A warm day, high cloud with sunny spells and the occasional light shower. In the news, Israel has made preemptive strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, top military leaders, scientists and civilians who just happened to be in the way, and this has led to a barrage of missile and drone attacks in retaliation. It's been alleged that Iran's nuclear industry has stockpiled enough weapons grade uranium to make several atom bombs, in defiance of international agreement on nuclear arms limitations. Israel is waging war on several fronts at the same time. It may be a relatively rich nation with a complex economy, strong on research and technological innovation, but warfare is very costly. The drain on resources will have a negative impact on everyone in the country eventually, and heaven knows how that will affect Palestinian destiny.
Two food shopping trips before lunch. Clare made salmon soup with remnants of the filleted fish bought yesterday. I dozed in the chair afterwards for three quarters of an hour, then did a third food shopping trip. While I was out I bought myself a new wireless keyboard and mouse to use with the small HP desktop PC which Owain returned to me unused. It can't be upgraded to Windows 11, so I intend to convert it to Linux to use for storage. I downloaded Ubuntu Studio to try out. It's got an impressive number of video on music editing software, but it uses the KDE user interface, of which I know very little. Too much of a learning curve to be able to configure suitably, so I think I'll try a few more Linux versions before setting on one that's easier to use. Or else install Linux Mint, which I do know how to configure.
I spent most of the evening downloading and inspecting Ubuntu Studio, then Kath arrived late, to stay for a couple of nights. Every parking place in our neighbourhood was taken, as it often is on the weekend, so she had to park her car the other side of Thompson's Park. We sat and chatted over a few glasses of wine, time standing still until just before midnight.
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