

So… it’s only been recently (within the last 1-2 years) that I’ve really started shredding aeons old paperwork from primary school reports to medical files. I’ve been lugging around this expanda file that I don’t really use any more and finally pulled out all the paperwork today.

It’s not a huge pile by any means, but wow, you really can tell the story of someone’s life with this information. It’s kind of simultaneously cool/creepy. It’s also wild how people’s identities can be stolen with less.

The shredder is going to get a workout.

On a funny side note, finally got around to start wiping my old computer. For something that was running WIN7 with 3 drives (don’t ask me), it was surprisingly quick.

Like better than the majority the PCs I work with. It made me wonder why I stopped using it… Likely portability/outdated hardware.

Waiting it for it to finish ShredOS so I can take it to recycling… Honestly, attempting to do all the right recycling things has made realise how time consuming it is. Nothing is simple!