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[WTFH]

[SIZE=14px]Afternoon all
Greetings from the depths of Z_Land

found an old share cert when clearing my wife's effects.
Attempted to contact the authors for validity check, and I spent hours trying to negotiate their website, which insists on an 11 digit account number, when the number i have is only 8 digits...

My sister-in-law found an investment document relating to my MIL about 3 years ago. Since then there has been a lot of communication - death cert, probate, solicitors letters, etc, all required as evidence before the funds were released. The good thing is that they remained invested over that time and have gone up by a reasonable amount. Finally got the money through today, more than a decade after my MIL died.

[WTFH]

Afternoon all
Up at 04:40 to walk the dog, pending a 07:00 delivery of the next shed. At 06:00 as we were about to go into an area of poor phone reception, I thought I should check to see if there was any update on the delivery. There was. New ETA 06:40.
The walk was cut short and what normally takes 45 minutes was done in 35.
They arrived spot off 06:40, offloaded the shed in about 15 minutes and were on their way to the next delivery. They'd set off at 03:00 to get to me.

This shed is for the lawnmowers, but is from a company who normally make stables. I needed something with a wide enough door to drive the big mower in, and a stable is just about perfect size. While the other shed is good, and has a 3x2 frame, this one has a 4x2 frame. The other shed was made up of panels that were 1.7x1.2. This one is 2.1x3. That rules out me moving any of the panels myself. A slight drawback is that the guy who makes them does not supply instructions for building them, and while many bits are obvious, there's at least 2 pieces of timber that I have no idea of their purpose.
If we weren't away this weekend, I know what I'd be doing.

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
Greetings from the depths of Z_Land

found an old share cert when clearing my wife's effects.
Attempted to contact the authors for validity check, and I spent hours trying to negotiate their website, which insists on an 11 digit account number, when the number i have is only 8 digits.
The website helpfully gives a tel no to call in the case of an 8 digit number, but this is guarded by a robot which, after 2minutes of pre-recorded irrelevance, insists on an 11 digit no before even offering any alternatives.
All contact nos for this incompetently written website's owners are guarded by the same robot.
WTF writes this sh1TE???
no doubt the 'professionals' in the SotM thread.
Feckin code monkeys.
Grrrrr.
I see the taxdodgers are still excited

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover chips and lamb from the other evening, because I made too much

The rain was occasional and more inclined to drizzle after some early downpours, and seems to have petered out altogether now

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast, a bit damp. Currently 16 degrees ('feels like' 14) with a high of 19 expected. Rain supposedly starting soon but the sun might make an appearance this afternoon. Barometer down to 1004 mBar.

Sunrise 04:48; Sunset 21:11 BST

This morning I was called by the NHS Blood and Transplant service to ask if I'd consider switching from whole blood donation to plasma. This is mildly inconvenient because blood can be donated pretty much anywhere and there's a great centre at Westfield in Shephard's Bush. Plasma can only be done at one of three centres, my local being in Twickenham (the others are in Birmingham and Reading). Turns out there's not enough plasma donations in the UK and they're on a drive to recruit and be less reliant on imports. Plasma donations can also be given more frequently than blood. So, this weekend, I'll be off to Twickers to try it out.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey start today, with what seems to be a lot of layers of various thicknesses. It’s still breezy, and this is expected to continue, getting even breezier during or after the rain that’s expected to visit from the next hour or so to mid-afternoon. As a result of the breeze, the present temperature of 13°C “feels like” 8°; the expected high is 18°. The barometers are very slightly up at 991/999mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damp.

Grey.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 19.6 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4748 psi (down from 1002 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 AndyGarbs popped in a lot, LM detailed skip charges for the parking bay outside her flat, WTFH popped in, and I turned the heating on briefly & roasted some beef, whereas NF suggested Brillo turned his car on and off to see if it made the clock work.

Awake at 06:20. Dream before waking was a work one: much use of the term "mother****er" happened in this dream. Can't remember a dream like that previously.

In other other news it's been hammering down for at least an hour, and windy with it.

If I could be arsed it'd be a good day to die hard have a bonfire.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Thing about AI on R4: they don't seem to realise that Terminator is a documentary. Followed by Best BTTC crashes on ITV4. Jungle Warfare on PBS: the Evil British in Malaya; the Evil French, followed by the Septics in Vietnam. Guess who were more successful against the communists. .

[NickFitz]

In The Middle Kingdoms, the Great War has made a right mess of everything. Hungary, which had seceded from Austria-Hungary, had the distinction of being the last of the Central European states to surrender in 1918. This was also its first official act as an independent nation

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spag bol, which I’ve been meaning to make for ages but kept forgetting to

Nice sunny evening now, with young magpies ditzing around under the rose bushes

[xoggoth]

Had some really loud thundery bangs here.

[NickFitz]

Thunderstorm here too! But it started with distant rumblings about thirty minutes ago, passed over us with heavy rain, and has already gone. Looks like the sun’s about to come out now!

Today was one of those days where I identified a bug first thing, had to leave it to do something else, then had to get something else sorted out in the middle of that, and eventually got back to the original bug in the last hour. But it’s fixed now and all the other stuff went OK, so it’s been a very productive day really

[DoctorStrangelove]

Creepy, my PC is making faint muttering sounds and I don't have a browser or anything else open. Anyway, off to old arty farty thing soon.

xogg xenchury. Om.

[xoggoth]

Ghosts! That there is classic EVP evidence

But I'm sure it was my voice, sounded like me. Darn it! I must be dead!

Maybe find out the cause when I get round to replacing my Win 10 PC with my new 11 PC. Looks yuck down there among all those wires, lots of dust and cobwebs.

[ladymuck]

I turned my PC off and turned off all the wall sockets and the speaker was still doing the muttering sounds. Was obviously a recording of me but how was it playing?????

Ghosts! That there is classic EVP evidence.

[ladymuck]

The clouds cleared and we had a bit of sunshine for a while. Now it's come over all gloomy and I can hear thunder in the distance.

EDIT: and now it's raining again (I could sing a song about that)

EDIT2: thunder AND lightning, directly overhead!