2015 — 4 April: Saturday
Sorry, Brian!1 It's still rather moist out there. And I gather it's some sort of religious festival weekend. Who knew?
I shall be glad...
... when this damn' election is over. I thought this was very nicely put:
Nauseating as it is to behold Madonna cocking one knee on a table as she signs up to Tidal, no one from the UK's business community decided to strike a similar pose as they signed their letter to the Telegraph. We're lucky, I suppose, that they didn't use a tank to deliver their missive explaining that the nation must unite and vote Conservative to protect the corporate profits of their 100 companies. Like the pop stars, however, some of them did give interviews to the media explaining how their own self-interest is — by happy coincidence — also the collective interest of humanity. To themselves, they look like freedom fighters. To me, they look like dogs marking their territory, even if they don't go as far as Madonna and actually lift their leg.
Closer to home, the owners of the errant dog that has caused the shut-down of local postal deliveries have hand-delivered a printed apology. And offered to collect my mail. Now, if only I could see their pet's head on a spike, I'd rest content :-)
I may be...
... gone for a while. Having tidied up my Linux Mint MATE system, then installed a few more of the missing packages from the Xfce desktop, I was sufficiently impressed by the improvement that I thought to myself "Why not do the 'proper' thing, and completely re-install an Xfce system ab initio rather than creeping up on my target asymptotically, in piece-meal fashion?" There's no good way of saying "That's a bad idea". After all, now that I've made myself some reasonably coherent notes about where all the steps are (and where all the potholes are, too) on this particular road, and how to re-configure the bits I feel the need to re-configure after the basic installation...
Besides, it will also be a Good Thing to step out, unassisted, to see if I can make it on my own.
Won't it? :-)
If I succeed, I shall...
... then admit to the four deliveries that arrived today. [Pause] And with that, he was gone!