I found the camera in the end - after four odd days searching - I must be going mad 🙁
It turned out to be in the pocket of a fleece I dont remember wearing at the bottom of the washing pile that I swear I hadnt touched for two weeks.
Our cloaks were even on top of it - must be fairies or practical jokers or my mind going - somehting like that 🙁
Anyway I am not happy as now the house is a complete mess again as I was so desperate that I pulled everything out of cupboards looking for the damn thing!
- 10:00am: Finish the fourth coat of varnish on a bit of furniture we're varnishing.
- 10:30am: Start hand-mixing a 25kg sack of cement+sand mortar with water
- 10:45am: Start hacking stones out of the rubble pile with a pickaxe, and mortaring then into place in the wall I'm building
- 11:30am: Using the pickaxe, dig out the low points of our compacted stone and mud parking area (you can easily find the low points, after a rainy night they're lakes), and then apply the pickaxe to the rubble heap again to loosen up hardcore and shovel it into the holes, as an interim fix to the pooling-water problem.
- 12:30am: Go and have breakfast with wife and child
- 01:00pm: Head off to investigate a nearby builder's merchant type place, to see if their cement is cheaper than B&Qs, and to consider gravel to cover the parking area in, and to generally mooch around.
- 02:00pm: Head down to the excellent John Stayte Services to pick up 80kg of coal, then swing by Tescos for a few essentials and to stop so Sarah can have a coffee
- 03:30pm: Get home, put Jean to bed for a nap, and make and eat lunch
- 05:30pm: Rush out, realising we're late for the district Cub and Scout swimming gala.
- 09:00pm: Get home, put Jean to bed since she's tired and teething
- 09:30pm: Deal with laundry, and add some more varnish to the furniture
- 09:45pm: Cook and eat dinner
- 11:00pm: Wash up, bank the fire so it'll stay lit overnight, load the dishwasher, etc.
- 11:45pm: Blog about it all.
- 12:00pm: Put away huge piles of laundry so we can get to our bed and sleep in it.
- 01:40am: Finish putting away laundry. Get into bed. Start attempting to sleep.
I need an extra weekendend to recover from my weekends!
There was a Lunar eclipse tonight - we would have missed it if Barabara hadnt have knocked!
It was a bit erry with the clouds fluttering in front of it. Still we had the cats zooming about us so all was well 🙂
Recently, a feeling has started to appear in my life that's been missing for many years...
When I was a kid, I often felt geek exhilaration. All I had to do was sit with a notepad and think for a while and I'd come up with a design for something cool. Now, the kind of thing that interests me is infrastructure - I've always been more interested in designing, say, a game engine than in writing an actual game. So I'd sit down and pluck a random problem from the air and design an infrastructure for solving it. And then I'd feel excited about the lovely potential of this infrastructure.
Alas, this happened at a much higher rate than I could ever implement these things, so I had a sources directory laden with unfinished projects. But it was still fun.
Anyway, with age and responsibility and work and bills and stress this happened less and less; I still got to invent infrastructures, since it's part of my job, but I'd only get to design one every month or so at best. Five minutes of fun, then a month of implementation. And the problems I was trying to solve were relatively boring, and the solutions required often constrained to just solve the immediate needs of the users for the next year or so, rather than a sparkling generic platform upon which anything could be built for ever more.
But recently, for some reason, it's started returning.
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Gardening, Sarah | sarah | 
Wed 7th Mar 2007 12:35 pm | 
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