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[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^Om.

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Grey.

Hints of wan sun.

Chilly in here at 15 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto, 9 in the saltinghouse.

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of March 2020 WTFH arrived on a jet plane at Heathrow, NF was watching a Murder programme, and Brillo popped in a lot.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the thing at 11:45: about the Norse influence on the Shetlands (rather than continuity who implied it was yesterday's epic about bog bodies).

The items requiring the iRon came in off the line, were iRoned, and now reside upstairs airing a bit.

The remaining items came in off the line & met the TD.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Met a lady who used to work for Siliconix back in the day and confirmed it was she who I thought it was.

Everything out of the TD & airing upstairs: 3/4 of a cup of water out of the TD.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre but consistent coffee: entertainment: part of a thing about lichen.

Raining.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>

Classic Xmas Movies: Miracle on 34th street. Well it was on: probably would have been better off watching the Bletchley Park thing on BBC4.

Classic Xmas Movies: something else, I forget quite what. Oh. "Love actually". Whatever that is. <click> Zero innerest in that. .

Why are they missing out "Die Hard"?

Freecell score in the ennui of the evening: 88%, running average: 86%.

I'm trying to remember how Win95 loads up and tries to run stuff that's not called up in autoexec.bat or config.sys. There's some stuff in system.ini, i suppose it could come from there.

"The man who took Shannon Matthews". Odd sort of cove: released after 4 years of and 8 year sentence: he was sectioned shortly after & was still in hospital in 2022 (date of documentary). Died in hospital in 2024.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy-fingered dawn out there today, with various wisps and strands of cloud scattered around the horizon, while a higher layer towards the zenith is so thin that the just-past-waning-gibbous moon shines through. It’s 7°C yet “feels like” 1°, with an expected high of 11°, and expected to be a bit breezy with sunny spells. The barometers are decidedly up at 1005/1013mB

My last day of ClientGov work for the year beckons!

[NickFitz]

In Mogadishu, GSG 9 stormed the hijacked airliner and rescued all the hostages with only a few minor injuries. One of the hijackers just about survived. And so the Americans, realising that they wouldn’t have been able to do that, have asked the Germans to help them set up the unit now known as Delta Force

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with the rest of the potato cakes, and beans

This was accompanied by the rest of an episode of Traffic Cops that I started watching a few days ago

[NickFitz]

Another busy day, but just one more to go - this time tomorrow, I’ll be done with ClientGov for the year!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap. Not that different to yesterday’s lunch, but I’m a bit short of lunch stuff again

Quite sunny out, though there seem to be a few more clumps of cloud drifting about

[xoggoth]

No loony ladies today. Really nice day for a wonky. Drop by not loony lady next door before I go.

[Pondlife]

Afternoon All,

Wind 15 kt from the West
Temperature 12°C
Humidity 82%
Pressure 1015 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Few clouds at a height of 1900 ft

Should probably start thinking about Christmas shopping at some point.

[WTFH]

Got the registration through for the new car, but no confirmation on when it will be ready.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with wisps scurrying past. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 10) with a high of 13 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer up to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 07:56; Sunset 15:52 GMT

The dodgy Swiss consultancyCo say they want me for 20h a week next year. New client meeting tomorrow morning to discuss that opportunity. Other gig is amenable to me dropping to 3 days a week next year so it could be possible to juggle three gigs if I wanted to be greedy.