Notices by Alan Bellingham (bellinghman@wandering.shop)

@cstross We've been booked for a while, so see you there

@cstross @feorag @phlebas Yeah, I'm in England, and thus far my type 2 diabetes has qualified me

@kithrup It was 1995 when C & I first went to a convention as a couple. It was a small goth one, in a caravan park, with Terry as GoH.

We got chatting in the bar, and at one point Terry asked her 'Have you told him yet?'

To which her answer was 'No'

He very nobly/cruelly said no more. And I was in an agony of ignorance until the point that I read the passage where the Witches are visiting Mrs Palm, and the line comes up 'Why Colette, what fascinating earrings'

https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/s/1HvXxeNVUt

@kithrup This is that one in which my wife is Tuckerised, something she and Terry kept from me until I read it

@simon3270 @Antiqueight I did rather assume it was your work

We're installing a Brother colour laser/scanner, but tidying and labelling stuff while we're about it

All the plugs under the desk are now labelled

My wife is under the computer desk of her nonagenarian mother, and has just found a Raspberry Pi

No, no idea why it's there

@Antiqueight We're going to an Ingress anomaly

While we're there, we'll also drop in on the Eurocon on Sunday

Still good, so off to Rotterdam

We quite enjoy watching McDonald & Dodds - an ITV crime series set in Bath with episodes designed for a two hour slot - but we did have an issue with the latest episode

The barcode on a bottle of fizzy wine ain't going to tell you where and when it was bought. There is retail technology based on RFID that could do that, but your standard EAN-13 (a) doesn't have enough data content, and (b) can't be updated

(I don't know of anywhere that actually uses the RFID tech for groceries, even now)

We'll ignore the "it's a bit dark under that bridge" bit, that's addressed elsewhere on the web

@gmh I forget. But the plot involved the bus from Larkhall being diverted while still a fair way out, and I don't think there was anything under this bridge in the way of premises. Oh, and it apparently took 30 seconds to transit

@LordWoolamaloo My wife heard Queen live at Wembley. She was at home in Ealing at the time

(She saw the Beatles live in concert when younger, but couldn't hear them over the rest of the audience screaming. I doubt you'll have that issue with the Swifties)

@Antiqueight @natural20 Yeah, but that's a small country. Compared to Mexico anyway

@cunobaros OOC, how far is the move? Same area, or something more involved?

Oh, that's annoying. My phone's fingerprint sensor will no longer read my right thumb

I've now added my left thumb, but my right thumb has an almost polished print

@cstross We're off to Palermo on Friday, and I guess I'll have to pack extra meds too, in case. I'm not used to daily pills

@cstross I'll do that. Coming home by train would be interesting (as in, you can get from Sicily to the Italian mainland by a train that fits on a ship), but it would take days longer

And I have an appointment at Addenbrookes on the Tuesday morning, for which today's MRI was preparation