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Journaling June - Day 2
2nd June 2026
 I
typed this all up on my trusty
AlphaSmart 3000 it took a
while... I'll highlight a few things
and leave some placeholders because
I haven't got time to add in things
I want to add:
Journaling June
Day 2
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Today was a busy one for me. I'd
elected to not sleep in my tent,
partly because it had been raining
on it all day previously.
I woke well with my alarm,
having had some school-related
dreams. It seems somewhat odd to
still have this when now in my 40's,
but I guess some things just don't
get resolved. I wasn't actually at
school in the dream, but I had
returned to the area (as an adult)
and found myself having a discussion
with a lad about some
misunderstandings. In part of my
dream I was in my car, but someone
else was driving, and somewhat too
fast round bends; I've always found
it curious about driving dreams,
which car I'm in and who is driving.
I consider the 'being a passenger'
as a reflection on actual life, and
perhaps not putting myself in the
driving seat. For a while some years
ago I kept finding myself in a
previous car I'd had and it felt
like my subconscious hadn't caught
up with the fact I had a different
car, that was until I had a dream
where I sold that car, and then when
I next had a car dream the car was
up to date! This has since proven to
not always been the case but it
amused me at the time.
Anyway, no time for a jog or yoga
today, but I got my usual round
of language lessons done.
There wasn't too much rushing around
to do since I'd both loaded my car
up with things I needed to take to
the recycling centre later, and
packaged up a couple of ebay sales
already. Some mornings like this I
fail to get things packed the
evening before, even though I know I
should.
I posted those first, then stopped
by a garage to put air in my car's
front tyres (one loses air at the
rim I think and the threads on the
valve stem are somewhat worn making
my own pump a challenge to use; the
garage is quick and easy, and free
to use - Thank you garage.
Then on to my client's house where I
was stuck for a few hours
waiting for a Windows upgrade to
install, freeloading off their wifi
while I waited for things to
install.
I've been doing this for the past
year, "borrowing" other people's
wifi to download the various
podcasts I listen to either while I
get on with things at home, while
I'm out walking for an hour, or
while I go to sleep. It has been a
year because it was then that I
changed my broadband service,
ditching the "through the phoneline"
service in favour of using mobile
broadband since these services work
well enough and provide enough data.
Originally I was making do with 50GB
of data a month, but it was tight,
so I would download stuff while I
was at someone else's house. I've
recently moved my service over to
another provider and have a little
bit more data to play with each
month, but downloading stuff still
gives me something to do, otherwise
I'd just try and read a book but I
don't like to blatantly do that in
front of a client who is technically
paying me by the hour, whereas
downloading things can look more
productive... I'm a little bit
anxious now about how much I charged
my client; this is something I have
always struggled with while being
self-employed. Inflation and
everything else goes up, yet I feel
like I'm charging people too much
when I try and put my rates up...
Anyway, after the upgrade had
installed I head off to the
recycling centre where I had a
boot (trunk) full of junk I'd
accumulated since my last visit
(having not had my car on the road
for a while). The recycling centre
guys are always of the type that
like my car, and I appreciate that!
Then I had a frying pan to
collect. I'd ordered it online from
our trusty Argos, but I'd taken a
gamble. I'd noticed recently that
the handle on my current frying pan
was becoming wonky, probably from
being baked on my wood burning stove
in the winter, so I wanted to have
one ready waiting in the wings. I'd
found a reasonably cheap one at
Argos, paid for it, and went to
collect it. The gamble was that I
would then be going to Lidl to do my
weekly shop and I'm aware that they
sometimes have such things for
sale... sure enough they did, and
frustratingly for a couple of quid
less, so I could have saved myself
the extra few miles, time in
ordering and collecting, and those
£2 had I known (going to Lidl first
would have been out of my way and I
sort of needed to pre-order the pan
to make sure it would be available).
Oh well.
I grabbed the supplies I went into
Lidl for and then headed off to a
thrift shop I frequent as I had a
circular saw to donate; I'd tried to
list it on ebay but the UK has gone
all stupid over the sale of
"dangerous weapons" and even if I
tried to list the saw without its
blunt blade it was still being
classed as such and I'd have to pay
a hefty (yet unspecified) amount to
post it, just like when I sold an
electric hedge trimmer. I donated
the saw since I'd recently sold an
ipad they gave me which was worth
about the same.
Whilst there I was handed a few
things to check/take away/fix/sell,
basically a bunch of cameras.
One I handed back (an old
point-and-shoot Fujifilm) for them
to sell after I was able to put some
charge in the battery and show it
working, albeit with a blemish on
the screen - I doubt it would have
been worth me selling it on ebay. I
did pilfer the memory card from it,
but nothing interesting on it to
share.
[Image]
Oh, and there's also a funky radio
that it is claimed doesn't work, so
hopefully I can get it to work and
have a chance to play around with
it.
[Image]
Back at home I had a parcel waiting
for me, an ebay acquisition, but I
can't be sure what!
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The morning had been raining but as
a nice surprise things brightened up
by the afternoon so I first sat
outside with a cup of tea before
heading back in to make my meal and
sit and watch some
Camping with Steve.
I then head back outside to type all
of this up, with yet another cup of
tea. My head needs to wind down a
bit after what was quite a busy day.
I'll be sleeping in the tent
tonight, although it might start
raining overnight and through
tomorrow. Oh well, much to get on
with then.
[some placeholders for images in the
works]
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