David Morgan-Mar
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David Morgan-Mar
@dmmaus.bsky.social
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Creator: Irregular Webcomic!; Darths & Droids; Planet of Hats; mezzacotta Physicist, photographer, educator, old-school TTRPG gamer, Australian. he/him
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Wow. Sydney forecast for tomorrow: 39°C, with wind gusts up to 110 km/h. Total fire ban in place. It's likely to be the hottest October day ever recorded.

Not looking forward to summer.
I've moved two big bookcases for wall painting and found mould spots behind them. Also, the shelves have mould spots everywhere, visible now I've removed all the books.

I feel like the bookcases are in a bad location for humidity and mould.
i.e. Sydney.

Hitting all with white vinegar solution.
Why is this the first definition of "red herring"?
> A herring that is cured in smoke and brine strong enough to turn the flesh red; a type of kipper.

A feel like that's a bit of a red herring.
I'm packing books in moving boxes to store in the garage while painters repaint my place. I have 4 moving boxes full of GURPS books already...
Will probably need 6 boxes before they're all packed.

And then there's the D&D stuff.
Mmm... no, and definitely no...
Spring cleaning dilemma:
Do I throw away 5 boxes of blank CD-R and DVD-Rs?

(Yes, I still have a functional burner.)
Packing books into storage boxes to prepare for house repainting...
It's shocking how few books makes a box too heavy to lift, and subsequently just HOW MANY boxes you need.
I’ve been to Koblenz, but in summer.
Not this year. Possibly I will be in Cologne in November 2027.
Yeah, I write the time in the heading of most of my calendar entries too, because I know I can't actually trust the time field. You'd think someone would figure out how to handle time zones in calendars in a sensible way.
Looking at Christmas markets in Cologne. One website claims they run from 7pm to 7am each day. Another website says 10am to 10pm each day.
I'm guessing the first website is detecting my time zone and converting....
But why the heck would anyone ever think that was a helpful thing to do??
Login to Qantas: Frequent Flyer number has a leading zero, do I need to type it or not? My surname has a hyphen, include or omit? (airlines STILL can't handle hyphens in names when booking a flight)
4 combinations. Site gave me 3 chances before locking my account.
Guess what. My account got locked.
Did my 7.5k run in 26°C first thing this morning.

Really not looking forward to summer.
Since almost nobody knows what it originally meant, my friends and I have been inventing new definitions of “begging the question”:
He fell to his knees, begging the question: “Can I *please* get a new Xbox?”
She unsubtly hinted to her partner that a proposal would be welcome, begging The Question.
Found a friendly blue-tongue skink in the neighbourhood.
Scanning old photos.
Me: ”You know, when I look at these photos now, I think how much younger I look, but you look exactly the same.”
Wife: “I was thinking the same thing: how much younger I look, but you look exactly the same.”
Wife got up early for gym. I got up and took my dog Scully out for a quick toilet. I normally grab the spare key by the door, but there was no key and in my half-asleep state my brain figured it must already be in my pocket.

We’ve now walked 1.5km to the nearest cafe for breakfast…
Awesome! I remember meeting you and the dinner we had. I don't recall being sick - probably for the best!
Sketch of one of the many bays in Sydney Harbour. From Bayview Park, Greenwich.

#sketch #art #drawing #sydney