Raining! That's summer done with then.
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Apart from catching up on Monkey Life, much of the day was spent experimenting with SwiftData and discovering many of its pitfalls and shortcomings. I know it's a fairly new API, but so much stuff that seems like it should work either causes recondite compile time errors, or compiles then just blows up in a state of confusion at run time
So this evening I read some more of Porno instead. A series of chance encounters have allowed Sick Boy to track down Renton to his home in Amsterdam…
Monday again tomorrow, and it isn't even a Bank Holiday!
Goodnight all
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Morning denizens
Sunny start, but it seems we too have had a little rain overnight; just showers, I expect. There's some clouds dotted hither and yon but it's primarily sunny and already at 14°C, with a sizzling soaraway 24° expected this afternoon. The barometers remain unduly pessimistic, tiptoeing down to 999/1006mB
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Morning.
Monday.
Drily damp.
Grey.
Wanly sunny.
Chilly in here at 17.4 deg, 18.5 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.
1004.5 mBar, 29.663 in Hg, 753.44 Torr, 14.569 psi, (unchanged), 65% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 15th of January 2020 there was more talk of wheelbraces, one supplied by the RAC at 17mm/19mm which didn't fit the wheel nuts on the Corollas, NF couldn't find a short length of scaffolding pole locally, and there was mention by Brillo of farting, string vests, lack of hygiene and such like.
Walk (unabbreviated, alternate route) walked in the wan sunshine. Quite close out there.
Lunch: brunch.
Entertainment: Y&Y giving More Good News about Meta, the bunch of scumbags supporting scammers despite being informed that they are scammers.
More potching in the garage: yet more nests found in various places. What a lot of redundant car spares there are, from the mysts of time. I think the Champion N5 sparkplugs are probably the oldest (Rover P4 IIRC).
Found a token ring interface thing called a "Clearway" LAN interface. It's built of a z80cpu, ctc, & duart, produced by a company called Realtime Developments, now long gone, bought in 1987 by Alphameric PLC, who, in turn, became Timeweaver, who, in turn, went bust recently.
Tea: chilli con carne with rice. Nice enough.
Entertainment: Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons E4, Doctor Who The Claws of Axons, E1, 2, 3.
Meanwhile back in Skinwalker Ranch they fire a laser cannon into the sky & it hits "something".
I have the definite feeling that they're going to raise something nasty before much longer.
The drill bit into the mesa has ground to a halt again: it broke.
Book. More of Alfred Bester: to whit: Hobson's Choice.
"Can you spare the price of one coffee honourable sir? No I am not panhandling organism. I am starvling Japanese transient stranded in this so miserable year. Honourable sir I beg in holy charity. Will you donate to this destitute person one ticket to township of Lyonesse? I want to beg on knees for visa. I want to go back to year 1945 again. I want to be in Hiroshima again. I want to go home".
Glad I found that, it's been bugging me for years.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 12 May 2025, 22:16.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Morning all
The promised overnight rain turned into very little precipitation - just enough to moisten the garden, but not enough to top up water butts to any noticeable level. It's overcast and muggy out, but the roads are dry.
5 day working week this week - first one in a while. Taking next week off to make up for it.
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Morning everyone
Simpsonsesque here. At the moment this is the cool side of the house - I'll move over to the other end of the room at around 2PM.
Have already had Bob on the phone this morning since the CV went up last week. Thankfully I'm not super desperate but looking around for things is keeping my spirits up in permie hell.Comment
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Afternoon all
Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) and that's the high for the day. Thunderstorm warning and risk of rain this afternoon. Barometer down a bit to 1010 mBar.
Sunrise 05:14; Sunset 20:42 BST
Last night's rain went as quickly as it came. I did wonder if I'd imagined it or if it was just upstairs chucking water out of their window.
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Links are up
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Lunch has been hot wings and ketchup
My TV seems to have lost all its channels overnight
Retuning seems to have found them again… though it's only just finished… ah yes, there they are
Not sure why that happened. It's nearly ten years old, I think, so it's probably not getting much in the way of software updates
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Work went quite smoothly today until mid-afternoon when we hit an inexplicable problem in the final step of deploying something. In the end, we brought in the chap who knows everything about this stuff, and even he was baffled for a while. It turned out to be a known bug in some of the tooling we use, which was introduced since the last time a project was at this early a stage, which is why it hadn't shown up before
As there wasn't much to do after that, I knocked off a few minutes early and cycled round to the chemist's for the monthly stuff. They hadn't bothered getting it ready in the ten days since it was sent to them, so I had to wait. And then somebody came in with an obscure query, possibly something to do with the child that accompanied her, and the pharmacist had to break off to go and look stuff up in ring binders and so on; so I ended up waiting about twenty minutes. Though I'm so unfit that the rest did me good, and enabled me to cycle all the way back (approx. two minute journey)
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