08:08 tuesday 17th september (long may they suffer)

 an entirely written in the morning blogpost

horsemouth has just opened up the lenovo for the first time in months because of the slow response of his dad's old laptop. it is reassuring to know he has another way out onto the internet should one or the other go down (indeed his old and battered netbook, currently filed in a drawer, might still be capable of it).

last night a big beautiful harvest moon. horsemouth took the opportunity to play the blue oyster cult's harvest moon (probably the last truly classic song by them). he also listened to a live version of in the evening by led zeppelin (still monstrous). 

start your microsoft 365 subscription today (no probably not). 

in IT terms horsemouth merely gets by - once horsemouth has discovered a way to do something he does it that way (same with his guitar playing really). yesterday he tried one of those leo kottke type patterns (round E, A, D). the guitar is back in standard tuning after a sojourn in dadgad and daddad. 

horsemouth has a sniffly type cold (it's probably fucking covid). 

so. politics horsemouth. what about politics? horsemouth (as usual) ignores it. 

the electoral side of it is filthy. 

labour are in (but, as usual, they are not doing anything that different from the tories yet just offering more austerity).  they have promised the country pain at the next budget. of course it they can't improve people's living conditions by the next election they should be toast but the tory vote could still be split with reform then so it is possible they could survive. 

horsemouth thinks the country is in long term decline and that a couple of rounds of austerity should finish us off - we are going the way of japan, a country full of sick old people wandering round deserted shopping centres. 

the tory leadership elections allows him some opportunity for schadenfreude - long may they suffer. he thinks it's probably plausible cad jenrick (though it may be plausible cad cleverley), though it could be kemi bad enoch (she's back and she's black). 

last night a meeting of the communal endeavour. 

it went well horsemouth thinks. the decarbonisation plan for one property was presented and that it's the correct format to enable the communal endeavour to cost what it needs to do and to have a productive discussion with the members in the houses. (he looks forward to having the other 13). 

money is of course too tight to mention. horsemouth thinks people haven't realised this yet