I borrowed an idea from Diamond Geezer who is on his 20th year of counting things during the month of February. I decided to count in five categories:1) Cups of Tea drunk2) 500ml bottles of coke zero drunk3) Cycle trips4) Meetings attended (in person and virtually)5) Number of Radios I repaired You may think that …
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10 Years
Ten years ago today, my aunt mentioned in the last post, died. Fuck Cancer.
30 years.
Thirty years and 7 hours ago I took 20p and went to a phone box that no longer exists to call an aunt who is no longer alive to tell her that her mother was very ill. My grandmother, Flo, died about an hour after my aunt, Michelle, arrived. The early 1990s were a strange …
Merry Christmas
A saved image from a tweet from a screenshot of a message of a photo taken of the back of the camera I took the original photo on.
Grants
An annoying part of my job is trying to convince people to give me money to do the things I’m doing anyway. We’re graded in effect by how much we spend, if we do cheap science with the only spend being on consumable items we are graded poorly. Most of the science I do is …