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Apologies to those of you out there who are in freezing temperatures, but it's bloody hot here in Melbourne this week. Our five-day lockdown ended on Wednesday and we returned to work, where the air-con in my office broke down a couple of weeks ago and it won't be repaired until next Wednesday, at the earliest.
By 3:00pm this afternoon, it was 27.6 degrees (81.68 Fahrenheit) at my desk.
Anyway, I wore the Citizen Eco-Drive Nighthawk today;
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Finished reading a John le Carré earlier this week and switched over to something completely different, which I have to say I wasn't enjoying at all.
I went from the sublime to the ridiculous and, by page 46, I decided to shut it down and go back to British espionage fiction, by an author named Mick Herron. If you're interested, Slow Horses is his first book. It's about a forgotten division of MI6, where has-beens and stuff-ups are sent, to work on menial tasks with no chance of playing in the big leagues again.
Running this rag-tag unit is an ex-Cold Warrior named Jackson Lamb. He smokes and drinks too much, [email protected]$ and burps too much, and doesn't shower, shave or change his shirts often enough, but he still has a razor-sharp tactical mind.
And yes, that is a Jackson that I use as a bookmark when I read American fiction.
Back later with pics of this week's other watches.
Hope you're all staying safe and/or warm.
@MHe225, hang in there! You're a Texan, after all.
By 3:00pm this afternoon, it was 27.6 degrees (81.68 Fahrenheit) at my desk.
Anyway, I wore the Citizen Eco-Drive Nighthawk today;
Finished reading a John le Carré earlier this week and switched over to something completely different, which I have to say I wasn't enjoying at all.
I went from the sublime to the ridiculous and, by page 46, I decided to shut it down and go back to British espionage fiction, by an author named Mick Herron. If you're interested, Slow Horses is his first book. It's about a forgotten division of MI6, where has-beens and stuff-ups are sent, to work on menial tasks with no chance of playing in the big leagues again.
Running this rag-tag unit is an ex-Cold Warrior named Jackson Lamb. He smokes and drinks too much, [email protected]$ and burps too much, and doesn't shower, shave or change his shirts often enough, but he still has a razor-sharp tactical mind.
And yes, that is a Jackson that I use as a bookmark when I read American fiction.
Back later with pics of this week's other watches.
Hope you're all staying safe and/or warm.
@MHe225, hang in there! You're a Texan, after all.
