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Some work. At last, the timetables of services split into pieces to avoid being longer than 50km (like the excel, which is registered in five, not four parts as I once claimed) no longer look a terrible mess. Turns out joining the journeys together is actually quite simple, I just had to overcomplicate the problem first.
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🎦 Orphan: First Kill, easily my cultural highlight of the week. It’s a bit blurry at the start, a mixture of spooky atmospherics and de-aging and maybe a bad projector, so I briefly thought I was having a funny turn, but the emergency exit signs in the room stayed perfectly in focus. I’d seen thirty seconds beforehand, a great thirty seconds and the resulting bit of deja vu was nice too.
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Weeks ago, the key to the letterbox here snapped in the lock – the lock bunged up after years of rain and dust getting in, and the key having a pronounced weak spot. The lock could still be locked and unlocked, and I wasn’t worried about someone nicking all the takeaway menus and estate agents’ flyers, so I ignored it, continued with my life, until suddenly the lock was stuck locked.
How to remove a broken key from a lock? I half-arsedly tried a dab of superglue on the end of a stick – didn’t work. Then I sent for a broken key extractor set, and by jingo, it was the work of just a few moments fiddling with one of the tools before the key was out of the hole. Locksmiths don’t want you to know this one weird trick.
Got a new key cut – didn’t work. But then I tried sellotaping the broken key together, and that did work. And now I’ve had the lock replaced, and it has a much less flimsy key, and everything is right again. Cool story.
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I think I’m healed – I can lie on my other side again, and accidentally walked ten miles without any painful consequences.