Week 213: in the pocket of big tumble dryer
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Some work. One of the features of MRSK is a
rollback
command, which, I learnt in the most dramatic way (not very dramatic) I didnât know how to use, still donât. -
While I was looking for pegs, my freshly laundered pillowcase blew off the balcony into a car park, to entertain everyone queueing interminably to leave the car park.
Coincidentally, a âpolite reminderâ later appeared in the lobby, politely reminding us that âUNDER THE TERMS OF THE LEASE [âŠ] NO WASHING/LAUNDRY SHOULD BE HUNG OUT TO DRY ON THE HAND RAIL TO THE BALCONYâ â I hadnât known, but it strikes me as political correctness gone mad, someoneâs in the pocket of big tumble dryer. âWASHING/LAUNDRYâ is unfortunately broader than âclothesâ, but itâs had me googling âis airing different to dryingâ, I think that might be a loophole.
The reminder also says keeping pets isnât allowed â a small dog has overnighted here a few times, which I hope falls outside the definition of keeping, and also whoâs to say a given animal isnât livestock? And someone with a ballpoint pen has written âLiars! Pets in cages are allowedâ, which, written down like that, is a bit jarring, like what kind of sicko keeps a goldfish in a cage.
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Last week they were working on a local telecommunications mast, 5G I presume, with a cherry picker on the back of a Unimog which fitted comfortably on the pavement but still theyâd closed a lane of traffic and set up a temporary signal-controlled crossing. So I went to cross the road to buy some quiche or something, and waited for the green đ¶, and was nearly mown down by cars so I guess theyâd wired up the lights wrong. When they left, the strip of grass beside the pavement was all churned up. This isnât very interesting.
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To Ipswich to see Frankie Boyle (+ special guest Christopher Macarthur-Boyd), the largest theatre in East Anglia. Unusually, there were signs up forbidding going to the toilet during the show, fair enough (maybe ableist?), heâs clearly got sensitive hearing and is easily distracted by people coughing and coats rustling. Heard some murmurs of almost disappointment on the way out, the word âtameâ was used, I think itâs good that these days heâs careful about punching up not down, but not the horrible people of Ipswich I suppose.