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[NickFitz]

Lunch was a Pukka steak slice. They were on offer, and they are nicer than the own-brand ones

I've been mucking around getting a web app running under Docker Compose. It's one of those things I only have to do very occasionally, so I can never remember the details. Therefore, I did what I always do: copied and pasted various bits from ClientGov's open source GitHub repos until I had it working

As I've been there so long, I have a good idea of which projects are still using outdated approaches from several years ago and which have been done by people who really know their stuff, so it's easy to pick out all the best versions of the bits that I need

[NickFitz]

All Pukka all the way today, with tea being a steak & kidney pie and chips

I'd forgotten I had that pie in the fridge because it was behind something, and when I remembered it this afternoon, I found it had to be eaten within a couple of days. Luckily I was equal to the challenge

This was accompanied by about half of S9E7 of Trucking Hell

[WTFH]

…currently the lens is mostly functioning, while a couple of the elements are still misty. I've not touched the body, will leave that drying until tomorrow or Sunday.

Having run the dehumidifier all day, the lens is now working normally. There’s a reason why people spend 5 figure sums for these lenses.
The camera body is, um, toast, but only about a grand to replace.

Anyway, TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

More Andy Weir for this evening's reading: Project Hail Mary, his most recent book. OK so far

And I (well, the machine) baked a white loaf, and not from a bread mix. This was the first go at using Allinson's yeast rather than Sainsbury's own brand, and it seems to have turned out very well

Early night now as I'm aiming for a productive Saturday morning before settling down for the usual wildlife stuff in the afternoon

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Some fluff loitering about. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 24 expected. Barometer up to 1020 mBar

Sunrise 05:38; Sunset 20:35

Awake early for no discernable reason. Will be off to visit Mum today, leaving HWMBO to slave away prepping for tomorrow's BBQ. My brother moved in with her yesterday so will see how he survived his first night.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently.

Dry.

Blue sky in parts.

Sunny.

Cool in here at 20.3 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto, 18 in the saltinghouse.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of February 2020 NF was expecting snow later, scruff, DaveB, northernladUK, and BR14 popped in, WTFH was grateful for the forecast, it was sunny around here, and LM was still vexed despite having fixed up the tower of crap that was the reporting thing the oik had broken a day before.

That fecking dog is barking again. A different dog was barking earlier.

Nice conversation with the new chap next door, who is working in a hospital in Newport, and his son is doing something medical in that Swansea. He seems a bit intimidated by the size of the garden.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Shirts, and those of the cottons with a requirement thereof, have met the iRon and are airing upstairs.

Stewth, I'm knackered now.

Now outside a mug of mediocre but consistent coffee.

Still knackered even after perusing FB market place & looking at vices. I've never seen a Record number 74 vice before, nor that funny (but very expensive) Swinden rotating vice. Also some crazy site where people detail the tools they've found in the road.

https://autotulipe.com/topic/50337-to...-the-roadside/

You'll need to debowdlerise that. .

Freecell score in the interminable ennui of the afternoon: 89%, running average: 83%. That last bastard was a right bastard.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM. <click when reference made to Orange Micropenis Moron>

Entertainment: Scotland Yard "The Silent Weapon" It all went to the dogs when his boomerang didn't come back. .

Maigret "My friend the inspector (1961)". No subtitles on this one & not much of Sgt Lucas as it's not set in Paris. Pete Murray is in this one as a gigolo.

Book. Other book.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all
This working lark's a bit much.
5 weeks in, and i'm jacob's.
must be all the commuting or summat
still, - kerCHING!!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I feel most refreshed by having had a good night's sleep

It's clouding over now but it was sunny earlier. Still a bit of a breeze, I think. But it continues to be warm: currently 19°C ("feels like" 16° because of the wind, it says here) and expected to soar to 24° for an hour or two this afternoon. The barometers are up a touch more at 1007/1015mB

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a very nice fry-up

This involved the ceremonial first slicing of the white loaf baked yesterday, and it turned out to be excellent! Far and away the best white one I've made so far, and also the first not using a bread mix, so I won't bother with those in future. I'll have to make one exactly the same way using the Sainsbury's own brand yeast if I want to confirm that it was the Allinson's yeast that made all the difference, though

[NickFitz]

Turned sunny out now