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This morning was our coldest morning since last winter - it was about 2 ½ °C/36°F when I got up, and has barely risen since. We had a few minutes of kind of snow/kind of wintry mix, but now it's just drizzling I think. The epitome of a miserable November day. I used the exercise bike instead of venturing outside ( Read more... ) -
366 Questions 2024
18. Is Modern Culture Ruining Childhood? This feels like something that people have been worrying about forever. Going by my observations of my grandchildren, they are still children having good childhoods even with the new technologies to which they have access.
19. What’s the Most Memorable Thing You Ever Got in the Mail? S and I once received a ( Read more... ) -
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This morning I found a way to email the ENT doc I saw two years ago, so I sent off an email about the recent nosebleeds and got a message back from his office a couple of hours later. They had tried to call me on our landline, which I don't answer, but they must have called while I was out for half an hour walking to and from the post office, ( Read more... ) -
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My vacuum cleaner is doing something odd - the on-off button won't work any more and I can't turn it off except by pulling the power cord out of the socket. It still works, but if one part is malfunctioning I'm not sure how long it will be until the whole thing stops working. I've ordered a new one just in case, because the current one is at least ( Read more... ) -
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I was checking my bank accounts this morning as I do every couple of days, and found an unexpected charge of $127.20 to one of the accounts. Turns out it was a charge to S's debit card (with an expiry date of September 2024 - how did the charge go through?) for a renewal of her digital subscription to the Washington Post. I knew she had been ( Read more... ) -
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Ever since I've been living here alone I've been paranoid about accidentally locking myself out of the house. Often when I go out one of the doors I unlock the other one just to be safe, but then much of the time I forget to lock that particular door again until much later, when I'm checking the doors at bedtime. I think once I even left the front ( Read more... ) -
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It was partly sunny this morning when I went for a walk, so although the temperature wasn't particularly warm (I wore two long sleeved shirts) I enjoyed being outside. This afternoon is grey, gloomy, and depressing though. It's only 4:30 pm and already I feel like I need to go around the house closing blinds and turning on lights ( Read more... ) -
366 Questions 2024
16. Do Machines Represent a Threat to Humans? It depends on what kind of machine you're talking about. It's impossible to answer such a non-specific question.
17. What Good Can Come from Disagreements? If you're willing to listen to someone who disagrees with you, you can learn new ways of thinking, or you can learn new ways of interacting with ( Read more... ) -
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I might have been tempted to skip parkrun again this morning, except that we (all parkrunners who are on the email list) had had an email a couple of days ago saying there would be about 200 people attending today (about double our usual number) and we should plan on arriving slightly earlier than usual to allow for extra time to find parking. My ( Read more... ) -
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It's another dreary day after some rain overnight, but I feel slightly more motivated today than I did yesterday, I think partly because I don't feel tired today and partly because it's not extremely cold for this part of the world although people in Perth would be very miserable in conditions like this: about 11°C/52°F and drizzly. I actually went ( Read more... )