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@mc Lol, that looks hilariously stupid. But no, no superpowers please. I'm sick of superpowers. ;)

Since I enjoyed *the Thursday Murder Club* so much, I've checked if there are other books that could capture that general atmosphere as well; A bunch of old people solving a murder (or two, or more). You know, kinda a Murder She Wrote feel now that I think about it (and yes, I do like waching that series too). Turns out there are a bunch of suggestions that I could check out. The first one suggested is **The Marlow Murder Club** by *Robert Thorogood*, so that's the one I decided to read first. And I happen to just have finished it.

So we start off with a main character that's in her 70s (yay, one criterium fulfilled!). She's great at creating crypto puzzles for a newspaper and is pretty fit for her age. Fit enough for her to go for a swim in the river she lives next to. When she gets close to her neighbour's place, she hears him shouting and then a gunshot. Drat, she can't climb up on the neighbour's shore since she's an old woman after all! She has to swim back and then calls the police. Turns out her neighbour's shot dead! Dun dun dun, a murder mystery's born! (And that's the other criterium done!)

During her investigation (of course she's gonna investigate, can't leave anything fully to the cops nowadays!) she manages to rope in two more girls into her club. Sometimes they get in pretty darn tight situations, and if that's not enough, more murders happen during their snooping! I mean, during their investigating! It got more gripping in the second half as they took more risks where they really have to work together. I have to say that I already suspected 'whodunnit' when I was around three-fourths into the book, so at least the plot isn't that overly convoluted. :P

It was nice reading overall, a bit a change of pace here. Ok, ok, still about oldbies solving murders but they're *different* oldbies with *different* backgrounds (and while we're at it, also *different* murders), so still a change of pace! Just like with the Thursday Murder Club, this story is happening in the UK in the modern day and age where laptops and mobile phones exist. I like that, I appreciate that there are murder mysteries with a slight Murder She Wrote vibe but totally updated to the modern times. I would say this is another series (I read a sequel is upcoming) that I would like to continue reading.
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Chrome's built in captioning isn't bad at all. Just don't run it while a Dutch video is playing. ;)

@PawelK You mean, screen size of 4,8" like the S3 has? Yeah I like 'em small too but Android 4.1 is terrible. The apps I run don't work on that anymore. :P It's why I had to replace my Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, the size was great with 4,5".

I've got a Samsung Galaxy A3 now. Android 8 on it and it's already not running a few things (plus too little internal storage). I'm hopelessly trying to find an uptodate phone with a screen size of still below or around 5". I don't see the appeal of 6" or bigger, since I'd just grab a tablet instead.

@PawelK A what screen size?

Home sweet home. Was at a restaurant with all my deaf (ex-)coworkers. It was very nice, I hadn't seen a few of those faces in a too long time. We chatted a lot (in sign language, of course) and caught up on a lot of news and gossip. Feeling pretty satisfied now.

Oh, and the food was great too. ;)

@Pat Maybe you should draw a hint!

@lucifargundam Yup, that one. The behaviors of those people are so ridiculously exaggerated that it makes no sense anymore to me.

@sean @porkiie But Valve isn't the one setting the prices.. the publishers do that. ;)

@lucifargundam I've watched like 2 episodes of that one but can't really see the appeal. That boy is overexaggerating every thought of his as if an apocalypse is incoming. What about it is appealing to you?

@Pat With the rope? In the ballroom?

Today's theme was "Rain". And a lot of it!

@tojiro Heh, what if you explained to him that it was a very cumbersome oversized usb-stick? ;)

@peterdrake Last animated movie I saw there was Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 2. Amusing.

@rlamacraft Sounds like a case of Russian roulette there.

@lucifargundam It's apparently Pentecost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecost

And I wouldn't be able to tell you what it is about. Sure, I could read wikipedia myself, but I'm so uninterested in this religious stuff that.. well.. I've got better things to do, heh.

The only thing I do know is that it is a national holiday. And the following facts are present:
1. Almost everybody's got a long weekend holiday.
2. The campings in the whole country (almost anyway) are booked full.
3. It's going to be a very rainy long weekend.

I'm glad I'm just staying home. ;)

@lucifargundam It's raining here as well. Going to be a very wet Pinksteren, or whatever the name is in English.

@mc Okay, -that- one is actually funny. ;)

@freemo

@Bosbesje@mastodon.nl Avonturen van een haakse slijper dan?

@Bosbesje@mastodon.nl USB-kabeltje meenemen dat alleen geschikt is voor stroom-overdracht.