And you're back in the room.

Kinda, we're all back to work, though am still stuck in my home office as there's not really a need to go to the school office. Our instructions are to only go when we have to.

Strange kind of day, but hey ho, we have to work through it even though Im more than a tad hunover after a before work socially distanced BBQ with Martin and Dave W, and Sally and Maria. I overdid the vino a bit and paid for it most of the night. So today am suffering from lack of sleep and a need to stay near the loo.

Also I now have another new K-ring after my last one (itself a replacment) just stopped working during my trip to the UK,  Hopefully it won't give me any issues again, as I really like this gadget for paying for things, as it means I don't need my wallet. NL is pretty much a cashless place now, everyone uses some form of contactless, either via their phones or smart watches or just their standard bank cards.  And in my case my K-ring.

Currently installing latest software needed for remote working and file sharing, and its just done, so better get back to work.

Ahthankyew

Oh c'mon

As lockdown comes and goes with each new panic of spikes, so does the inevitable, plandemic, anti vax, Bill Gates is the devil, crowd. Added to the Brexit is good for us, flat earthers and near religious advocacy of the worlds most incompetant US president. I am finding myself utterly overwhelmed by stupidity.

No, really, I am. I have more than a bit of OCD in that, I adore facts, I research things, I seek understanding and knowledge on things. I spend hours reading books, the old fashioned paper kind, and hunting down research papers, listening to acknowledge experts and discussions and debates on topics that provide insight and reason and logic to reach conclusions.. And as such when someone says something I know is just wrong. I feel a need to speak up.

Now I know, that does not make me popular with some people, it pisses a lot of people off sometimes, and I do freely admit to sometimes having difficulty with differentiation of valid, (if wrong) opinions, with facts.

But still, some facts are clear.. some facts are researched, some facts are clear and obvious and backed up with generation os research and proof, or by the best scientific methods, and tests,  possible... and google isn't one of them, neither is duck duck go.

Im tired of reading from hyper active "truth" bombers about how the earth is flat, vaccines are poison,  Bill Gates wants to chip us all and, somehow control our minds. Not to mention the science doesn't know everything and crystals worked for me brigade.

Why, just why are these people on the planet, what possible purpose do they have? Where do they get this nonsense and how do people fall for it.. I'm so so tired of trying to engage them, this is the result, every time

I'm done with it,  I need to back off, for my own sanity as these people and my OCD for factual info can't handle it.. No matter what proof you give them they claim its fake or they just ignore it and carry on. You can't cure stupid.

Ahthankyew

Some Diet news..

Going well, very boring, nothing revolutionary, just a very small lunch, usually nothing more than a fruit biscuit and a fruit, apple, or orange. and then a small evening meal, left as late as possible. No snacks, and some kind of excercise in the evening, cycling 8k or walking 3.. sometimes both.

Its not helped though when Jirawan lovingly makes me a delicious burger with cheese and egg for lunch when  I am doing a bit of coding. Which was stunning, but I had to forgoe my evening meal tonight for just a few skewers of teriyaki chicken.

oh well..she really means well, but she's clearly a feeder and wants me to keep my sexy bhudda figure.....nope.

I am currently at 96.6  so around 3 kilo's lost so far, thats steady, about a kilo a week, if I can keep it up I should be in a fairly decent place for christmas.

Ahthankyew

Small print twattery

Insurance has to be the biggest scam ever... I've had a leak in my shower, its done a lot of damage, and sadly it went unnoticed for a long time, since I shower every morning, and head off to work, I never saw the dripping from the kitchen window gable that would occur 10-20mins later

But finally the insurance sent someone to look, they did some measuring, banged a few holes in the bedroom dividing wall to see where the leak was and off they went.

Today I get a call, that indeed the leak exists, its been caused by the connection from the shower base, to the drain pipe, the seal has given way and a fair proportion of  waste water is just ending up in the floor......ie....not the drain pipe, not the buildings drain pipe, but the seal that was installed when the shower was 1st fitted...when the building was done...so...sorry mate you're bang outta luck, insurance won't pay.

Total fuckers, absolute total fuckers... Its going to cost a small fortune, as the water has led to a lot of damage to the dividing walls and any timbers that might be on the path the water took to escape... fuck fuck fuck,.

no holidays for us for a few years...

Ahthankyew

And... its diet time again

I loved having a fish supper back in Scotland, and a black pudding supper the next night, stunning lovely comfort food, but of coruse fattening.. there were some mirrors in my room, and I seem to be about 22 months pregnant.....

so yes, again....its diet time. I have sat Jirawan down, and told her, that not too much, has to be redefined, to not too many calories, and that a mound of veggies and noodles is indeed too much.. We're going lo carb, and much smaller portions and more excerise (she likes that bit, we walk most nights, and she likes cycling)

She kinda gets it though, she also wants to lose a few pounds.

Her cooking is so tasty its going to be hard to resist, but she cooks for 5, and then eats very little herself, I have to resist.

No point in doing the running score  but lets be honest I've been hovering round 100kg for a few months now so hopefully each week we'll see a kilo or 2 dropping down.

Ahthankyew