Miscelladay 141018

Does it matter that anyone is reading this stuff? Not really. I do it 'for the record' so that I'll have something to read when I retire. But I wish the freakin' parasites of the interweb would leave me alone. Over the last tuthree months I've noticed a blip of interest from a variety of peculiar 'referrer' sites which turn out to host advertisements for monetizing your blog. There is now another pattern (see above) where, ever other day, 60+ readers tune in all at once and then drift away to the next bright inconsequential thing. I though this might be in response to a tweet about my stuff and a loyal and immediate response from followers. But I think it's just robots. Subtracting that, it looks like, to the nearest whole number, you are the only person reading The Blob today.

Cute of the Day:
We read a book that suggested you ask your kid what an appropriate punishment for misbehaving would be and then carry it out. 6 yo son pinched his brother or something, so we asked what an appropriate punishment would be. He said “pluck out my eyeballs and throw me over a cliff?”. We didn't follow through. And stopped reading parenting books.

Go on what's bin happenin':

• Music:
• Mumford and Sons are back in the saddle Guiding Light. or Vevo version.
• An Ròn [The seal] Julie Fowlis 
• Lonesome Friends of Science John Prine 
• Dvorak Humoresque.
• Eric Satie Once upon a time in Paris
• Philip Glass Metamorphosis
• Pushing Bright Phoebus by the Watersons tribute in words
• Watersons more trad: Hal and Tow.
• Jonathan Pie on [Offensive] Free Speech
• Age quod agis [= do what you do] making a longbow  
• Housework? Woman makes beds  nothing to do with sheets! mostly bamboo.
• Bois de chauffage en Bretagne? Rault Philippe c'est le pied!
• Haute Savoie cyclisme vertical
• Playing Magnus Carlson at chess.
• Genius? My Son the Engineer Dilbert.
• Irish people try Krispy Kreme Donuts for the first time "This is like my first lesbian kiss: I'm confused but I love it" - "This might be the best donut I've had in my whole fuckin' life" - "I might actually drive the whole way to Blanchardstown for that"
• Food? Did someone mention Le Jambon Beurre Sondwich? KISS my sandwich! Keep It Simple Stupid.
• We survived Storm Callum. Hurricane Michael in Florida not so much. Bloke fixed his running GoPro to an immovable object and left town. Starts off with a bit of roof lifting off across the street and after a few hours of horizontal water shows where the street has lifted off it's foundations; no house where the roof was.