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Eleven or nine lengths. I was lazy and lido'd about with a book, and swam in between, so completely lost count.

Never, ever, stick a toe in the water, unless you're actually going to go back to the changing rooms if you don't like it :) If the water's fine it doesn't matter, and if it's cool, it doesn't matter if you go in quickly. So the only thing hesitating first does is make you shiver before hand :)

Tuesday

I met Sonic at lunchtime for one of our patented "No more than an hour, we have to get back to work. Doh!" lunches.

I got out of work at six and went swimming in the evening.

I watched Life on Mars, and did some maths, and read some Larry Niven, and by then it was too late to do anything else, so I had an early night :)

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Euler's theorem in everyday life. OK, but maybe not really. But on Saturday, people played with Modulok (build-a-monster-out-of-limbs child's toy reassembled as top-of-the-bookcase-living-room-decoration). I was puzzled to see there was one limb left over, but nowhere to put it. (Pieces have nodules analogous to lego bumps, and holes analogous to bottoms of legos.) Had someone lost one of the bifurcating shoulders?

No. But there had previously been three separate creatures; now there are only two. Separating them again leaves a spare hole, but they're designed to look natural.

Heroes powers

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