Random life update

[pozorvlak]

• My supervisor, who's been away in Barcelona for the last month, dropped in for a flying visit last weekend. We had two mammoth three-hour meetings in two days, which was excellent in that I now have lots of stuff to work on and some idea of how to fix up things that were broken, but utterly knackering. Momentum has been lost a bit (hence the Fine

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[bronxelf_ag001]

I like hearing about this stuff.

[necaris]

Me too!

[michiexile]

So do I!

[pozorvlak]

Thanks! I'm always worried about boring people with navel-gazing, so it's good to know that you're interested.

I'm interested in the stuff you write, too, even if I don't always comment.

[johnckirk]

argument with the jobsworth in the McDonald's drive-through who refused to serve us on the grounds that we weren't in a car

I know that they don't like serving people on foot, although the drive-throughs I've seen have a separate hatch around the corner for that. I was able to get someone to serve me while I was on the motorbike, although I got some strange looks!

[pozorvlak]

Yeah, but why? It's not like we were interfering with the flow of traffic or scaring away other customers or anything. We (or rather my friends, I was just along as an observer) were hungry people wanting to exchange money for food. What does he gain from not serving us?

There was a sit-down restaurant part around the corner, but it was closed at that point.

[michiexile]

McD used to have a car window sticker bonus program - you set a round red sticker with the yellow M - size about an inch - in your front window, and get a pittance off'f your value menues.

A friend of mine got one to put on his bicycle - since he kept bicycling past this one drive-through, and kept buying his lunch there.

[michiexile]

I'm reminded of why I don't post much about my actual life. I can see why people might want to read about, say, if-statements in Smalltalk, but surely nobody cares about this stuff?

Psssssh. Yeah right. We eat everything up that you bother writing about. We're good that way.

Besides, it gives me some sort of procrastination from the grant application I'm supposed to be writing right now. Annoyingly, one of the books I -really- need to refer to doesn't seem to be present here at the library.

[pozorvlak]

Ack! I hate it when that happens. Nothing on the web that will help?

Psssssh. Yeah right. We eat everything up that you bother writing about. We're good that way.
Thank you! :-)

[wholepint]

Incidentally, I could never have anticipated how important balance is for climbing

Oh yeah. This is always my problem. Well, that combined with not planning ahead far enough - I get to a point where I have to stop and think about the next bit, then I lose my balance. Ooops.

And yeah, I like hearing about all this too. :)

[shuripentu]

Posting about, and reading other people's posts about, the mundane happenings of your/their daily lives is like mutual grooming: it's not strictly necessary, but it feels good and it helps strengthen social bonds.

Otherwise all I'd know about your life would be what I learn in a few hours every New Year's, and that would be sad. :)

[pozorvlak]

Yeah, but the mundane happenings of my life are, well, mundane :-) If I could regularly start my posts with "It was when the second engine exploded that I knew I was in trouble" then I'd probably do so more :-)

[nou]

The hillwalking stuff isn't mundane! It's an obsessive completist long-term plan, and hence both interesting and unusual. You should write more about it.

[pozorvlak]

Um, thanks :-)

Munro-bagging's a fairly big thing up here - well, maybe not big, but you meet quite a few people who are into it. Over a thousand people have collected the set and informed the SMC. Actually, it's a bit of a divisive issue among hillwalkers: some people think the stamp-collecting aspect detracts from the experience, and sensibly argue that a hill that's only 2998ft high might be much more interesting and characterful than one that's technically a Munro. Another argument is that baggers tend to climb hills by the easiest possible route, increasing erosion on that path; the ethos of mountaineering is generally to take the most challenging and elegant routes up that you can manage. I know one guy who says he'd deliberately avoid climbing all the Munros, possibly by turning back just shy of the top! Which I think is much sillier, to be honest