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[WTFH]

Morning all
Slept in.
Short walk (6.5k steps)

TFIF, etc.
Currently a bit misty/low cloud, but that appears to be burning off.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was one of those films that it might be assumed I'd seen years ago, yet somehow I never had: Hackers (1995). I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it very much at the time given its laughable depiction of young people engaged in unlikely activities over dialup. But now it's old enough that one can find quite a lot of entertainment in how ludicrous it all is. A laptop is regarded as awesome because it has a "28.8bps modem" - by my reckoning that's less than three bytes per second, but I daresay they missed out the "K". And it's quite amusing that it's so focused on phreaking without any distinction between that and hacking (or cracking, strictly speaking by the standards of the day), and the Internet is mentioned precisely once, as a kind of thing that you'd only make use of under very exceptional circumstances. I reckon it was all very silly then, and it's all very silly now

And after, a rewatch of Bridge of Spies (2015) which is excellent

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

TFBSZ

[xoggoth]

No mahjongy thing this morning due to others' problems so bit of a nowt day. Spent morning raising slabs on patio near door to stop water pooling up when (if ever) it rains, and walk later. Damned tired again! Grumble!

[NickFitz]

Fortunately, it's just a temperature sensor warning on the exhaust and there's no point checking that further until after it's been repaired on Tuesday.

With luck it just hasn't realised you're already getting the exhaust done and wanted to bring that to your attention

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribeye steak with chips, fried onions, and beans. Very nice steak, it was

To go with this, the second part of the thing about the Scottish twins who knocked over a cyclist when drunk driving, failed to call for help, then buried him in a peat bog once he'd died of his injuries. Worthless little gits

[ladymuck]

The errant tree in the alley has been dealt with. The wall needs some ties put across the crack to put it back in place again before it gets re-rendered and re-painted.

[ladymuck]

Nice pali!

WNFS

[ladymuck]

Car shenanigans.

Yesterday morning, when I left for the office, the engine management light came on.

Yesterday afternoon, the garage called to say they had gotten the dates wrong and could the weld on my exhaust be done on Wednesday (instead of Monday). I was driving home at the time and hadn't gotten around to checking what the light was on the dashboard.

On getting home I realised it was an important light and quickly called the garage before they closed to ask them to check it out on Wednesday.

At around 4 am this morning, while lying awake, I realised that I'm at a wedding on Wednesday.

This morning I called the garage to explain that it was my turn to get dates wrong but ended up leaving a voicemail. On not hearing back from them by lunchtime, I made a quick call to check if said voicemail had been received (it hadn't).

The exhaust repair is now booked in for Tuesday and they told me to run the car over this afternoon so they can plug it in and see what the fault is.

Fortunately, it's just a temperature sensor warning on the exhaust and there's no point checking that further until after it's been repaired on Tuesday.

[NickFitz]

Just wait until you experience the joy of getting the fecker fixed when it goes wrong. .

Oh.

Yup.

That was about the length of time it took to get the part.

Nice pali!

[NickFitz]

Lunch, BTW, has been a Pukka steak slice

Still very cloudy out

[WTFH]

I'm just hoping it won't go wrong

Our Miele WM is, I think, 18 years old. The MiL's old machine is about 25 years old. Neither have missed a beat, and both have had a lot of dog stuff and beach towels through them

[NickFitz]

Just wait until you experience the joy of getting the fecker fixed when it goes wrong. .

Oh.

Yup.

That was about the length of time it took to get the part.

I'm just hoping it won't go wrong

[NickFitz]

It's been a productive morning, by my relatively low standards

First I went over to see if I could get a haircut. She turned out to be there, her husband/partner/whatever not having died of his cancer yet; a medical marvel apparently, having lasted longer on whatever he's being treated with than any other patient his specialists have treated

I was able to get the second-nearest available parking spot on the main road (not actually that main), which saves a lot of faffing about with residents' parking schemes on the side roads. And when I went in, there was nobody ahead of me so I was straight into the chair! I had thought of going quite early, but she said she'd had non-stop customers until a few minutes before I arrived, so I turned out to have timed it just right

After that, onwards to Big Sainsbury's as I was on that side of the river. I didn't need much, but I was able to get a few things that had been either out of stock or just not stocked at all at the Not-as-Big one last week

And so home, where the preferred parking space was pristine and untouched, awaiting my return

[DoctorStrangelove]

Just wait until you experience the joy of getting the fecker fixed when it goes wrong. .

Oh.

Yup.

That was about the length of time it took to get the part.

Though when it failed again several weeks later it took the same amount of time for the chap to come & fix the fecking thing by putting the connector back on properly as it did get the part.

By which time I'd bought a 2nd washing machine to save washing shirts in the fecking bath.

The 2nd washing machine was cheaper than the extended warranty on the Miele.

When it goes wrong again & it's out of warranty it'll be off to the scrapyard.