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[NickFitz]

Scrambled maps has had an update you can now select the number of tiles the map is cut up into. Looks a lot harder now.
EDIT: and it now tells you how many moves it took to complete the map.

I went for 5x5 and it took longer than it used to! I think it was 5x4 before; might stick to that

And the incorrectly-positioned tiles are too faint, I reckon - makes it harder to spot things like a little bit of road running across a corner and so on

[NickFitz]

Went for a walk, as I'm fed up with being so unfit and need to get back in at least half-decent shape. Not far, just around the block, but I'm trying to get back to the old habit (broken when I caught Covid) of getting a walk in before or after work

It's easier to get the green ring closed now as you can change the time required; I'm starting with a nice, easy ten minutes, and will gradually bump it up until I'm back to thirty

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull but not wet. Currently 17 degrees and that's the high for the day. No rain forecast. Barometer was up to 1014 mBar but has since dropped back to 1011 mBar.

This morning I was on site at ClientCo and I came home at lunchtime as I'm meeting friends in town this evening and I didn't want to get stuck in traffic later

Scrambled maps has had an update you can now select the number of tiles the map is cut up into. Looks a lot harder now.
EDIT: and it now tells you how many moves it took to complete the map.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

Bit of a quiet day today as ClientGov is having its annual live-in-person meet-up down in London, and most people are there. I was asked whether I was coming and politely declined. They asked why (not pressuring me, just so they have an idea of why people might choose not to go) and I pointed out that out of four visits to London on their behalf in the last three years, two have resulted in me spending a couple of weeks laid out by some foul disease, suggesting a 50:50 chance of it happening again. They agreed that this was an excellent reason not to bother going

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday apparently.

Grey.

Dark.

Dreary.

Dank.

Apparently dry.

Chilly in here at 14.9 deg, 15 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 746.44 Torr, 14.627 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of November 2019 WTFH had hot water restored by the needful doings of the plumber, Brillo poked his head above the parapet, and I spent yet more time "killing" brambles and taking stuff down the dump, having reached S6 of BTVS and viewed the advent of Skip in "Angel".

Trip to that Swansea to buy "The Most Wanted Man" that I didn't buy yesterday. Managed not to buy anything else.

Lunch: there was.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey drizzly gloom. It was quiet out there.

Freecell score: 93%, running average: 78%.

Tea: Morrisons breaded haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: book.

Digging for Britain from 2017: red hair. Weird skirt.

Thing on S4C about some rugby chap from Brynamman who is descended from African slavers in Ghana and Richard Brew who went there from Ireland & married the chief's daughter, going on to become remarkably successful in terms of exporting enslaved people.

https://www.tvguide.co.uk/schedule/1...hwasiaeth-a-fi

There was a thing on ITV about people getting Bobbited but I passed on that one.

PBS was rattling on about Cold War spying.

[xoggoth]

Grr. Too much on this week. Old fart art this morning and karaoke in evening. Tomorrow old fart group walk morning and history society talk in evening. Cabaret Thursday and loony lady 1 Friday.

[NickFitz]

The Halifax finally got around to refunding the extra payment they took at the start of the month, so I think that means the matter of the mortgage is completely done and dusted

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start but dry, and milder too: already at 9°C with an expected high of 16°. The barometers are very slightly up at 1004/1012mB

[NickFitz]

No more telly tonight as I finished reading The Siege. Excellent stuff, well worth reading if you're interested in such things

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Son's scrambled eggy lunch followed by 38m walky. Shorter than usual but it's grey and rainy.

I assume that "m" stands for minutes, not miles?

[NickFitz]

Tea has been twirly pasta bol

Accompanied by the one remaining episode of the Brighton cops thing on All4, which served to remind me that I don't actually like Brighton much

[xoggoth]

Son's scrambled eggy lunch followed by 38m walky. Shorter than usual but it's grey and rainy.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork chop in a wholemeal bap

No apple sauce because I've run out

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

ClientGov have approved my request to change to a four-day week so henceforth, Fridays are my own!