Rick's b.log - entry 2024/11/20

Uh-oh...

From vigilance.meteo.fr.

It's a warning for neige/verglas, which means snow/ice. It has been raining and it's going to turn bitter and it's supposed to snow tomorrow morning and then maybe rain later on. Hopefully it'll pass after I have gone to work, so by the time I'm done it'll just be wet and chilly.

Anyway, with a forecast like that, I can imagine I'd need to use the heater so I'm charging my battery right up. No chances.

Speaking of which, I have prepared something to take with me tomorrow. A sleeping bag. Inside, a coffee-in-a-can (sorry, I can't stand the taste of water), three Twix, and a clicky-lighter.

Unnecessary preparation is better than needing and not having.

It's going to be even colder on Friday, but no snow that I can see... and then 18°C/19°C over the weekend? What!?

UV bug basher

Mouse quick fix

*USBDevices
No. Bus Dev Class Description
  1   1   1  9/ 0 Synopsys DWC OTG root hub
  2   1   2  9/ 0 SMSC USB 2.0 4-Port Hub
  3   1   3  9/ 0 SMSC USB 2.0 4-Port Hub
  5   1   5  0/ 0 ELAN Microelectronics ActiveJet K-2024 Multimedia Keyboard
  6   1   6 FF/ 0 SMSC LAN7800 USB 3.1 gigabit ethernet device
 31   1   4  0/ 0 PixArt USB Optical Mouse
*

Extracting urine

The new price is about 233% more.

Advent calendars

Anyway, don't be surprised if I don't do this next year.

But that's next year. For this year, you'll get to appreciate twenty four equally crappy videos. What I have this year is this:

Two Celebrations advent calendars.

Somebody (David, was that you?) said that the calendars have the same things in the same places inside. While I have no particular reason to doubt the veracity of that, through the magic of buying two (thanks Alec!), this can be put to the test. I will also be recording what was where in case they are not placed randomly.

Actually, them being no-random would suck. Probably much easier to produce, but some degree of randomness would allow for surprises, particularly if you have multiple calendars because you're a pig because multiple children...
...but, we'll see. ☺

There may be an extra calendar or two if something takes my fancy and/or is on at a reduced price. But, honestly, it was all a bit meh. Mom and I always used to get a cheap cat calendar "because cats", but this year it was stuff like Pikachu and Minions. Like I said, meh.

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David Pilling, 21st November 2024, 23:11

neige is a nice word.  Werl you can Google 'advent calendar spoiler' which last year was useful to decode some of the playmobile items. I guess as a side effect it told you what was coming from where.  I imagine the problem with random positions is that the items may be different sizes and so you need a hole that fits the thing. Also the filling mechanism is simpler if everything always goes in the same place.  Getting viewers is difficult - I can see watching advent calendar unboxing is entertaining, but how does the audience find you - easier for people already running a channel devoted to high street shopping.    I had a talk to ChatGPT about this - it says low end, things in the same place, high end, every calendar different. Also who knew you can buy refillable calendars and put your own stuff in.    Is there any mileage in filling your own version of a commercial calendar, so you can pull out 24 bounty bars and be comically irritated - would that go viral.    I may be that single digit. Anyway last years finale was amusing, worth all the effort.

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