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Saturday 27th August 2016

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Another relaxed day largely dedicated to recovery, but had lovely fun sitting out in our tiny “garden” with my family. We used to have decking on this small space, but Catie suggested we get artificial grass put in. I was dubious about this for a few reasons, but it’s made going outside with Phoebe a lot more fun. It’s more fun to roll on plastic grass than on wood and it’s also a softer landing.

I was struggling to come up with a blog given how little had happened and thinking that maybe 5014 consecutive blogs was enough, but every now and again Phoebe would run up to me and delight in pressing a few computer keys. She knows it’s naughty and I know she knows because she gives me a wicked look and laughs when she does it. I fake outrage and she does it again. If she’s being particularly skittish she actually closes the laptop. Like she’s in some Jim Carrey film trying to make the dad realise that family is more important than work. Well the joke’s on you Phoebe. I don’t even get paid for this. I think that writing stuff for nothing on the internet is more important than family. I hate you and don’t forget it.

But I was glad that Phoebe was being mischievous this time. My Twitter app was open and she was typing rubbish into that and I decided I’d let her send it if she could work out how to do it. But as she typed I noticed something incredible. She held down the l key rather than letting it go and and an el with a weird line through it appeared like this-  Å‚. She typed something else and it came with an accent. My 18 month old daughter had taught me something I didn’t know about my computer. In the past when I wanted to say write menage a un with the correct accents, I would either go to google and find a website where I could copy and paste the right letters or struggle to find the correct way to insert them manually by searching the top bar of word, looking for Insert Symbol, then go through the symbol browser until I found the right accented e and a. But now look ménage à un. Fuck. This is a game changer. Suddenly having a baby has actually paid back. With fucking interest. If she can teach me this at 18 months, what wonders will I learn from her in the future.

Someone on Twitter told me you could get a degree symbol by holding down the 0. But not on my Macbook you can’t. But you can if you press alt 0.Look ººººººººººººººº. Absolutely amazing.

Thank God I didn’t get to 50 without knowing that. What a wally I would have looked.


And terrible news for my “curse of the world’s oldest person” joke. The Telegraph have discovered a man who says he is 145. So all this time I thought the oldest person in the world was dying, the oldest person in the world has been very much alive. At least for the last 25 years. One reigning champ.  Shitcakes. He must be 145. It says it on his ID. You can't fake that.



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