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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a grey and blustery day out, with the trees swaying like they're auditioning for a Bollywood movie. No rain though, albeit a 35% possibility thereof mid-afternoon. It's warm though, being 13°C and on its way to 14°; the barometers are down to 994/1002mB

Having had a decent night's sleep, I have started the day by getting the mundane laundry on while the coffee was brewing. I don't believe I need to do any shopping but if I decide I do, it will only be such as can be dealt with by a quick trip to Not-As-Big Sainsbury's this afternoon

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a fish finger bap (wholemeal, red sauce)

It almost got sunny earlier, while continuing to bluster, but managed to recover back to a fairly uniform grey

And I've determined that there's no need to go shopping

[NickFitz]

It's annoying that the forum doesn't send an email when a PM is received. I checked, and I do have that box ticked.

The powers that be were told by somebody that there was a problem receiving forum emails and they asked me about it. I confirmed it, and forwarded your post to the people who run the servers as proof that the initial complaint wasn't a one-off - and they've just fixed the email sending!

In no time you'll be asking how to turn them off again

[xoggoth]

In no time you'll be asking how to turn them off again

She will when some unknown old fart starts stalking her.

[ladymuck]

The powers that be were told by somebody that there was a problem receiving forum emails and they asked me about it. I confirmed it, and forwarded your post to the people who run the servers as proof that the initial complaint wasn't a one-off - and they've just fixed the email sending!

In no time you'll be asking how to turn them off again

I received an email for that quote

Thank you

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Dull and damp with intermittentrain today. Currently 12 degrees and the high was 14. Rain set to continue for the foreseeable. Barometer down to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 07:03; Sunset 17:28

Today I was in ClientCo's office. I plonked myself in the area appointed for the team I'm loosely affiliated with and my friend, permie in a different dept, found me and told me to sit with her. Much nicer side of the building with a view over the northern runway.

On the way home I picked up a groceries collection order from Waitrose. Much more efficient than wandering the aisles myself. Includes things to take down to Mum on Sunday.

The dodgy 2 days a week job seems to be legit so far. I have emails, meetings with the end client and goodness knows what going on. I need to fathom how to run it all from my one work laptop. Things start in earnest next week with a kick off meeting with the client to get me up to speed.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade sweet & sour pork and fried rice. Turned out very nicely, though I'd eyeballed the ingredients so I'm not sure what gave it the added edge. Dollop of oyster sauce? Splash of mirin? There's no way of finding out, so I'll just have to try and get it right again next time

This was accompanied by another episode of the RAF thing on All4, in which they managed not to drop a million quids worth of precision munitions on some Syrian bloke once they'd realised he was not setting up mortars but herding goats, or possibly sheep

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Monster Hunter (2020) which is based on a video game, though probably not Breakout on the evidence. It's not very good TBH; if you want to watch Milla Jovovitch in a video game movie, I'd suggest watching the Resident Evil ones instead as they're pretty good films in their own right

Then a rewatch of The Silence of the Lambs (1991). I've been meaning to watch this again for years and kept putting it off for no good reason, so tonight seemed as good a time as any. It is, of course, excellent

And finally, a rewatch of Side Effects (2013). It's a good film, worth watching for more than just the effective combination of Perpetua Italic (all lowercase) and Gill Sans (uppercase except for one actor's name that includes a lowercase conjunction) in the titles, nice as that is

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Blue skies and sunshine here. The calm before tomorrow’s storm, which is going to make for an uncomfortable flight home.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Grey.

Misty.

Hints of wan sunshine.

Damp.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13.3 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1007.5 mBar, 29.75 in Hg, 755.687 Torr, 14.61 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of December Brillo was waffling on but I managed to get a post in on the page, remarking on the amount of crap in my garage & sheds belonging to next door 18 months after they bought the place.

Amazingly enough in a fit of complete dynamism "they" managed to move the builder's buckets (2), which sat in the same place for all of 6 years, a whole 10 feet away from the living room window. Who'd have thunk? And there's a broken drawer and some sort of unit thing that have recently been turfed out of the house. Plus there's a couple of metal plates out of the oven that have graced the garden wall since Xmas.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: bread back in stock, skimmed milk: not so much.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC: which led me to the thought "The only good Russian is a dead Russian". Which seems fair to me. Same applies to Orange Morons. With bells & whistles on. Not forgetting Space Cadets on their way to Mars.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Quite Pleasantly warm out there today. Two layers fewer and the scarf taken off after 400 yards, no gloves.

And there's some crocus out in the front garden.

Freecell score: 94%, running average: 81%. That last game was a reet bastard.

Tea: that spag tuna thing again. Nice enough. Maybe I should have consulted the recipe first.

Entertainment: PM. The Robertson thing at 17:30.

Fleetwood Mac on the BBC: the BBC bits.

Songbird: Christine McVie.