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[Pondlife]

Good morning. Happy Friday eve.

Wind 8 kt from the North
Temperature 5°C
Humidity 87%
Pressure 1003 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Scattered clouds at a height of 1400 ft
Scattered clouds at a height of 2000 ft

Hints of blue above the grey.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz tomato soup and white toast

I had been thinking of heading to Sainsbury's, but not only is it a bit stressful cramming it in over lunch, I was also expecting an Amazon delivery that I'd have to be in to give a one-time code for: 16TB across two external SSDs. As the AI bros' insane business model means there'll be a global shortage of RAM this year (and probably next), I figured I'd stock up while I still could

These duly arrive around 12:30, so I now have about 40TB of SSDs to hand, not to mention innumerable hard drives. This means I should be OK for storing stuff until the bubble bursts and sanity returns

However, it then occurred to me that I don't need much by way of shopping, and tomorrow morning I'll be dropping the car off for its MOT and service at 8:30 in the morning. The car vet is close to the city centre, just outside the inner ring road; our city centre isn't really very big. So it's only a short walk from there to the market, where I can get such meat and veg as I require! And with that done, I can either get the bus back, or walk if the weather's bearable