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"For all mankind" apple TV.
(Yes, sci-fi fan, I watch it all, anywhere I can, the dross mixed in with the seams of gold )

Not to far off the mark I fear

And just like any Colonialism, the rich go first ....
The rest of us go because the 1% need someone to serve them.

And then we populate it with even more poor people, who then challenge the prevailing regime
Ad infinitum.

Until some aliens challenge us for supremacy or we annihilate ourselves, via AI or our own violent natures.
 
lindisfel said:
Is your Vit D down? I must have missed something, it needs to be over 50.

I have been otherwise engaged and I am a slow typer!
D.
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@lindisfel MrSlim has had a really bad cold and now i have it. Tested for Covid. Negative.
Not sure about the Vit D. Was feeling fine until overtaken by illness. Am going to ask the doctor about it once I am better.
 
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Yes, @jjraak I fear you are correct. The majority of sci fi, dystopia fiction whether in print or film gives us a unceasing realisation of some form of Armageddon.
Even if we can get past the many issues humanity has, it will still be difficult to get the rest of the world to be together to agree to it. Who has rights for Antartica? Never mind the Moon. Does India hold the rights to claim the Moon's South pole? Or where the Mars rover is?
Gerry Anderson, even Gene Roddenberry thought we would have people on not only on the Moon but on Mars by now! We are nowhere close. The theory is good but actually doing it?
I watched a video in the planeterium in November, describing NASA's attempts in the next few years, interesting but what happens when a new president gets in?
We are still involved in too many wars to promote global unification. In the twenty first century. How will we get consensus to broaden our horizons. Unless it's worth it to the very rich.
 
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Good to hear that you are still together
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MrSlim invested in a Heston approved? Designed? Coffee maker. He was extremely annoyed to find I had repacked it and stored it in the attic while he returned to UK during the first Covid lockdown. I got fed up with dusting it!
It was restored to its place in the kitchen and has since then possibly been used a dozen times. I keep thinking I should learn to use it, but it's so noisy and such a faff to clean....and he gets ground coffee everywhere whenever he uses it...
I could really use the extra work surface space ...
Perhaps it's headed for the attic again!
 
Robert De Niro was so very nice back then, I did think Al Pacino would have been a better choice though. Dad and I debated this many times whilst gritting teeth drinking shorts
 
Went to bed tired in Man U match at 2030 and got three hours sleep in four hours to 0030.
Been freezing hard in our garden since Friday peak high at -3 Deg C on sunday.

Couldnt get in Octavia this am used a can of deicer and some warm water to free frozen on wipers and doors before I could get usable after lunçh.
 
Went to our small town after lunch and walked to do a job at b.s.
Helen has been encouraging us to be each others attorneys and we did the legal stuff 18 months ago.

I can't think why the duchess wants to use a mountain of bird books a stack of expensive Swarovski bins and telescopes if I can't run a mile or jump up and down.

So my better half escorted me to sign, I always feel knackered just after lunch.
The seats meant I could sit down and my place was held by the duchess.

She waited on her feet 15 mins for the other punters to take the kings shilling.

I quickly signed and asked for a delayed statement, I hadn't had.
 
Been having some trouble with some very painful and large keloids .One on the left side goes from the mid center left to the mid line near three inches long in the fleshy part.

It was a possible melanoma twenty years ago the new seamstress was concerned about it. I felt great she took it off. But somehow I was left with this monstrous itching painful scar.

One Muslim doctor was a skilled person injected two, putting a needle down their lengths and injected cortizone all the way back out she explained she had a grown young man cry, although he was an adult and a man.

I could understand why, after having this course of therapy, somebody wanted to cry.
In the course, they eventualy thinned and looked a little better, but who cares at my age.

But the itching and pain keeps on and daily bathing in a shower helps.
Nothing fixes it, I tried Anusol and it's the best stuff yet to suppress the itchy hurt.

I think various meds and heat make it worse.
I hope its not my new heated waist coat Marjorie got me from Amazon for Christmas.
 
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Fbg 6.2 today at 6AM

@lindisfel hugs for the painful scars.
Some 25 years ago I had tumours of the parotid glands the ones on the right hand side were a bit awkward for the surgeon and I ended up eight hours in surgery he had to almost detach my right ear and cut through the facial nerves so had to chop out some nerve fibre from above the ear and patch it into the facial nerve so I have a similar problem to yourself but running from the top of the back of the ear and scarring from front of ear down to about the centre of the throat when they get red and itchy they can drive you mad had the tumours on the left side removed about 18 months after leaving similar scars on the right side one odd result is my right and left ears don’t line up so when I wear glasses they slope from one side to the other tends to beffudle optitions when they try and fit new glasses.
 
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Good morning everyone on a blustery start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. A surprising 4.7 a 0530 - maybe I should get up earlier! It could have been that nip of scotch nightcap. I don’t usually wear such garments on my bonce but you never know. Out to dinner tonight. Art bit, cleaning another pallet that had a bit of grey and a bit of blue in it. I must get all my pallets tip top as I’m at the dentist on Thursday. Have the best day that your body will allow. Time for my koffy and joy of joys, it’s a new pack to decant into my koffy can.


 
Fbg 6.9

Wildlife nighttime video
Cat Jade & Badger & Cat Merlin & Fox & Cat Midnight's eyes under the table...
...& when this many cats are on the ground when the badger is rooting around, the badger doesn't show much interest in the swing & oftentimes there is a cat under the swing watching him...
1 min 2 secs

Creative...still playing with background...

Time for a cuppa, and nap, been awake since around 2 am...

 
Morning all from a wintry LA - often seems to be like this around this tine of year. As if the ancients had some ancient country wisdom, my Grandfather was fond of saying as the days grow longer so the cold grows stronger (there are regional versions I believe). A few more days of this and Pilot will be playing on loop. Hugs for @JohnEGreen and @lindisfel for Keloids and @SlimLizzy plus Mr Slim for the heavy colds. @dunelm enjoy the fresh pack of coffee and pallet cleaning. Once again thank you so much for another in this series of which unbeknownst to me has been in my wheelhouse (when did that become a UK phrase it is from Baseball I believe?) since - well, at least last month. @gennepher thank you for sharing the creative. I see quite a malign looking feline face in the bottom right hand corner but then I'm definitely not a cat person. Hug for the early waking winner for the creative. Time for more tea here, Pip Pip Old Toots.
 
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Love this greyness...wintry scene...
 
6.4 this morning. Am pleased that it is dropping lower.

My Fitbit watch is now working perfectly again. It looks like it was a glitch on the Fitbit app that caused it stop working. I deleted the app from my phone and the watch immediately sprung back into life. Reinstated the app and all is working well.

Probably should have done this before ordering the new Fitbit watch that is arriving today. At least I know what to do if this ever happens again.
 
That's why I like my Nespresso machine. It is really easy to clean, although I bet Mr Slim's coffee maker makes really superb coffee.
 
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