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[DoctorStrangelove]

There's something almost obscene about getting up at that time on a Saturday when you don't really have to.



17.4 in here this morning, while it's 14.6 in the laundry room with an alleged min of 10.6, but I think that's from yesterday since I forgot to reset the thermometer.

The CBS is now a lowering grey sky with associated precipitation.

Thankfully I don't have to walk around the docks today.

On Monday there's yet another fecking training day to look forward to.

[NickFitz]

There's something almost obscene about getting up at that time on a Saturday when you don't really have to.

It's the only way to avoid the other customers. I can't be doing with them first thing in the morning. They get between me and the sausages, and talk at each other in the vicinity of my table

I think there were fewer than ten other people in the place by the time I was finished, and most of them had only just arrived

[NickFitz]

Meanwhile, someone is living in a cartoon: Woman mistakes dynamite for candle during power outage

[NickFitz]

Off to the conference!

[NickFitz]

At the conference

[WTFH]

Morning all

[DoctorStrangelove]

The rain wasn't joking.

Moderately damp now & not in a good way.

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Lunch: Morrisons pork pie with Heinz baked beans.

Today's first feature was "Beowulf and Grendel (2005)".

Set in Iceland.

Very photogenic, much more so than yesterday's epic.

Some stunning photography.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402057/

Enjoyed that one rather more than the animated one yesterday.

[NickFitz]

Got the car in the space outside the hotel door at lunchtime

Due to a slight miscalculation I was about eighty seconds early, rather than the usual twenty seconds or so after it becomes unrestricted. No wardens or visible cameras, though, so I’ll probably get away with it

[NickFitz]

Conference done, and very good it was

Debating whether to go to the pub for the after-party. I usually end up with some boring sod wittering on at me about some tedious project they're working on until I make my excuses and leave. On the other hand, there were a couple of people I know speaking (one of them I worked with at Yahoo), and I should probably say hello

I suppose I ought to pop in for an hour or two

[mudskipper]

Conference done, and very good it was

Debating whether to go to the pub for the after-party. I usually end up with some boring sod wittering on at me about some tedious project they're working on until I make my excuses and leave. On the other hand, there were a couple of people I know speaking (one of them I worked with at Yahoo), and I should probably say hello

I suppose I ought to pop in for an hour or two

I think that's the right decision. If you do get cornered by the boring sod, just turn off the hearing aid an order another pint.