Charlie

Charlie

@stroppyoldget.bsky.social

Portable curmudgeon Wheezy. Resurrects rusty motorcycles. Naps. A Chelsea bun in an age of Danish pastries.

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Yesterday while doing battle with the technology I got a call claiming to be from Scottish and Southern offering me a 'FREE BATTERY!' due to the moment and the tone (akin to a Currys employee offering extended warranty) I huge up, and may have been briefly rude to them. This was a mistake..

They are handing out 'big batteries' which look very useful (Im a luddite so this is a guess) as the power cuts look inevitable even on their website, and I have a CPAP and its not as good without power..

Just spent a happy hour trying to make the new TV jump through all the hoops it was claimed to be able to jump through (the ones I understood, anyway) This would have been easier if I hadn't been using the remote for the old tv. All is forgiven though as I accidentally got a bigger TV than I planned

Car battery has gone flat in the 6 days since I used it last. (Apparently ' a Module' has gone bad). My jump pack has also gone flat. This is why robots will not take over the world...

To begin at the beginning: It is am autumn, moonless night in the small village, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, coursers’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, sheep-bobbing fields. And then a rave starts up at 120 bpm

The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the village hall, the shop in the mourning, l in widows’ weeds. And all of the people of the lulled and dumfounded village are awake now

Backlight on the telly packed up yesterday, so a busy day today, running out of masking tape to finish the gpz tank, running out of 2 stroke oil for the hedgecutter /chainsaw/ strimmer thats at a mates, reading up on changing TV backlights (surprising cheap, and surprisingly tricky to get to)

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