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[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with some fluff lurking about. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 24 ) with a high of 22 expected. Low chance of rain later. Barometer remains at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:29; Sunset 19:40 BST

Busy morning. Well, I had a meeting then disappeared down a rabbit hole looking for information about night jet movements for a member of the team.

Also had some good news this morning - Client#2 wants to extend me to the end of the year! This is great news. Just remains to be seen whether they pay on time as waiting 45 days is a right PITA.

[NickFitz]

The bicycle is sorted!

Turns out the cables have a reasonable bit of slack in them and I could have done it myself after all

On the other hand, there were a couple of minor points about it that I might not have been aware of, so watching him do it means I'm OK with doing it myself if any further adjustment is needed

And when I went to get the bike out, I realised that the seat was still a bit too high for my current state of limberness, so I dropped that down a touch before setting off

It turns out that getting there and back with a break in the middle is about the limit of my capabilities at the moment. Got my heart rate right up though, and I feel OK for it. Let's give it a few weeks and build up slowly

Oh, and these newfangled gears are too smooth! I can't work out if it's actually changed or not, being more used to cheap derailleurs from thirty or forty years ago, or even the Sturmey-Archer things that you had to backpedal when changing

[NickFitz]

Also had some good news this morning - Client#2 wants to extend me to the end of the year! This is great news. Just remains to be seen whether they pay on time as waiting 45 days is a right PITA.

Boomed!

[sadkingbilly]

Also had some good news this morning - Client#2 wants to extend me to the end of the year! This is great news. Just remains to be seen whether they pay on time as waiting 45 days is a right PITA.

The bicycle is sorted!

Turns out the cables have a reasonable bit of slack in them and I could have done it myself after all

On the other hand, there were a couple of minor points about it that I might not have been aware of, so watching him do it means I'm OK with doing it myself if any further adjustment is needed

And when I went to get the bike out, I realised that the seat was still a bit too high for my current state of limberness, so I dropped that down a touch before setting off

It turns out that getting there and back with a break in the middle is about the limit of my capabilities at the moment. Got my heart rate right up though, and I feel OK for it. Let's give it a few weeks and build up slowly

Oh, and these newfangled gears are too smooth! I can't work out if it's actually changed or not, being more used to cheap derailleurs from thirty or forty years ago, or even the Sturmey-Archer things that you had to backpedal when changing

has it got an EMC??
an apple whatever interface?

[NickFitz]

has it got an EMC??
an apple whatever interface?

No, all mechanical except the lights, and I haven't worked out how to turn them on yet

[sadkingbilly]

No, all mechanical except the lights, and I haven't worked out how to turn them on yet

well, watch out for nutter bikers and scary airgun snipers.

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight I was back on the Turkish and Middle Eastern thing and experimenting with some new combinations of spices, albeit yet another tray bake of chicken and spicy potatoes

This was accompanied by E1 of Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland’s Mafia though I've just noticed that the final episode isn't due until the 14th, so I'll have to pace myself. Anyway, very interesting

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Gangs of New York (2002). I tried watching this a few years ago and gave up after an hour or so, but since then I've been thinking I need to finish it at some point; I've started so I'll finish kind of thing. And now I've watched it from the start and all the way through, and I'm just glad it's out of the way and I can forget about it. I assume Scorsese thought it was an Important Story with Portentous Implications that deserved an Epic Depiction. I just thought it was about an hour longer than it needed to be and a story that wasn't very interesting in the first place

So then, casting about for something that would make the night feel like less of a waste of time, I settled on a rewatch of In Time (2011), which is still the best satire on capitalism of the age

My backside has been hurting all evening. I'd forgotten that this was one of the inevitable corollaries of getting a bike after a long period of not having a bike

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 16.1 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 14 deg in the leanto.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.6996 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 7th of January 2020 there was discussion of VED rates: £465 for WTFH, whilst LM's VED was less than £300, LondonManc went to Spinning Fields, Brillo popped in and had made his injury worse due to commuting, I discovered there was a 2nd "Philadelphia Experiment" film, and NF found the weather very grey, dark, and cold.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine & lazy wind.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 82%.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: TWAW. FOOC.

Off down the garage for yet more potching: in essence minor sorting of the crap that's in there and finding stuff to throw away (as fecking if ).

Told the chap next door (not the idle nephew but the other chap) that I won't be mowing his lawn any more.

Looks like he'll be renting the house out now he's living with his GF over in Pontardawe.

He hired a digger to fill a little skip with the detritus from the roof replacement.

Which is more than my idle fecking nephew has ever done, him getting off his fat arse being a major achievement. .

I'm flagging a bit, had to come up and have a cup of coffee just to feel vaguely human again and I haven't done anything particularly hard this afternoon.

Stone me, my father liked nails. More nails that you could shake the proverbial stick at. I'll never have to buy another nail as long as I live.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Too knackered to bother with anything else.

Entertainment: PM.

No sign of the NZ highway patrol this week*. Which is disappointing.

*Wrong day, you dork: it's on Sky Mix on Sunday afternoon with the last ep tomorrow.

The glorious Hannah Fry is on at 19:20 explaining the ins & outs of The Air Fryer.

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

And to round the day off, I thought some music might be nice: amplifier dead on one channel. Ho very hum. It's a Linsley Hood 75W amp. It's the 2nd time it's blown up, the first time was in 1977. I wonder where that 8 ohm 100W resistor is these days. I'm sure it was around here "somwhere". Note to self: don't pick it up after doing a full power test, it gets hot.

In other news: I found some more nails.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS and breezy out.