What significant things have I done today?

[Griffin NoName]

No. Yesterday I answered question 8.3 - this is incredibly slow. Today too poorly to do anything. But plumber fixed leak under sink.

[Aggie]

I'm a couple days behind on posting this, but Sunday night I went out to the garden to fix up the hoop-house over the tomatoes (with a headlamp) and witnessed a swingin' earthworm party, with worms coupling up all over the place.

[Roland Deschain]

I'm a couple days behind on posting this, but Sunday night I went out to the garden to fix up the hoop-house over the tomatoes (with a headlamp) and witnessed a swingin' earthworm party, with worms coupling up all over the place.

There are specialist internet sites that will pay good money for worm orgy photos.

My significant achievement for today is getting out of bed.

[Aggie]

Had a good day yesterday.  Invited some (very taddy) friends over for dinner; I smoked a salmon and did a potato salad and a veggie dish straight from the garden, and we enjoyed some wildcrafted tea* from one of the guests and some homemade fruit & honey wine from another (both were delicious).  The conversation was as stimulating as the beverages.

Afterwards, I went to see Oka perform live:
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Yes, I danced shoeless and shirtless.  


_{*Don recently did an interview with a company that produces content for BBC Radio, which should hit the airwaves sometime in the near future.  Keep an ear out for it.}

[Sibling DavidH]

Sounds like fun. 

Is that bloke with the long tube smoking a salmon?

[Swatopluk]

I assembled my new throne...eh...office chair

http://bilder.universal.at/pool/formata/4382432.jpg

That one can endure 25% more weight than the usual ones, which seems a wise precaution to me.

Apart from that, I visited the museum of East Asian art again. Currently a nice exhibition of naturalist drawings/paintings like this


http://www.umweltkalender-berlin.de/picture/normal/5182_06_Oki_Kangaku_Affen_Familie.jpg

I don't have a larger image at hand but when you stand before the real thing, you can see that each hair is painted individually.

[Sibling DavidH]

3½ weeks after he started, the workman has finally finished our new path and patio.  He should easily have done it in 5 days if it hadn't been raining all the time.

[Griffin NoName]

My office chair, has soft stuffing to sink into, and rocks backwards so one can recline in comfort with feet on the desk, otherwise it is identical to yours Swato. It was a cheap impulse buy, probably the best I ever made.

Today I had a meal at the pub with a friend visiting the UK from Montgomery (Alabama). Even a bit of sun.

[Swatopluk]

I'd say it was the rocking function that got the old one in the end by breaking the support ring that keeps the gas-spring upright.

[Griffin NoName]

Buy one with a horizontal gas-spring ?

[Swatopluk]

I guess office chairs, esp. for higher ranks, need a gas vent.

[Sibling DavidH]

Go on a welding course and you can get a small, basic arc-welder for under £50.  Far less than an office chair.  At the end you have your chair, a new skill and a handy piece of kit.

[Swatopluk]

Given how many parts are plastic these days, this kind of DIY repair might not be advisable.

[Sibling DavidH]

True, stripping all the plastic bits off is a pain.  I've more than once melted or set fire to a plastic part I forgot about.   All part of life's rich tapestry.

[Pachyderm]

Today, I have mostly been killing Japanese Knotweed...