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Loose ends

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14°C, heavy rain, then clears

rambles:

  • I thought that video was done, and again I now think it is, because it wasn’t. Aaand I learn’t how to name DVD chapters. Soo that means it’s ready to re-burn to the DVD
  • The memory definitely needs to be returned. BIOS update made no difference
  • Cycled only 32 miles
  • People in Sutton Coldfield have fusilades of fireworks, must have cost thousands (each)
 
 

Tremble

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14°C, heavy rain

This dog is rather terrified of fireworks. Even if she hears them from in the house she hides and trembles. No point taking her for a run in the dark then. An odd deal indeed.
The current painting is turning into a real struggle. Hopefully I can post a progress shot tomorrow. It needs some strong inspiration, the lighting is all confused and so am I.
Blame this cold in my head.

Long long wait

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Not feeling well, = no exercise= feeling cold
Amazon order placed on the 15th September=
Items not yet dispatched:
Delivery estimate: 31 Oct 2005 – 15 Nov 2005
  • 1 of: Drawing Restraint 9 [SOUNDTRACK]
  • 1 of: Tissues and Issues
  • 1 of: Peter Howson
  • 1 of: Black Cross/Red Star: The Air War Over the Eastern Front
  • 1 of: Mezzanine
  • 1 of: Happiness

Amazon are good aren’t they.

BTW: I am listending to some Japanese "No" music, I dont’ know what it’s called – it’s written in Japanese.  

Down the drain

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17°C, sunny and clear.
Imy came home distraught, she’s dropped her mp3 player down the drain. It’s been missing for weeks then  today she found it again. Hours later dropped it down the drain in a moment’s clumsiness; in a hurry to get to work I suppose.
 
Below are the pictures of me trying to retrieve it. The drain is like a big pot, about 4 feet deep, with an overflow to the sewer. If it went down there it would be lost forever. So I had a go at getting it out of the accumulation of mud & decaying leaves in the bottom of the pot. The drain cover had to be removed first, which was hard at first as it was bunged up with a summer’s worth of muck. You can see from the picture how I got it levered up eventually. Then the search began.
At one moment I felt something solid while probing with the garden rake through the jelly like mud paste. Then it was gone, inverting the rake let me pull lots of mud out, I still couldn’t feel anything so back with the rake down the hole.
This went on for over ½ an hour.
Suddenly there it was in the mud on the rake, still glowing.
It was still switched on!
It’s on the radiator now- drying out, after a blow dry with the hair-dryer. I only wish we’d got a picture of its back-light showing up in the glob of dead leaves and muddy pulp.
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This is an amusing site- thanks to Dawn_82. Online text-speech. Quite handy for finding spelling mistakes I suppose.
I popped a rib getting that cover off, don’t think it’s broken, but it definitely "popped" as I levered it up.. ouch.

Help! there are poets attacking…

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Chill north wind, and bright sunshine from the south. The balance came out as 14°C.
The comments have raised my eyebrows higher than they heve been before. So high that litttle oxygen masks have dropped automatically from the overhead luggage – a mechanism triggered by such unexpected emergencies.
Are you an arbitor of cool? Maybe if you’re a head-girl

Whitley airframe

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Another nice day (21°C) more like the day before yesterday, more wind and not as much cloud as yesterday.
Feedback from the Whitley Project group has been great.thus:
Very, very impressive!
No problem playing with broadband.
It will bring a nostalic tear to my father’s eye when he sees this. He
flew Whitleys until he had an unscheduled meeting with the North Sea
in 1941.
I look forward to your next upload.
Regards
Dave
Well, I will just have to get on with the next render then (actually I have done the first new clip, of 3 seconds long. there are still a few componants that need finishing off on the mesh. But the clips done so far have avoided showing them. After posting this note, I will continue.

3DS Max: The finish is in sight! Rear turret complete – and ready for mid & distant shots. Also it gan be exported to the Stirling mesh. Started the front turret – which must remain temporary since the technical drawings I have aren’t that clear. Finally- here is a test render using raytracing on the perspex material. Not too bad eh?

Wombles

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Another nice day. See yesterday, but more cloud.
 
The wombles are everywhere. they even get into the ceiling space- I hear the pitter-patter of little  footprints at night. The neighbours have had the pest-control in since they’d got into their house and raided the pantry. The neighbour on the other side has a cat with no tail. The cat with no tail is getting good at catching wombles but like our cats used to, doesn’t eat them. They did eat mice though, does that mean wombles taste bad or are they just too big to swallow?
 
The ladies are out there trying to stop wombling, one of them scratches at the gap in the fence while the other hopes to catch a womble as it escapes across the yard, she gives up too soon so they don’t make a great team. As far as I know they have only caught two this summer. Sometimes the mess the ladies make is as bad as the wombles.

Filmed

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Wow what a perfect summer’s day. Foggy ride to work, but unbroken sun later.
 
The Filming was ok, I left for work before they started, but Hannah looked good on the small screen- bless her little cotton socks. Despite doing my usual sunday ride today, the ride in this morning wasn’t slowed at all, legs didn’t feel tired untill after arriving home. Perhaps a short "after-ride" would be a good idea in future.
 
Feedback from the Whitley Project has been good so far, they liked my sample animated video. So worek isn’t stopping on that little project.

Spider new

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Warm & sticky day of passing clouds. 22°C

 
Today a new spider moved in. It’s the biggest and best we’ve had for a couple of years. It’s over 2½ cm long, tiger striped legs and rests elegantly on the drumskin web waiting for dinner to visit. We shalln’t see any of those orrid bluebottles that get trapped in the kitchen, with poop on their feet and who vom’ on food before hoovering it up. No, the spider will dutifully wrap it up in silk and then munch it late in the night. Good spider.
The worry is that it’s in a corner of the kitchen where the dogs usually jump up to the window to bark at next-door’s cat, a moment’s clumsyness could leave my spider less than it began, so let’s have no accidents ladies.
I will do my part and clear up it’s husks from the shelf underneath  so that no-one is tempted to evict my new spider.