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Some kind of nasty chipboard thing. It's truly ancient but replacing the kitchen is so far down the list of priorities it will stay where it is for a while.

Some rebuilding is going on. I've got a few of the new floorboards cut and put into place, and also screwed some extra support to the floor joists to give me more flexibility with the lengths of the floorboards and to keep everything more or less level. My six foot long spirit level has really...

Yesterday's exercise was 86 minutes of base running. Today was 42 minutes of base running. I'm not sure how my tracker comes up with its numbers but usually do something broadly in line with what it suggests. Today was a struggle. I'm not sure if it was the heat or something else but it felt...

It reminds me of Han Solo frozen in carbonite, except with red instead of that charcoal color.

Not sure why you'd need them.

If I wanted something that might be considered a treat (candy bar etc) the standard question was "have you had one today?". Practically speaking it meant I could have one of everything as long as I didn't have two of anything.

We very seldom use candles. We have a candlelit Christmas Eve service, and usually have candles during Advent but I think that's about it.

Doubtful. Without even watching the video I can say most fast food tastes like cheap garbage, except it's usually too expensive to be cheap garbage. On road trips my wife and I very seldom even stop for food any more because the prices have got out of hand and the quality is lower every time.

Saturday was an hour of speed repeats, yesterday was a gentle walk because neither my wife nor I really felt like doing much of anything, and today was a longer gentle run. I think my running shoes are ready to be retired, there's not much support in the heels any more.

Able to? Yes, it's not difficult. Willing to? Depends on the snake species. Something venomous isn't to be messed with lightly. If it's a constrictor they are safer, you just don't want a bite to get infected because it will probably try to bite if you grab it. If you know how to grab a snake...

Hard to say, when a web site designer assumes my attention span is so short I need to click "Next" 36 times, rather than simply listing things on a single page, the usual outcome is I click the X and don't bother.

I'm not sure what the I means but think the A means Asexual, namely the people who don't want to have sex with anyone. Apparently they need to join protests to assert their right to not have sex with anyone. I remember the columnist Dan Savage mocked them for it some time ago, asking why they...

In the winter I carry enough warm things that I can either ride out a night in more or less any weather within normally expected winter parameters, or walk to somewhere safe. I'm reasonably competent driving in snow and ice but just about every year the first snowfall is soon followed by...

It really depends on how you decide something was disastrous. Back in the 90s I went on a date with a young lady. We were both interested to see the film Jerry McGuire but both of us came out of the cinema thinking it was garbage. On that basis the date wasn't brilliant, but the young lady in...

I saw some pictures showing them in London. I got a good view of them in Norway many years ago. They were beautiful.

The trouble is "left home alone" is such a vague term it serves no purpose beyond rabble rousing. It's one thing to leave a 10-year-old unsupervised while you go to the store that's a 5-minute walk away. It's another thing entirely to leave a 12-year-old unsupervised while you go away for the...

Is it any more "dictatorial dynasty" than former President Bill Clinton's wife becoming secretary of state and a presidential candidate in her own right, or former presidet George H W Bush's son becoming governor of Texas and then president in his own right? Is it any less appropriate than the...

I got a load of drywall pulled down, smashed up and bagged up ready to put out with the garbage. So far I didn't tackle the lath and plaster but did remove a bunch of manky wood trim that will most likely end up in the fire. Tomorrow maybe I can start pulling down the lath and plaster.

Wasn't sure whether I'd get a run in today, the forecast wasn't great but I decided to go for it. My suggested workout was 75 minutes, and I also wanted to tick off a 15k run this month, so I did the suggested workout and just didn't stop when the timer beeped at me. So I ended up running my...

Hoping I can finish a run before the forecast rain. Then more wrecking. I've got a couple of sheets of drywall to pull down and then some more lath and plaster. I'll be putting some more building trash out with my weekly garbage for a few weeks to come now...