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Good evening Squirrel Fans.

I do like this quote which is quite enough of an excuse to accost my Peeps with it! :-

“Is this a dagger I see before me?' he mumbled.

'Um. No, my lord. It's my handkerchief, you see. You can sort of tell the difference if you look closely. It doesn't have as many sharp edges.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Right off to see if I can persuade a group of bigwigs that they need to take an existential threat seriously - if it’s anything like the real world I’ll have my work cut out for me!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you’re well & safe! 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

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A warning to all would be monster hunters … beware their mothers! :-

Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door (...) and you know what? Its mum come and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. Actually complained. That's the respect you get.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

Right I seem to have encountered a bug so will have to replay a part of or perhaps all the last mission … hey ho!

Catch you Peeps

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Oh Wow! :-

“It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying “Wow,” a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Right off to test my new stealth suit out!

Catch you peerless Peeps on the morrow!

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I’ve had PC’s with warrnties like this! Not for a while mind I moved to the Mac-e-verse in 2009! :-

“Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.”
― Terry Pratchett

Right, just discovered why a mining colony failed to send their last consignment of a valuable mineral - & it was the prime suspect all along! Time to deal with the culprits me thinks!

Catch you fab Peeps on the morrow!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you’re well & safe! 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

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A good many people feel as Hwel do - which is why so many folk run afoul of their Sat nav’s! :-

“The road, Hwel felt, had to go somewhere. This geographical fiction has been the death of many people. Roads don’t necessarily have to go anywhere, they just have to have somewhere to start.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Right off to try & find a mole in the organisation … by burrowing thru the ventilation system!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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It has to be said that, as a teenager, I was a world class twerp! :-

“That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

Right still in the somewhat dodgy world of industrial espionage - a few more missions yet before I get my stealth suit!

I have got a new natty new business suit though!

Catch you fab folk on the morrow!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you’re well & safe! 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

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Iltakävelyllä pysähdyin katsomaan, että mitä täällä oikein tapahtuu.

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For all those who ever wondered what exactly happened to sll their ballpoints :-

“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.”

Douglas Adams — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Right currently engaged in some industrial espionage - the things one does for specialised kit!

Catch you splendiferous Peeps tomorrow!

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I need me a pair of these! :-

“Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Right off for some more exploration of the galaxy. It’s nice having a decent sized ship but I have discovered that even though there are multiple other places for the crew to be they seem to congregate on the flight deck & block the hatch!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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I’m with Wonko! :-

“It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Right, I’m a fully fledged Ranger with his own (huge!) ship! I can finally stand having the crew around as they are not generally on the bridge! So the question is which one of the 20 missions / activities that are on. My list should I do next?

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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Good evening Squirrel Fans.

Tonight’s quote seemed apt for our friends across the pond - the only differences being that, their choice has the dress sense of stunned banana & they have singularly failed to imprison the current incumbent even though they did convict them of 30 plus felonies! However on the drawing attention front there is little doubt they have a winner! :-

“The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Right, took down the gang I have been chasing the last few days. Now the only thing left is to go get the corrupt official who (inevitably) was behind it!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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Romeo & Juliet eat your hearts out! :-

“The disc's greatest lovers were undoubtedly Mellius and Gretelina, whose pure, passionate and soul-searing affair would have scorched the pages of History if they had not, because of some unexplained quirk of fate, been born two hundred years apart on different continents. However, the gods took pity on them and turned him into an ironing board** and her into a small brass bollard.

**When you're a god, you don't have to have reasons.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

Right, well I’m hot on the trail of one of the leaders of the gang I’ve been chasing for the last few days!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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Okay. Is cute, no? 🐿😊💕
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Reading tonights quote it seems to me that it follows that sciatica has an evolutionary advantage! :-

“Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

Right still chasing down this pirate gang - got slightly diverted testing out some new weapons … well at least now I know which ones I can sell!

Catch you folks on the morrow!

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I was reminded of this quote when my watch failed to charge overnight - of for the halcyon days of clockwork watches! :-

“I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

Right, still chasing down that pirate gang - got sidetracked by a side mission to help some settlers - interestingly it seems, by sheer coincidence, that it could be the same gang of pirates involved!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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Good evening Squirrel Fans.

Tonight’s quote applies to CDs too it seems - I had a bit of a tidy up & found far more Queen albums than I actually remember ever buying! :-

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Right hot on the trail of the person who commissioned the theft of a ship that was used to terrorise a farmer! Life is never dull in Starfield!

Catch you fab people tomorrow!

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One of the ongoing challenges of life is that I don’t know what I don’t know! :-

“That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

Right off to see if I can findout why & how a spaceship was robbed straight out of the manufacturers hanger!

Catch you fab folk tomorrow!

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So me! :-

“I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

Right, have joined the Freestar Rangers, a wild west style law & order mob out on the frontiers of space, I am currently a deputy, I need to raise thru the ranks to achieve the status of a full Ranger!

Catch you fabulous lot tomorrow!

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This is soooooo me! :-

“He wished he liked people more, but somehow he could never get on with them. He never knew what to say. If life was a party, he wasn't even in the kitchen. He envied the people who made it as far as the kitchen. There would probably be the remains of the dip to eat, and a bottle or two of cheap wine that someone had brought along that'd probably be OK if you took out the drowned cigarette stubs. There might even be a girl in the kitchen, although Jeremy knew the limits of his imagination.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief Of Time

Right of to see a man about a house - I need a base to dump all my stuff & while the basement at Constellation HQ is fine I want somewhere of my own.
Eventually there will be base building but I am enjoying jaunting around the galaxy far too much for anything like that at the moment!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you’re well & safe! 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

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Good evening Squirrel Fans.

There is a thread on my TL at the moment regarding the nature of electrons & this quote seemed highly appropriate! :-

“Most of the things humans busied themselves with weren't real, either. But sometimes the mind of the most sensible person encountered something so big, so complex, so alien to all understanding, that it told itself little stories about it instead. Then, when it felt it understood the story, it felt it understood the huge incomprehensible thing.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Right off to roam the galaxy again!

Catch you folks on the other side!

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We’ve had this one before but it always makes me laugh & otters have always been one of my favourite animals! :-

“Koan ninety-seven: "Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you." Hmm. No real help there. Besides, he'd occasionally been unsure that he'd written that one down properly, although it certainly had worked. He'd always left aquatic mammals well alone, and they had done the same to him.””
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Right off to raid a deserted mercenary garrison - on past experience the one thing it will absolutely not be is … deserted! I should get a good haul if I survive the experience though!

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I am definitely one of the ‘Jeremys’ of this world! Oh by the by has anyone seen my copy of “The Introverts guide to throwing Soirees” ? :-

“Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Right off to sell some of the humongous amount of loot I picked up on my trip to Altair II … I only went for a small box for someone & ended up with enough kit to keep a small army in business for a month!

I don’t hoard - I’m just very economical with what I throw away! 😆

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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My nightmares naturally run along the line of mutant nuts & occasionally mutant nutters!

“Nightmares are usually rather daft things and it’s very hard to explain to a listener what was so dreadful about your socks coming alive or giant carrots jumping out of the hedgerows.””
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

Right off to actually finish one of the quests I have lurking - it has to be said that Starfield plays to my ADHD something wicked - oooooh look, an abandoned industrial plant, lets go investigate!

Catch you fabulous folk on the morrow!!

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When I learned about the entropic death of the universe it seemed fairly logical - it seems that pTerry knew about it too & one has to feel sorry for DEATH, having to hang around until the very last end credits have rolled - as it were. :-

“Astfgl peered around through the swirling gas clouds. At least he was in the right place. The whole point about the end of the universe was that you couldn’t go past it accidentally.
The last few embers winked out. Time and space collided silently, and collapsed.
Astfgl coughed. It can get so very lonely, when you’re twenty million light-years from home.
“Anyone there?” he said.
YES.
The voice was right by his ear. Even demon kings can shiver.
“Apart from you, I mean,” he said. “Have you seen anybody?”
YES.
“Who?”
EVERYONE.
Astfgl sighed. “I mean anyone recently.”
IT’S BEEN VERY QUIET, said Death.” “
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

Right, off to help save an embattled science station, where forces from competing factions are finding that they are stronger together against a common enemy!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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Me n Zaphod seem to share at least this…

“ “What are you crazy?"
"It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet" said Zaphod quietly. "I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good” “
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Right off to raid an underground lab (in Starfield).

Catch you fab folk on the morrow! 😊🫶 🐿️🖖

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Another Douglas Adams quote tonight, I personally am firmly behind the theory that some fool did discover what the Universe was for, which is why we find ourselves where we are today! :-

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Right off to explore a collapsed mine in Starfield!

Catch you fab folk on the morrow!

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I though I would help all those folk who are confused as to what is so important about the number 42 :-

“42, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. This Answer was first calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought after seven and a half million years of thought. This shocking answer resulted in the construction of an even larger supercomputer, named Earth, which was tasked with determining what the question was in the first place.”
― Douglas Adams

Right off to find an alien temple in Starfield … it may, or may not have anything to do with the quote above!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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This takes me back to when I worked in datacentre Installations & on a trip to the tape library I found one of the onsite computer engineers fixing one of the old style reel to reel tape drives with sellotape & a couple of elastic bands! :-

“And this ‘rebooting’ business? Give it a good kicking, do you?” “Oh, no, of course, we…that is…well, yes, in fact,” said Ponder. “Adrian goes round the back and…er…prods it with his foot. But in a technical way,” he added.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Right, I have stumbled across the intergalatic version of a motorway service station which had been taken over by pirates. Pirates delt with & now the ‘tidying up’ begins!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

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Good evening Squirrel Fans.

This takes me back to when I worked in datacentre Installations & on a trip to the tape library I found one of the onsite computer engineers fixing one of the old style reel to reel tape drives with sellotape & a couple of elastic bands! :-

“And this ‘rebooting’ business? Give it a good kicking, do you?” “Oh, no, of course, we…that is…well, yes, in fact,” said Ponder. “Adrian goes round the back and…er…prods it with his foot. But in a technical way,” he added.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Right, I have stumbled across the intergalatic version of a motorway service station which had been taken over by pirates. Pirates delt with & now the ‘tidying up’ begins!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you’re well & safe! 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

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Good evening Squirrel Fans.

This takes me back to when I worked in datacentre Installations & on a trip to the tape library I found one of the onsite computer engineers fixing one of the old style reel to reel tape drives with sellotape & a couple of elastic bands! :-

“And this ‘rebooting’ business? Give it a good kicking, do you?” “Oh, no, of course, we…that is…well, yes, in fact,” said Ponder. “Adrian goes round the back and…er…prods it with his foot. But in a technical way,” he added.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Right, I have stumbled across the intergalatic version of a motorway service station which had been taken over by pirates. Pirates delt with & now the ‘tidying up’ begins!

Catch you fab folk on the other side!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you’re well & safe! 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

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