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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The rainy part of the storm has moved on in the night and though it’s still very windy, the sun is shining as the cirrostratus recedes to the east. It’s 5°C but “feels like” -4°, and the expected high for the day is only 9°. The barometers are down to 986/994mB, but expected to rise during the day

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Bright but cloudy. Breezy. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 5) with a high of 9 expected. Chance of light showers. Barometer down to 1001 mBar.

Sunrise 06:20; Sunset 18:02 GMT

I was woken around 1.45 am to the noise of much wind and rain. I then awoke again well before my alarm on account of the unreasonably early time it now gets bright.

A busier morning than a Friday should warrant, but productive. Many meetings this afternoon, which should also be illegal for a Friday.

[eek]

Afternoon all

Bright but cloudy. Breezy. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 5) with a high of 9 expected. Chance of light showers. Barometer down to 1001 mBar.

Sunrise 06:20; Sunset 18:02 GMT

I was woken around 1.45 am to the noise of much wind and rain. I then awoke again well before my alarm on account of the unreasonably early time it now gets bright.

A busier morning than a Friday should warrant, but productive. Many meetings this afternoon, which should also be illegal for a Friday.

Surely meetings are better than actual real work...

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a cold sausage bap (white)

Before that, I spent a couple of hours dealing with the post import process on the new forum software. Turns out there are a few tricky bits to do with ensuring quotes in posts are updated to point back to the source correctly, and one or two other bits like that

Unfortunately, I somehow managed to do my back in a bit more - it was playing up earlier in the week, but had been OK for the last couple of days. But when I stood up to get lunch, it suddenly complained very vigorously. So I’ve had to switch to the recliner to rest it for a while

[xoggoth]

Volunteer litter pick this morning, followed by walk with loony lady 1. Had to keep holding her hand while she navigated the mud.

Pleasantly surprised when I filled me van to see diesel cost is only about 10% higher. I thought it would be over 100% like my heating oil.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a ribeye steak with chips, fried onions, and beans

This was going to be accompanied by a police thing that I’d stopped watching ages ago, but couldn’t remember why. A few minutes reminded me: it’s constantly cutting to a couple of ex-cop talking heads who utter vague platitudes (“If somebody’s holding a firearm, that changes the situation” and the like) tangentially related to the clip being shown, though clearly not commenting specifically on it. This happens literally every ten seconds or so, and it’s so annoying that I gave up and switched to more of the motorway cops

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Bad Boys II (2003), which is the one after the first one. Like that, it’s got a really good action film in it, which is interrupted from time to time by scenes that revolve around rather juvenile humour. But the action stuff is good, so one has to just shrug off the irrelevancies. They’re obviously just ripping off Lethal Weapon anyway with that aspect. But yes, the car chases and blowing stuff up bits are good, and take up most of the time, so I’ll let that other stuff pass

Then a rewatch - or possibly a premiere, because it hadn’t stuck in my memory - of RoboCop 3 (1993). This has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of around 14%, but I thought it was OK. I reckon it may well be happening for real in the USA soon, as it seems to align with the goals of the current administration, so maybe that will give its rating a bump

And then a further episode of S2 of Hijack. I assume they set this on the Berlin metro, rather than the Tube, because it would be impossible to construct a plot anybody could understand around the bizarre complexities that came together to form the London Underground

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Bit chilly in here at 12.6 deg, 11 in the kitchen (thermometer works for that ), 8 in the leanto.

1002 mBar, 29.59 in Hg, 751.6 Torr, 14.532 psi, (up from 997 last night assuming it was tapped), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of March 2020 Brillo, covbob, quackhandle, Phil the Greek, and LM popped in.

Just noticed the next door neighbours (not the related idle lot) pegging out the washing on the line. I don't see or hear much of them at all.