Chatterbox Wednesday

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Meh

Love that header Destry

Good lord man put it away!

Anyway, while that’s in progress, I’m on the trains again. Live-blogging a trip through mourning hub alpha aka London. It’s a dour atmosphere, although it could partly be because of that

Nintendo direct - semi banana. Octopath 2 should keep tenth enemy busy until the end times.

Running early so far - no coffee in hand yet though and still to traffic through mourning ground zero

I’ve made it through the fog of mourning shrouding central London. Regent’s Park. A poignant reminder of happier times. The populace are generally sullen, hefty, and in a rush. That may just be because it’s too fucking early and everyone is trying to get a coffee before they get the train.

Following Dakyl protocol to a tee I’ve gotten to the station ridiculously early, and will use this as an excuse to buy a second (2) breakfast and two (two) coffees.

FO5 fault on washing machine. It's full of clothes and soapy water and not doing what it's meant to do. It's past its best and will need replacing (a bit like the queen). Harry Bosch as well as being a retired detective also it seems makes washing machines. Top of my list of replacements.
In other news have sent for a new retro wind up mechanical watch based on a 1960s design. Didn't know you could still get them.

I was going to edit math to words, but both pretty much apply nowadays.

I've been trying for 25m to get into the phone queue at the surgery, so that I can have the dubious pleasure of hearing the automated call handling system count me down: "You are in a queue and we will answer your call as soon as we can. You are number 20 in the queue. Please keep holding; your call is important to us."

The lines open at 8 a.m and try as I might I am rarely one of the 24-5 people being handled or in the queue... Now all today's appointments are already gone.

Sunny out.

Wordle 452 3/6

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He has a large team who perform every menial task for him. Someone to get his clothes ready, someone to actually dress him, a team to cook for him, to take his dishes away, someone to plan his day etc...

Clearly the act of having to sign something, use pen, think of the actual date, is a huge pain in the arse for him. He is also well known for his hissy fits.

The funeral mass will last less than an hour unless it is for somebody important.
If there is a cremation/burial after you have a latest time for the service to finish as travel time between church and crem plus15 minutes.

It's a bit off though to expect you to do a teams call straight after a funeral. I think you could reasonably ask not to be on calls until after lunch.

The 12pm call is a reschedule account call so kinda need to do that. The 11am one is an hour's seminar thing but my colleague is on it as well so hoping to get out of.

It's someone I used to hang about with/go clubbing with years ago. So yes, he was kind of a big deal. But prob not as far as the church is concerned.

He'd make a bloody good chatterboxer then! I guess that the ink must be royal blue - the days of imperial purple (which only lasted an ignoble couple of centuries). If it was black he could've asked an equerry to turn so he could wipe his back on the mourning suit!

Frankly, I found that touch of humanity as normal - I'm more angry at his getting his chief aide to give most of the staff at Highgrove the boot as he was doing this.

Sorry about your pal, crank. Good to know that in Carolean Britain you get a day off for a rich stranger's funeral but can't get a couple of hours off for your mate's.