My FitBit tells me I have walked 179.24km in October – a total of 243,997 steps. This takes 2016’s step count to 2,394,972. My overall distance walked is now 1,877.07km and here’s how far I could have walked, if it was in a straight line…
Firstly, this is a late post from yesterday simply because I didn’t watch the Mexico Grand Prix live, but after band. And then I went to bed. As the race finished, we saw that Max Verstappen had been given a 5 second penalty, enough to drop him from third to fifth. We then had to […]
The Newby-McMahon Building is in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. It is 12 metres tall, and its exterior dimensions are 5.5 metres deep and 3.0 metres wide. By Travis K. Witt (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons The building is the result of a fraudulent investment scheme in 1919. A large oil field was discovered in Wichita […]
Lewis Hamilton continued to keep his title hopes alive with his 50th career victory in Texas last weekend, becoming just the third driver to do so: Alain Prost (51) and Michael Schumacher (91) are ahead of him. However, if Nico Rosberg wins on Sunday and Hamilton fails to finish inside the top nine, Rosberg will […]
It was very relaxing. Yes, I know that’s the point of one but I’ve never had an actual massage before. It was part of a spa day with Mrs Pitts – something I bought her for Christmas last year. We purposely waited until we were seriously stressed and booked it. To be honest, the facilities […]
You create a 299b to fix it. Today is 299 apparently. It took me a little while to find the mistake – on June 3rd I published two posts, but labelled them consecutively, making each post one out every day since then. So, instead of spending time going through and editing every post since, I […]
I’m not a massive gamer, but I have spent a lot of today relaxing and playing two games from my past: Sid Meier’s Railroads! and Sid Meier’s Pirates! Both are games that I have spent many hours playing on over the years, and when I recently rediscovered them on Steam, I had to get hold […]