{"id":19881,"date":"2025-04-20T21:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=19881"},"modified":"2025-04-20T21:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:53:38","slug":"sunday-20th-april-2025-i-had-nothing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=19881","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 20th April 2025 – I HAD NOTHING ON …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… the dictaphone this morning when I awoke. And that was a big disappointment. As I have said before … "and on many occasions too" – ed<\/em> … I depend upon what happens during the night for any excitement that there might be to brighten up my boring, miserable days.<\/p>\n

Things might have been different had I had a decent night’s sleep. <\/p>\n

After I’d finished my notes, which wasn’t all that late, I dictated the notes that I had written for the radio programmes that I’d prepared during the week, organised myself properly (and you’ve no idea just how long that takes) and then went off to bed, just before midnight. So with my lie-in until 08:00 it would be a good night’s sleep.<\/p>\n

As I said yesterday, I was good and ready for it too. After the dialysis session I was totally exhausted. So once I was in bed I was asleep straight away and didn’t move a muscle for a good while after that.<\/p>\n

However, it’s a Sunday after a dialysis Saturday and regular readers of this rubbish will recall what happens on a Sunday after a dialysis Saturday. And so at 08:00 when the alarm went off, I was sitting at my desk working.<\/p>\n

What was so bad about that was that it had been another one of these “sitting bolt-upright” dramatic awakenings and at that point I was away on my travels, but the shock of awakening wiped absolutely everything out of my mind and I could remember nothing.<\/p>\n

With over an hour to spare, I had a dive into that site that seems to know where all of the best Artificial Intelligence programs are, and after some practice I have now succeeded in being able to swap one face onto another person’s body with a reasonable amount of accuracy.<\/p>\n

Add that to the voice generator with which I played the other week, my next trick is to go with a background remover. Then, with my PaintShop Pro (25 years old and still going strong) I can use the image that I created, transform the missing background into “transparent” with the aid of a green screen.<\/p>\n

Once I’ve done that, I can superimpose it onto any screenshot from Street View (so I’ll need an Artificial Intelligence image enhancer for the screenshot) that I like, so I can have people doing strange things and saying strange things in any location in the World that takes my fancy\u2026<\/p>\n

There’s no doubt about it – amusing as it might be, it has some very dangerous undertones. I reckon that we will be hearing quite a lot more about Artificial Intelligence, and it won’t all be good.<\/p>\n

The nurse turned up as usual and had a lot to say for himself. He was soon gone and I could make breakfast and read MY BOOK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve finally left Kenilworth and we’re now at Cydweli which, for the benefit of our geographically-challenged author, is in South-West Wales. And on page 154, without the slightest hint of irony, he tells us that "The new town, parts of which are of high antiquity … "<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in here, we have football to entertain us. Stranraer were entertaining Edinburgh City.<\/p>\n

Once more, today, I saw some more sad attempts at defending, with defenders standing around waiting for each other to clear the ball and watching as an opposition forward pushes it into the net, another shot fully covered by the goalkeeper until a defender sticks out a leg and diverts it into his own net, open goals by the dozen blasted wide or well over the bar.<\/p>\n

For a change though, it wasn’t Stranraer doing all of this but Edinburgh City. How Stranraer managed to win this game 2-0 is one of those big mysteries that will forever remain unresolved.<\/p>\n

We also had the highlights of the weekend’s games in the JD Cymru League. While highlights can be very, very deceptive, I do have to say that I have never seen a team look so disinterested as Y Drenewydd. <\/p>\n

Relegated last week, I did nevertheless expect that their final game would be one in which they would go out with a bang but Y Fflint, deep in the mire themselves at one stage just recently, strolled through the game and the Drenewydd defence with ease. A 4-0 victory was nothing like representative of the hundreds of chances that they were gifted throughout the game.<\/p>\n

Rosemary’s computer is now fixed and working. She reset all of the parameters for the internet connection and on one particular combination of settings, it made a Wi-Fi connection and we now have one very happy Easter Bunny, just as I was today at breakfast when I had two more of my delicious toasted hot cross buns smothered in vegan butter.<\/p>\n

The bread roll that I made for lunch was perfection and made some wonderful toasted cheese and tomato bread roll halves washed down with disgusting drink, and then I came back in here.<\/p>\n

Most of the rest of the day has been spent editing the radio notes. Programme 260220 is now finished (I just had to lose eight seconds) and 260227 is almost completely edited and assembled, the final track has been chosen and remixed and the notes written ready for dictation next Saturday.<\/p>\n

There was a break to make some dough for the pizza. Two lots are in the freezer now and the third made probably the best pizza base that I have ever made. The pizza was delicious too, melted exactly as it should be.<\/p>\n

So tomorrow, I have dialysis again. I also have to ring up Paris to find out what’s going on about this visit and also to ring around to find some workmen who want to earn some money. There’s a lot to do and time is getting short.<\/p>\n

But seeing as we have been talking about Cydweli Castle … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … when our author Geo. T Clark went to visit it, he was totally taken aback by the most rude and offensive manner in which the castle welcomed him.
\nIn the village pub afterwards he met the local doctor and talked to him about it.
\n"It was most offensive"<\/em><\/strong> he said. "All the time that I was there, it kept on shouting abuse, insults and rude word at me."<\/em><\/strong>
\n"It’s nothing to worry about"<\/em><\/strong> said the doctor
\n"Really?"<\/em><\/strong> asked our author.
\n"Ohh quite"<\/em><\/strong> said the doctor. "A psychiatrist came to see it a couple of years ago. Apparently it has Turrets Syndrome"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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