A Bug's Life

I have a bunch of vimeo stuff to watch. Shiny iMac was giving me bursts of 3 seconds then pausing for more like 10 seconds. I tried cheap Windows laptop and it streamed fine, though the picture and sound were a bit crappy. Both machines are in the same room as the router, running wifi, and both are less than 4 months old. Speedtest shows 0.9 Mbps on iMac and 6 Mbps on cheap Windows laptop. Any suggestions?

Books read (5)
Hild, Nicola Griffith (2014)

Films watched (36-48) (3 at the cinema, 6 DVD, 3 tv, 1 LoveFilm)
CHAPPiE
Albert Nobbs
Robocop (rewatch)
The Conversation
Gone Girl
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Star Trek (Abrams) (rewatch)
Les Diaboliques
Still Alice
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
In Bruges (rewatch)
Kill Your Darlings
Stranger by the Lake

Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (4-7)
Simon Munnery Sings Soren Kierkegaard (comedy, London)
Richard Herring: Lord of the Dance Settee (comedy, Junction, Cambridge)
Linton Zoo
The Gilded Birdcage (burlesque club night, Cambridge)

Films at the cinema: I enjoyed Chappie, and it did have some interesting things to say (including about parenting), but I left thinking "I want to rewatch Robocop" and so I did.

The course I'm doing is taking a chunk of my reading time, but if I was only going to read one book, Hild was a good one. I tried cutting down on exercise but that wasn't good so I'm back up to trying for 5 miles per day.

Twice a year I have to look up how to change the clock on the oven. This year I have made up an index card detailing how to do it, and put it in my 43 folders file ready for October.

(And I suppose I will have to dig it out again and add how to do the car clock, once I've looked that up)

I stayed up a bit late on Friday and Saturday night, looking forward to a lie in on Saturday and Sunday, but failed dismally and was up at 6/7 as usual...

Not tried peeking at the old laptop hard drive yet.

Have:
Installed Gimp on Mac
Installed Fitbit tracker on Mac
Got printer and scanner working with Mac
Bought tv license
Checked car tyre pressures (1 going soft)
Bought groceries at shop
Bought more groceries online
2 loads of laundry
Cooked loads of soup from fridge veg
Written up list of film course assignments
Read 85 pages of Hild for Book Club (including 15 min in sun in back garden)
Watched 2 DVDs (Albert Nobbs, Robocop)
Had visit from T
Arranged visit for next weekend
Frolicked with cat on demand

And I have 14 hours today before bedtime.

I have a box (5-ream size) of what I reckon are decent old fanzines, is anyone going to Corflu and could take them for an auction, if there is an auction? I can't travel that far (but could drive the box 40-60 minutes)

I wore a watch yesterday for the first time in years, the time display on my smartphone is quite small and (especially in meetings) it seems impolite to switch it on and peer to know the time. I thought the watch would be uncomfortable (partly why I stopped wearing one) but it was so light on I forgot I was wearing it till I undressed for bed. So, not much good for telling the time if I forget I have it!

And in bed I forgot to set my alarm and woke an hour late. Not as bad news as it could have been, I'm experimenting in March with starting work around 09:30 instead of 08:00 to spend an hour in the morning doing study with Fresh Brain and doing some stretches. Obviously not today. New cat also like to take up some of the morning time with exciting activities, but that is another post.

Books read (3-4)
Solaris, Mark Bould (2014)
Spin, Nina Allan (2014)

Films watched (26-35) (3 at the cinema, 3 DVD, 4 tv, 0 LoveFilm)
Inherent Vice
From Dusk Till Dawn
Rush Hour 3
Die Hard (rewatch)
Kingsman
Dune (David Lynch)
We Are The Best!
Whiplash (rewatch with drummer)
Parents (rewatch)
Cuban Fury

Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (2-3)
Roundelay (theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre) (Alan Acykbourn)
Footlights Spring Review (comedy, ADC, Cambridge)

Films at the cinema: Inherent Vice was good and quite an unusual film to see these days, so set in its shaggy hippy era. Kingsman was fun. I missed Duke of Burgundy due *ACHOO* to loud *COUGH COUGH* and quiet *sniffsniffsniff* insuppressible noises which was a shame.

Other films were largely low-hassle lurgied-watching fare. Recommend We Are The Best! 80s Swedish girl punk band/teenage friendship/coming of age story.
Parents was a big favourite of mine in the early 90s, kitschy 50s family with odd son, trying hard to fit in with neighbours, comedy slides into horror. I have not watched it in 10 years and was pleased that it still stood up - and I saw a lot more in it now, childhood imagination, just where the line falls between solicitous and threatening and how it might feel when a family member chooses to cross that line in a way that only the child can see. Great cuts and angles, I have never seen a sandwich look so ominous.

Barley contains gluten, but can be processed in a way that the gluten is removed.

Brand A cornflakes contain "Malted Barley Extract".
Brand B cornflakes contain "Barley Malt Flavouring".
Under current food labelling regulations, allergens are shown in bold in ingredients lists.

Brand A has an additional allergens box which says "May contain nuts." If you were to ask Brand A about the presence of gluten, they would say "Of course there's no gluten, if there was we would have listed it." I have happily scoffed three boxes of Brand A.
If you were to ask Brand B they would say "Yes, it's in barley, that's why we bolded it, your stupid fault for eating it."

In other news, does anyone want a box of Brand B cornflakes? Only one serving gone from it. Would swap for Brand A.

EDIT: Or maybe the labelling thing is more complicated, they don't have to label gluten in products that contain less than 20ppm. "Recent evidence indicates that people with coeliac disease can eat unlimited amounts of foods containing less than this amount." Anyhow - Brand A safe for bugshaws, Brand B not safe. Note for new readers: I don't have a coeliac diagnosis, as the test requires you to eat gluten for a month beforehand and it's deeply obvious that this would be a bad thing for me and would outweigh any benefits that a diagnosis might provide.

In case anyone's interested in what happens when I eat a dodgy cornflake:
6pm Tuck into tasty bowl of teatime cornflakes.
3am Wake, grumpy.
5am Wake again, with aching hands and feet. Recognise symptoms and start googling what I ate the day before. Swear at cornflakes.
This is going to get worse from here. Wash and dress now because I won't be able to later.
Worry in the shower about how I will manage work (first day back after week's holiday). Curse the cornflakes again as I realise I will need to cancel pre-paid Pilates class.
Feel like bad hamster-mom for not getting them food earlier, they've run out, I was going to drive by big hamster food shop after work. Maybe hamsters will eat cornflakes.
Thank self for keeping grabber stick from disabled days, and keeping it handy. Pick laundry up off floor or it will stay there for a couple of days. Cat arrives today and it won't want to meet a floor of old socks etc.
Hobble downstairs and put bins out because I won't be able to later. Ow, ankles hurt. Definitely won't be able to drive today. Soon won't be able to hobble 10 metres.
Realise I have moved from "How will I manage at work?" to "No way will I manage, don't even think about it"
Hobble back upstairs having grabbed some fruit, soy yoghurt and rice cakes. Is it harder to carry four soy yoghurts, or to tear open the pack and only carry two? Feel glad housemate is working from home today as she might be persuaded to open me some tins of food.
Curse self for eating all my stash of frozen meals and not doing a big cook/freeze yesterday.
6am Retire to sofa. If I lie very still, it doesn't much hurt. Typing and mousing hurts enough that I can't usefully work from home today, or do much else on laptop, especially as it will get worse during the day.

Books read (1-2)
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (2010)
Scotland's Stories of Home, various including uisgebeatha (2014)

Films watched (1-25) (9 at the cinema, 13 DVD, 3 tv, 2 LoveFilm)
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Resident Evil: Retribution
Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever
Belive: The Eddie Izzard Story
Rush Hour
Pitch Black
Only Lovers Left Alive (rewatch)
Scarface
Goon
What We Do In The Shadows
The Theory of Everything
Clueless
The Grand Budapest Hotel (rewatch)
Foxcatcher
Enemy
Whiplash
Ex Machina
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
Solaris (Soderbergh)
Paddington
Wild
American Sniper
Drillbit Taylor
Office Space
Closer

Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (1)
Milton Jones (comedy, Harrow Arts Centre)

Fave films at cinema: Foxcatcher, Whiplash, Paddington, What We Do In The Shadows. On DVD: Scarface, Solaris (after pondering it for a few weeks), Pitch Black, Office Space. Loads of others good too.

LJ's commenting isn't working for me at the moment on the desktop - was fine yesterday. I can see the "Comment on this" link but nowhere to type a comment.

I would ask if you all have the same problem but...