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Darn.
I just spent a while catching up with my timeline (went from about 1.5 days behind to only about 4 hours behind) and just caught up with the part where people were talking about the aurora.
Ooh, I thought, I'm only a few hours behind, I could go and look. But no. It's nearly 5am and there's enough daylight that I couldn't see a faint aurora even if it's still happening (which I've no idea whether it is or not). Oh well.
Phew, that's been needing to be done for quite a while. Bike chain maintenance done for now. Cleaned, adjusted, lubed. Now all I need to do is ride it. (Tomorrow, hopefully!)
The chain was quite loose, needed 3½ flats on the adjuster nuts. I haven't done that in years. I've been riding it so little the last few years though, I've not really needed to do the chain before the annual service takes care of it anyway. 🤷♂️
I really must get out on the bike again soon. It's been too little for too long. (Also, I might be partly moving outside London sometime soon, too, so I might be more able to meet up with folks for rides!)
Oh, I meant to come back to this and add pics after slicing! And here they are. One loaf had no cavities at all as far as I noticed, while the other just had this little bubble inside. Hurrah. So now I know I can fix the situation with bubbles forming holes/voids/cavities in the loaf, I just need to figure out how to make the whole loaf a bit denser, because I'm finding some slices are still almost lacework with how large the "grain" is, as it were. After talking to my dad and hearing his recollection of catering college may decades ago, I think I'll have to try *more* working of the dough at knock-back time, rather than less. All I can do is try doing it a bit different each time and see how it affects things.
Have I mentioned Murderbot yet? No, it looks like I haven't mentioned Murderbot yet. I should mention Murderbot.
Honestly, this one is a bit odd because there's no canonical description of Murderbot's armour, at least in any detail, so it could look like anything. These book covers make it look rather nice though.
I finally got out on my motorbike for the first time in a while, possibly months. Thankfully the battery wasn't dead(!). I did realise before setting off that I still had to put the new jubilee clip on the exhaust that I'd sourced quite a while back, but that didn't take many minutes. Then it needed petrol. Then I rode over to Ham (~20 minutes each way) and sat by the Thames for a bit.
I took a pic, but by the time I finally got out of the house, got the clip fixed, got the petrol and found my way to the car park near Eel Pie Island, it was really rather dark. Have a very brightened-up picture.
There were some birds on the river, possibly geese, who gave me the side-eye for a while.
Oh, oh, gotta add the OG white armour. These guys used to occupy my thoughts a *lot* when I was young. I mean, A LOT.
Some of those thoughts were regarding the question of whether they were robots or not. Others were more to do with whether the armour even came off or if it was permanent. (After all, we never saw them without it.)
And… not only when I was young. Nope.
I think I've figured out what this plastic tub with its little wheels reminds me of!
(Each time I use kdenlive I seem to figure it out just a little tiny bit more. …Only a tiny bit though.)
[Alt text: clear plastic tub with tiny plastic wheels rolls into view. Then with a "ding" it changes to a screenshot of a Minecraft minecart with a player sitting in it. (The player skin is Spider-Man, so it's me, of course…)]
