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[WTFH]

Morning all
a bit overcast out, should stay dry for our walk

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start here, and it's clearly rained quite recently. The weather app is expecting some more drizzle soon, and again this afternoon. Mild enough though: 16°C with an expected high of 21°. The barometers are back up a bit at 996/1004mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ OM.

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey.

Damp.

Cool in here at 21.1 deg, 22.5 in the kitchen, 20.5 in the leanto.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.576 psi, (up from 1001 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of February 2020 LM didn't make a duck ragu or bake a cake, but was planning a holiday to Singapore in June (), Brillo popped in , BR14 popped in, NF decided the chicken still had some time on the BBE clock, and I watched Doctor Who (mediocre), Vera (unclassified), and the Oak Island nutjobbery where the crane drivers were on strike & the metal detecting moron found a button. The week after he found another one.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 83%.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the R4 thing at 11:45. TWATO waffling on about whatever was happening today. The HS2 debacle with yet another pile of tosh from the tow haired feckwit king of the world.

More gentle potching in the garage: what a lot of nuts, bolts, washers, and screws there are. The collection of at least 3 or 4 lives. 5 if I count those round headed japanned screws rescued from next door's skip.

To add to the afternoon's joy, an aura appeared for half an hour or so, then fecked off back whence it came.

Now getting outside another mug of mediocre (but satisfyingly consistent) coffee. I have, without doubt, turned into my late father. Coming next: the afternoon snooze. I think I'll try to put that off for a few more years.

Minor potching in the garage: came to the conclusion I'd reached the stage of randomly looking at stuff so gave up for today.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. <click>

Book.


Neil Oliver after Stonehenge: I think we've reached the Romans. Not that they ever did anything for us. .

Foyle's War S2 E3.

[NickFitz]

When I order from Five Guys, I have a habit of adding an extra patty. Then, when it arrives, I look at it and think "I can't eat all that!" And they're also renowned for their extremely large portions of fries. All of which leads up to today's lunch: a leftover burger patty and fries, all reheated in the air fryer

Still cloudy out, but I don't think there's been any extra rain yet

Meanwhile in work-related matters, today has involved various meetings and also a check on some things that are normally scheduled to run at the weekend. Instead, I set them all to run just before lunch, and was able to confirm that they happen successfully and in the correct sequence

Decision time soon. If we decide it's a go, then I'll have a 7:45 start on Thursday morning. At least it'll mean I get to finish for the weekend a bit earlier

[NickFitz]

If anybody's wondering, I've informed the powers that be about the forum being down again just now

This afternoon's exciting delivery from Amazon has been a clothes horse. I measured the bath, then went through the listings until I found a cheap but sturdy one that would fit in there, so I don't have wet clothes dripping on the floors in the rest of the flat. So that's now got some mundane laundry on it

After much pondering, I've decided I'll get a new washer-dryer rather than having the old one fixed. After all, if one bit's worn out, others probably won't be far behind. But given the stress and hassle involved in doing something that involves actual physical objects, I might put it off until I'm off work

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been a dull day, damp but I don't recall much in the way of precipitation. Currently 22 degrees and that is the high for the day. Barometer up to 1010 mBar.

Sunrise 05:11; Sunset 21:04 BST

Busy day today. SIX hours of meetings. I'm sure that's against my human rights.

Having a battle with Next over collection of some items I want to return. Evri say Next didn't book it properly but keep emailing me with a collection slot that they fail to honour. Next say my address is wrong because they are looking at the billing address that I didn't change when I moved last year because phoning them to make such a simple update is tedious.

New series of Only Connect started yesterday so I'm currently enjoying that.

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb steak with chips and beans

Accompanied by some of the motorway cops thing. Still no sign of them going on a motorway

[xoggoth]

Arty farty thing this morning. Old fart free day tomorrow. Free Bing maps API has ended but all that I use still works except that I get an invalid credential warning strip in middle of map. Found a way to remove that with just one line of jscript.

[NickFitz]

New reading tonight is 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline (revised and updated edition). It's not really the case that everything happened that year though. Anyway, it's about the reasons why a bunch of long-established empires in the eastern Mediterranean all fell to bits in a surprisingly short space of time

Six more (working) days…

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

TFBSZ.
Got over 20,000 steps today, and I suspect tomorrow may be more of the same, if we’re up at 5:30. Chiropractor at 6pm, who knows what will happen then.