[06:45] <knight_pi> morning
[15:27] <knight_pi> hey popey 
[15:28] <knight_pi> j
[15:28] <zxmpi_> tis a quiet day
[15:28] <knight_pi> kids next door are having a birthday party
[15:29] <knight_pi> silently pondering what it would take to drown some of them 
[15:29] <knight_pi> or at least lock them up in a soundproof bunker 
[15:29] <knight_pi> on the dark side of pluto
[15:29] <zxmpi_> order a bouncy castle to your place and have a fun time in the garden with it laughing at them :-)
[15:29] <knight_pi> THAT is sweet revenge indeed
[15:30] <knight_pi> but it would not take care of the noise
[15:30] <knight_pi> seriously... we have a little pub behind the house where (when we heard it right) we might have another noisy wedding tonight
[15:30] <zxmpi_> your noise would drown out theirs helped by the compressor
[15:31] <knight_pi> yeah
[15:32] <knight_pi> I swear , one of those kids needs a bloody exorcist 
[18:41] <daftykins> \o
[20:49] <daftykins> a fella that's walking coast to coast in the US, visiting only Subway for his food is about to cross from Kansas into Colorado - https://rtirl.com/twitch:731642510 live tracking page and livestream: https://www.twitch.tv/subwaysean although it's breaking up a lot atm 
[20:53] <penguin42> ouch, how long is he expecting that walk to take?
[20:56] <daftykins> well he's over half way and day 112
[21:01] <daftykins> 5-6 months he put as an estimate on over 3,000 miles
[21:02] <penguin42> that's one hell of a walk
[21:04] <penguin42> so what's that, 150ish days, 20 miles a day; that's quite fast, I mean I walk 3-4 mph, so that would be solid 6-7 hours walking every day
[21:04] <daftykins> yeah! i doubt i'd fare well, i have a fully bruise coated big toe purely from crouching down doing network cabling in a cupboard under a desk xD
[21:04] <penguin42> probably walks about 15-20 miles a week
[21:06] <penguin42> but that's only about an hour a day; most I've ever done in a day is about 10miles
[21:07] <daftykins> i'm not even sure what i've done, laps of the island would be properly boring! they do do them as a charity event every year though
[21:07] <daftykins> up and down and up and down around staircases that snake all over the cliffs on the south coast etc
[21:08] <daftykins> e.g. https://goo.gl/maps/GNiUa8ggGRrui8vaA
[21:09]  * penguin42 is getting bored of the routes around his house
[21:09] <penguin42> anyway, time for a shower I think
[21:09] <daftykins> still limiting your exposure to the great unwashed?
[21:09] <daftykins> enjoy!
[21:09] <penguin42> daftykins: Yeh, give me a self-driving car please!
[21:10] <daftykins> :)
[21:27] <zxmpi_> my evening walks take me around the empty back roads of suburbs here. in 2 hour walk i see a few dozen people mostly walking dogs. with easy opportunity to be on far side of the road from them
[21:28] <daftykins> then you pick 'em off with a paintball gun!
[21:28] <daftykins> *thwap* *thwap*
[22:02] <penguin42> woof woof yelp!
[22:04] <daftykins> xD
[22:05] <irl25519> what's wrong with my connection? 
[22:05] <penguin42> zxmpi_: Yeh I think I've discovered most of the back roads around here since covid; pre-covid I used to mostly just walk to the supermarkets
[22:05] <penguin42> irl25519: You've got it plugged in upside down
[22:06] <irl25519> lmao
[22:39] <zxmpi_> when you can plug in a usb connection upside down it should still work out of fear :-P
[22:42] <penguin42> zxmpi_: Someone found a USB-c device that behaved differently upside down
[22:43] <penguin42> they hadn't connected the 2 sets of pins together
[22:45] <zxmpi_> i have heard a few people say that they have usb-c that doesn't work till they unplug it and turn it upside down and reinsert. i just tell them that it's backwards compatible with usb-a :-P
[22:46] <penguin42> haha