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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a cloudy morning, in a clumpy sort of way meaning gaps here and there that let some wan sunshine through for brief spells; but it’s also drizzling, and occasionally raining a bit more heavily than that. The wind still seems fairly high too. But it also continues to be quite mild at 17°C (“feels like” 13°) with an expected high of 20°. The barometers are down to 1001/1009mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Damp.

20.7 deg in here, 20.9 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 16 out the back, 17.5 in the saltinghouse.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 16:02 and 16:07, AndyGarbs, Brillo, eek, LM, and MrMarkyMark popped in.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: a trip to look at horses in Normandy.

Washing frenzy in progress. Time will tell if this was a good idea.

Judging by how dark it's become, maybe it wasn't A Good Idea. Ho hum.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: dashcam bollox: S3 E2. Haven't watched that one so often.

That requiring the iRon came in off the line & received its attentions & is airing upstairs.

Walk (abbreviated, 3miles) walked. I suspect that 2 miles might have been wiser. .

Back has complained for much of the day & the knees are now keeping it company.

Entertainment: Alaska homestead thing: California fire repairs: not of the house which not longer exists, but of the place to keep the livestock.

Alaska homestead thing: Idaho cabin to which the owner has attempted to add another story. Well they fixed it. I'd have knocked the fecker down & started again, it would have been easier. Can you off a coyote with a .22 bolt action rifle? It didn't specify if it was LR or something a bit more potent. Apparently .22LR is "the gold standard" for offing small predators. You're tulip out of luck if it's a grizzly though.

Bab5 S4 E5 "The long night".

Churchill's Toy Shop.

Who do you think you are? Brian Blessed! Gordon's Aliiiiiive!

Who do you think you are? Some footballer chap that sells crisps. Turned out one ancestor was a poacher who'd served time.

Dunno when I watched it but there was a thing on TPTV about Manchester Waking Up, made in 1962: full of things that no longer exist including what I think was the Metropolitan Vickers/AEI heavy electrical engineering factory that eventually ended up in Weinstock's GEC, so you can guess what that meant.

The Movies: 1980s Part I. I haven't seen quite a lot of those. I have seen quite a lot of the others.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

There's blue sky and wispy bits out there. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:36; Sunset 19:16 BST

The boiler has packed up. It's like it has no power but no fuses have tripped. A man that can is coming sometime this afternoon to take a look.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Couldn't get on earlier due to 429 error - too many requests.
Was overcast and damp earlier, but that is burning off now.

[NickFitz]

Morning all
Couldn't get on earlier due to 429 error - too many requests.
Was overcast and damp earlier, but that is burning off now.

Apparently somebody tried a Denial of Service attack. Seems like they’ve been beaten back for now though

[WTFH]

Apparently somebody tried a Denial of Service attack.

I'm not saying it was Suity, but it wasn't successful, so maybe...

[sadkingbilly]

it wisnae me!
big boys dun it, and ran away.........
- honest!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka sausage roll

This morning has mostly involved discovering that an old and almost never-used bit of functionality is broken, then going off on a side quest trying to get some of the nifty error tracing stuff working in the application monitoring system that replaced Sentry a few months ago. In the end, I had to get it working from the old laptop with a soon-to-be-cancelled Gmail address, after which it also worked on the new laptop. But I suspect this means they need to do a bit more work disconnecting stuff from the old email addresses before they get rid of Gmail completely

Then it was time for the stakeholders to review the home page changes, or more accurately the changes to the changes proposed by one of the Content experts who reviewed them this morning. Some of the new changes are good, some we tweaked further, and some were dismissed on the basis that the system is only used by subject matter experts so the suggestions either failed to convey something significant, or were just deemed unnecessary. So updating all that gives me something to do this afternoon that will involve very little effort

Oh, and I also booked the last week of October off!

In tax news, my accountant had said I owed a small amount for last year based on my tax return, so I went to pay that online. But it turned out I owe nothing as they still haven’t used up all the money from the last time I made a payment on account, so they’ll just take it out of that

[ladymuck]

The boiler has been fixed. It was the fuse on the switch adjacent to the boiler. I probably had a fuse in my tool box and could have saved the landlady a large fee.

Off soon to Ealing Town Hall to hear about the London Plan and what it means for Ealing. Some kind of workshop. Gets me out and potentially offers an opportunity to tout my wares.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a gammon steak with chips, fried egg, and beans

Accompanied by the rest of the Police Interceptors I started watching last week, in which they executed a perfect TPAC on a car on the M1, only to find it was being driven by the owner, who’d tracked it to London when it was nicked, and gone and got it back

He’d told the Met all about it, but they were probably too busy hitting old ladies and clergymen with long batons to bother updating the PNC