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My appointment with the PREMIUM-PRICED DENTIST revealed that my maxillofacials are AOK and nothing needs fixing. Which is a huge relief, if only for the fact that it would cost a bloody fortune if it did! There has also been a routine BLOODLETTING ahead of my Wednesday FACE-TO-FACE with the docs. SPIN CYCLE... In parallel with LA VUELTA, I've been dipping into the TOUR OF BRITAIN coverage. ITV4 are carrying it live. But I have no vested interest in the results this time around, so I'm just enjoying the scenery! Meanwhile in the Netherlands, the five-day ZLM TOUR is occurring. Typically, when there's a race going on which I DON'T get to watch, 'MY TEAM' does amazingly well, and that's very much the case with this one! The LiDL-TREK lads are hoovering up every stage win, point and bonus second going, especially Czechmate MATHIAS VACEK and mighty MAX WALSCHEID. But I'll have to take soshul meejer's word for it, because there are no tellyclips to be vie...

Week from Monday 24th August 2026 - There's been some more improvements to FIREFOX's anti-AI features, arriving on version 154. Not only can you disable any of the Fox's own robots from doing anything on YOUR browser, you can now stop yourself from embedding any of the BIG ONES from OpenAI, G***le, Anthropic, M!©r0$o f T etc. etc. I'm skipping through this week's episode of Radio 3's "KEY CHANGES" (again), as it is entirely dedicated to the subject of VIENNESE WALTZES (ZzZzZzZz in 3:4)... This week, I otherwise need to spend some of my "MONDAY DOING MONDAY STUFF" time catching up with a couple of WHODUNNITS, which I couldn't fit into my usual SUNDAY session. You guessed it! because I was watching the CYCLING and doing some PROMing instead! "MONDAY STILL DOING SUNDAY STUFF"! LA VUELTA hasn't been particularly exciting so far. In fact, the only remarkable thing that's happened was the cancelling of an entire day's r...