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  Sometimes Mastodon feels like a connection, some days it just makes you feel more isolated. I guess it evens out over all 🤷‍♂️

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  Three good things today: 1: Somehow managed to walk 1.5 miles, almost entirely within a 5m x 5m square of dad's garden. 2: Within spitting distance of finishing the grand fruit bush netting frame. 3: Worked out that dad's rivet gun is user-serviceable, and fixed it, all by myself. Went from 20 squeezes to 2 squeezes per rivet! #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

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  July 2005 I slept* through Hurricane Dennis in New Orleans, just weeks before Katrina. How different it would have been, if we had taken our vacation just a little later. I still have shivers, thinking how quickly things got brutally violent. *I have a habit of doing this - I walked the dog around the park the day after the 1987 UK hurricane, amazed at all the toppled and split trees.

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  Shared a table at lunch with a very interesting French gentleman who is in Edinburgh for the week looking for Fringe acts who would like to perform at a big festival in Avignon. I flipping love this place.

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  In other news from lunchtime, my bottle of "lemon iced tea" had a peculiar flavour. Further investigation revealed a tiny English label that says Sour Plum Soup, made with sour plums, dried tangerine peel, licorice, and salt. Best before May 6th 2026. Well that's alright then, I thought there was something wrong with it!

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  #ScribesAndMakers 29 Do you know what you wanted to be at 11? I wanted to be an inventor. There were a whole lot fewer cogs and pistons involved than I expected, but in many ways, that's what I was.

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  I have a franchise idea... a shop that sells only bulk items by weight into your own reusable containers. Shampoo, slices of soap off of a bar, basically anything shelf-stable that usually comes in single-use plastic.

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  I decided to leave the window open tonight, for that cool gentle breeze. 1:30am (an hour ago) I finally got up and closed the window, the storm was scraping the blinds against the wall. Still sounds very windy out there. Anyway, what are you doing?

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  @NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot I have reasonably high expectations that today, for the first time in my life I voted for the candidate who will win. Also, thanks to the Scottish voting system, I got to vote for the party I agree with the most - win-win!

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  #ScribesAndMakers 7 May: When did you think of the idea for your current project? Do you remember how it came about? My current project is to create a simulation of an imaginary 8-bit home computer from the early 1980s. I think the seeds of the idea came to me 25 years ago - I always wanted to try out some processor architecture ideas. I'm starting off with a simulated 6502, but once I have the rest of the development system and simulated hardware ready, I'm going to do some processor...

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  I would like to practice longer walks, around ten miles, in preparation for a possible walking holiday next year. Does anyone familiar with the Fife region know of any good walks that don't involve walking along roads without a footpath? I don't drive, so accessibility by train or bus is essential. Any suggestions gratefully received! #Fife #Scotland #walking