test please delete

[ladymuck]

Remote Proctored Exam IT cockup.

PearsonVue couldn't get the online exam authorisation to work on my laptop (3 times). Each time took 30-45 minutes, and by the time my suggestion to use another laptop was accepted, the time for the Exam expired and was no longer able to begin, or reschedule.

Another hour on hold waiting for PearsonVue to answer the phone and I have to "wait until at least Monday" so that they can re-authorise it...

End of the day, the aggravation and half-day billing lost.

Namaste, breathe deep.

I've had trouble with them. I was in the middle of an exam and the proctor kept butting in to say they couldn't see me, etc. They put the exam clock on hold while we troubleshooted though and I did end up moving away from my desktop PC to the laptop.

[xoggoth]

Remote Proctored Exam IT cockup

Thought you meant a GP examination with a little USB camera. I was getting proctored mixed up with proctology.

[vetran]

Thought you meant a GP examination with a little USB camera. I was getting proctored mixed up with proctology.

well he was definitely arsed about!

[ladymuck]

Thought you meant a GP examination with a little USB camera. I was getting proctored mixed up with proctology.

I bet that's where these remote GP apps will eventually lead!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Front bedroom springs duly cleaned.

Or at least the springs I could reach without moving piles of magazines.

It must be said that "they" (namely Philips) built vcrs like battleships back in the 70s.

Feck me, they weight a ton.

Not like the last of the VHS vcrs that you could pick up with one hand.

[NickFitz]

The rain that hadn't been forecast arrived. Seems to have stopped again now though

[vetran]

I bet that's where these remote GP apps will eventually lead!

when miniature pill cams cost £20 I should imagine.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tea: chilli con carne with rice, orange segments (unblue) and custard, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Timeless S1 E15 "Public Enemy Number 1", being the tale of our heroes going back to 1931 Chicago to hook up with Eliot Ness.

BBC4: The beauty of diagrams: the Pioneer Plaque.

Sewermen on Paramount at 21:00.

BBC4: Chasing the moon: Apollo 8.

[NickFitz]

A glimmer of sunshine!

I hope the powers that be will be fining the sun for appearing unmasked in public

[DoctorStrangelove]

Just picked some almost ripe gooseberries, as in they're turning colour from green to red, some having achieved the dark red that approaches black.

Just a few, which are now in the process of stewing in the microwave ready for tea tomorrow.

The yellow ones are approaching the stage of being really dark yellow which means they have rather more in the way of sweetness.

And whilst I was picking the gooseberries, it was picking with the occasional drop of rain onto me.

The trees are looking really healthy this year, unafflicted with gooseberry mildew.

Maybe it's because I pruned them and cleared all the brambles and other stuff away last autumn.

Judging by the brambles, ash sapplings, and other stuff, I'll have repeat the exercise this autumn.

Well there's feck all else to do, so it keeps me busy once the cleaning of the springs is over for another year.

Unlike xogg, I splat stuff that flies about in here.

Especially what looks like clothes moths.