An invite for Bluesky to start the working week. How exciting. The medium is the message, etc. Now I need to find some folk to populate my network to make it a platform that adds some value.
I feel like I’ve been here before with Mastodon. It was fun for a few days, but the mass exodus from the Dead Bird never happened. I can’t see Bluesy being any different. First to market, etc.
It seemed quieter working in the front office this morning. I wasn’t sure what was different. And then I realised - the annoying vibration sounds that first appeared a couple of weeks ago seem to have stopped.
I’ve no idea what caused them in the first place. I think it was external, related to car movement outside. I didn’t like to ponder if it was any internal vibrations.
But anyway: annoying house vibrations. Be gone.
Dotty was out far too long. I didn’t see her until 11:30 am. Gawd know what she has been up to, or who she has been with.
The lunchtime swim was average. There was an incredibly slow fella in the fast lane. He wasn’t wearing any goggles. He was swimming with a deep underwater breast stroke. Each time he hit the surface, his eyes grimaced.
The ying to his yang was Snorkel Woman in the adjacent lane. I slotted in somewhere in the middle, with one side of my goggles leaking ever so slightly.
I cycled home. Around ten or so houses from my front door, I saw Dotty in another front garden. I didn’t think she strayed down this far.
At first she didn’t recognise me with my cycling helmet and specs. I called her over, and then the recognition came. I had to lead her back up the road. Dotty is a one.
I struggled for far too long in trying to get the BIMP batch image manipulation working in GIMP. I’m hoping that the latest install will be powerful enough to batch edit the HUGE file sizes that I want to shoot in with the PEN F.
Installing any plugins in GIMP is a right bloody pain. I’m still not there. I’m running an old version of GIMP that has the plugin working. I can’t get the command to appear in the menu for the latest version of GIMP.
I listened to the ball-by-ball for Surrey away at Canterbury. That sounded like a struggle.
We had an early evening wiff waff knock up at the Table of Dreams. It was very different playing at this time, rather than the morning. One end of the table had sunlight shining straight into the line of vision. I walked away with a 4-1 win.
Music was the main entertainment for Monday evening. The new Baxter album, plus Still in the Wheel was a pleasant way to end the day.
