I might just have managed a bit of hero worship from my boss and mentor Jan. I have girded my loins (not as painful as you might think) and started killing the rats in our garden.
A few weeks ago I was sitting and looking at the bird table when I noticed a rat climb up the camellia bush and then leap about a meter onto the bird table. What a good effort I said to myself but it was more difficult to convince Jan. A few years back we had rats in the garden and the local rat man said that living where we do (near the countryside) we would always be exposed to them and not to worry but put down bait boxes. Yet another skill I've learnt!
Anyway I was checking the boxes this morning and nearly jumped a mile as I opened one box to be confronted by a dying but still breathing rat. I did jump a bit, not more than a meter high, but secretly earned appreciation of her indoors. I think!
Strange how it is to break silly habits. Like when I look at a web page and then have to scroll back to the top before I shut the page. Or point the remote at the new sky box which now operates using Bluetooth. That is so difficult!
Anyway we went to see The Irishman the other night and both really enjoyed it. A film about 'our time' well acted but just a little too long.
I've had a myriad of small niggling computer problems just recently and I'm not sure exactly why. I suspect it's a bit of software that is affecting other software and I might have just narrowed it down but I'm not sure. It could of course be me being stupid which some might say is a given or my PC just coming to the end of its useful life (like me) but again I'm not too sure. I've had the machine for four years so it shouldn't be that, so more likely to be software. My latest thought is that there's a conflict between Kaspersky and Malwarebytes, we'll see.
So we're in the market as usual on Thursday when I spotted the above. It's a mobile male hairdresser complete with barbers chair etc. How cool is that!
An Irishman, Scotsman and Welshman all go to the pub.
However the Englishman can't go because he is still in Japan.
We were in a phone shop sorting out a new phone for Jan and being helped by a very nice young woman. Let's call her S.
S, who was a really pleasant and very efficient person, helped us enormously and during the process mentioned that she had been to university.
It dawned on me that she had maybe wasted the time and hadn't needed to go. If a job selling phones is the best that you can get after three years at uni then you have to consider whether she could have spent that time more wisely. When you add in the cost of the degree she might have been better advised to follow vocational employment.
In a previous life I interviewed a lot of graduates expecting a little bit extra but frankly I wouldn't have let some of them walk my dog.
