The Data For Today

Dog-Sitting: Like Having A Small Child
     Except this one got up at 4 a.m. to go for a pee, so Conrad did as well.  Dog used garden, I used toilet.
     This meant, as a consequence, that the old grey man got a lie-in until 8:30

The clock is five minutes fast.

      which, according to others, is a good hour and a half later than normal.
     8:30.  Not the time I want to wake up but then the decision's not in my hands ...

O Noes!  Edna Confounded By Facts
     At peak times the Mansion plays host to Wonder Wifey, Degsy, Darling Daughter, Tom and Conrad - take note 5 people.
     For yesterday and today there is only Conrad (no, the Mighty Mutant Messenger Mice plus Guard Hog are restricted to the East and South Wings and the Upper Dungeon) so, sadly, Edna only gets 20% off the potential fawning adulation that she has come to expect.
     Sorry, Edna.

"Denied!  I shall die, loveless and forelorn - oh is that a bit of carrot? Redeemed!"

Cyclohexylamine
     Thus did I spake to myself before getting into the shower.
     "Cyclohexylamine - must remember to Google it later".
     This stuff would qualify for a "Fun With Dangerous Chemicals" post.  It scores in all three Dangerous tick-boxes - toxic, corrosive and explosive!

Sorry, but Cyclohexylamine looks deadly dull - just like water.  Here's a wildlife documentary instead

     It's liable to be fatal if inhaled, except it stinks like fish so you aren't likely to fill your lungs with it.  Contact with skin causes irritation; not the "grrr I got damn C6H13N all over my hands!" kind of irritation, either.  Too much skin contact - you're not irritated, you're dead.  Ignition point is only 28C, so don't go striking matches or lighting lanterns in it's presence, unless you want to see how fast you can sprint to the lab safety shower.
     Nasty stuff!
     Also, why the hell did it just pop into my head?

Daytime Television
     In an inversion of his normal television-watching process, Conrad (multi-tasking by annotating at the same time) chose a channel that has adverts, muting the programme but having sound for the adverts.  Yes, Conrad was trawling for adverts that annoyed - you could say "irritated" - him.
     It didn't take long.  There appears to be a game entitled "Pet Rescue Saga" where the player has to rescue pets.  Pets that get into trouble repeatedly.  
     Hello?  Is that the sound of the RSPCA taking these wicked neglectful owners to court?
     Not only that, gaze upon this frightful specimen:

Take it away!  It scares Conrad!

     Obviously suffering from some form of mange, and another disease that has caused it's head to swell to gargantuan proportions by comparison to it's pox-pixelated body.

Condensed Films
     Again with the malicious or appreciative micro-review that really won't help you make a critical choice, but which will allow Conrad to show how clever and witty he <thinks he*> is.  And today, to be extra-specially clever, we have a theme.

FILM                                                    FIVE WORDS

Iron Sky                                               Space Nazi's - on the Moon!
Iron Giant, The                                     Excellent, under-appreciated animated feature
Iron Eagle                                             Cheap and nasty flying farrago
Cross of Iron                                         Brutal, realistic, Eastern Front Peckinpah
Iron Man                                               Little-known cult Marvel adaptation

Skanderbeg
     No!  It's not a kind of Scandinavian loaf.  Skanderbeg, or Gjergji Kastrioti Skenderbeu, to give him his full Albanian name, was an Albanian nobleman and soldier of the mid-15th Century.  What did he do?  Why, turn against the Ottoman empire that had given him decades of training and experience in warfare, after first taking him hostage.
     That's what.  Now, remember that his territory wasn't the whole of Albania, and that the Ottoman empire was freaking huge, and you begin to see how successful he was - for 25 years, in fact.  Should you venture to tour around Albania, you will see many a monument or street named after him.

Skanderbeg Monument, Tirana.  Wonder  what that metal is?  Could it be iron?  Condensed Film pun ahoy!

     So now you know.  If you are in a bar in Tirana and get asked to toast "Skanderbeg", you won't make the mistake of asking what kind of sliced Swedish bread it is, will you?
     BOOJUM! - helping to integrate Europe**.

Georgie-boy in later years.  Beard could do with a bit of a trim, George.

Edna - Generate Some Traffic For Daddeh!
     Apologies for the street slang, but - er - "chizzle your bizzle" - as Dogsit Daughter says.  I am told that "Getting down with wiv the kids" like this helps to lure more people in innit.

At first, she fought with it.  Now they are both good friends

* Quotes added by Mister Hand, lest people are offended by the old fat grey one's arrogance
** All the better to conquer it!