Week 76
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Some larvae took up residence in and around the bin, which was rude of them. I think I have seen the last of them now.
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Just days ago, Iâd not come across the phrase âcoupe bowlâ, but now here I am the proud owner of a whole number of coupe bowls. I suppose they are named coupe bowls because theyâre low-slung and sporty like a coupĂ©, or maybe after the former Sainsburyâs boss and margarine brand manager Mike Coupe.
Iâve been eating from some cracked Ikea bowls for a while, and thatâs unsanitary, so it seemed time to replace them with some similar but uncracked ones. I swung by John Lewis â pfft, but I was intrigued to learn the phrase âcoupe bowlâ for the first time. Then tried Sainsburyâs, and lo, they had bowls just like the cracked Ikea bowls (apart from the cracks), and at a discounted price, and also described thrillingly as coupe bowls. (So it turns out that Iâve known coupe bowls all this time, although the nasty retailer doesnât use that insufficiently Swedish phrase.) And I conveyed them home on the bicycle without breaking anything.
Cool story. I also bought whatâs described as a âpasta bowlâ, and itâs reminded me how eating from such a large, flat bowl really heightens the experience of eating pasta compared to eating from a plate. Cool story.
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Proving again the power of influencer marketing, I bought some new masks. And that was a great decision â it turns out that masks made by professional seamsters are better than the ones I made by cutting up a threadbare tee shirt and roughly sewing with a needle and thread.
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Some work, in fact rather alarmingly a lot. Maybe I should write about it. One thing I did, which wankier typists would call an âarchitectural changeâ, made the line on a CPU graph plummet wonderfully, and I was really pleased. (Iâd previously dismissed it as premature optimisation, and to be fair it was at the time â itâs amazing how long my terribly inefficient batshit sufficed for.)
That, and other grand things fixed, but still plagued by some problems I donât understand. But what a thrill to think that maybe in weeks to come Iâll understand them.
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Anything else? I was starting to become jetlagged again â despite having not touched a jet, of course â but I think setting an alarm on a Sunday morning has snapped me out of it as I feel appropriately tired, so itâs good to know that works.