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[covbob]

Curry from the local Indian community centre for lunch. Toothsome!

[xoggoth]

Old lady Mahjong thing this morning, loony lady 2 later. Got to get house a bit cleaner for my nephew visit tomorrow.

Some nice people about. I asked the builders filling a skip up the road if I could pay them to take away two sacks of plasterboard, as my local tip won't take it, and they insisted on doing it for free.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dry.

Grey.

Gloomy.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.2 deg, 17 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.

1023 mBar, 30.21 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.84 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of February 2020 BR14 popped in, had dinner, and watched more Hill Street, whereas I watched Death Wish I and Death Wish II, followed by some prog on Dmax about a luny building a buggy for a desert race somewhere, NF remarked that it had got dark, and LM was out on the lash. Hic.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch.

[covbob]

Morning all

Rather grey and cloudy here. It was light cloud with blue visible behind, but has become rather murkier in the last half hour or so.

Strong dose of CBA today.

[ladymuck]

Well, this was the problem: there wasn't a recipe really! The beef needed to be used and I fancied something spicy so I just tried chucking stuff in, vaguely hoping it would turn out OK

I think I might have Googled a bit first, but that's about as far as I got so it's not really surprising it turned out the way it did. I've known people who can throw together a delicious curry just by eyeballing various spices as they go along, but they've obviously had more practice than me

I'll get him to recommend something for you to try

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional lumps of fluff. I looked them up and they're either cirrocumulus or altocumulus (I'm leaning towards the former). Currently 9 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer up to 1027 mBar.

Sunrise 07:15; Sunset 18:21 BST

I have a CO detector/alarm to pick up from Argos at some point today as the one provided started beeping, and continued beeping even after new batteries were installed. I therefore decided to just replace the unit.

[NickFitz]

What was the recipe you were following? I can get HWMBO to suggest a better alternative for you to try. As there are a myriad of beef curry recipes, it helps him figure out roughly which country/region the recipe came from.

Well, this was the problem: there wasn't a recipe really! The beef needed to be used and I fancied something spicy so I just tried chucking stuff in, vaguely hoping it would turn out OK

I think I might have Googled a bit first, but that's about as far as I got so it's not really surprising it turned out the way it did. I've known people who can throw together a delicious curry just by eyeballing various spices as they go along, but they've obviously had more practice than me

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start again, much the same as the last few days. It's 9°C and expected to be 16° by lunchtime, depending on when one has lunch. The barometers are up to 1014/1022mB

Most importantly: Thursday!

[ladymuck]

Tea has been the beef curry I made the other week with rice

It's not that good, to be honest. Edible, but nothing special. I should find a proper recipe next time I want to make something like that

What was the recipe you were following? I can get HWMBO to suggest a better alternative for you to try. As there are a myriad of beef curry recipes, it helps him figure out roughly which country/region the recipe came from.

[NickFitz]

In Random Acts of Senseless Violence, our diarist's family have had to move to a smaller, cheaper apartment uptown, supposedly temporarily. But given such aspects of the ongoing collapse of society as she happens to notice while concentrating on the usual concerns of a 12 year old girl, I suspect any restoration of her conception of normal life is unlikely to ever happen. And she's not dumb; she strongly suspects the same, no matter how much her parents try to pretend things will be all right again soon

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the beef curry I made the other week with rice

It's not that good, to be honest. Edible, but nothing special. I should find a proper recipe next time I want to make something like that

Anyway, that means there's a little more space in the fridge-freezer, as the other one doesn't seem to have revived

In laundry news, I stuck a towel wash on this afternoon

I'm very impressed by how quick the drying process was. I split it into two batches once the wash was done as it can help dry them quicker if they're done in smaller loads, and the first two large ones were done in less than fifty minutes! I forgot to time the second batch, which was a large and several small, but it was about the same

[NickFitz]

I am pleased to report that a minor update to Firefox has resolved the issues with Scrambled Maps. I've tested several times over the past couple of days and all seems to be restored to working order.

[NickFitz]

That's Wednesday done! Just got to get through Thursday, but it's one of the ones on which we collaborate across dev teams to address tech debt. There's some stuff I was dealing with last month that exposed a bug in some other stuff altogether which stopped it being completed, but that's been fixed now. So I'll pick that back up, and with luck nobody will ask me to do anything else, and I know from last time that I can have it all sorted out by lunch

And apparently the target completion rate across the department for the mandatory training has been increased, which reminded me that mine was probably long out of date. I checked, and it is, to the extent that my account had been deactivated for lack of use

So I'll spend the rest of the day getting that out of the way, because it's easy (if a little tedious) and should see me through until it's time to knock off!

[ladymuck]

I am pleased to report that a minor update to Firefox has resolved the issues with Scrambled Maps. I've tested several times over the past couple of days and all seems to be restored to working order.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Overcast but bright enough and dry. Currently 17 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 07:14; Sunset 18:23 BST

A pottering around kind of day so far. I have things on my to-do list but am not currently enthused about them.

The GP surgery called to make some appointments. Turns out that I need a B12 jab, not one but six . Three times a week for two weeks. Much juggling of diaries to find slots for it all. Plus more vials of blood to be taken for more testing. Considering the headaches seem to have eased up, I'm feeling a bit on the fraudulent side. On a positive note, the doctor didn't ask my weight or tell me that things would be better if I lost some.