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[NickFitz]

Another week done!

I managed a dash to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s at lunchtime. Hardly worth it though - three things I specifically went for were out of stock

Lunch was a roast beef roll, which I started consuming hastily at my desk after I’d returned and put the shopping away. But the afternoon turned out to be pretty quiet, so after a few mouthfuls I relocated to the living room and ate in comfort instead

 

[NickFitz]

I discovered I still had some of my mango BBQ ribs in the freezer, so tea has been those with chips

To go with it, the third and final part of the Netflix thing about the Times Square serial killer, who turned out to also be the New Jersey serial killer

 

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Thrash (2026), a made-for-Netflix movie in which some residents of one of those southern, Atlantic-facing bits of the USA are attacked by sharks after a hurricane (actually a tropical storm) destroys the local sea defences and the neighbourhood is flooded. This was obviously a rip-off of the plot of Crawl which I watched a few weeks ago (except that had alligators), and I have to say that if you’re going to watch a film with such a ridiculous story, Crawl is the better option

I haven’t yet checked the IMDb goofs page for Thrash but one thing stood out: a major character is trapped when their car is swept away by floodwaters until it hits a tree, and a branch smashes through the windscreen on the passenger side, with the forks of smaller branches coming off that main one pinning her in the driver’s seat. But in numerous exterior shots of the car, the branch goes through a circular hole in the windscreen, just a bit bigger than it. So how did the sub-branches get inside the car while remaining attached to the parent branch?

Having given that question all the attention it deserved, I then read another couple of chapters of A Quiet Place, in which the plot thickens

Goodnight all

 

[WTFH]

Morning all
Should be having a lie in today, but got up to let the dog out and noticed the car wasn’t charging due to a voltage error on the charger - this was due to a power surge that tripped the house the other day.
Couldn’t remember the PIN to my charger, so that took 15 minutes to get into, by which time the car messaged me to say that it had too many communications requests - it has been trying to connect for the last 2 days.
So the car is now charging at the expensive rate, not 6.8p It’s going to cost me about £10 for 200 miles.

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Damp.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

14.7 deg in here, 14 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto, 9 out the back.

1018.5 mBar, 30.08 in Hg, 763.9 Torr, 14.77 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country (1982): pointers and setters. Brittany spaniel.

Bab5 S5 E20 "Objects in motion". Bye bye Garibaldi, Bye Bye G'Kar, Bye Bye superteep. Poor old Zak & his unrequited love for said teep. Ho hum.

Walk up to the res & back. It's still not orange any more. Which is good.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the last of the Dr Bell/Conan Doyle thing.

Dashcam bollox S6 E10.

Tours of Scottish Islands: Inchgarvie, Inchcolm, Inchkeith, Isle of May, Bass Rock.

Cartrefi Cymru: Hay on Wye aka Gelli Ganddryll again.

The infestation of brambles in the greenhouse have been removed & are now ready for the next bonfire whenever that happens. And I'm covered in assorted antiseptics where they got their revenge.

Alaska Homestead Rescue: Ohio, near Acron. The tyre house. Nearby tornado didn't do them any favours (or favors) and the berm needs attention. Repaired the berm: WTF hadn't they strimmed (Weedwacked in Septic terms) the berm, maybe that would have discouraged the groundhogs & assorted other burrowing animals. Built a concrete storm shelter, then Marty knocked a corner off the roof with a felled tree (because the concrete wasn't fully set), though other than that it was fine & still fit for purpose. A "fort" in the woods for the disabled kid. Fixed the water system so the water off the roof now ends up in the 20000 gallons of storage tanks in the berm (? the owners couldn't have done this in the intervening 5 years FFS?).

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Am I alone in finding the quote system a bit mysterious?

Bab5 S5 E21 "Objects at rest": everyone is leaving Bab5. Londo gives Sheridan a gift for his son.

Taggart S18 E4 "The Friday Event". Very arty.

Bit of a thing on PBS about the Permian extinction.

Bit of "The Foreigner" again.

 

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey overcast out, and occasional light drizzle - though that’s supposedly finished now, at least until a brief spell this evening. It’s 9°C and aiming for 11°, with the stillness of the trees explaining why there’s no “feels like”; the barometers are tiptoeing further down while not yet being “low” at 1013/1021mB

 

[WTFH]

Off to Exeter shortly - a bit of shopping and then visit (and hopefully bring home) The Wife.

 

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast but trying to brighten up. Damp but no active precipitation. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Barometer at 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 07:03; Sunset 16:26 GMT

The rebuilt PC seems to keep locking up. No error messages just stops. Very annoying.

 

[xoggoth]

Cloudy but quite bright. Off to one of usual old places with loony lady 1 soon. Few helicopters around earlier, quite low, dunno what that was about.

 

[NickFitz]

Lunch, rather late, was a cold roast chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

The lateness was due to tracking down some snagging issues with the forum. You’ll now see much the same information for each user at the left of their post as used to be there; it would have been like that sooner but it was one of those things they’d hidden away in the config in a place you’d never think to look

Turns out so many of us have ten rep bars because we have such high - or, if they’re red, low - rep