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[NickFitz]

Tonight I started reading The Rewind Files by Claire Willett, in which a junior agent of the US Time Travel Bureau has to travel back in time from 2112 to fix an anomaly that had caused the Third World War to happen in the 1980s because Watergate had never happened and it should have

Monday again tomorrow, but I've got one more week off!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Nando's leftovers

While scoffing that, I watched the rest of the OceanGate documentary on Netflix. Always a bad idea to give your company a name that sounds like a scandal

[NickFitz]

Ham toastie for lunch

And to watch, the first episode of Nazi Megastructures

[NickFitz]

^^ The Jupiter-Venus thing was mentioned on The Sky at Night. I thought it may have already passed as they said the closest they'd be seen together would be on 10 August (this was the show aired in July). Before gradually moving apart.

They aren't ultra close now, but still pretty close

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny and cloudless out, though it looks as if there's a bit of a haze. Another warm but tolerable day, being at 20°C now and not getting past 24° later. The barometers are down a bit at 1014/1021mB

[ladymuck]

^^ The Jupiter-Venus thing was mentioned on The Sky at Night. I thought it may have already passed as they said the closest they'd be seen together would be on 10 August (this was the show aired in July). Before gradually moving apart.



Morning all

Sunny, blue sky with occasional wisps. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 05:50; Sunset 20:19 BST

Off to see Mum today. My brother is away this weekend so it'll be interesting to see what's she's been up to.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday. <checks R4, yuup, sounds like it>

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 22.2 deg, 23 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto.

1016.7 mBar, 30.02 in Hg, 762.6 Torr, 14.746 psi, (down from 1018 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 8th of February 2020 NF saw the full moon, BR14 and Brillo popped in, and all were watching the Chernobyl thing with varying degrees of appreciation.

Things were looking a bit dodgy at 05:30 this morning, but, happily enough, I returned to the land of nod until 08:15. Which was good.

Freecell score: 82%, running average: 83%. Got bored before I could get it higher.

Walk (towpath) walked in the sunshine. Fresh breeze out there which cooled things down a bit.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: book. Other book.

Tea: beans on toast.

Entertainment: the invention of Hungary on R4.

Weatherman Walking. Eric "kiddy fiddler/dog botherer" Gill gets a mention in this one at Capel y Ffin.

Book.

Blaze: Forbidden History: Malta long skulls thing, neolithic temples.

Dmax: Alien Encounters S1 E5/E6. Not far off the Blaze UFO bollox.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Ballerina (2025) which bears the supplementary description "from the world of John Wick", for it is set in that "cinematic universe" as the cool kids say. I enjoyed this, though it maybe feels not as tautly paced on occasion as the other films from said world, somehow. Still, any film where the Subtitles for Deaf and Hard of Hearing include "(brains squelch)" is good enough for me

And then a rewatch of Mile 22 (2018) which is also replete with guns and explosions as Mark Wahlberg and some other Americans try to exfiltrate the bloke from The Raid out of a thinly disguised Indonesia on behalf of the CIA. It's good, though given they had they guy from The Raid, I think they ought to have let him kick more people in more places - though he did get to do quite a lot of that

And finally S1E3 of Dune: Prophecy entitled Sisterhood Above All (TV Episode 2024).

Just now, I saw two planets rising above the block opposite. I assumed from their brightness that they must be Jupiter and Mars, but it turns out they're Jupiter and Venus! Not often one sees those two so close together

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Today has been a very lazy day with me dozing on the sofa for the most part. I dozed my way through the last episode of Oak Island nut jobs, two episodes of The Sky at Night and some Repair Shop. All good, gentle viewing.

I'm now tired from all that activity so might get an early night

[NickFitz]

I dithered for a while over what to have for tea, plumping in the end for Nando's because it's OK and not too far away

Not sure what happened with the guy's tracking thing, as it showed him stuck at the restaurant for ages, then suddenly updated to show him just about to turn into our drive

I'd guessed something of the kind might be happening so I was ready for action, but it still made for a hasty scuttle downstairs to collect it from him

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was a bacon bap (white)

And while keeping an eye on the wildlife stuff on the telly, I've also got some work done on the Mac app I'm writing to help catalogue my Dad's many USB drives and allow me to filter out numerous duplicate and irrelevant files. All I managed today was the bit that lets it respond and update its display when a disk is connected or disconnected. But merely getting that working involves dealing with a lot of the fundamentals of how MacOS handles disks and files, so it was a productive session if only for the amount of documentation I had to read and understand to get there

[xoggoth]

Just back from free lunch with woodland volunteery group. Long walk included. Snore.

[ladymuck]

Morning all (just)

Overcast but dry. A bit of a breeze about. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 25 expected. Barometer up to 1027 mBar.

Sunrise 05:49; Sunset 20:21 BST

I have been up the road to the farmers' market where I bought bread, eggs and a sticky bun. It's the first day in a while where I'm on my own. It's bliss!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start out and it's going to be a bit less warm today, with a cool easterly breeze helping. It's 19°C now and only getting as high as 24° for a couple of hours this afternoon, when it'll also brighten up. The barometers are up a bit more at 1017/1025mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday <checks clock>

Awake at 05:30 yet again.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 22.2 deg, 23 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto.

1018.5 mBar, 30.07 in Hg, 763.9 Torr, 14.77 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Freecell score: 91%, rinning average: 83%.

Walk (towpath) walked. Quite warm out there. The bike had gone.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: Digging up Britain: some mediaeval village, followed by Stonehenge.

Scotland Yard: the dead chap found in a culvert. Killed for two gold sovereigns worth £6 in 1953. One is worth £564 today. Fiat currency again.

Maigret: The Mistake (1960). No subtitles on this one. He's attempting to WFH. . Fat chance.

The London Fog of 1952. It occurred to me that one might scrub so2 from the air by passing it through sodium hydroxide in a diy respirator. I wonder if anyone tried it.

12,000 deaths from the above.

Nobody (2021). Well it's on again. . The only good Russian etc.