Welcome to Episode 148 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest, and it is Sunday the first of November, and the eagle eyed amongst you will notice that I have missed not one, two episodes, and I haven't missed one episode in previous hundred and 47 episodes. So what gives. Well, two days ago Friday night, I was really low. I really low. And one of the reasons I was really close I had no internet, so I wasn't able to do an episode because literally I wasn't able to upload it at all. I guess I probably could have recorded it, but even then, the app that I use otter.ai requires an internet connection to record properly or at least to annotate properly. So, I couldn't even do that but yeah, no, I was I was feeling bad, like, really, really feeling bad drained beaten from every angle, and I was really struggling really really was. And as a consequence, I wasn't in the mood to do an episode and now internet and that really put me down. So that was that day. Then yesterday Saturday the 31st of October. I think I started the day feeling very low so I woke up again still feeling really low still without internet. And then, bit by bit Samana coaxed me back to life. It's amazing what a bit of TLC and cuddles will they. And then, around mid morning the internet started working because on Friday we bought a new internet card like yet another for my phone. And that started work, we bought it on Friday I started working around midday on Saturday and I started feeling amazingly much better with connectivity. So then I spent the rest of my Saturday, trying to get the second monitor working on my computer because I got two monitors they worked fine for seven years when I was in London. I gave my computer and my monitors to my parents they didn't work at all. And then when I've got them here they only one kind of works. Long story short, I think I need to reinstall Windows ball like but, so be it if that's if that brings both monitors back on line. The Monitors work the cables work. I just can't get them working at the same time. So, pitchy I spent like six hours on the monitors yesterday, which is overkill except it really speeds up my workflow to have two monitors. Really really does. So, it's worth it in the long run. Anyways, I kind of had to take my foot off the gas Friday. And I was very disappointed about that, then kind of needed to take my foot off the gas yesterday and it wasn't so disappointed about that and then in the evening. It was Halloween and Halloween This means favourite festival. And it was really dry because we can go out Trick or Treat him last year we did I did a whole treasure hunt thing at night in Jupiter and Jupiter's not spooky but it's like an old village in the mountains. It's a really ideal place to trick or treat and we had friends down from Ischia, and lots of kids and, yeah, it was really cool. And this year, we can do anything because there's basically locked down more or less and. So, game over. And we had this plan that we're going to do decorations and all of this and we were going to trick or treating in each room and none of that came to fruition the day just kind of came on when sim did wonders once again with organising stuff towards me getting my citizenship and my driver's licence and the insurance and all of that stuff and blah blah blah. But when it came around to the end you know like having stuff organised for Halloween we were just so behind the ball, and it got about 5pm and we hadn't done or started anything to like right. We must tidy. And if we tidy then we can do something. Long story short, we managed to get the kids involved in the tidying well mean it was easy enough Leonardo didn't really do too much, but we tidy it up a bit more we got rid of some stuff. And then some made some food and we simply mean lay the table instead of the table we decided we're going to watch and it was our first family meal, our family film on our TV for 14 plus months. And we watched the new Ghostbusters f
