Clouds drifting by

I'm still watching Leverage on Amazon Prime and I'm up to season 3. I watched the first 3 episodes without a problem, then tried to watch ep 4, The Scheherazade Job (Wadata, a West African country, has an honest President, Simeon Moto, about to be term-limited out of office).

To my surprise, I got The Double Blind Job (Nate and the team runs a con against a corrupt CEO of a pharmaceuticals company who is marketing a product which could kill thousands). I watched it anyway as I hadn't seen it before and I thought I'd see The Scheherazade Job when I played ep 5.

No, I got The Double Blind Job ep again. I doublechecked and it definitely played the same ep twice under 2 different titles. I carried on watching the episodes but thought I'd better let Amazon know so they could fix it.

That turned out to be more difficult than I expected. I spoke to one person, then got passed to another. Simon asked me to log out then back in to check if it still happened, then asked if I'd checked the episode descriptions aganst their Wiki page.

Um... It's the same ep playing twice. I pulled up the IMDb page and prepared to go all Hardison on his ass, but he hurriedly handed me over Jency who said she'd get it fixed and thanks for reporting it. That was all I wanted.

I've signed up to Sweet. Is anyone over there?

https://sweet.sh/dimityblue67

My smoke alarm started beeping every 30 seconds to alert me the battery needed changing. Unfortunately for me, it did it tonight at 10pm.

I rang Elaine, my aunt. She came round, took it down...and it wasn't that smoke alarm. I have 2. One is a battery one and the other is wired into the mains. It has a battery in it, in case the power goes off.

The batteries in them frequently fail during the night.

Elaine rang my housing association repair line. They said they'd call the electrician and call her back.

When they rang back, they said the electrician isn't answering, it's not likely he'll come out for a smoke alarm, so I'll probably have to wait until Monday. This is because of cutbacks.

Yeah. Just let that sink in.

Fortunately for me, Denis, Elaine's husband, has a screwdriver, so he took the damn thing down and put it into the utility room where I can't hear it. He shouldn't have had to but he did.

I'm just astounded that leaving anyone to endure relentless beeping for 60 hours is an acceptable solution.

Title: One Way the Ambassador Survived, and One Way He Didn't
Author: Dimity Blue
Rating: G
Genre: gen, epilogue for 2001 (s5, ep10)
Characters: Sam, Joe Faxon, Jack, Daniel, Teal'c, Gen. Hammond, Senator Kinsey
Word Count: 1885 words
Disclaimer: Not mine.

Summary: The title says it all.
Spoilers for 2001 (s5, ep10). Contains several lines from the episode.

Link to my story on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18973378

I watched the first ep of Leverage on Amazon Video and it had 2 scenes missing.

After the hangar explodes, Nathan wakes up to find he, Elliot, Hardison, and Parker are in hospital, are handcuffed to their gurneys, and the Feds are on the way to collect them. Nathan keeps his head. A spot of pocket-picking, database hacking, impersonating, and a phonecall later, undercover agent Hardison escorts the other three out and they escape with minutes to spare.

Nope. The hangar explodes, Nathan wakes up to find the other three looking down at him, then they stroll into Hardison's pad and work out how they were conned.

Later on, Dubenich is early for a meeting with Sophie and the Nigerian businessmen. Sophie's on one of the upper floors and trying frantically to get into a lift, and Dubenich is about to search the building's business directory and find out they don't have an office in the building. Nathan smashes several car windows to distract Dubenich, and Sophie and Parker get to abseil several floors down the stairwell to the ground floor. Sophie (who screams her way down) comes tottering into the lobby to meet Dubenich.

There's none of that - Dubenich and Sophie simply get into the lift.

So, the first episode was cut. Whhhhhhhyyyyyy? I'm really not impressed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_boy_in_the_photo
BBC: The Boy in the Photo

I read this last night. It's devastating to read but there's a happy ending.


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I just had an automated phonecall from BT. It said they'd been trying to contact me, my IP address had been compromised, and my internet connection would be shut off in 24 hours. Press 1 to speak to a technician.

I did nothing and the call was disconnected.

I googled and it's a scam. The next step would have been to let them access my pc.

(https://urbanintellectuals.com/malawian-teen-taught-build-windmill-junk-brought-power-village-learned-library-books/?fbclid=IwAR2rmY0AUyf2SiwdiNogK1kW1tt_3xNeg2wEF_J0sfi9ua2fIIIKAGzvzUY)
Link to Urban Intellectuals.com.

(Shortened version of the article.)
William Kamkwamba was born in 1987 in Dowa, Malawi, and grew up on his family's farm in Masitala Village, Wimbe.

When he  was 14, in 2001, his parents couldn't afford to send him to school any more, so he turned to his local library for books. After reading a book on windmills and turbine power, he was determined to build one to power his family's home and farm, which was without any electricity at all.

"Subsequent projects have included clean water, malaria prevention, solar power and lighting for the six homes in his family compound; a deep water well with a solar powered pump for clean water, a drip irrigation system, and the outfitting of the village team Wimbe United with their first ever uniforms and shoes."

His autobiography is on Amazon UK for 99p. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Who-Harnessed-Wind-ebook/dp/B003IDMUJA/ref=la_B002BRKQEK_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1556613232&sr=1-1)

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I'm absolutely in awe. This guy sounds determined and amazing.

 I've been watching Stargate SG1. So they step through the Stargate to a waiting crowd and Daniel collapses without a word. Teal'c takes him back to the SGC while Jack and Sam carry on with meeting their potential allies.

Daniel wakes in the infirmary and seems normal, aside from occasional delirious shouting. Gen. Hammond is concerned but tells Dr. Frazier he'll mosey along to his office. Dr. F. is concerned about Gen. H. and his moseying.

Is Gen. H. infected too? Is Daniel's collapse related to their allies? Will there be an outbreak of cowboy related dialogue in the SGC?

The potential for hurt/comfort seemed high. My excitement mounted... And then I woke up.

I'm so disappointed this isn't an ep I'm watching. Even though the plot seemed to be lacking in logic.

26. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

I'm guessing this question isn't about my cognitive ability to realise my age, which is how I first read it, but means, "How old do you feel mentally?"

The answer to that is: In my late 30s.