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[ladymuck]

Kia Ora! Auckland calling. Local time 1031 on 4 Feb

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 25 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 06:39; Sunset 20:30

After much faffing about trying to get a boarding pass for for our final flight, to Sydney, we are at the gate waiting for boarding to start.

[ladymuck]

ladymuck ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/co...ys-gold-status

I never thought you were a mid-40s bald bloke.

He's not the only one scrambling to top up before the end of March. I am not bothering as I'm too far away from Gold for Life and was never going to get there.

[NickFitz]

More of Character Limit read. It's still in the pre-Musk takeover stage; Dorsey has just left for the second time, and is about to start the project that ultimately leads to Bluesky

Speaking of towering geniuses of technology, my original AirPods, which I use for work calls, stopped charging today. I bemoaned their demise to my colleagues, and switched to the AirPods Pro. Later, I realised that although there was one end of a lead plugged into the laptop and one end of a lead plugged in to the AirPods, they were not ends of the same lead

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's cloudy but with low, wide gaps on the horizon allowing the glimmerings of dawn through. In theory it's quite mild, being 6°C, but it's also pretty windy and thus "feels like" -1°; the expected high for the day is 10°. There's also a 45% chance of rain late in the afternoon. The barometers are down again at 1006/1014mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast, and now spitting with rain, but it was dry on our walk. Noticeably brighter too, to the point that if there had been no cloud, I could have turned off my head torch by about 6.45.

[ladymuck]

G'day sports! Or, good evening, Sydney calling, local time 2056

It's been a lovely afternoon, sunny with fluff. The high was 28 and the low will be 23. Humidity 80%. Barometer at 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 06:20; Sunset 19:58

Our last flight was possibly the best yet. Good food, great crew. Staying put now for 4 nights before doing it all again in reverse.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ LM Zenchury. Ah, spit mate, howls of outrageous laughter, is your name not Bruce? Those are all cricketers. Cue the Philosophers Song etc.

Morning.

Tuesday. Penultimate week of staying up until stupid o'clock watching something that's not very good in S2 or S3.

Dry until it was torrentially wet just now. Stairrods wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 12 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10.5 deg in the leanto.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.56 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of December 2019, in full on Bah! Humbug! mode I did an extended walk during which I visited Parsons' Folly and tripped on the way back down going arse over tit & nearly losing my watch, but successfully avoiding season's greeting from any fecker, unlike last year when a scumbag caught me 300 yards from home.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: book. The Quest for C is approaching completion. Thank feck. I'm reading the words and beaming out whilst doing so.

And on to stage two of the ft tester: breadboard (2nd hand from the Esteemed Customery of yore who loved stick them down on boards which means they're there for good): once I'd figured out the coil was connected back to front and I found a decent transistor (the other was a unijunction that I didn't know I had) it burst into life spanning 2MHz to 6MHz or so.

The OC45 wouldn't go, an NKT something wouldn't go, but a 2n404 went as did a 2n1305.

None of the "unmarked untested" bargains of yore did anything at all, though the connecting leads fell off a couple when I fished them out of the tobacco tin (virginia flake, ready rubbed) that they've lived in for more than half a century.

Sun came out for at least 15 minutes towards sunset, it was black as ink for some of the afternoon.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM <click>.

Dunno what else is on tonight, but tomorrow morning there's S3 E10, E11 of Shooter. Thankfully just E12 & E13 to go next week

Finished Questing for C.

"Hidden Killers of the Post War House" with Dr Suzannah Lipscomb. Chemistry set. Gas Geysers. Bad electrics. Falling off ladders. Dropping ladders on yer Mrs. Using electric drills underwater. Open fires. Children setting their clothes on fire thereby (which is what killed my aunt in 1929: looking in old newspapers it was quite a popular way for children to die: cost my grandfather 30/- for the hospital etc.). Smog. Unguarded electric fires. CO poisoning from said geysers. Flammable furnishings giving off cyanide in the smoke.

"Cold War Stories" on BBC Alba. I'm not named Strangelove for nothing. .

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a chunk of Dickinson & Morris pork pie

Turning rather sunny and Simpsonesque out now

[NickFitz]

No longer sunny: it's clouded over and there've been two bouts of very heavy rain, now reduced to steady rain

We had quite a productive day, such that we'd got to a point where we couldn't do any more until some other people had done some other stuff. So we've knocked off early

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0715 on 5 Feb

It's looking like a corking start to the day. Blue sky, no cloud from my vantage point. Currently 23 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Tiny chance of a shower later this afternoon. Barometer remains at 1008 mBar.

Sunrise 06:21; Sunset 19:57

Not sure what we will do today. Will need to find breakfast first but not about to get up for that just yet.