Morning.
Monday apparently.
Today's dream before waking involved getting a packet of frozen M&S fish to NK for some unknown reason.
Maybe Fatboy has a taste for it?
Along with adding number strings in hex for even less obvious reasons. I was glad to wake up.
Dry.
Grey.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 16.7 deg, 16.5 deg in the kitchen, 15 deg in the leanto.
1014 mBar, 29.9434 in Hg, 760.56 Torr, 14.7 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).
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Morning all
Overcast but dry out. Lots of cider bubbling away in demijohns in the office.
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Morning denizens
Dark out to start with, though it's getting lighter now. Looks like it's overcast and will stay that way after a windy night, which has settled back to just a breeze now. It's currently 10°C but feels like 5° due to said breeze, with an expected high of 14° this afternoon. The barometers are bouncing back at 1005/1013mB
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Further viewing tonight was an old episode of 24 Hours in A&E
And then I read a couple more chapters of The Founders. Technology genius Elon Musk has insisted that PayPal's entire Linux-based tech stack be rewritten using Microsoft stuff, leading to a situation where certain servers have to be rebooted every thirteen seconds because of memory leaks. Meanwhile, business genius Elon Musk has become so obsessed with naming everything "X" that the rest of the senior executive team are plotting to get rid of him
Monday tomorrow, but I have to say I don't find it quite as bad after a three day break and knowing that it's only a four day week (for me; sorry, everybody else)
It's very windy out there - 40mph gusts, apparently
Goodnight all
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Tea has been some leftover bits from Saturday's takeaway
Accompanied by Ambulance for the BBC has started a new series thereof, back in London this time
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The drive home wasn't terrible earlier this afternoon as the rain wasn't too heavy and visibility was good.
Managed to get a reasonably decent parking space a couple of doors up the road.
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Lunch: sausages and bacon sandwiched in buttered white toast. It's about a week's calories in one go, but very nice
After wind and driving rain through much of the morning and early afternoon, it's suddenly started to clear up and is now turning sunny out there
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Invasion of the darn sister this week. Grrrr. Her positive atitude annoys me. Got on much better with nephew who stayed few weeks back, miserable git like me.
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Morning all, Sussex by the Sea calling
Wet and windy, complete opposite to yesterday. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Barometer at 1010 mBar.
The family get together yesterday was good. Mum enjoyed herself very much but it remains to be seen how much she'll remember of it.
I'll be heading home about 12 and am not looking forward to the drive in this weather.
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Morning.
Sunday.
Dark.
Dank.
Dreary.
Grey.
Dire.
Wet.
Windy.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 16.6 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 15 deg in the leanto.
997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 22nd of November 2019 NF had a chicken leg for lunch, gave us a picture of the downstairs flat's destroyed door replaced with chipboard, then had a lamb shank for tea, whereas xogg was contacted by someone he'd worked in 2003 about some software he might have written, it transpiring that they wanted an updation of the needful doings.
Freecell score in the ongoing deluge: 93%, running average: 79%.
Sun's out.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the unexpected sunshine & semigale.
Lunch: there was.
Entertainment: book.
Freecell score: 100%, running average: 79%.
Tea: soup etc.
Entertainment: book.
The NZ Highway Patrol had wrapped around to S1 E1 so ignored that.
Bit of the last 20 minutes of the thing about Crete E3 where the Nazis were busy massacring villages (all 61 of them) because they wouldn't tell them where the Brits were.
Freecell score: 96%, running average: 79%.
The Repair shoppe: the one with the test meter and the remote control boat: gosh, engineering done by actual engineers.
Mediaeval Murder Mysteries: Edward II: or how poking a red hot poker up yer arse is no cure for piles. .
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Morning all
A tad wet and wild out, even the dog doesn’t want to go for a walk. Might take him to the pub this afternoon, although it’s his turn to drive home.
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Morning denizens
It's a grey, rainy, windy morning out, and expected to continue in much the same vein, though with the rain maybe petering out by lunchtime. It's mild enough at 12°C with an expected high of 17°, with the barometers down a bit more at 993/1001mB
I seem to have neglected to post last night, probably because I had a fairly early night. For the record, yesterday saw the usual Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff including the Singaporean otters, and in the evening I read a bit more of The Founders
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Tea has been brought to me from a Pakistani restaurant up a side road past the town end of the park. It was very good indeed, and very generous portions too. I'll definitely order from them again
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