What significant things have I done today?

[Pachyderm]

Dragged my sorry arse out of bed. Was at the rugby last night, and very enjoyable it was too. Spent today loafing on the sofa, watching lots more rugby. This has been a Good Day.

[Sibling DavidH]

A brilliant Friday Club today - it was packed out and everyone was in a good mood.  One lot played pool, with much cheating from certain persons; the rest played board-games and mainly socialised.  When the atmosphere is like that it really melts your heart.

[pieces o nine]

Sounds like a lovely time.   

[Aggie]

A rapper gave me bacon.

[Opsa]

I suppose that could be significant.

"A rapper gave me bacon" sounds like some sort of speaking vowel exercise.

[Aggie]

They were shooting a hip-hop video in the restaurant yesterday, and brought some food as props, which they left.

I had said bacon for breakfast.

[Opsa]

That sounds like fun. If you ever see the video on YouTube, please let us know. I'd love to see it.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I just selected a number of pictures (about 1200) and compressed them to place them in one of those electronic picture frames. Looking good.

[Sibling DavidH]

I do that, too.  I use Irfan View for batch resizing; what do you use?
My last picture frame got increasingly erratic and crashy as the number of pics on the card approached 2,000, even though there was room for far more.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I use FastStone image viewer, which is freeware and quite handy BTW.

My old Sony eReader choked a bit if I placed too much manga in it (more than 1000 pages/images), or if I had too many book files. So far the frame is working fine (its a 10" Phillips) although the effects are a bit choppy (even before I loaded the pictures so it is a sub par graphic processor).

[Aggie]

Spent 8 hours working on designs for the sauna-on-wheels. The interior will be tounge-in-groove cedar with an arched ceiling. The sauna benches will convert to a double bed and single bunk for sleeping, and there will be a heated vestibule for gear and firewood storage. We plan to use a wood-fired sauna stove to make it the ultimate cold-weather camping machine.

[Sibling DavidH]

That should be fun!

[Aggie]

I just got asked to be my sister's Man of Honour for her wedding later this year. 

[Sibling DavidH]

Wahey!  You'll have some fun there.

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Wendy and I finished our long run of being in charge of Friday Club; the usual lady is now coming back.  We shall still go, of course.

On Friday a friend who happens to be in an official position told us that they had trimmed some trees in the play area and we could take some logs.  It turned out they had felled a couple of large poplars and trimmed several more.  So over the weekend we took five carloads of exactly the right kind of log - 3" to 6" diameter hardwood.  'Carload' here means full until the tyres almost touched the wheel-arches and the car wallowed alarmingly.  It was only ½ mile along village roads, or we'd never have dared overload it like that.

Now we have a huge pile to stack away and I am suffering the payback that you get with M.E. - I ache in every muscle and feel like crap.  Worth it, though. 

[Opsa]

Fantastic, both of you!

This past weekend Mr. Ops hit his head on the basement door frame and cut it bad enough to require a visit to the emergency room. He wound up getting fifteen staples in his scalp, the poor thing. Luckily he's pretty thin up top, so they didn't have to shave his head! I am happy to report I kept my head (ooh, bad pun) and handled things and he's okay. He had a CAT scan and was fine. He made it to work today. Poor Frankenduje.

Yesterday he took it easy and I went out front and did spring cleaning in the front flower beds. I can relate to David's aching back, but now it's done, so I'm pleased.