Obvious Crazy Talk.

https://news.sky.com/story/multiple-workers-dead-after-tensioning-operation-causes-bridge-in-china-to-collapse-13416592

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/08/72-hour-observation-might-not-be-bad.html

While the tensioning operation clearly failed there was no snapping.

Although the gym has left me very physically tired. That Cold I caught during the rest period seems to have stripped all the strength from my muscles. It feels like I'm coming back after two months, rather than two weeks. Staying up late to watch movies probably hasn't helped.

Aside from taking one whole day off on Wednesday (20/8) I've been doing a lot of end of Prime Month admin. Planning out all the little bits I'm going to need for the next three months of boring household jobs.

Plus Thames Water finally got in touch. They think I might have a leak somewhere. Trying to inform that I'd fixed it three days before they'd noticed it kind of broke their system. Not being able to post pictures I resisted the urge to add tiny drowned Brazilians to the flooded meter inspection pit. In honour of the Rio-Niteroi Bridge.

I actually spent Monday (18/8) researching the driving factors behind all the military coups in the Americas Cone which accompanied Brazil's Fifth Republic. Although relevant to America's Gilded Age American pressure through the end of Lend-Lease assisting Peron in Nationalising British Railroad corporations probably won't make the cut.

Believe it or not. This 20,000+ word preamble is being extensively edited before the first draft.