An old Police Interceptors provided a modicum of entertainment whilst dining
This week has been very frustrating. Constantly chopping and changing from one thing to another, primarily for bureaucratic rather than technical reasons. Context switches are tiring, and several in a day leads to so little being done that it feels very frustrating. Finally managed to cut through some red tape and get something sorted out this afternoon though, so there might be something achieved by the end of the week
Speaking of which: Friday tomorrow!
Goodnight all
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Something turned out to be gammon, fried egg, chips, and beans
Still rainy out, and looks like it's settled in for the evening
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As there's no new Viz to worry about, I went to the closer but barely adequate Sainsbury's, where I only forgot a couple of things because of the layout
The route home from there doesn't go near the chip shop unless one makes a detour, so I did; but as I was earlier than usual, it was very busy and there was nowhere to park close by. As it had just started raining quite heavily, I took this as a sign and came home instead to have something I've already got
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Wondering whether to go shopping in a bit. Viz isn't out until next week, so it's not urgent. But I suppose I could get some other stuff, like bread and meat
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Afternoon all
A dull day with a bit of a breeze. The weather app says it's raining but observations with my eyes disagree. Rain is forecast for the rest of the day. Currently 16 degrees and the high was 17. Barometer is down to 1012 mBar.
My run at ConsultantCo has come to an end, with the contract finishing at the end of the month. Sadly I couldn't wheedle my way in to another team at ClientCo.
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Lunch: bacon butties. Very nice bacon and bread, both from Chatsworth of course
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Morning all
Working from my dad’s today, where it’s overcast and rainy
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Morning.
Thursday judging by the racket the recycling engineers made.
Dry.
Grey.
Wanly sunny.
Chilly in here at 16.9 deg, 18 deg in the kitchen, 16.5 deg in the leanto.
1008 mBar, 29.766223 in Hg, 756.06 Torr, 14.619 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 9th of October 2019 some chap turned up & started washing the front windows when he should have been doing that two doors up, (sudden flash of memory of ladies back in the long ago when sash windows were a thing, sitting on the upstairs windowsill cleaning the outside of the windows), whereas NF had sausages in finger rolls for lunch & his ears had come out in a rash due to the cleanser stuff on his earbuds.
Raining.
Freecell score: 100% (of 25), running average: 86%. Seemed to be in the zone today.
Lunch: beans on toast etc.
Entertainment: that bottom line thing again, Sliced Bread about ultrasonic repellent devices.
Veronica Mars S3 E9 "Spit & Eggs". The end of the rapist arc.
Tea: soup etc.
Entertainment: PM or Morse, decisions decisions.
Dan Do (repeat).
Thing about place names in Cardigan Bay. Portmeirion was visited without mentioning The Prisoner. .
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Morning denizens
Sunny start, albeit with a high haze to moderate the rays a little. The forecast seems to be more of the same or perhaps a bit cloudier, then breezier this afternoon, and maybe some showers around teatime. Currently 9°C, 15° expected, and the barometers are back down to 1002/1010mB
Up betimes this morning as I left the blind in the bedroom up quite high last night, leading to the aforementioned sunlight making its way in. It's one of those rare years when the Summer Solstice falls on the 20 June, so only a week and the sun will gradually start retreating back across the Tropic of Cancer
In fact, looking at https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar...html?year=1950 it's clear that the 20 June solstice didn't happen at all for the last fifty years of the preceding millennium although there were some 22 June ones, whereas in the first fifty years of this one, it becomes more and more common, happening two years in a row sometimes from the late 2040s on. I hope somebody's let English Heritage know so they can adjust their plans for Stonehenge accordingly; I remember them getting a bit confused over the out-of-step date of an equinox in the late 1980s
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Tonight's viewing was that C5 thing that claims to be motorway police but mainly happens off the motorway and is peppered with unrelated dashcam footage
And then some Apple WWDC videos about Swift Data. Looks like there may now be an easy way to do something I was trying to do earlier in the year, but I'm not installing beta stuff on this machine so I'll have to wait to try it out
Meanwhile in nuclear accidents, the Canadians are managing a few more cockups with their reactors. But their friends to the south are rapidly outpacing them, particularly by building the world's first fast breeder reactor and then deciding to see what happens when you turn the coolant off. Nothing you'd want to see happen, it turns out
Goodnight all
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Tea was a Chatsworth steak and ale pie with chips. Very nice, though TBH I think my own was just as good
That's the last of the refrigerated Chatsworth stuff that Needed to be Eaten™ - the rest of it is in the freezer except for some bacon, but that keeps for longer anyway having been properly smoked
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Old farts coach trip to Rochester today. Inneresting castle. But ll3 expected me to carry her bag up all the old steps, felt like she had 1cwt of concrete in it.
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