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[ladymuck]

SNOW



Morning all

It's been raining all morning but it's just turned to snow. Big fat lumps coming down. The ground is too wet for it to settle. Currently 4 degrees ('feels' like 1) with a high of 6 expected. Cloud cover set to lift by mid afternoon. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 07:26; Sunset 16:07 GMT

Windows 11 keeps nagging me to install it on my work laptop so I think I will turn off the TPM in the bios to make it go away. My main desktop PC is deemed incompatible because of some hardware non-compliance. I have the extended 1 year support enabled so I'm not living dangerously unpatched.

[WTFH]

Morning all
4C feels like -5C. 30mph gusts. Not the most enjoyable of walks, particularly as it started to sleet on the way back home.
Last billable day of the week for me as I'm off over to visit dad tonight.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The rain continued through the night, but seems to have just stopped, though there may be a little more of it over the next hour or so. It’s going to be a windy day and not at all warm: the 3°C we currently enjoy “feels like” -6°, and the high will only be 4°, dropping below zero this evening. The barometers have fallen to 997/1005mB

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was Going Going Gone, the final Dryco novel

Apparently it’s going to rain overnight, though it won’t be as cold as it’s going to be tomorrow night

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been cider-braised pork and chips

This was accompanied by E1 of Spycraft on Netflix, a documentary series. Unfortunately, it’s from the USA, so it’s utterly lacking in depth as they assume viewers are incapable of either taking in complex information or paying attention to any specific subject for longer than a minute or two. So they either say the same vague thing several times in different ways (“drones let agencies look at things from the sky”), presumably hoping one of them will stick, or they start talking about something interesting (the Thing, various US covert operations from the Cold War) but they don’t stay with it for more than a couple of minutes, during which time they’ve imparted about as much information as you’d expect to get from the first couple of paragraphs of an article on the subject

[NickFitz]

Another day done! That means only fourteen more working days for me this year

Today was quite enjoyable. Among other things, I devised an ingenious solution to a mildly tricky problem. I felt it advisable to check the source code of both Python and Django to ensure that the way I was going about things was legit - everything in the relevant docs suggested it should be fine, but it’s always worth making sure and Code is Truth. It was indeed fine, and worked perfectly

[NickFitz]

Cloudflare London appears to have crashed.

Apparently DownDetector was down because of it

[WTFH]

Cloudflare London appears to have crashed.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a leftover pork cutlet in a bap - white, because I used the last of the brown ones yesterday

Yesterday afternoon, a plumber knocked on the door and asked if I could flush my toilet repeatedly for a few minutes as they were trying to determine the source of a leak downstairs somewhere. I obliged, but he never returned so I didn’t think any more about it. Today comes an email from the management company saying they need access to several flats, including mine, on either Friday or Saturday morning to work out where the leak is coming from. I’ve told them Friday would be best for me. Hope it doesn’t turn out to be coming from my flat; I could do without the hassle of having the bathroom torn apart

[ladymuck]

The cloudflare outage is very annoying. I am having to do some work instead of reading The Register.

[ladymuck]

Napier, NZ completed in just 14 moves due to all the 'two-fers'. (5x5 grid)

Still getting the site crash in Firefox but I have a workaround so there's no point making a fuss.

[sadkingbilly]

It stopped being NHS 15 years ago. Then again it's only £250 a year.

£250 to even look, here, - robbin barstewards. 1/2 bottle of bells and a set of long nosed pliers is MUCH cheaper. <with less teeth>

[DoctorStrangelove]

lucky bugger, - dentist feckin desert here
i've extracted three in as many years.

It stopped being NHS 15 years ago. Then again it's only £250 a year.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning.

Dentist visited at 09:00. Teeth cleaned, x rayed, nothing to do. .

lucky bugger, - dentist feckin desert here
i've extracted three in as many years.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright with a decent amount of sky visible. Currently 3 degrees ('feels like' 1) with a high of 7 expected. My weather app thinks there's rain and snow falling at the moment. I disagree. Barometer has dropped a little to 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 07:25; Sunset 16:08 GMT

Yesterday, HWMBO and I met MS for dinner and a good catch up. No secrets spilled about upcoming OC appearances even though it was all recorded some time ago.