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Sunday, November 3rd, 2024 04:54 pm
Sometimes, I am a nit. The brains of a gnat.

Not long ago, the area where I live had a power cut, it lasted for four hours and I had gone to bed long before the power came back on.

I didn’t realise that the power cut had caused my heating to turn off, and had been wondering for the last ten days why I was so cold. I got the impression that the cats were also wondering why they were cold. Opal had been cuddling up to me when I put my electric throw on and Smokey has been protesting when I went to bed.

It only occurred to me today that my heating was off – I put my hand on the downstairs radiator when I’d put a ‘boost’ on my heating, and it was freezing cold. So I opened the door in the kitchen to where my combi-boiler is hiding and checked it out – it was off. That explains everything. I turned it back on again and finally I’m getting warm. That’ll teach me.

In gaming news

My friend who’s running our Sunday game seems to have taken leave of his senses. In our game today, one of our party managed to summon a Golf GTI, which then ran over some of the undead and killed them all.

We’re still fighting as a thing with antlers has turned up, and we’re being attacked by that. It could be anything, but reminds me of the thingy with antlers that appeared in the Robin Hood series done in the 80s (or was it the 90s?) by one of the independent TV companies here in the UK.
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Monday, November 4th, 2024 02:16 am (UTC)
Do not feel bad about not realuzing the heat was off. One year I put up my pre-lit artificial xmas tree. No lights went on. Grumpily, I went out & bought more fairy lights. Only when i went to plug them in, i realized the lights wired into the tree hadn't lit up as they weren't plugged in either. I guess i thought they would magically plug themselves in.

The horned thingy in Robin of Sherwood was none other than Herne the Hunter (i can hear the Clannad soundtrack as I type this). I loved that show - it was on the Showtime cable channel here.
Edited (Fixed dislocated sentence) 2024-11-04 02:17 am (UTC)
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 09:23 pm (UTC)
Slow? I tried watching "The Book of Boba Fett" this year. Goodness. Six long episodes with a bit less plot combined than two episodes of "Babylon 5". :is grumpy: