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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was going to be one thing, but the first ten minutes or so made me realise I wasn’t in the mood for it. So I started something else, but soon realised I wasn’t in the mood for that either. They both seemed good, just not for me tonight

So finally I picked something pretty much at random, and it turned out to be Belgian and also very good! It was Night Call (2024) or La nuit se traîne in the original Belgian (French-speaking variety), in which a student who also works as a locksmith is duped into opening an apartment he really shouldn’t have, and then has to spend the rest of the night trying to prove to an organised crime gang that they shouldn’t kill him for having done so

I thought it was very good as these things go, and commend it to the House

Then a rewatch of RoboCop 2 (1990) which isn’t as good as the first one as an action/sci-fi thing, but it's still good in the political satire department

Finally, another episode of S2 of Hijack on Apple TV. I vaguely remember a review of this second series that said it wasn’t as good as the first because a train being hijacked wasn’t as exciting as a plane being hijacked, and this episode made me realise that whoever who wrote that review wasn’t qualified to do so, because they clearly aren’t the kind of person who gets excited at hearing about a ghost station on the U-Bahn, just like the ones on the London Underground. If Apple had any sense, they’d have commissioned Secrets of the Berlin U-Bahn to run alongside this

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Just had an email quote for household oil, double what I paid in January. That ******* lunatic Trump!

I meant to fill up the car on Friday but forgot. I should do it soon, while there’s still fuel available

[xoggoth]

Just had an email quote for household oil, double what I paid in January. That ******* lunatic Trump!

[NickFitz]

Rack of ribs (“firecracker” flavour) and chips for tea

Accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors including a prolonged and unsuccessful search for a bloke who’d run away in the fields of Rothwell Lodge Farm by the A14. I’ve often seen the cows who live there when driving past but as I’m usually doing 70mph and the hedge is quite tall, this is the first time I’ve seen the associated cowpats

[eek]

Raining.

We had sleet this morning.

[ladymuck]

Raining.

[NickFitz]

Last of the southern not-fried chicken for lunch

Still grey here

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Big Sainsbury’s today because, as previously noted, it’s Viz Week. Having secured that first, I then got everything else that I remembered needing, along with a few things I probably don’t

And so home, where the cars before and behind my favoured parking space had created a bit of a squeeze when getting out, and were still there, making it also a bit tricky getting back in. But I managed

Of course, I’ve just seen the one that was behind leaving. Would have been more convenient if they’d done that twenty minutes ago

As I was putting the shopping away, there was a knock at the door which turned out to be a chap come to read the water meter. I used to submit readings online, but somebody’s attended in person since a couple of years ago. I don’t know if they don’t trust me, or if they’re just creating work. Anyway, the meter’s in a very convenient spot for reading so it’s not a problem if they want to come and have a look a couple of times a year

Nearly time for lunch now

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast and dull. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Rain forecast for this afternoon. Barometer up to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 06:36; Sunset 17:50 GMT

The sceptics put their clocks forward this weekend, which messes up my diary and creating clashes until the UK does its clock tinkering nonsense at the end of the year.

I'm tempted to just stick to GMT and behave like it's everyone else on the wrong time zone.

David Lammy on R4 Today this morning being completely unable to say, "No, the orange twat should not decide who rules Iran".

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently <checks clock>.

Dry now after torrential rain overnight that woke me up at one point coz it sounded like it was coming in.

Grey with hints of blue to the west.

Hints of sun.

Chilly in here at 14 deg, something 1 something in the kitchen, 10.5 in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.6 Torr, 14.76 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 19th of March 2020 eek, LM, covbob, NF, and Brillo popped in, covbob got the zenchury, whilst NF was making scotch broth without any free space in the freezer, what with it being viz week again, and LM had finished with one client and was about to start with another.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the greyish gloom & wan sunshine: much less warm than a couple of days ago: the scarf was pressed into use & no sweat was raised.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus. The R4 thing about pain.

Speaking of which: I'm back on the ibuprofen after months and months of cold turkey: the discomfort in the neck/shoulder finally reached "feckit, pass the pills" stage. 600mg/day at the moment.

For the want of anything else, the house has been roughly vacced: apparently last done at the end of January. Even emptied the vax which still picks stuff up despite the brush not rotating anymore. Beat the filter against the garden wall so next time it'll be sticking to the ceiling again. Even worse after I wash it. . So I don't wash it very often.

Book. Other book. Other other book.

Tea: chilli con carne with rice etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <some AI geek who's not taken note of the message from the documentary "Terminator (1986)">

Taggart S8 E1,2,3 "The Hitman". Gosh. I wonder how long you got for 4 murders in 1972. Out after 20 years?

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey morning today, with even a hint of mistiness when looking far away. No rain though, and none expected. It’s 7°C and will pretty much stay there apart from a brief rise to 8° late in the afternoon, and the barometers are up a bit at 1009/1017mB

I had a very good night’s sleep, definitely improved by not being awoken by an alarm

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading has been some more of the stories in Ted Chiang’s Exhalations

Tomorrow I go to Big Sainsbury’s, for it is Viz Week

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I unmade the bed this morning and left it to air, but now it has been remade and I shall have a nice, comfy night

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place, because I couldn’t be bothered to cook

To go with it, the third part of Netflix’s Three Mile Island series, in which the capitalists are skimping on and rushing the cleanup to save money - though they’re still somehow finding the resources to spy on the local residents who are opposed to them restarting the undamaged reactor