I’ve been having one of those ridiculous computer days in which nothing seems to work. I’ve held out from downloading Microsoft Office for a while now and stuck with LibreOffice which is open source and free to download. Unfortunately for the sake of work I can hold out no more. I bought Office 2019 from a website in which you just buy the key for the product, it’s about a fifth of the price on this website and I’ve used it before for the 2016 version. Anyway, for some reason I can’t download 2019 and am now stuck with 2016 and have no idea if I’m just using my old one which I thought was one use and is on my old computer or whether somehow something else has happened. I don’t even know if I go with the vague ‘something else’ because I’m completely lost and it all just seems beyond me today. This is probably one of the least interesting things I’ve ever had to share on here but I feel I need to calmly vent the last two hours struggles.
I’m also going to plug what I think appears to be something akin to an online chat discussion with the anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber and the editor of bi-monthly magazine The Idler, Tom Hodgkinson. I think I’ve mentioned this magazine before and how I felt it represented a world of southern English middle class success, despite being fundamentally based on an anti-capitalist understanding of the world, which I didn’t quite feel I connected with. It is a great magazine and I enjoyed it despite this, so I’m going to listen to them chatting with someone who is pretty renowned in the world of politics I like to feel a connection with. A drink with the Idler and David Graeber then, it’s free but you need to register for a ticket. This Thursday from 6pm – 7pm and it will be my first experience of Zoom which should be interesting. I really hope someone gets naked and does something shocking. I also hope the discussion is as interesting. Maybe I’ll see you there.
And finally in equally unrelated news, Wigan Athletic won 8-0 tonight against Hull City and are now eleven points clear of the relegation zone. Having gone into administration a few weeks ago in circumstances which are still not entirely clear but give off the impression of brown paper bags, corruption and a company being broken up for someones profit, they will be deducted twelve points at the end of the season. This punishment for going into administration would ordinarily relegate them but for the sake of integrity and morality them staying up despite the deduction will be like a big fuck you to all involved. A small northern working town giving the finger.
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