I was glad the internet was off and the place was silent, but today ( with innernet back on) i tried to 'be normal' for a change and turned on the big black screen thing on the wall with YouTube available. I tried to find something 'watchable' and found this: Watching reruns of Friends was bad enough I thought, but this? A comentator with earphones on, comments on selected scenes from Friends as they flash across the smaller (split)screen on the right.
😱 fuking hell it's 2026, 1984 seems to have been a rehearsal for the current brand fascism
Merry Xmas everyone haha! New year is surely creeping up on us all...
12th card, Hanged Man, symbol of suspension, reflection, letting go of old habits
Meditation on climate change.
This am, I tried to cross the fabled canal that connects two of the local lakes, but again I failed in my attempt, this time, not because of the leaches in the water but because I miscalculated the depth of the narrow canal and fell overboard (!!) while trying to get out and drag the canoe through a particularly overgrown part.
I'm such an idiot 🫢! I was so inspired by the knife-weeding method I learned in south Italy this summer, that when I got home, I grabbed a couple of knives at random to 'sacrifice' them as my new weeding implements. Now, on closer inspection, I see that one of them is a silver-plated vintage cutlery item, that is worth around 10 US dollars on e-bay. And...to make it even more ironic, it was manufactured by an Italian company !
I reconditioned an old bike yesterday (instead of taking it to dump), this am decided to fit a box onto the back. It wasn't straightened, unfortunately, took a long time and swearing (incl. 'merde') but I learnt how to use an u-bolt, how to drill holes in plastic, how to handle horrible inflexible wire ((with pliers), even discovered a 'fun fact' - that you can draw a circle using one 'leg' of the u-bolt, so it was a positive experience overall.
One of the items I found in the storage space under the couch. Quite interesting how intricate the design is!! I have no idea what company made it, but it looks like it was probably made some time ago. I don't use plastic forks, but from what I know, these items are manufactured without much detail nowadays. I am quite certain though that this fork pre-dates the onset of 3D printing. But it looks so perfectly made, even if it's only a plastic fork!
@GustavinoBevilacqua
Any ideas perhaps?
