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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was promising to be a sunny start but the sun was beaten to the punch by a big, blank expanse of cloud moving in from the south. Mild again, being already 11°C with a high of 16° later, though the cloud is expected to bring spells of light rain throughout the day. The barometers are down a little more at 981/988mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Very wet overnight, but it stayed dry for a quick stroll earlier. 2 minutes after getting back home the heavens opened

[eek]

Desperately sorting out some minor errands.

Then a short chat at 9:30 that will hopefully lead to some work and after that a couple of more errands before an exciting drive to Manchester Airport as I need to drop the bags off before 9pm to make tomorrow morning's early start bearable.

After which it's 10 days in Turkey.

[xoggoth]

Darn it. Karaoke not on this evening, nice lady member passed away. She had a brilliant voice. Too many relatives and people I know gone in last year. Don't get old.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Wet, very wet.

Chilly in here at 17 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.

986 mBar, 29.11 in Hg, 739.56 Torr, 14.3 psi, (down from 987 last night), 75% RH (Lid electric, and dropping due to the dehumidifier that I use as a room heater).

Meanwhile on the 20th of November 2019 WTFH had purchased 60 litres of oil, olive as it happens, rather than heating or GTX or Texaco Havoline as recommended by James Hunt.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine & rain, the latter being satisfyingly vertical for a change.

Lunch: yup.

Entertainment: Y&Y <click>

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 78%.

More "gardening": removing the accursed honeysuckle from an unfortunate bush: there's not a lot of bush left.

Tea: Morrisons breaded haddock etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Book.

Digging for Britain (2017). Red hair.

The Bad Skin Clinic: Woman with a mushroom shaped keloid on her neck, no injection of steroid or x radiation post op to stop it coming back. Chap (Welsh, elderly) with rhinophyma. Woman (Welsh) with a lymphoma on her forehead. Black chap with seb dermatitis on his face: undiagnosed for 5 years. Really makes you wonder. Prescribed creams etc. & much better in a month.

I remember an elderly doctor remarking that younger doctors were hopeless at diagnosing things like diphtheria because they'd never seen it before.

King Solomon's Mines in southern Israel: turns out they were copper mines. It only took them 20 minutes to share that piece of info.

[xoggoth]

More meteors tonight. Fat chance I'll be able to see it. Never can.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c17lzk08l0eo

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Wet. Cloudy. Quite bright though. There has been much rain but none currently occurring, although more is on the way later. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer down to 995 mBar.

Prepping for a job interview tomorrow afternoon. I have to prepare, and deliver, a 10 minute presentation. It doesn't help that I know well the people interviewing me.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a salmon bap (white) with a bag of plain crisps

Proper salmon out of a tin, mind, not that fresh stuff

Same again for lunch, as the rest of the salmon Needed to be Eaten™

Quiet morning as I'm still shadowing those people from another but closely related team, and they had meetings. Back to the fray shortly though

[NickFitz]

A meeting was added to my delightfully empty calendar this afternoon

I didn't notice until about ten minutes in and it's a team "lessons learned" thing so reasonably interesting anyway. And it's only every fortnight, so not too unbearable

And after that me and the other guy made some good progress; we were back out of Terraform land into the realm of Python, so I was actually able to make some useful contributions this time

I'll still be glad when it's Friday though. Not feeling the enthusiasm for this particular body of work

[NickFitz]

Rainy evening here, off and on

Nice tea though: oniony chicken casserole with chips and peas