Just back from drowning the dogs - Costa-del-Fuck-This:
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Haha, livinā the dream there mate.
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IKR? Just saw the pic from Ascona, and thought - āI am really bad at life. And everything.ā 
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Am getting Father Ted holiday vibes.
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You think thatās bad, I had to Google where it is 
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I thought it was in Italy, which it almost kinda isā¦
I thought it was a 1970ās Opel saloon, in which case the occupants really needed to stop taking pics through the rear window and get out and enjoy the scenery.
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Did you sort out a sensibly priced ticket in the end?
I was asking a friend who goes how he does it & he said heās in something called First XV so seems to be offered them at reasonable prices. I presume First XV is some RFU scheme?
Yeah, i initially, because their ticketing page made them look like an official seller, and because Iām an idiot, bought from Viagogo at 250 each. But l noticed a couple of weeks ago that i hadnāt had any confirmation so i checked my bank account and lo and behold the money had been refunded, but i had no notification from them at all. l 
in the meantime I remembered Iād joined the free level of the England supporters club years and years ago, and reactivated my membership. So I checked on the official ticketing site and managed to get better tickets for face value, Ā£137 each. 
Shame we were shite, but the SA fans are quite entertaining when theyāve won so weāre enjoying the after match atmosphere.
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Karmic adjustment - admittedly soaked on the trudge into town from the storm-wracked hillside, but The Anchor Inn took great care of us - some very well kept pints of this on draught:
Washing-down a straightforwardly perfect bass fillet with Thai trimmings - very decent chef in here if you happen to be around Swanage.
Great to see the dysfunctional fambly, too - everyone on good form, and even the doggos behaved - well, aside from Tara relieving someoneās designer-mongrel of its chew-treat when I wasnāt looking 
Good soaking coming back, but the heating had been fixed in the meantime: bullet-dodgedā¦
Hendrix doc on the TV now: life looking pretty good rn.
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Total silence, other than the occasional wheezing of the terrifically badly built house.
I suspect that the same could not be said for MiLās house rn with her and, through a combination of happenstance and cock-up, all three daughters.
āface value, Ā£137 each.ā
Outrageous
Mind you most of my regular international going was in the amateur era so a lot of things were different and nearly all tickets were distributed through the clubs.
In backup hell. Making, not restoring, a NAS backup.
I think Iāve finally got the wagon rolling but Iāve done repeated dumb for the first couple of hours of the day.
backblaze 
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Never heard of it. From a quick squint that might end up being a good idea rather than the array of USB disks I currently use. Thank you.
Although the initial (1.5Tb) upload would be extremely painful.
by the time itās done it youāll need a new HDD at home.
they have plugins for QNAP and synology, on the QNAP I use the builtin backup app and add the security key from backblaze, create a bucket and jobs a goodun.
Currently have just under 1TB in backblaze and it costs less than $5 per month
Took around 2 days for the initial 1 TB backup (Iāve got 50 Mbps up)
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Iāve got a piece of damp string.
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If itās photos, Amazon prime comes with unlimited photo and video storage. Good for a second backup, IMO
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98% music.