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Wed Feb 1 06:00:01 EST 2023
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Slept from ten to six-thirty.
Woke around two, and took a long time to fall back to sleep.
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of flurries early in the morning, then partly cloudy in the late morning and afternoon.
Highs in the mid 20s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Lowest wind chill readings 7 below to 3 above zero in the morning.
# Work
* 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Weekly cloud foundations working group
* 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ELMS planning
* 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM TEA discussion
# Home
* [ ] PenFed
* [x] eligibility for PenFed?
* [x] open PenFed account
* [ ] transfer funds from old savings account (http://www.citizensbank.com/HSBC)
* [ ] get backup credit card
* [ ] Mac backups
* [ ] work on CC 0e D&D reference rules
* [ ] dentist appointment
* [ ] optometrist appointment
* [ ] schedule AWS cert exam
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/01/kids-horror-shows-joe-cornish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VKG8nBjSWI
> The Ghost Hunters
> This old BBC documentary about ghost-hunting might well be the scariest thing I have ever seen. I can’t possibly have watched it when it was first broadcast on a Thursday night in 1975, as I was six. I must have seen an extended clip on The Danny Baker Show a few years later, as I remember being amazed at how terrified I could be when it wasn’t even dark outside. This was ghost-hunting 70s style, with scholarly middle-aged men in tweed jackets carrying a clunky tape recorder and an ion pistol around Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in Britain. The rectory burned down long ago, so they head to the nearby church, lock the tape recorder inside overnight and walk away. The sounds they capture – the creak of the altar gate opening, even though the church is entirely empty, and a deep, otherworldly, melancholy sigh – scared the living shit out of me as a child and still do to this day. The whole thing is on YouTube if you want to watch it, but I’m staying away. I still haven’t recovered from my first listen more than 40 years ago.
> Quiet As a Nun
> The opening titles to this late-70s ITV series were sometimes more frightening than the show that followed. We saw a single shot of a spotlit white armchair in a dark room, across which the shadow of a figure fell. The shadow lumbered forward, sat down and then, with the final chord of the sinister theme tune, let its spindly fingers splay across the arms of the chair. The most famous run of episodes, based on Antonia Fraser’s novel Quiet As a Nun, damaged a generation of viewers, including me. To be honest I have little recollection of the ins and outs of the story. It is all eclipsed by the mortifying power of two moments, an empty rocking chair creaking back and forth in an abandoned convent tower, and the terrifying spectral nun with nothing but shadow beneath her veil who later leaps out of the chair. Whether it was commissions such as this, or the people they were hiring as kids’ presenters, it sometimes seems that 70s TV executives were going out of their way to scar Britain’s youth.
> Children of the Stones
Servings: grains 4/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: left-over Thai, banana, coffee
Lunch: roast beef sandwich, carrots
Afternoon snack: coffee
Dinner:
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