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[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

[WTFH]

6am: Clear skies, 9C feels like 8C
8am: Overcast, 9C feels like 8C.
Summer jacket was worn on our perambulation.

[WTFH]

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

[NickFitz]

I continued reading Endurance tonight. They made it south, and entered the Weddell Sea where they became trapped in the ice and had to spend the winter there in constant darkness. And now, after managing to break free for a short while when spring came, a gale has blown up and the pressure of millions of tons of ice being blown into them is about to send poor Endurance to the bottom, and they have to get off

Speaking of gales, it’s very windy out tonight. Unseasonably warm though: 10°C now and not dipping below 8° before sunrise

Monday again tomorrow. Best to make the most of it while it lasts, I suppose; I heard last week that when my contract is up at the start of February, they can only give me a six month extension, as the department isn’t doing twelve month ones right now due to budgetary constraints and general uncertainty

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

A wet and windy drive home and a sub-optimal parking space acquired due to a van pulling into the one I wanted to allow me to pass.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken tikka masala out of the freezer, with rice and naan

It was OK, but I think I prefer the madras

This was accompanied by The Crash Detectives on iPlayer, which was a fatal after the relative respite of the last couple of episodes