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I have finished rewatching 11 and the Ponds.
I still hate how the Ponds end. For one it makes no sense, and for a rather important other there are some behaviours that are just Always No. Instead we get them from the heroes on repeat, like it proves something. No. Hate it.
Live. It's the tricky bit.

That said, there were some chewy fascinating bits in all the previous episodes. Even River's perception of the Doctor's reaction to age makes a certain degree of sense. From her perspective, she gets older and he pulls away, so. It's a plausible read on a lot of his behaviour. But funnily enough it is not an interpretation I like, or one I find plausible currently, so, improvement.

I also like it that the Doctor got a lot older between episodes textually now. Several centuries to fill in there. Even if he has hopped planets in his counting, probably a long time. And he wanders off and makes new friends and brings them together, with dinosaurs. Lots of room for any adventure you can think of.

My flat is still Too Warm but there's only predicted to be one more day of this so it'll be fine. Blergh but fine.

And tomorrow I can watch whatever. Or listen. Or read.
Which is a lot cooler than my flat.

Rebuilding journal search again

We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

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Today I got the Sunday tasks done and the Ribena finally arrived, so I have liquids and will not run out in all this hot.

I watched more Doctor Who. Up through The Wedding of River Song.

... I just discovered there's a Magic card of that name
https://gatherer.wizards.com/WHO/en-us/349/the-wedding-of-river-song
and distracted me.

The thing with this rewatch is it has been just long enough that lots of bits keep surprising me, sometimes because I forgot them (clearly, way too long between watching), but sometimes because I knew it happened but didnt expect it to land there. Content without context in my head, but when the Doctor phoned the Brigadier I got surprised along with him again.

Series giving me many feelings.

Of course one of the feelings is the one where I realise what all this all would look like out of context, to someone watching for the first time ever, and it is Mad. Brilliant, but mad. Not just the ones where it all clicks together, all the time the stories are things you would see in Doctor Who and no one else is doing it like this.

I have seen many complains about the most recent seasons of DW, but I am pretty sure, still, no one else is doing it like this.

Nifty.

I am looking forwards to this weather getting better but apparently tomorrow is another hot one.

Still. Watching Doctor Who with the fan on is working nice.

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doctor who

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Today I rewatched the first episode of Mawdryn Undead, the one where we first meet Turlough, and he steals the Brigadier's car
and I noticed something even funnier about Turlough wearing a school uniform while he travels

the students aren't even wearing the same stuff.
It's not a uniform.
They're wearing suits with all the same tie and hat, but the suits can be grey brown blue black.

He just wears black.

I went back to watching 11 when I realised between the Slow and the picture quality I just don't have the patience for the classic stuff when it is this hot.

I still think it's a great intro for a character. Start with someone who doesn't want to be on the planet to the point he reckons he wouldn't mind the car crash killing him. Make him make a deal with Evil to Murder the main character. Show he can't get rid of it now he's said it.
Tea time family viewing at its best.

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I am not a fan of this weather. Sleeping through the hot bit is tempting but you wake up blergh. Also most bits are hot bits.

And with all the neighbours windows open we once again get to play
in pain or in fun
whenever I forget to put some white noise on.

I watched some more 11 and Ponds.
I think I would like to confiscate the words 'shut up', there are too many of them already and they make the story more boring.
Rory the Roman is a fascinating idea that Big Finish did not please me with. But then two thousand years of slightly crazy guy in your head is a difficult one to explore. She always hears him is such a window into that though.

River's story is all threaded through things and the christmas episode where the lady had one day left lands harder the more you think about it.
River in Big Finish did please me, and I have some more episodes to listen to whenever I am not lightly boiled.

Blergh, weather.

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I finished rewatching 11s first season.
The Ponds' wedding still makes me happy :-D

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Hiya! My name's Meadz and I'm new to the comm. FFVII was my first game back when it came out (yes I'm old) and FFXV is my primary fandom these days. On that note I hope y'all don't mind me promoting some fandom events in the FFXV coming up?

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It's lovely meeting y'all!

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I watched Hungry Earth / Cold Blood last night
and was struck again by
how very much
we do not predict the big ones.

Ten years into the future from 2010
so about 2020.

... it kind of works still, though, since it is grey enough to be early early, but also so small a setting. Like the piles of 'old' tech in the place they hide out in, once you've got a forgotten corner you can do what you like with it. And, adds a layer to reasons to wave themselves off...

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Today I am mostly sitting in front of a fan and watching 11 Amy Rory River. Only just finished Vampires in Venice. Pondering if I shall skip Amy's Choice. Probably should.

This weather is Not Pleasing and my flat's tendency to stay the same temperature for ages isn't lovely this time of year. If I win on the premium bonds I am getting somewhere I can put air con and solar panels in. Blergh.

Also if Sainsburys actually feels like delivering Ribena some time soon that would be lovely.

But today is pretty okay.

And there are many more episodes to enjoy.

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concerts,
music

Music tonight

I went to listen to the Reading Festival Chorus perform Elgar's Dream of Gerontius tonight. I'm not sure if I'd gone it if had been just them, but they were joined by Johanneskantorei and a youth choir from Düsseldorf (Reading is twinned with Düsseldorf) and Britain Sinfonietta, so I was curious, and the location was convenient. So I booked a ticket. And it was worth hearing, although it seemed to me the ratio of performers to audience was probably at least 2 to 1, if not more. It probably wasn't the best evening for a concert: today has been rather sweltering again and the venue doesn't come with any other method of controlling the temperature apart from opening the doors. It wasn't uncomfortably hot but not still not great.

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volunteering

Spent some time on wheelbarrow duty

I did a volunteering day arranged by work's charity foundation with The Conservation Volunteers at Horsenden Hill. I've been there a couple of times before, and on those occasions we'd had a reasonably big group. This time it was only about 12 of us. The number of people signed up was a bit higher only a few days ago, so perhaps people were put off by the very warm weather forecast. And it was warm, but our day was planned accordingly, and we finished earlier than we would have done if it had been less warm. The group I was in cleared out some vegetation off a path next to some pigs, laid down some woodchip on the path (hence the wheelbarrow), and sorted through some pallets and other pieces of wood into re-useable and recyclable. So we got something done, but it was certainly getting uncomfortably warm towards the end. But it was fun to be outside and do something different for a day.

Current Mood: curious

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Today in plot bunny frustrations

I had a really excellent realisation today
that made a story click together so neatly it made it look planned
which is always very nice

but

in order to convey it to an audience
I would somehow have to unpack and explain
the super mega crossover of doom
running in my head now
for decades
(probably for life, but I don't remember what toddler me was writing. probably it had more talking animals in it back then.)

So I do not currently see how to make that story emerge
but it was really neat in my head...

Current Mood: hot

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books,
reading

Wednesday reading

Finished since the last reading post
Nothing. I didn't expect to read much while my mum and sister were around and I didn't.

Currently reading
The Blunders of Our Governments by Anthony King and Iwor Crewe. It's now over 10 years old and I think that shows, which is not unexpected—some of these kinds of things will take time to clearly display themselves as blunders. I don't think anyone reading about the state of Thames Water today would consider the privatisation as successful as it might have seemed even ten years ago.

Reading next
Not sure

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I just rewatched Victory of the Daleks
and I do not have new thoughts about that right now
but
thinking about it in connection to events in the most recent Doctor Who episode
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Today was a number of small annoyances:
I put the bags out for the supermarket to put the delivery in, and someone took 2/3 of them, the nice ones,
and now I can't find samelike things to replace them with, so that is going to be annoying every shopping day.
The shopping arrived but in much smaller quantities than ordered, and this was a bonus order due to Sunday just not delivering any drinks.
And then when I went to get lunch I discovered the drinks had been damp not because chilled but because leaking, and now approximately 150ml of capri sun was sloshing around the door of my fridge.

That took several stages to sort out and I had to stop for lunch in the middle.

But on reflection in a glass half full way, my attempt to have cold drinks kept that 150ml off the hall carpet, so that on balance works out okays.

Blergh.

But I had a nice ice lolly and when I wipe the drinks down a bit better I have a choice of apple, pear, mango, or ribena, so that'll be lovely.

I also watched two Doctor Who episodes. I started 11 again from the beginning. I am not enjoying how everyone got younger when I wasn't looking but aside from that it remains fun.

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