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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny out today, with a few little white fluffy bits hanging around here and there. Going to be a bit warmer too, though not as bad as earlier in the week; already at 24°C, and aiming for 27°. The barometers have jumped up to 1014/1022mB

I received an email from Miele this morning advising me that the delivery date for the washer-dryer has now been changed back to the date I originally selected, so they must have found it a place on a ferry. In fact, there were two emails; the first advised me of that change from the 26th to the 22nd, and the second (sent immediately after) advised me of another change from the 22nd to the 22nd. So it'll probably be the 22nd

[ladymuck]

Clear sky from my vantage point. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 29 expected. Barometer up to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 05:47; Sunset 20:23 BST

Tired this morning.

HWMBO goes home today, leaving in about half an hour. I'll next see him in Madrid (again) at the end of the month.

Laundry in the WM.

Looking ahead to next week's forecast, only one day has a grey cloud and a rain drop and that's on the day of my cousin's wedding. Sort of matches my general feelings towards going to the event.

[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