test please delete

[NickFitz]

ooh that's very handy. I have made a note of that

It is! I use it all the time for test data. Much more comprehensive than the Americans with their 555 nonsense

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the Turkish spicy roast chicken and potatoes thing, made with chicken legs this time, and with the herb and spice mixture tweaked a little to my own tastes - more paprika, and a bit zingier on the chilli side too

[ladymuck]

Giving The Day of the Jackal (2024) a try

[NickFitz]

Despite all the hurly burly of work this week (i.e. occasionally having to do some or talk to other people about doing some) I've somehow found time for the mundane laundry today, and a bedding wash yesterday

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was the new episode of Manhunt on All4

And later, I read some more of Stories of Your Life and Others

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear sky as the dawn approaches, leading to a touch of frost on cars, roofs and lawns.The current 0°C apparently feels like -5°, but it'll rise to 6° by this afternoon. The barometers continue heading back up at 1006/1014mB.

Most importantly: it's Thursday!

[WTFH]

Morning all
Windy overnight, but the forecast of frost was wrong. We had clear skies, but it was a balmy 3C at 6.30am. Sun rise as 7.52 as we were almost home from our walk.
As if the day couldn't get better (I mean, while within the realms of doing work), one of the most pointless meetings I need to attend has been cancelled.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Frosty.

Chilly in here at 11.1 deg, 8.5 in the kitchen, 7 in the leanto.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.779 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 23rd/24th of December 2019 I was watching "The Dresden Files" which failed to live up to rose tinted memory whereas NF was Spiralling still, the weather was cold, wet, and nasty, and Brillo's DD had gone off to see her mum for Xmas, whereas xogg was panicking about supplies for Xmas, and NF mentioned the sad bastards forming the queue outside some tat shop in Leicester as shown in the local rag.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the bright sunshine. Big tree in the process of being chopped down in the park. .

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: The Shadow War. Chinese electric cars & the PLA sucking up Western DNA data, no doubt in order to feed to Wuhan. . You don't have to be paranoid, the bastards really are out to get you.

Freecell score: 87%, running average: 81%. Well it was slightly better than yesterday's attempt.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM, including the Orange Moron, suddenly expert on the subject of air traffic control, especially by the Democrat selected one legged blind & deaf controllers.

Some UFO bollox on Blaze: <click>

If there's anything else on this evening, I ain't found it.

Discovering Julianne Moor on Sky Arts.

Oddly TalkingPicturesTV was still odd: poked a setup menu in the freesat box & it returned to normal. If I'd done that yesterday Mr Cremer's Maigret wouldn't have been so tall.

UFO bollox on blaze. Die Glocke: so inneresting I fell asleep 20 minutes in. The bollox in the following programme was so great it rapidly went <click>: mildly inneresting bit about an iron knife in King Tut's tomb that they managed to suggest was brought by, you guessed it: s or s or s.

[NickFitz]

We finished our daily standup at 10. Sighing heavily, I messaged "my" team suggesting we convene at 10:30 to get started again - I had thought of 10:15, but decided we could all do with the extra time to prepare mentally

Turns out two of them have other meetings at 10:30! So we're starting at 11 instead. Epic win!

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with a clear blue sky. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 5) with a high of 8 expected. Looks like it'll rain overnight and in the wee hours tomorrow morning. Barometer down up to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 07:42; Sunset 16:48

Woke up with a headache which hasn't gone away yet.

Just about logged on to work PC in time for a 9am meeting that I thought was going to start at 9.30 This then generated a requirement to read and sort through multiple people's edits on a technical document that I've only just finished. My endeavours were not helped by the PM trying to fix Word's inability to properly auto number section headings, so much time was wasted on me asking them to leave damn well alone and I'll fix that mess when I'm done with the technical rewrite. No wonder my headache is still hanging about.

This task was not on the to-do list of things I've avoided doing all week. This means this afternoon (which has too many meetings in it) will be even busier.