test please delete

[ladymuck]

I think the WM may be fixed, although I didn't do anything in particular. The air wedges were helpful, thanks for tip NF!

[NickFitz]

And the old boy’s annual magazine turned up in the post, in which I found that a chap I was in the same form as for several years has died

Scrub that - it's his brother who died. He came from a huge family. When I started there at age 11, he had an older brother in every year ahead of us. The school used the convention of assigning Roman numerals to distinguish boys of the same family, so he was officially designated Barker vii in my first year, counting down by one every year until he was finally just Barker when we were in the Upper Sixth

[WTFH]

Zappi is now installed, and the app now shows that our house on tickover with 3 computers on is using 300-400W.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the cold cocktail sausages from the other day

I suspect they should have been eaten by COB Saturday, but I’m sure it’ll be fine. Sainsbury’s aren’t going to poison a loyal customer of such long standing, surely?

Rather grey and gloomy out, but no precipitation. The wind seems to have settled down slightly too

I also had minor IT woes this morning. The ClientGov laptop suddenly decided, about three minutes before standup, that networking was something it had never heard of and had no intention of getting involved with, and had to be rebooted. It was fine after that, but Docker then decided to have one of its funny turns, so I had to restart that. And then PyCharm claimed it couldn’t connect to Docker, so I had to restart both of them. All OK after that

And the old boy’s annual magazine turned up in the post, in which I found that a chap I was in the same form as for several years has died

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all
Yes, I should be asleep, no, I’m not.

you can be up to no good, being awake at that time in the morning

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all

Cloudy. Wet from overnight / early morning rain. Currently 12 degrees and that's the high for the day. Further showers expected. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.

Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 16:17 GMT

Spent most of my billable time this morning fixing a Citrix VDI issue so I could continue to connect to clientCo's systems.

I spend ~30mins every morning entering pw's and replying to security pushes on my phone, just to access the end client site.
kerCHING!

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Wet from overnight / early morning rain. Currently 12 degrees and that's the high for the day. Further showers expected. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.

Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 16:17 GMT

Spent most of my billable time this morning fixing a Citrix VDI issue so I could continue to connect to clientCo's systems.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Damp.

Grey.

Misty.

Chilly in here at 12.2 deg, 10 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 10.5 in the saltinghouse.

996 mBar, 29.4 in Hg, 747 Torr, 14.445 psi, (up from 995 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of March 2020 NF was still , Brillo and AndyGarbs popped in, LM was due to do some gadding about with HWMBO abroad, and there was someone in front of me in the queue at the post office who was coughing well. .

Trip to that Swansea: 38 down, T6 back, stack of books disposed of, nothing bought.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. They had no skimmed milk FFS.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about fat jabs.

For the sake of something to do: shopping trip to Aldi and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Hordes of skoolkids tramping towards me on the way back from Tesco. Goodness me, I thought pelmets had gone out in the early 1970s: you could nearly see the maker's name in some cases. Very bad for the bloodpressure. Especially when the ignorant hordes forced me to walk in the mud.

IIRC we finished skool at 15:45: this lot seem to be kicked out around 15 o'clock. I wonder if that means they start at 08:15 rather than the more civilised 09:00 in my day.

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Nice enough.

The usual Oak Island tedium: more wood. A rusty nail. FDR's pipe. etc. etc. Oh look: the buried tunnel ain't a tunnel. Who'd have thunk. So shedloads of wood. . More wood. More wood. A Georgian ha'penny. A rusty spike. Someone shoot me it would be a mercy.

Secrets in the Ice: Denisovan jawbone found in a Tibetan cave by a monk. Ancient wolf found in Siberia. Fossils found in shale in northern Greenland Sirius Passet in Peary Land: shades of The Burgess Shale but about 10 million years older. Where do the creatures living under the Brunt iceshelf off Antarctica find their food?

Julian of Norwich: in search of the lost manuscript. <click> Now I'll never know if they found it. .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s some patches of flat cloud around the horizon but the sky is mostly clear, though apparently won’t be later. No rain expected though. It’s still pretty windy, so the current 8°C “feels like” 1°; the expected high is 10°. The barometers are back down a bit at 987/995mB