A Bug's Life

I have nearly six years of monthly meter readings here. Monthly reading help me keep an eye on gas and move from "but it's so cosy" to "time to turn it off". The red and orange lines are the most recent years, there's been a new energy efficient tv and a small second freezer, and a new housemate who is rarely here. It's all over the place though, not a nice smooth 10 per cent reduction a year like the energy efficiency things seem to imply we should be striving for. The gas use seems more affected by temperature than number of occupants or any special measures. No idea where the electricity was going in the winter of 2010/11. The spike in Jun 2013 was the leak in the kitchen and running a dehumidifier for a month. Three-bed mid-terrace modern house with good insulation. Graph below...

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Books read (14-15)
Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel (2014)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua (2015) (graphic novel)

Films watched (180-191) (9 at the cinema, 2 DVD, 1 LoveFilm, 1 tv)
The Martian
Macbeth
Mad Max: Fury Road (rewatch)
The Martian (rewatch)
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (rewatch)
Sicario
The Lobster
Crimson Peak
Sicario (rewatch)
Spectre
Escape from New York
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (18-19)
Stealing Sheep (gig, Portland Arms)
Teslathon (Cambridge)

Lots of rewatches - having the local cinema Infinity card makes it easy to go again for social rewatches.
Cinema good: Sicario, very exciting, looked amazing, came home and looked up the cinematographer and found he had 12 Oscar nominations. The Lobster was not what I expected, and not the celebration of the supremacy of couplehood that I feared. Very odd, lots to think about, very cruel but in a casually weird and Pythonesque way. Same director as Dogtooth but the absurd dystopia feel that was restricted to a single house in that film imbues this whole world. I want to know how it got there.
Wanted to like The Martian - but when I read the book I felt a mixture of unputdownable excitement and boredom, and got the same vibe from the movie, not helped by knowing the plot already. The second watching was with SF book/film club. If it had looked as good as Mad Max, or Sicario, or Moon, I could have enjoyed the rewatch, but I didn't
Lots of people liked Macbeth. I've not read it or seen the play before, but I couldn't figure out what was going on, I couldn't untangle the lines, and I couldn't get from context what some of the words were likely to be until the end of the sentence by which time it was a bit late. "My nighs/mine eyes" etc. Obv they were a bit upset about stuff and killing people made it worse and they went a bit peculiar and everyone was mostly polite because king. Banquo's ghost was great, looked like he had been pulled from a shallow grave. I'm sure I missed a lot. It almost made more sense if I pretended it was a foreign movie without subtitles.

Gigs: Stealing Sheep were marvellous and I'm off to see them support Django Django in December. Great to see them play a full set in Cambridge in such a small venue.