Farcebook

Author: james

  • Don’t fear leg day…

    Don’t fear leg day…

    Fear the day after…

    Also, who invented Bulgarian split squats, they’re just pure evil.

  • Pickles!

    Pickles!

    I’ve been growing cucumbers in a little plastic greenhouse thing in the back garden. Normally my attempts at this end badly, with the cucumbers turning into the most bitter things on the planet.

    This time I succeeded, so I’ve been pickling them. Not all of them were pleasant to eat, it’s a bit like Russian Roulette. I chop the end off a cucumber, take a bite and chew it for a few seconds. It soon becomes obvious if the thing is edible or not.

  • Stickers

    Stickers

    I keep losing my car in carparks. It’s grey and boxy, all cars are now grey and boxy and looks identical from a distance. A few stickers should help.

    This is also a test to see if this auto posts to social media.

  • Mowing grass by hand

    Mowing grass by hand

    I’ve got a grass problem on my plot, the grass grows better than anything else. It’s a constant battle trying to keep the grass short and has so far caused the end of a petrol mower. I took my battery mower from home one weekend, but the batteries need charging half way through and I get the feeling the mower isn’t really designed for mowing such a large area. The batteries get quite hot.

    I also tried using a strimmer, it’s awkward and takes ages. So while randomly watching TV one night I saw a YouTube video of someone explaining how to service their push mower. Turns out these things aren’t just a prop you see on old cartoons, but really do exist. And they’re super cheap.

    Mine came from Amazon and actually cut the grass really well. It seems to eat through long grass pretty easily and doesn’t really get stuck. You do need to push it with some force to make the blades spin, and it locks up if something thicker than grass gets in the blades but otherwise works really well.

    There is a little grass catcher on the back, but I found the grass comes out so fast it often misses, and it’s awkward to remove to empty it. The thing fills pretty quickly too and after detaching it twice in two minutes I gave up and took it off.

  • Power Cut 3 – Fall of the machines

    Something’s very wrong with the power here. It went off again this afternoon for about ten seconds. Just long enough to mess up all the computers and screw the Internet.

    Then it worked for an hour, before doing it again twice. So now instead of sitting in a dark room with no power, I’m in a lit fully working room just with no working network.

    I’m writing all this on my Remarkable 2 with its keyboard case. It’s quite pleasant to type on, I should do this more.

    Last month I switched my mobile phone from Smarty (budget Three) to Lebara (budget Vodafone) since I noticed our cheapo work phones on Lebara always seem to have signal, and my phone on Three/Smarty didn’t. They do seem better, but it feels like Lebara gets a lower priority on the network than Vodafone. Earlier my phone had a signal but no data, the little signal meter had an exclamation mark in it.

    I get to go home in 20 minutes. Today hasn’t been the most productive really.

    Update

    So it turns out where I work has quite a severe power supply issue. The main cable connecting us to the local substation has failed and it’s causing the power company some issues finding the fault.

    We have been running off generator power since the weekend, and the network failed because none of the switches in our building have any power. I’m guessing they use PoE from another part of the building that currently doesn’t have power, or has tripped offline due to the repeated power cycling that’s been going on.