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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and slightly misty day, looking damp after some overnight rain. Currently 4°C but "feels like" 0°, expected to get back to the standard 7° by lunchtime, when the wind will also get up. The barometers are heading back up too, at 1017/1025mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Presumably going via some remote airfield in Newfoundland like characters in a Nevil Shute novel

Hopefully not "No Highway" .

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Sunny. :.

Chilly in here at 11.4 deg, 9.5 in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto.

1024.5 mBar, 30.25 in Hg, 768.44 Torr, 14.859 psi (up from 1020 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of December 2019 NF was waiting for his brother to turn up for lunch and hadn't had breakfast because lunch was supposedly early, I had beans on toast, NF made off with a bottle of scotch, whilst his brother had the gin, the Polish cafe was closed, but the picture framer was presumably framing pictures, no doubt due to the endless ennui of the season.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the greyish gloom with wan sunshine if you used some imagination.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Just a minute. TWATO. Book.

Got bored & couldn't settle, so:

Shopping trip to Aldi & Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Book. Other book.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: that poetry thing on R4 <click>

River Hunters: some Scottish river or other. Curiously not in the list on IMDB.

Viking Dead. Anglosaxon massacre thereof on Ridgeway Hill Dorset. All 54 of them.

Traitors. Marcus Wolfe: the romeo strategy.

Watching that "Hidden dangers of the post war house" thing again on PBS and spotted the explosive mixture that killed the skoolboy:

https://eehe.org.uk/28285/chemistryset/

would appear to be it.

It's known as Armstrong's mixture apparently and is sensitive as well as being explosive, so hammering it into a steel tube wasn't wise.

Following which it's on to chicken rearing, going from 5 million a year in 52 to 70 million a year in 57 (or whatever): introducing salmonella to the housewife.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz tomato soup with white toast

The wind seems to be getting stronger, coming from the NE so quite chilly. I've got the kitchen and bedroom windows open to get some fresh air through the place while it's available, but I think I'll have to close them if it gets any stronger. And there's rain due in half an hour or so

[NickFitz]

Hopefully not "No Highway" .

They end up stranded at Gander in that one IIRC

[xoggoth]

Another nice volunteery morning. Finished just before it started raining. Free biscuits!

[ladymuck]

Morning all, San Francisco calling, local time 0802

Looks like a clear blue sky with a touch of haziness. Currently 6 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer at 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 07:05; Sunset 17:43

The 12h flight from Auckland was uneventful, as one would always hope. We have about 5h in the same lounge as last week before heading off to Frankfurt this afternoon.

[ladymuck]

Presumably going via some remote airfield in Newfoundland like characters in a Nevil Shute novel

No it was a direct flight from Auckland to San Francisco

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chunky breaded haddock with chips and beans

[NickFitz]

No it was a direct flight from Auckland to San Francisco

There's still time! It's on - well, under - your route

[NickFitz]

The usual Monkey Life this morning. Turns out I was mistaken about S16 next week being the newest - they're up to S17, so it'll still be repeats for a couple more weeks, albeit of stuff that's only been on once before (not counting the subscription-only Sky channels)

During the rest of the day I managed to find time to do some more mucking around with SpriteKit and such, including sending the app over to the iPad so I could see how the interaction works on an actual touchscreen

This evening's viewing was an old(ish) 24 Hours in A&E

And then some more of Character Limit. I either hadn't heard or had forgotten that immediately after taking over Twitter, Musk came to believe on the basis of no evidence whatsoever that lots of the company's employees were fake, so the HR department at the HQ in San Francisco had to waste huge amounts of time getting managers at all of their offices around the world to confirm that the people who worked for them were real humans

Monday again tomorrow. But what can you do

Goodnight all