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[ladymuck]

Is Suity working for NATS?

It's certainly looking like it!

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s new book was Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, the first part of her Lilith’s Brood trilogy, in which a woman wakes up after a war has devastated Earth to find she’s one of the survivors recovered by aliens who go around the galaxy doing genetic modifications

Tomorrow will be a pretty quiet day at work because they’re having the quarterly portfolio planning session in Manchester, so most people won’t be around. This afternoon, I managed to get my SSH problems sufficiently sorted out that they’re no longer a problem, so I’m going to pick up a very minor piece of work and make sure I can do it and get it deployed to hotfix so people can review it. If that all goes smoothly, it means I should be good to switch completely to the new way of working and retire the MacBook Pro I’ve been working on since 2023. I’d rather carry on with that as it’s not locked down at all, or only very minimally, whereas I don’t even have an sudoer account on the new one - something which impeded my progress today on the SSH malarkey. But times have changed and the “cyber” people rule the roost now; and they have ordained that the department’s “security posture” needs “hardening” so we’re all stuck with it

It’s got very windy again; the wind seems to be getting stronger every night at the moment

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Grey.

White sky.

19.6 deg in here, 20.4 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 14 out the back.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 04:40 and 10:47, Brillo popped in a lot, along with AndyGarbs, MrMarkyMark, NF, Churchill, and me, with NF having a moment of existential angst at 04:40, as one so regularly does. .

Apparently one must now drink tea no hotter than 65 deg C. We're not going to invent the Infinite Improbability Drive under those circumstances.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: porcelain chickens. Platting the main & tail of a heavy horse. He mentioned the pair of 5 year old grey heavy horses who won a ploughing competition in 1946 & ended as food the next day again.

More or less. I think I've lost innerest in this.

Walk down town to B&M for a couple of PP3 batteries for the smoke detectors.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom. Warm it ain't.

R4 waffling the feck on about the Triple Lock. Not, disappointingly enough, about the S&W Triple Lock, a fine revolver from the turn of the last century (1908). S&W brought out a line in new manufactured Triple Lock revolvers back in 2002.

Lunch: brunch.

Dashcam bollox.

3 lawns amown: feck me that was hard work. .

Entertainment in recovery mode: Alaska Homestead S3 E1 "fire & gold", complete with an example of an undershot waterwheel.

Jack Hargreaves, chickens and heavy horse.

Tea: Tesco "white" fish etc. Nice enough though the fish would have been better if I'd paid it more attention & not forgotten about it.

Bab5 S4 E1 "The hour of the wolf". Where is Sheridan? After 1.6 Gt of explosion, who knows?

Blazian bollox: What on earth?

Ditto:

[WTFH]

Morning all
Slightly overcast this morning, but dry.
Hi-vis required as it was still twilight at 5:50am

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I think I slept well last night, but I didn’t half struggle to wake up this morning! Maybe I should reconsider that crazy New Age “getting to sleep earlier” theory

It’s a sunny start today, with wisps here and there, and still fairly breezy. It’ll gradually cloud over during the day. Currently 12°C, it’ll only reach 18°; the barometers are back up a bit at 1003/1011mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with hints of wisps. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 06:28; Sunset 19:30 BST

After a bit of "presenteeism" to justify some billing, I'll be taking a look at the shower to delimescale the shower head and improve its draining. Also, taking Mum to the hairdresser to get her hair properly washed.

[xoggoth]

History group coffee morning at local pub soon. Dunno what else to do wiv me day apart from me walky, new fence panel ain't arrived yet.

Updateipoo: Oh yeh, book reading group this afternoon. Ain't read anything as usual. Tried three books, all boring rubbish. Why do books have to ramble on for a whole page about things like what somebody looks like? I want them to get to the exciting bits, like zombies popping out of the cupboard.

[ladymuck]

As forecast, cloud cover is increasing. Some with a decidedly grey hue.

The shower head has been dealt with and an attempt at encouraging the shower to drain better has been made. Might push a hoover around at some point.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a roast beef bap (wholemeal)

The gardener is here, trimming hedges and such. I didn’t think the lawn had managed to grow enough recently to be worth mowing but he seems to have done it anyway

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
I see the tax dodgers are getting into some infighting and handbags now.
exciting stuff <by this forum's standards>

i suppose i'll have to start thinking about working again soon........... meh.
lunch was had, as was breakfast, and there'll probably be dinner too.
Is it possible to die of boredom/lack of interest??
I might be in danger here.