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It's damp out but drying up. Warmer than previous days at 6 degrees with a high of 7. It'll be mostly cloudy with a little bit of sun poking through all day. Low chance of rain. Barometer up to 1008 mBar.
I am listening to Seriously... on BBC Sounds where they are discussing the potential for wiping out the human race via an electromagnetic pulse.
Hush!
Zeity might be listening!
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Walk walked.
Still quite cold out there.
Lunch: scrambled egg and poached tomato on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toast, bramble jelly on Morrisons wholemeal sunflower and spelt bread, red pippy corner yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.
Sadly there are no Randolph Scott films to watch this afternoon.
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More potching undertaken in the shed, another bag of concrete mix bites the dust.
Dunno how successful this bit will be but time will tell.
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Late afternoon entertainment: "Trucking Hell" on Paramount, Two eps.
Tea: the rest of the roast beef (still meh) with carrots & onions, so hot the lack of flavour wasn't obvious, stewed apple & custard, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.
Entertainment: Tudur Owen's TV Flashback with Tudur Owen and another fine selection of stuff from the BBC Wales archives.
Now: The Repair Shop since "The Tudor monastery farm Xmas" started off with how to stuff & cook a pig's head and nothing much else appealed particularly.
Interspersed with bits of "Filthy House" wherein a crushed mouse (skeletonised) was found under a desk.
I think we've all been there one way or another.
Now watching "The Holcroft Covenant (1985)" with that Michael Caine chap, this deriving from a Ludlum book of some seven years prior apparenty.
I've seen it before & read the epic & have no recall of it whatsoever.
It proved amusing enough, Mr Caine giving his usual good value.
New gig, new laptop. First time in god knows how long I’m using a windows laptop rather than my own Mac, it feels wrong
If they are using Office365, etc, then just use your Mac for that, leave the other crud for connecting to their network.
On the other hand, if you've been given a Thinkpad (or similar) that has a USB-C charger, then you've got a >60W power supply for charging your iPad or other USB-C devices. And we all know that not all power supplies get returned at the end of contracts.
New gig, new laptop. First time in god knows how long I’m using a windows laptop rather than my own Mac, it feels wrong
Got one of these on the way from Client B. ready for starting on Monday.
I also just found out that they are a Lotus Notes operation. I know banks tend to run a lot of legacy stuff but I'd never have taken the gig if I'd known that
"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.
If they are using Office365, etc, then just use your Mac for that, leave the other crud for connecting to their network.
On the other hand, if you've been given a Thinkpad (or similar) that has a USB-C charger, then you've got a >60W power supply for charging your iPad or other USB-C devices. And we all know that not all power supplies get returned at the end of contracts.
My client uses O365 but you need a token to access it from a device that isn't theirs and they don't give those to externals.
Good call on the power supply... I may have to lose mine when the time comes.
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