Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Off to All Saints, enjoyed the family service; back for lunch,
Got N's minetest pieces going nicely with her, played Smash-Up, with the
family, Organ practice with H. Detectorists before bed.
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Breakfast in bed for J. - babes did homework, re-silicone'd the
shower window, took H. into Cambridge; slugging away from the cold with
the family; Julie over in the evening.
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Moderately irritated (as a remain voter) by the repeated, flaccid
argument (now on the BBC) that old voters (who are dying out) voted for Brexit,
and young people voted to stay: so things are somehow unfair. What a bag of
hammers! It is deeply unclear to me that we should dis-enfranchise the old (and
hopefully experienced & wise) in favour of the young (and arguably
politically naive); but at least there is an argument there for decisions
that only impact the young's future. However - the idea that as young people
age and they experience life (or their brains ossify) - that their political views
remain entirely static seems really unlikely
and is an intrinsic assumption here. The old of today would seem to me
to be a good proxy for the views of the old of tomorrow.
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Worked on nailing some contract / admin backlog. Fixed a bug
at lunch. Intersted to see the X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE patch from AMD.
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Mail chew; admin, sync with Jona, then Kendy, ESC call.
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Irritated by dish-washer, why is it that a dish-washer cannot
have a colored LED on the front with a large diffuser that shows
green: if it has been through a wash-cycle, and the door has not
been opened yet (ie. 'clean'), that slowly decays into red over a
minute or so after opening the door. The current effort has an un-lit
display to denote both dirty and clean states, with a lit-up one for
washing; hey ho.
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Up early; larger babes to school; back to work.
Mail, sync with Miklos. Plugged away at admin and accumulated
task backlog bits, call with Andras. Practiced bass guitar in
the evening.
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Worked somewhat in the morning, lunch; soldered bits of
VIVE controller up after breaking headers; still no joy. Worked
with N. getting her laptop upgraded to the latest openSUSE,
teaching here about virtualization, and getting the latest
minetest plugin pieces setup.
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Bit of mail triage; slugging, went for a walk in
and around a muddy wood in the rain as a family: bracing -
saw some waterlogged deer & a hare. Watched last LOTR.
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All Saints in the morning, Pizza lunch, LOTR in the
afternoon. Plugged away at soldering with H. for her Pi2
controlled light-strip.
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Took H. to practice the Organ and tried but failed
to buy stamps. Spent some time trying to fix a VIVE controller,
failing to pair - much dis-assembly later no closer; wish there
was more sensible and detailed console output to allow
real diagnostics. Neverending Story in the afternoon -
not as good as it seemed 25 years ago.
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Started working through list of pending tasks. Sealed
kitchen worktops - removing one item from the side, while J.
dunged out E's clothing mountain.
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Out to see the Brighty's for a nice lunch, on to Ickworth
for a walk.
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Drove to Aldeburgh for lunch with B&A, Sue, Clive
and babes there too - played variously. Out for a walk along the
beach to the Martello Tower, back for more slugging. Fairground
candy grabber given to Anne for Christmas making an horrific
racket during serial uses. Home; watched Extant with H.
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Watched the falling snow & chatted with M&D,
much of the morning, lunch - bid 'bye to them. Played with
babes, watched Les Miserable - a wonderful musical.
Put babes to bed.
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Breakfast, R&A left early - lunch, out
for a walk on the heath, H. played the organ for M&D,
Chris, Cheryl & girls dropped in for a while -
replaced H's malfunctioning ATX power-supply driving
her LED light strip with Chris. Up late talking with
M&D.
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Woken by babes at 8am top open stockings
in our bed - joined by R&A&M, fun. Breakfast,
out for family service in the morning.
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Back for a fine roast turkey lunch - B&A
arrived - lots of fun, present opening - fell asleep
and work up surrounded by the oldies: in something
of a haze of tiredness.
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Played 'family row' with Tom & Becky in
the US via the internet. Up late talking.
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Played with family in the morning; David over
for lunch; out for a walk - All Saints crib service.
Back for a jacket potatoe dinner, and games until late
feeling increasingly unwell. Packing, wrapping etc.
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Up late, tidied the house. Lunch, out for a walk
on the nearby dyke in the afternoon; Rob & Amelia
arrived when we got back. Up talking to them.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
