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[NickFitz]

Thunderstorm here too! But it started with distant rumblings about thirty minutes ago, passed over us with heavy rain, and has already gone. Looks like the sun’s about to come out now!

Today was one of those days where I identified a bug first thing, had to leave it to do something else, then had to get something else sorted out in the middle of that, and eventually got back to the original bug in the last hour. But it’s fixed now and all the other stuff went OK, so it’s been a very productive day really

[DoctorStrangelove]

Creepy, my PC is making faint muttering sounds and I don't have a browser or anything else open. Anyway, off to old arty farty thing soon.

xogg xenchury. Om.

[xoggoth]

Ghosts! That there is classic EVP evidence

But I'm sure it was my voice, sounded like me. Darn it! I must be dead!

Maybe find out the cause when I get round to replacing my Win 10 PC with my new 11 PC. Looks yuck down there among all those wires, lots of dust and cobwebs.

[ladymuck]

I turned my PC off and turned off all the wall sockets and the speaker was still doing the muttering sounds. Was obviously a recording of me but how was it playing?????

Ghosts! That there is classic EVP evidence.

[ladymuck]

The clouds cleared and we had a bit of sunshine for a while. Now it's come over all gloomy and I can hear thunder in the distance.

EDIT: and now it's raining again (I could sing a song about that)

EDIT2: thunder AND lightning, directly overhead!

[xoggoth]

I turned my PC off and turned off all the wall sockets and the speaker was still doing the muttering sounds. Was obviously a recording of me but how was it playing?????

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover chicken chow mein, quickly refried in the wok

Using the wok is good because it forces me to tidy up anything left lying around on the wok burner side of the hob, as I’m convinced the massive flame will set fire to it if I don’t

The rain has passed on its way and although it’s mostly cloudy, there’s the occasional glimmer of sunshine getting through the gaps. And there’s still a bit of a breeze, which the young magpies seem to enjoy swooping around in

This morning was fairly busy as I had some fixes to deploy so the end user(s) can test them, and was also tracking down some issues in the data export work the other dev had almost but not quite completed before she left. She did leave plenty of documentation plus additional notes, but some of it touches stuff I haven’t had much to do with so I have to dig deep to work out whether problems are due to bugs, oversights, or something just not being complete yet

And today’s the day we meet with the stakeholders at lunchtime, where they gave final approval for the thing I’ve been working on for ages to be released! Well, there’s one change to be made: the name. It’s still got the rather technical-sounding name we used while it was being planned and developed, but we’ve finally agreed a more user-friendly name for it, so I shall go and change that now. They’re going to put out some comms this afternoon to let their people know it’s coming, and I’ll release it tomorrow morning

[xoggoth]

Creepy, my PC is making faint muttering sounds and I don't have a browser or anything else open. Anyway, off to old arty farty thing soon.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Very wet. It has been raining since the early hours in varying levels of enthusiasm (very enthusiastic at the moment). Very little breeze. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Doesn't look to end until bed time. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.

Sunrise 04:49; Sunset 21:10 BST

The rain kept me awake and so did some very disturbing dream which had me coming to with an attempt at calling out as someone tried to attack me.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Last night’s rain continues, but is expected to peter out in a couple of hours. It’s 15°C (“feels like” 11°) and the expected high is only 18°; the barometers are, as might be expected, down at 990/997mB

This morning has brought confirmation that there are three young magpies! They were just down on the lawn with both parents, being taught how to ignore those two squirrels zooming around over there like idiots and concentrate on pecking at whatever it is they peck at

[WTFH]

Morning all
Heavy rain yesterday evening and overnight to the point that the pond is half full (most of the water coming from the summerhouse roof). Have inspected the new shed and it is dry inside.
Sun was out earlier, but there are more dark clouds on the way in.
The garden is appreciating the rain, as are the farmers round here.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday?

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

20.1 deg in here, 20 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4748 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 Brillo popped in, along with BR14 and LM, whilst I was watching yet more Sherlock Holmes and mentioning Belker's dad's Al Zheimers disease and the tinned pineapple, whereas NF had placed his order via the interweb but the Chinese suppliers hadn't noticed said order & he had to wait anyway. So not quite reaching the 21st century after all. . But Janet sorted it out.

Awakened unbidden at 05:50 yet afeckinggain, so read more of book until the need to arise arose and I got up.

The dream before waking seemed to involve some purchases or other of obsolete electronic crap. I used to do a lot of that back in the day when there were all those wonderful adverts in Wireless World and Practical Electronics. I must have the world stock of 14.6pF Nato standard silver mica capacitors.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine, torrential rainstorm (brief), wan sunshine. The canal, which was empty above the lock is now a healthy depth again. The river is very brown, as is the upper part of the canal. Lower down, just a bit murky.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: book of the week <click>. Noon o'clock news. Y&Y <click>

Oz wreckers: this week: a lune who likes Ford Anglias. And paid about $500(Au) for two. Happily enough another nutter came along & bought them off him for $2500(Au) so he made a profit of $1000(Au). They seem to collect a lot of cars in Oz. Then wreck 'em & sell the bits to the Middle East. .

Am Dro at 15:00. Crickhowell walk with a Rwandan chap from Swansea. Cardigan. Secret Waterfall.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: Blazian UFO bollox.

[NickFitz]

In The Middle Kingdoms, the rise of scientific understanding has inevitably given rise to all kinds of pseudoscience, including eugenics and phrenology. Meanwhile, Bismarck finally got on the imperial gravy train. Put these things together and it ends up being an extremely bad time to be a native of German South West Africa. But now it’s 1914, so the mess he made of the Balkans is about to spill over, starting in Sarajevo

It started raining from time to time here this afternoon. Since then, the wind’s got up, and the rain seems to have settled in for the night

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Really nice old fart meet up at ancient house. Sat near some people I know, unlike last one. Wandered enormous garden afterwards, 3 big lakes!

[NickFitz]

Ribs and chips for tea

To accompany this, E2 of Legends which is developing nicely

There’s a parade of shops on an estate in Liverpool (or supposed to be) in there which is the absolute spit of the shops I used to walk to school through when I was very young. Can’t be the same ones as they were knocked down years ago, along with the maisonettes