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[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

Bit of a quiet day today as ClientGov is having its annual live-in-person meet-up down in London, and most people are there. I was asked whether I was coming and politely declined. They asked why (not pressuring me, just so they have an idea of why people might choose not to go) and I pointed out that out of four visits to London on their behalf in the last three years, two have resulted in me spending a couple of weeks laid out by some foul disease, suggesting a 50:50 chance of it happening again. They agreed that this was an excellent reason not to bother going

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull but not wet. Currently 17 degrees and that's the high for the day. No rain forecast. Barometer was up to 1014 mBar but has since dropped back to 1011 mBar.

This morning I was on site at ClientCo and I came home at lunchtime as I'm meeting friends in town this evening and I didn't want to get stuck in traffic later

Scrambled maps has had an update you can now select the number of tiles the map is cut up into. Looks a lot harder now.
EDIT: and it now tells you how many moves it took to complete the map.

[NickFitz]

Went for a walk, as I'm fed up with being so unfit and need to get back in at least half-decent shape. Not far, just around the block, but I'm trying to get back to the old habit (broken when I caught Covid) of getting a walk in before or after work

It's easier to get the green ring closed now as you can change the time required; I'm starting with a nice, easy ten minutes, and will gradually bump it up until I'm back to thirty

[NickFitz]

Scrambled maps has had an update you can now select the number of tiles the map is cut up into. Looks a lot harder now.
EDIT: and it now tells you how many moves it took to complete the map.

I went for 5x5 and it took longer than it used to! I think it was 5x4 before; might stick to that

And the incorrectly-positioned tiles are too faint, I reckon - makes it harder to spot things like a little bit of road running across a corner and so on

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday apparently.

Millenni Om.

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight was sausages, chips and beans

This was accompanied by a new Police Interceptors. This season comes from Northamptonshire, and they had a very nice establishing shot of the Vale of the Mighty Windmills of Kelmarsh, a notable feature of the countryside just after J2 of the A14 westbound

Having finished The Siege, I was thinking of starting one of the other Ben Macintyre books I have around the place but haven't read yet. But instead, I started on The Founders, which rejoices in the rather long subtitle Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the Company that Made the Modern Internet. The company in question is PayPal, in case you were wondering. It's quite an interesting read so far, though I haven't yet got to the bit where the other people at PayPal set up a fake system for Musk to program on that let him think he was working on the actual site, because his software was too badly written to be allowed anywhere near the real thing

In fact, I'm not sure if the book will mention that

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There was some overnight rain and now it's a foggy morning. Mild with the extra insulation, though: already 14°C ("feels like" 11°) with an expected high of 20°. The barometers are sharply down though at 991/998mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

Phew what a scorcher! 16C at 6am, which is a bit remarkable given the amount of rain overnight.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 16.6 deg,16.5 deg in the kitchen, 16 deg in the leanto.

995.5 mBar, 29.397 in Hg, 746.68 Torr, 14.438 psi, (down from 998 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric: the dehumidifier is on).

Meanwhile on the 21st of November 2019 NF had toad in the hole & watched yet more of S2 of the Wire, whereas I watched BTVS S6 and missed the infinite cheerfulness of the BuffyBot "that'll put marzipan in your pie plate bingo" being a favourite phrase or saying.

Entertainment: More or less followed by the Conspiracy thing: The Coming Storm.

No walk of any description walked in the continuing deluge. Ho hum.

Freecell score: 93%, running average: 78%.

Lunch: there was.

Entertainment: book.

Freecell score: 94%, running average: 78%.

Tea: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Thing on 5 select about all the shops that aren't on the high street any more, Woolies, Topshop, Burtons, BHS, anything owned by Fatboy Green, Radio Rentals, Greenshield Stamps. (Why don't the Pink stamps ever get a mention?). Lots of ladies clothes shops that I've never noticed. C&A. Banks.

Maigret: the headless corpse (1992) with Mr Cremer.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, cloudy, damp. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 21 expected . Rain due from early evening onwards. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.

I fancied scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast but my bread had gone mouldy. I just about had enough milk for cereal instead. To add insult to injury, my coffee machine has just turned itself off, indicating that it's been about 2 hours since my last coffee.