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[ladymuck]

This evening I went to meet a friend who I hadn't seen for a good two years. I was apprehensive but it turned out to be a good evening.

Farringdon was bedlam on arrival and we were lucky to find a pub that had a couple of seats.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been M&S slow-cooked chicken chasseur, with chips and peas. It turned out to be very nice indeed! I’ll get that again

This was accompanied by a bit of the motorway cops thing. I don’t know what’s going on with Traffic Cops, but all but one episode of the current series have been taken down! Didn’t stop them showing me a trailer for it in the ad break though

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Almost clear blue sky today - just the merest of wisps here and there. Warm too, being 16°C and aiming for 17°; the barometers are up to 1019/1027mB

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny. No wisps or fluffs from my vantage point. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Looks like the wind has died down. Barometer up to 1030 mBar.

Sunrise 05:49; Sunset 20:11 BST

Busy morning. Had to suffer being shown how to use Azure DevOps by someone who doesn't know how to use it Many meetings with people at Gig2 this afternoon.

Oh and laundry done, so the washing basket is empty for a few hours.

[xoggoth]

Couldn't find any settings related to time on Freesat box but it was ok when I used it later. Swearing at it must have sorted it. Off to Mahjongy morning soon.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday. Where does the time go?

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Breezy.

NotChilly in here at 15.2 deg, 15.5 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1023 mBar, 30.21 in Hg, 767.3 Torr, 14.8373 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of March 2020 Brillo popped in A Lot & missed the century , whilst LM, vetran, and I managed to get a post in edgeways.

Shopping trip to that Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Still couldn't find any furniture polish.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Scam watch. Sliced bread waffling on about intense light hair removal. TWATO: more about those lovely zionists killing journalists. And now we have one saying they "never kill journalists". FFS.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: enough furniture polish to keep me going for a while.

Shopping trip to Boots wherein it was discovered that the £64 of points had expired. Why do I feel that Boots are unlikely to receive any more of my custom from now on? There's a feeling in my water that this may be the case.

I had a Freesat HD box die on the HD output: the SD output still worked. .

More cleaning springs in the box room. 3 bookshelves cleaned & polished.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg etc.Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <orange mother****er <click>>

U&eden: Lucy Worsley investigates: The witch hunts. The Black Death.

Alba: Leonardo E3/4. Dozed through some of that.

Lucy Worsley investigates: Madness of King George.

True crime: Britain's almost perfect murders. <click> Not watching that one. .

Just discovered I'd missed out on a shedload of Morrisons vouchers too. .

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc and a beautiful sunrise just after 6am.
Pleasant walk, the wind was gentle and didn't pick up like it has the last couple of mornings.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Monkey Man (2024), the directorial debut of Dev Patel, who also stars. Set in an Indian city, it’s the story of a chap who’s seeking revenge on the corrupt police chief who murdered his mother and the organised crime bosses who give him power, while scraping a living fighting in rigged fights in the Indian equivalent of an MMA place. His first attempt at assassination goes awry but, it being India, he finds sanctuary in a Hindu temple where he develops his affinity with the monkey god Hanuman whilst training hard, and ends up like an Indian John Wick (but without the guns) for his second go-around. I thought it was very good

After that, a rewatch of Heretic (2024). I’d forgotten how exceptionally good Hugh Grant’s performance is in this! Absolutely excellent

But Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East also give brilliant performances as the two young Mormon missionaries. I took this as an excuse to rewatch Companion (2025) starring the former, which continues to be my favourite film about AI running amok, maybe because it’s really the humans who are running amok and the AI has to deal with the consequences, and we all know that’s how things will really happen

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

My Freesat box stopped working so got a new one, arrived today. Hassle setting it up but seems ok except that the time is an hour out!

BST innit! Look in the settings for something like “Automatically adjust for daylight savings time” - maybe first make sure (probably in a completely different place in its settings) that it’s not fondly imagining it’s having a romantic week away in Paris, though I don’t know if they even have Freesat boxes there

I worked on the internal software for Freesat boxes at a client in Cambridge back in the early 2010s, but I don’t recall ever digging into the settings bit as that wasn’t my responsibility. I recall spending a fair bit of time checking that things flagged as “adult viewing” (i.e. soft porn) would remain so flagged if they were repeated at a later time and date on a different channel that wasn’t itself flagged as such

[xoggoth]

My Freesat box stopped working so got a new one, arrived today. Hassle setting it up but seems ok except that the time is an hour out!

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I treated myself to an M&S Tomapork. This is a fancy name for a very large pork cutlet; they try to add to the mystique by providing rather convoluted cooking instructions, but I just whacked it in the Remoska (once I’d measured it to be sure it would fit) and it turned out fine. They probably also have some recommendation to accompany it with new potatoes and the like, but I had chips and beans

There’s something up with the 5 app, I think, as it behaved oddly and I couldn’t watch the end of last night’s Traffic Cops, so instead I watched some thing on All4 about a murder in Northampton in 2018

I’ve also had the bed airing today. I’ve got it partially remade; I just need to do the pillows and the duvet cover, and that’ll be good to go

And I’ve also been watching YouTube videos about how to do various clever things with the new forum software. Now that I’m pretty much satisfied with the data importer, I can crack on with adding a few features

Tonight will be a movie night, but I haven’t decided what to watch yet

[ladymuck]

Hope you had a good birthday NF!

It's been a lovely sunny day. Warm if out of the gale force wind.

Had a meeting at 3.30pm which the product manager and I elected to do in the pub so we could bitch about people without any risk of being overheard by coworkers. We get 10% discount so it's cheaper than going for a coffee. Honest. I headed home afterwards as I saw no reason to remain in the office.

[NickFitz]

I think I’ll turn the router off and on again and see if that helps

It did! Everything’s back!

Though I then had to go and tell all the things that know how to use the 4G backup network that they should switch back to the proper one

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover bits and bobs

I suspect there’s something weird going on with my broadband router, as things which were quite happy on the wifi are suddenly unable to connect. I spent much of the morning going line-by-line through the rep system so I can replicate it, and carefully documented my observations. I decided it would be worth printing them out for reference and jotting of notes in the margins, and suddenly the printer can’t be found. It seems happy enough in itself, and its wifi light is on, but it no longer appears - not even in a tool I have for scanning devices on the network, which reveals all kinds of details about lightbulbs and so on but can’t see the printer at all

I think I’ll turn the router off and on again and see if that helps

[NickFitz]

Happy Birthday NF! 🎂

Cheers!