Just seen a post on $platform for $festival where someone was blaming the car park staff for him not being able to find his car.
I don't bite very often but I did this time. What a prick.
Just drop a Google Map pin or go "just right of the radio mast plus 100m". Yeah, took me a bit to find ours but I didn't expect anyone to find it for me.
Entitled knob. Yeah, all the staff keep a database of where KN08 4ED has parked. Twat.
Now I've found the secret to camping without absolutely fucking my body, I need to find an ultra lightweight camping bed.
I'm a bit sore today but 100x better than I was after EMF. A lot of the pain could be put down to lots of walking, standing and some sort of dancing.
Just reading about these "AI Cameras" deployed on the rail network to detect emotions. I hope they can differentiate between normal anger and despair on the rail network that we all suffer from and someone actually suffering an emotional crisis.
Bought a "Maxim Smart Plug Socket" on a whim from one of the bargain shops for £6. Appears to be a rebadged Tuya.
Can I get it working with Home Assistant as is? No. May play with the Tuya app later but the Maxim App won't let me connect HA.
Not worried if I can't. This had one specific purpose and I don't need HA for it.
As Nordic Spirit were sponsoring the festival they had an offer on the normal circular tubs. £6.50 for one (normal RRP) or £7.50 for two, so I loaded my pockets with that offer as well.
It seems that "yeah, I'll take that DVD copier off you" (so I could harvest the lasers) has turned into having 4 boxes of useless e-waste dumped on me while I was out. Yeah, thanks.
Papa Johns have stopped offering anchovies as a topping. Cowards!
That was the only reason I ever ordered pizza from them because their pizzas are crap.
Me: Goes around the area where we pitched the tents picking up every tiny bit of litter.
Everyone else: Abandons tents, chairs and everything else they could think of.
People are bastards.
One of the Coven did have to abandon her tent as it was fucked but we did make her take it to the bin.
Plus I got to launch myself into it to break it even more which is something I've always wanted to do.
If you're wondering about The Coven thing; It's Wifeface and her group of bffs. Someone once called them The Coven because they cackle like stereotypical witches when they're together or messaging each other. They liked it so it stuck.
More of a domestic incident this year as one of The Coven that isn't Wifeface has endured a kilt/ballsack separation incident.
She forgot she's seen it before when we all used to live together 20 years ago.
We have reached the "wet wipes being used as currency" day of the festival.
I've run out of breakfast beer so I've scrounged one of The Coven's ciders. I dislike cider.
Pays to be nice. Lass from *a stand* complemented me on my hair so I talked with her for a while about hair and now I can haz all the free nicotine pouches. Pockets full.
Three ex art students were trying to tell me my way of stopping my chair from sinking into the mud using paper cups wasn't going to work.
Guess who was right?
No because it was something else to carry. Cans and cups are easy to find. I have tennis balls and jam jar lids at our tent but not carrying them around.
I've been fairly lucky with festival weather over the years. This is the worst I've had.
Never before have I seen so many people woefully unprepared for weather. Guess they like trenchfoot.
Not wanting to deal with damp jeans today so the kilt is out and the twins are getting an airing. I promise not to repeat the international incident of 2018.
Brought Wifeface to a bar tent. I didn't realise it was a silent disco but it's quite cool except for the DJ's love of the Foo Fighters.
"oh, where's this? Didn't know it was here"
I read the map. I find everything. Found a shortcut between our camping area and arena that cuts 10 mins of the walk.
She walked past his bar tent while we were carting our tent and shit up though. For someone of a more artistic tendency she never notices anything around her.
The map is awful though. Until yesterday it was a low res bitmap. Today it's finally a Google Map overlay but it's out of date.
They need help. With everything.
Me (getting to the bar as they pull the gates together): Ah, just shut then?
Small Festivals: Yep, sorry. We've had a problem with the power, there's one over there [points]
Big Festivals: Yeah, fuck off mate, there's plenty of others around.
I don't have many good things to say about this festival yet, it's still early days but one thing I will say is that their attention to accessibility is excellent
I can only say this from a view of someone who has had some, but limited experience, with dealing with people who aren't able to have the full abilities that a lot of us do but I think it's great
Someone complained that the accessible viewing area was blocking his view to the main stage. I may have told him to fuck off and move then
He absolutely deserved it and I will admit to putting the boot into someone in a pit who has displayed similar behaviour, we don't tolerate that shit at all.
I bought a black pork pie hat. It wasn't an impulse purchase. It was originally for a thing I wanted to do for EMF but life got in the way.
Project is back on
It's not too bad. Worst rain was yesterday. It's not too churned up yet and seems to drain ok.
Which is good. I forgot my wellies but my combat boots are handling it quite well.
Spoke too soon. It's getting a bit bad. No mitigations in place yet, suspect they may happen overnight.
The amount of people with completely unsuitable footware for even a dry festival never fails to astound me.
Ah, I've just remembered that they're reissuing everyone's to reflect the new licence conditions. I'll probably have mine when I eventually leave this field and get home.
Posh AF. Where are the other people standing in the gangway? I don't even spot a nutter with a can of cider vaping either.
Have you even CrossCountry'd bro?
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