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[NickFitz]

I seem to have forgotten to hit the "Post Reply" button on this this last night, so here it is for the record

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was The Conversation (1974). I wasn't sure this would be a premiere as I figured it was probably on the telly some time when I was watching. But it's one of those ones that I've somehow managed to never see in the intervening fifty years, so it was. It's one of those 1970s corporate paranoia things in a noirish tone, and also one of the five movies John Cazales was in before his early death. It's good, but pretty bleak to say the least

Incidentally, I think the reason they no longer make these things that Pakkula in particular was famous for is that back then, the idea that a multinational corporation would clandestinely hire somebody to murder a journalist whose investigations threatened to reduce shareholder value seemed outlandish enough for a movie plot. Now? Nobody would approve of it (or not openly), but nobody would be much surprised either

To follow, a rewatch of Blade Runner (1982) - the "Final Cut" version, as it's necessary to specify versions with there being so many. This is the only version I've ever seen, though a chap I only know through Twitter created a bot that tweets the script line by line endlessly, and it uses the version with the voiceover that Harrison Ford didn't want to do. I reckon Mr. Ford was right

And then the second episode of The Plot Against America, which ends with Lindbergh winning the election for President

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out, but with clouds comes insulation, and it was one of those times when it warms up during the night and into the morning. This brings us to the current temperature of 13°C, and maybe to 14° in a bit. The barometers are down a little bit more at 1010/1018mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday apparently.

Grey.

Sunless.

Damp.

Dreary.

Very mild out, 13.7 deg in here, 12.5 in the kitchen & leanto.

1017.5 mBar, 30.05 in Hg, 763.2 Torr, 14.7575 psi, (up from 1016 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 WTFH was concerned the client was wasting money on travel rather than wasting it on him, whereas his mrs was away so he had to cook his own tea, which was in the oven, and, in passing, scored an OM, which, curiously, is now on a 027, NF had potato famine pork from the freezer, and everyone went OM.

[WTFH]

More importantly it's invoicing day.

GPWM.
I spoke to ClientCo on Monday and said that with me being off on Friday, I would submit my time & invoice on Wednesday. The PM wanted my timesheet, but the accounts were keen for me to delay submitting the invoice until Monday. Since the payment terms are months end + 30 days, I explained to them that my system was not configured to do that.
My “system” is me. I’m not going to wait until the end of January for November work.

[NickFitz]

Met up with 3 other old farts this morning to discuss arrangements for the new creative writing group. Starts 9th Jan. Need summit to force me to start writing bollox again. PM was usual Friday Loony Lady 1 walk.

I like the idea of a bunch of genteel old farts meeting up for their writing group and being utterly gobsmacked by the stuff you write

[xoggoth]

Met up with 3 other old farts this morning to discuss arrangements for the new creative writing group. Starts 9th Jan. Need summit to force me to start writing bollox again. PM was usual Friday Loony Lady 1 walk.

[NickFitz]

Tea: oniony chicken casserole, being a fresh batch and thus having the sliced potato topping, browned by the heat of the Remoska

this was accompanied by an episode of Trucking Hell as I continue my attempt to get through this series before the next one starts

[ladymuck]

Morning all
I see from the calendar that it is Friday.

For those of you who submit timesheets and have not done it yet for this week (I did mine on Wednesday), may you enjoy the final billable day of this week.

More importantly it's invoicing day.

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Got home from Mum's yesterday. Had to leave her without a working shower as the company doing the reconfiguration noticed the pump was faulty and said they could ignore it but then they wouldn't guarantee it. So an extra £90 and more time was needed to deal with that. I don't think it happened today so it'll either be tomorrow or Monday, I'd hope.

Today I went to clientCo's office for a workshop. Then to Kall Kwik to pick up some A1 print outs for another workshop next week.

HWMBO arrives tomorrow for a brief visit before he goes off to brainwash more people next week.

[NickFitz]

A few more boxes have been transferred to the storage unit, and I think that's everything gone there that needs to go!

There's still a bit of space if I decide any other stuff should shift out of the way for a while, but it's pretty full over there now

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

Heads up for Nectar cardholders: Sainsbury's are doing a half-price deal on priced-by-weight TTD beef roasting joints. Got myself a big bit of top rump

[NickFitz]

Not as Big Sainsbury's has been gone to!

It was quite busy, but not over-the-top busy the way Big has been the last couple of weeks. It occurred to me that being not as big, it doesn't stock so many of the seasonal fripperies upon which people are wont to spend their hard-earned at this time of year, so it might even be slightly better than usual if some of those local to it have made the extra trip around the ring road

Excitingly, I had a loaf of bread sliced by special request! Whether some of the in-store bakery loaves have been sliced is always unpredictable, and I suspect might vary depending on whether the people working there can be bothered. But a lady who was putting out loaves from one of those tall wire trolleys they have saw me rooting around at the back of the wholemeal loaves and, discovering that I was looking to see if there was a sliced one back there, immediately offered to slice one for me! Amazing stuff; it's as if the concept of Customer Service had suddenly become something real, rather than a made-up thing people complain about the lack of in badly-written American sitcoms

Anyway, I got most of the things I intended to get, and shall wait until after lunch before starting to move more stuff to the storage unit and tip

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry, apart from picking with what might just be a very light drizzle.

Black as ink the other side of the valley, sunny this side.

Blue sky in parts (it wasn't like that earlier).

Chilly in here at 12.9 deg, 11 deg in the kitchen and the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.56 Torr, 14.764 psi, (down from 1020 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked.

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 I was still after the flu jab, though NF remarked that he'd felt a little unwell after one, but nothing to speak of (i.e. under 65 jab: no bits of shark), whereas WTFH said the yellow fever jab was one to fear, and LM was gratified to have cancelled the 09:00 next day. Yet more BTVS S7 and Angel S4 were watched, including the fairly tedious commentary on the Las Vegas Angel ep which nearly sent me to sleep.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: some bollox or other on R4: "Rare Earth": Boldly Going: this lot have definitely drunk The Ketamine Kid's Rocket Koolaid. It's Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 80%.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: Nazi Hunters: The Malmedy Massacre. The Nazi bastards didn't hang due to dear old Joe McCarthy sticking his oar in. However the Nazi commander, SS-Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper, was offed in France in the 1970s when "someone" outed him & his house was burned down.

Bits of Wrecks: Scapa Flow. HMS Vanguard (1909): blew up at anchor, presumably when the magazines exploded. 3 survivors.

Read book.

Read other book.

Looked at 3rd book & couldn't be arsed.

Looked at 4th book: ditto.

[WTFH]

Morning all
I see from the calendar that it is Friday.

For those of you who submit timesheets and have not done it yet for this week (I did mine on Wednesday), may you enjoy the final billable day of this week.

[NickFitz]

Just realised that I forgot to record yesterday that it was the second anniversary of buying the flat!