Are they blackheads?

I was sitting out the front testing the new camera and got to thinking the black spots on my nose may be the dreaded blackheads from magazine advertising fame in the days of my youth. If they are then I've had them for most of my life and wouldn't even know they were there.
I used to wonder if blackhead guns were related to the phallic shaped facial massagers also in advertising aimed for a female audience but never could link them to being the same thing.
I think I'm going to get some good results from this camera, this test shot came up good enough for me use it as an excuse to plonk my dial on the web again. That's my house hat, my going out hat is nicer.

Yet another thing to fix.

Everything I touch seems to fail these days. The power supply I used to set up my new computer started arcing a bit and making a bit of noise, by the time I worked out it wasn't rats in the house I was faced with another thing to fix. I ended up taking a new plug from an old low power unit that had been through a few floods. I left the souvenir mud on it.

This cropped up out of the blue.

My current main computer has become unreliable, often crashing when being given a bit of work, like video processing.

A minor upgrade but video files do need a bit of power.

My heart's not in it but the tree's been up for a while.

It looks nicer from the street side.
I can't see it lasting the 12 days of Xmas this season, I think I'll risk the jail sentence for early cessation.

Wish we had this all the time.

I have to wonder how the unconstitutional rules forcing their closure on nearly every other Sunday hold up.

It is my hobby.

A new plaything arrived today, and first thoughts are it may be just the travelcam I want for when I can finally get away for a bit. It takes the same battery as some others and will make that part of travelling much easier.
Bought because it can do video AND take photos at the same time, plus it's also available in a colour other than bland.
I haven't bothered with video in the past but realised I only had a few short seconds of Grace on video, also if I come by something interesting, like say an aeroplane crash (they do it all the time) it may be very handy to be able to do both at once.

First thoughts are positive, it's nice to use.

Oxtail cooked.

Cooked but could still use a tiny bit more time, oxtail does require an awful long time.

Edible, even goodish but not superb, I had an old onion that was old when Grace was here, and I thought I had some pearl barley but didn't so settled on some way out of date soup mix.
Eating it reminded me why I haven't gone to much trouble of late, bones! oh well into the plastic bag, into the freezer and wait for the next garbage day.

Sadly since this is the first time in many years that I've had to write a Xmas card, I've found out my motor skills have completely failed, I can't read my own scrawl, so please anybody don't send me any cards, it's too embarrassing, an email will be welcome.