Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 13-4-2021: Samuel Beckett

13th April, 2021.

It’s got to be said: lockdown has eased … slightly … 

Or, at least, slightly enough for me to visit a barbers.

A new place in Brentwood High Street.

I’m not totally stunned with my trim: although, to be fair, it was comparatively cheap.

At least for around here!

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Oh … I’ve got the new external drive set up: it’s being backed up to as we speak.

And yes: it’s going to take another five hours, as I’m using it to back up both my main drive: and my external storage drive.

It’s going to take that long, as it’s a few thousand gigabytes … 

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Drat … !

I forgot something.

I’ve managed to pick up two copies — one for keeps, one to play — of Rhianna Pratchett’s Crystal of Storms: one in a series of the revived Fighting Fantasy gamebooks.

I played some of the originals, back in the day.   So, given one of the game industry’s finest has done one? Given whose daughter she is?

Spending a little cash seemed wise.

I just wish I’d bought a pencil … 

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 13th April, 2019.

13th April, 2019.

Now read on … 

You know, that seems a very appropriate ending for an introductory video, doesn’t it?

And one I lifted … from … 

Well, I know I got it from the late Sir Terry Pratchett: picking up, as he did so often, and re-using old cliques, with hammer, tongs and spanner.

At ANY rate … !

At any rate: yesterday … was a busy morning.

Meeting my Job Centre advisor, selling my tablet — along side an old phone — having a phone interview.

Which is where the good news comes in.

The phone interview I had … ?

Has led to a face to face interview, next Thursday.

Looks like I’ll be up early!

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Something else I’ve seen crop up … ?

Is that Disney/Lucasfilms have released a trailer.

For the latest instalment of the Star Wars saga.

Which now has a title: The Rise Of Skywalker.

Which sounds … interesting, let’s put it that way.

The interesting bit, for me?

Is the release date: 20th December.

And where the trailer says, “The Saga comes to an End.”

Quite what that means for a potential Episode 10?

I really couldn’t tell you!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 13th April, 2018.

13th April, 2018.

Morning, afternoon, evening … 

Which is always something that’s mildly tickled me.

The sheer reach of Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar means I’m getting read by people across the planet.

By people across different time zones.

So … ?

Well … it’s tickled me.

But it does mean saying ‘Hello,’ in a video, rather interesting.

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By the way, have you been keeping an eye on the news?

You’ll be aware — if you have — that there’s increasing demands for action against President Assad’s forces: in reply to his apparently use of chemical weapons against civilians.

Personally?

I really don’t care for the idea of the UK joining any such action.

There’s possibly lots of arguments for doing so.

Assad’s a nasty piece of work: and the war is harming civilians.

Wars ALWAYS harm and kill civilians.

But I personally feel there’s arguments against: even if they’re rather simplistic ones.

One … ?   Is simple precedent.   

We did nothing after Saddam Hussain’s regime used chemical weaponry agains the small town of Halabja.

Even when the Western Allies invaded Iraq — in the First Gulf War — they went in being able to show the Ba’athist regime had invaded Kuwait.

Even the Second Gulf War — where the evidence of the regime’s ownership of weapons of mass destruction was extremely shakey — Tony Blair at least tried to persuade the Bush Administration that getting UN approval would be good publicity.

The situation in Syria, now?   And the West’s response to it?

I see there’s on-going investigations of President Trump’s election campaign: whether there was Russian involvement with the President’s campaign, or had Russian help.

I believe the West’s response to the situation in Syria has more to do with President Trump’s political problems at home, than it does with any defence of innocent civilians.

That it is spin, in other words.   It’s the Trump regime’s attempt to look tough on Russia.

That is NOT a good reason for military action, or for Britain’s involvement*.

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The Daily Teaser — 13-4-2015

Right … I’m now officially up, and about.

And lining myself up to go to work.

And granted, it’s got it’s ups and downs.

But I’ve got a nice liveable amount of hours, coming up.

At some mind-bggling finishing times.

Still … 

It’s all money in the proverbial bank: so I can’t complain, too much … 

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