{"id":1077,"date":"2020-09-25T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2020-09-25T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:50:21","slug":"friday-25th-september-2020-day-193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/25\/friday-25th-september-2020-day-193\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 25th September, 2020 [Day 193]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a fine, bright and quite sunny day but with a tremendously high gusty wind which meant that Meg and I had to\u00a0<\/span>incline our heads and hang onto our hats in case they blew away (have you ever see a hat blown away by the wind, by the way? My Australian-style leather hat can get bundled on its side and rolls down hill like a wheel if the wind catches it right!) As the weather was getting colder, Meg and I decided that today was the day when we were going to retrieve our electric blanket and get it on the bed. But of course, it is a bit more complicated than this as thought we had better strip our bed right down, turn the (double)\u00a0mattress in two directions (bottom to top and left to right) and this does call for some\u00a0heaving around and\u00a0balancing skills but we got it done OK. We chose the day today because our domestic help could give us a hand, if necessary with all of the necessary laundry as well as bed-making activities and that is another job well done. Being a fine day, today was the kind of day to get some lawn-mowing done but first I had to make \u00a0trip out for petrol – the mower only consumes 2-3 gallons a year but I now know that you should only buy the best (hopefully ethanol-free petrol) for one’s lawnmower rather than the cheapest. I had to\u00a0scour \u00a0the web in the last week or so to get a new foam air filter for my mower. As it was cheap enough, I bought two of them and a spare cover which was working loose so the fitting of these parts delayed the mowing even further.\u00a0I didn’t start until 5.15 and finish at about 6.30 which is quite\u00a0<\/span>late in the day for me. At this time of year, I may be able to get away with a mow every 10-14 days instead of every week and and I\u00a0always aim to finish the season on the Friday closest to November 5th (a date which it is not possible to forget)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This evening, I spent some time searching for my second,\u00a0experimental blog site. I installed this a few months ago and it was meant to be a sort of ‘sand-pit’ i.e. you play about with things\u00a0without any serious consequences. One way or another,\u00a0I had forgotten the\u00a0website provider and the folder where the new blog was located so I hunted through my system in vain for about an hour before I remembered that I had actually\u00a0acquired some new webspace (at a minimal cost, from my Canadian friend) and a memorable name to link onto it. I had got all of my\u00a0credentials set up in Filezilla<\/em> (FTP client) but had totally forgotten about it. Now that I have\u00a0<\/span>remembered\u00a0all of the critical details, they go into my book entitled ‘What I have I learnt\/re-learned today?<\/em>‘) which is a little system I have to ensure that I can\u00a0retrieve\u00a0computing type things I have done over the years. I start each entry with a date (today’s) and then a subject heading and then I put in the details. I then make an index \u00a0at the back of the book with subject heading together with date. Then if I think I did something about 6 months ago and I need to\u00a0refresh my memory, I consult the index in date order) at the\u00a0back of\u00a0the book which then\u00a0locates the page in the main body of the book. This is actually\u00a0ridiculous easy to maintain – looking at my first entry, it was actually 3rd March 2012 and was concerned\u00a0with how to encode and thus password-protect .html files (just as relevant today, as it was then!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tonigh, as I write, it looks as though COVID-19 is really taking off in the universities. According to Sky News tonight ‘<\/span>At least 32 universities in the UK now have confirmed coronavirus cases, and another one has suspected cases.\u00a0More than 510 cases have been identified among students and staff since universities reopened, according to data collected by Sky News up to 25 September.’ \u00a0<\/span><\/em>Of course this was quite\u00a0<\/span>predictable, and\u00a0credited, but the\u00a0government were in a mad panic to get the educational system open for business and the university students got swept in the tide.\u00a0Instead of students going to congregate in the halls of residence where the virus can spread freely and they might not be allowed home for Christmas, perhaps better not to have gone in the first place and done \u00a0all the\u00a0tuition on-line at home (at least until January)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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