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zotzWell, I've been out playing at bows and arrows again, and it turns out that the folk from the archery club like me. In fact, they like me so much that they gave me a bottle of wine. Which is nice.
Their pretext was that I'd outshot the rest of the course, which in a tediously technical sense I had - by 20 points (a score of 410 for a Portsmouth round (5 dozen arrows, so a maximum possible score of 600) over 20 metres). They implied that this wasn't so bad for a third session, which was very nice of them.
It turns out that one of their weekly shoots is within walking distance of the house. So . . . do I join their club or not?
Captain's log, supplemental : We've just had a transient power glitch here at Fuckwit Close. Zariba-under-the-stairs, which handles mail and routing, had an uptime of a bit over seven months. Now it has an uptime of a bit over seven minutes. The last time was a power glitch also. It's Maggie's fault, you know. I distinctly remember![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
karmicnull explaining to me, sometime around '89 or '90, that deregulation of the electricity supply industry on the terms imposed was inevitably going to lead to a general decline in the quality of the AC supply and a boom in sales for UPS and mains filtering companies. And how right he was. Take a bow, Simon . . .
Their pretext was that I'd outshot the rest of the course, which in a tediously technical sense I had - by 20 points (a score of 410 for a Portsmouth round (5 dozen arrows, so a maximum possible score of 600) over 20 metres). They implied that this wasn't so bad for a third session, which was very nice of them.
It turns out that one of their weekly shoots is within walking distance of the house. So . . . do I join their club or not?
Captain's log, supplemental : We've just had a transient power glitch here at Fuckwit Close. Zariba-under-the-stairs, which handles mail and routing, had an uptime of a bit over seven months. Now it has an uptime of a bit over seven minutes. The last time was a power glitch also. It's Maggie's fault, you know. I distinctly remember
karmicnull explaining to me, sometime around '89 or '90, that deregulation of the electricity supply industry on the terms imposed was inevitably going to lead to a general decline in the quality of the AC supply and a boom in sales for UPS and mains filtering companies. And how right he was. Take a bow, Simon . . .
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Date: 2002-12-19 03:27 pm (UTC)Oh YES! Definitely! I expect you don't have to wear green tights? That would be the only imagineable drawback. Unless they force you to do initiation rites involving proving your machismo with an apple on your head.
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Date: 2002-12-19 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-19 03:47 pm (UTC)Oh, didn't know you were into that archery thing. Keep meaning to get back into that, though I'd like to try shooting compound for a change. Don't suppose they have any compound shooters there?
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Date: 2002-12-19 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-19 03:57 pm (UTC)Well, archery doesn't need serious money. There is quite a healthy second hand trade in the equipment.
Glad you enjoyed it thought!
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Date: 2002-12-19 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-19 04:25 pm (UTC)UPS etc: I was saying that then as well.
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Date: 2002-12-20 01:24 am (UTC)We now anticipate at least one outage every month. Had four yesterday, two of which knocked out Athena. Fortunately no loss of data - I was upstairs wrapping presents. Bloody difficult finding the end of the sellotape by candlelight, mind you.
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