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[ladymuck]

That's definitely a phallic block of ice!

Sorry to hear about your lady friend.

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on this afternoon and early evening

Tonight, I resumed reading Ted Chiang’s short stories in Exhalation. Good stuff

Monday tomorrow and, even worse, I’m back at ClientGov. So I’d better get an early night and remember to set the alarms

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Last thing last night, I noticed that we seemed to have had a brief rain shower which had washed the last vestiges of the snow off the car. This morning, I arise to find there’s been more snow overnight, so it’s now a little more covered than it was last time

Unsurprisingly, it’s cold: -5°C now, which “feels like” -9°, and only expected to get up to 1° for two or three hours this afternoon, dipping back below zero before we’ve even made it to sunset. It’s expected to be clear and sunny all day though. The barometers are back down a touch at 1000/1008mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, -1C earlier. No wind. The road isn't slippery, but once the frost starts to melt, it's going to be fun out there.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday. .

White.

Sunny.

Cold in here at 10.8 deg, 8 in the kitchen, 3 in the leanto, 1 in the saltinghouse.

1011.5 mBar, 29.87 in Hg, 758.7 Torr, 14.67 psi, (up from 1009 last night), 52% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 9th of March 2020 NF was a bit but managed to change the bed and flip the mattress, LM had a non flippy mattress, WTFH went for a wet dog walk, and I watched "Their Finest" whatever that was.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: more of the thing about "Progress" which, apparently, has been discontinued for the 99%.

Book.

Next book.

Half a thing about Sergio Leone on Sky Arts (that I've seen numerous times previously).

Tea: chicken in white sauce. Nice enough now I've stopped having rice with it.

Entertainment: PM: the insane doings of the Orange Mother****ing madman <click>

Where's dear old LHO when he's so badly needed? Can't they find another Patsy and give him something a bit more meaty than 5.56?

Entertainment: Oak Island nutjobbery: wood. More wood. Bit of rusty iRon. Ring pull off a coke can. FDR's other dap. Bit of lead. Bit of what might be iron: looked like the busted off tip of a flat blade screwdriver but what do I know? At the bottom of the "Garden Shaft": thick planks holding up the sediment, so what do they do? Pull two of them out of course so the tunnel roof is thereby unsupported.

Buried in the Ice: more bollox on Blaze. Stiff found on some S American mountain 1975: Aconcagua. Pictish hill fort in Aberdeen. Purple bones in foxes in Westfjord Iceland. Burials in Sigtuna, Sweden. No answers to any of this.


If anyone has a senseless and unrequited urge to waste 119 hours of life: "Lost" is being repeated on ITV4 from S1 E1 this very evening.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear blue sky. Cold. Dry. Currently -2 degrees ('feels like' -4) with a high of 3 expected. Barometer remains steady at 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 08:06; Sunset 16:08 GMT

Despite the lack of any contracts, I have logged on. The level of effort being expended is currently minimal.

[xoggoth]

Freezy morning removing screening from round oil tank in preparation for the boiler service man's visit. Me fingers nearly dropped off.

Nowt else on today but things getting back to normal from tomorrow, old arty farty thing in morning and karaoke in evening. Bloke who runs it has got over his latest stroke.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

One contract has arrived.

[NickFitz]

Some Indian leftovers for lunch

First day back and there’s a bug in something I did before Christmas. Interestingly, it’s the direct opposite of the bug I initially set out to fix - that one caused rows of data to be returned that shouldn’t be, this one is missing rows that should. I wish we could just throw this whole thing away and start again, or at least tidy up the database schema! But it’s got too many years of data in it, and anyway, nobody any longer understands how large parts of it work