Brutkey

Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party
Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party

A new follower. Opening gambit, a DM asking for money. No. I don't even have any, for a start.

I'm going to have to switch to approving new follower requests. I do not like doing this.

Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party

A glimpse of the sea. It looks as wet as ever.

Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party

Two buses done. Now for the train. Town smells rather agricultural this morning, which is only cause for alarm if the Council parks and gardens staff aren't responsible.

Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party

Setting off for lunch at the other end of town. The journey will take pretty much as long as the rail commute from Bath to London, a fact that never fails to fail to amuse me. And I get to do it all again this afternoon.

Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party

Two blokes just tried to give me a truckload of furniture. (Nick Scali delivery truck.) I'm at (for the purposes of this post) number 84. The furniture order was for 84D, which is the perpetual construction site to my south. 84A is to my north. 84B and 84C don't even have foundations yet. (Local council needs to have a good hard look at itself re house numbering post-block subdivision.) The only person at 84D today is a codger mucking about re-laying the public footpath. Strangely, he declined to accept the delivery. So the two blokes and I had a bit of a giggle, and now I'm staying the hell out of it. I don't have room for more furniture, even if it is likely to be fairly nice.

Looking forward to a future filled with this sort of nonsense. I'm feeling more and more solidarity with Victor Meldrew with every day that passes.

Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party

Paradise again. What would Dante have said about this?

A map of Paradise Interchange, showing just how much of Paradise has been paved. It's on a pair of posts in the Interchange, showing people how they got here and dangling the promise of escape.
Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party

Soon I'll get up and get ready for a grocery shopping trip where I'll have to watch every last cent like a hawk would if it operated on a fixed income with a sound understanding of a modern economy and had any financial burden to speak of as well as somewhere to keep its debit card. This won't be tiring at all, surely.

Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party

In the interest of full disclosure - on this account, unsolicited medical advice is a blocking offence. Minor transgressions might or might not generate a warning first.

Yeah, it's a blunt instrument, but so what?

Mark Asser
@MarkAsser@beige.party

Oh look, another #introduction post from me. It's my fourth, written in May 2023 and freshly edited in March 2025, and I still don't know what to put in it. I've been cluttering up the fediverse since October 2022.

Anyway. I was a public servant in Canberra for years and years, and now I'm not a public servant and I'm back in Adelaide where I just sort of droop about looking at things and catching buses and putting the bins out on Monday morning. A sense of purpose eludes me, but as time goes on it seems less and less important. Despite being 'retired' I'm only 54, so I'm a bit of an anomaly but becoming less anomalous as time passes.

I maintain an interest in the various policy areas I worked in, but I won't go on about those things at length. I'm no longer politically active (a recent development - I may be the only grassroots member of a political party to resign for administrative reasons), but this won't suddenly become a political account. This will be where I let my mind wander about frivolously, or maybe just dopily, with the odd bit of seriousness. There's quite enough politics available elsewhere. In fact, it's everywhere. Mind where you step, and wipe your feet before coming inside.

Random interests: #history #geology #archaeology #lunch #ecology #naps #mettwurst