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  • Watched a few movies. :)

    Heads up. Amazon is removing The Hobbit movies from their list in a week.

    Such beautiful movies I could watch them all the day. Everything is a joy to see and the story is good too.

    The costumes , the jewellery, the furnishings, the weaponry, armour, the calligraphy, the saddlery and other leather work, the carpentry. All the artisan work is so beautiful.

    My favourite scenes are the Stone Giants, reading the moon runes, Kili and Tauriel, and finding the gate.

    Anyway, it made me remember I have two acorns I picked up in the oak forests of Pennsylvania on a stop over on a road trip with my bestie Tam. I'm keeping them until I have my own settled place when I can try to grow some oak trees.

  • Terrible morning. Woke up late, by the time I was ready to leave home I was going to miss the next train and the one after that wasn't for 25 minutes for some reason. Got to train station only to realise that I left my laptop charger at home. Had to watch the train go by that I would now miss. Back home, then back to station, just made the next train. When I got to Parliament to catch a tram to my co-working office, there was a protest happening so all trams going in the direction I needed to go were stuck. I then had to walk 25 minutes from the city, carrying two bags mind you. It was really comical how nothing lined up for me today. On the bright side, I got a lot of steps in this morning and had a really good coffee once I finally arrived.

  • The Sun beats down on my back
    \ But I shiver from the cold
    \ Small in the sea at the track
    \ Of people far younger; I'm old
    \ I would rather be out the front
    \ With the protestors and signs
    \ But it would be insulting, an affront
    \ If the ticket paid for I declined
    \ So I drink too much and run away
    \ To smoke away from the crowd
    \ Of wealth and youth led astray
    \ By bets, in debts they drown

  • Chillies have finally been planted out. They're so small. Spent months worrying about watering / hardening them up in the sun / led lighting / temp and figured fuck it close enough in we go. Will be interesting to see if I jumped the gun. Really slow growing varieties and you sometimes wonder if you've buggered something up. Needs more soil / compost but that can wait.

    But the rest of the gang is getting there:

    • I’m going to ask a silly question because Im not a gardening enthusiast but, if you were to lay out the irrigation line in an “s” pattern. Wouldn’t that reduce the connection points and therefore reduce chances of failure?

      Or would it get too kinky, so to speak.

      • Yep it would. On a really hot day in summer unclipped it would fail left right and centre. But I ran into a problem where the drip line in an S or continuous line couldn't quite deliver the same amount of water to all corners of the bed.

        I ripped up another large irrigation system a few years ago and ended up with hundreds of clips and connectors and thought bugger it smoke 'em if you got 'em heh. I had doubts but 4 years in no failures (yet).

        edit yea in terms of the kinkiness that was pretty much the issue. Angles were too tight and I just couldn't keep it in place with pegs etc.

        edit 2 the other thing is redundancy. If there was a blockage in a continuous line then downstream has an issue. I figured (rightly or wrongly) that a sort of manifold type thing would resolve that.

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