Category: State-of-Being

What Happened Instead …

What happened instead of me getting back on the same day is the usual ‘fall-down’ where I got back from my little jaunt in high spirits but with my ME-generated infirmities taking me down down down.

The sun through cloud

Seems like I got up too early, walked too far, stood around too long, and saved my bones from an awkward fall backward with a sturdy four year old in my arms.

I played horses, explorers, and clambered over a few bits of kindergarten playground equipment merely to prove to myself that I still could. Had fun.

You get the idea. I was flat as a tin lizard all weekend, able only to veg, read, and think about everything else.

I wanted to use a different image, which is stored on my laptop, and I am one-fingeredly typing this on my mobile. The twain meet only in one direction IE the mobile sends stuff to the laptop, never the other way round.

I know. I know. There’s the cloud! Never mind the cloud, it’ll just rain on my parade. The rain of passwords, pins, usernames, you name it, that I don’t have glued to my fingertips.

I steer up over under and around the cloud. There are more than ‘enty-soben’ steps between me and you and the cloud, and plus cooling complexes use too much energy.

Cheers all

Cat Diary 17

Usually I can convince the old woman to turn off the TV by about 8.30, for a game or ten involving me getting kibbles for prizes.

We’ve given up on the eggbox, I’m happy to say. Yesterday she tied that horrible furry snake onto the end of a red wheeled thing that she dragged behind her, trying to get me to follow it and get the kibbles loaded onto the tray.

I soon showed her what I thought about that game …

So that night ended with her, after much cajoling, offering me kibbles by ones and twos first on her bare feet (not so scary) then on her knees, then on her hands (scary!) Though I did manage to eat more than half my bedtime snack.

Today was completely disrupted. The two wild human young came while their owner went shopping. The old woman spread the craft sheet over the floor and everybody cut things, glued, taped, then they went to the sink and floated a boat. All this while I hid under the couch.

After their owner fetched the young humans, the old woman tidied the room and rolled up the craft sheet. She’s always saying things like … Now then Moggy-mine, what mystery will we work on today?

Today she hid seven kibbles in the rolled up craft sheet. And after I found them she put in another lot. I don’t mind this game … I think it can lead to greater things. Imagine if she hid a handful?

(This is 29 seconds of me finding eight or ten kibbles. Ttoo long for you?)

We’re both sitting on the couch now waiting for the bedtime alarm. Well, she shuts me in the den then, whatever she does for the nect hour.

Lego, Set #71819

AKA the Stone Dragon

With Bag 7 and the second arm-and-claw, the build is finally starting to look like a dragon.

Also already present are a tray of teacups and teapot in the half finished teahouse; at the base the koi pond already stocked with the fish, and the roots of the fig tree growing through the ancient stone; while in the foreground the rocking platform where the martial arts school will practice.

Three more bags to go.

Knitting Day and Night

The tiger knit is incrementing at four lines per day about every second day. It’s turned out harder on my hands than I expected.

Finer knitting needles than I’m accustomed to, 8 ply yarn, and a tension that needs to be tight to prevent the stuffing later from showing through.

The stripes are quite intricate to knit. I’m having to check the pattern chart every couple of stitches and naturally the two colours get tangled no matter how I arrange them.

So this is my daytime knit.

Nights, while watching TV, or—I confess—any time I have ten or twenty minutes to spare, I’ve been working on my swirl shawl.

The yarn is Shadow 8 ply by Vera Moda, 60% cotton and 40% acrylic … one of those yarns you see marked down more than half its original price and you can’t resist buying. It’s very pleasant to knit.

A few more rows and I’ll need a longer flexible knitting needle.

Space “Jaunts”

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/greenhouse-gas-space-x/

This science article confirms what I have been thinking, that space flights adds a bunch of gases to the already warming atmosphere. If these three billionaires can’t keep themselves from adding fuel to the fire, maybe they should be banned from taking any trips out until they’ve proved that they’ve zero’ed all their emissions … Scope 1 and Scope 2 and Scope 3!

Only TWO (!) entities so far are saying they’ll zero all their emissions by 2030. Microsoft, a giant, and Canberra, a small state in Australia.

It’s not good enough to say space flight has a lot of positives. The money being thrown at making the space flights happen should be thrown at getting the emissions down.

I’d love to be reading or hearing some time in the near future that that list of billionaires and a few of their buddies have added themselves to the Zero-Emissions-by-2030 list, as well as a bunch of other entities. Let them compete about that.

Definitions of scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions

from … https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/what-are-scope-1-2-3-carbon-emissions
 Scope 1 emissions …. Scope 1 covers emissions from sources that an organisation owns or controls directly – for example from burning fuel in our fleet of vehicles (if they’re not electrically-powered).

Scope 2 emissions … Scope 2 are emissions that a company causes indirectly and come from where the energy it purchases and uses is produced. For example, the emissions caused when generating the electricity that we use in our buildings would fall into this category.

Scope 3 emissions … Scope 3 encompasses emissions that are not produced by the company itself and are not the result of activities from assets owned or controlled by them, but by those that it’s indirectly responsible for up and down its value chain. An example of this is when we buy, use and dispose of products from suppliers. Scope 3 emissions include all sources not within the scope 1 and 2 boundaries.