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[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Open Water (2003) in which a couple of SCUBA divers are left behind by their tour boat and discover that the ocean isn't much to their liking after all. A lot of blame is placed on the tour operators who got the head count wrong. I would simply point out that these people had a perfectly good house that they could have stayed in, but chose instead to go On Holiday and Do Stuff. Their home had neither sea water nor sharks in it, yet they willingly went somewhere that had both, and faced the consequences. This is why I don't go anywhere or do anything

And then a rewatch of Companion (2025). It's still very good and very funny, at least by the standards of most of the robot-gone-off-on-one films we see so much of nowadays

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Evening with sister at pub. She paid!

I've paid for two of the last three times we've had a family outing, which we only manage once or twice a year. I reckon I should be safe for at least a couple of years now

Then again, my sister and her husband do such a cracking job of Christmas that it must count for a couple of outings in its own right, so they're off the hook. We're going to have to start expecting the nieces to pay for stuff at this rate, but that doesn't seem right somehow

[xoggoth]

Evening with sister at pub. She paid!

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I popped round to the kebab shop

And to go with this, some new Police Interceptors

[NickFitz]

I made it out to the countryside! Parked by the churchyard in a not-too-distant village, and headed down a footpath that passes between the graves and runs out into assorted fields

I didn't really go that far - maybe about a mile before turning back because there's a small river, though often more like a brook in a very deep and broad ditch at that point, and getting down to the footbridge across it can be tricky when the ground's at all muddy, the ditch having very steep sides. In fact, I didn't get that far because that field is now laid to some kind of crop, the surrounding ones being pasture. I didn't want to trample what were still pretty much seedlings, and couldn't be bothered to walk all the way round the edge only to find that the footbridge was either under the river because of recent rain, or quite dangerous to get down to, those being the only two states I've ever found it in

So I retraced my steps. The whole amble lasted a bit over an hour because of frequent pauses to observe things by the wayside: some sheep in a neighbouring field, ridges from mediaeval times, various fungi, trees, and the like. It was very relaxing

[sadkingbilly]

two days spent attempting to reach a proper computer.
balked by an 'upgrade' to Windoze systems in the interminable chain of jumps to get to a 3270 terminal.
FFS
I HATE WINDOZE!!!!!!!
still,
kerCHING!!
I can do real work tomorrow.

[ladymuck]

Assorted clothings were draped over the airer in a gap between meetings.

2 hours done. 4 to go.

Lunch prepped ready to finish off in my next gap.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz tomato soup and white toast

Spent a chunk of the morning mucking around with RealityKit shaders. Might get around to going for that country walk soon, after which I shall start digging into some blog posts and articles about barycentric coordinates, whatever they are

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with occasional gaps. Some dampness about. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 14 expected. There could be some sunshine, there could be some rain. There's also a 'moderate wind warning' but that's for tomorrow. Barometer up to 998 mBar.

Sunrise 07:38; Sunset 17:53 BST

Rubbish sleep due to irritable legs and being too hot or too cold.

Assorted clothings are in the WM.

Six hours of meetings today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 17.4 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto, 10.5 in the saltinghouse.

Slight condensation on the bedroom window. 2nd time this autumn.

993.5 mBar, 29.34 in Hg, 745.2 Torr, 14.4 psi, (up from 990 last night assuming I tapped it), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of February 2020 BR14 popped in with discussion of Hill Street Blues, NF mentioned it was on Amazon Prime, I didn't mention I had the dvds, LM couldn't be bothered to make pancakes.

Washing frenzy in progress: the chances of anything drying on the line seem remote, but we'll wait & see.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: "The death of an ordinary man" at 11:45. .

Can't say there's much in the way of drying going on with the washing. I'll bung the shirts in the TD at 15:00 if they're still damp.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Rather pleasant though the inevitable grey began its return halfway through.

Shirts in off the line & duly iRoned, airing upstairs now along with the smalls.

Currently getting outside a mug of mediocre but consistent coffee and typing this nonsense.

Tea: Tesco battered cod/haddock. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. <click>

No Maigret this evening. .

The crash detective thing: some lune, pissed up, riding an electric scooter in the middle of lane 1 in the dark at 0100 in the morning. Not survivable when some poor sod runs into the back of you at 70mph. Think of it as evolution in action. Darwin wins again*. *Only if he didn't have 13 illegitimate kids of course. .

Scotland Yard: pools winner of £30k (1938) offed by a commercial traveller. Equivalent to £1.755M today.

The repair shoppe. Nothing of any innerest in this other than the automaton.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start yet again, though there are some gaps and we may get some sunny spells, in theory. It's mild enough for October again too: 9°C and aiming for 13° this afternoon. The barometers are back up a bit at 985/993mB

Thinking of heading out to the countryside for a walk. Would make a nice change, and God knows I need the exercise

[WTFH]

Morning all
6C when we got back from our walk earlier. Mist in the valley is slowly burning off.

[NickFitz]

Finished Fifth Planet. It did indeed get better, though the ludicrous attitudes towards women persisted; an underlying tone of astonishment when the female cosmonaut proves capable of using a spanner and so on

Still some Diwali fireworks going off from time to time. Go to bed!

An email from Zoopla earlier informed me that one of the flats has sold (STC), and it proved to be the one on the top floor opposite where they always seem to be watching sport of some kind on the telly. A close examination of the photos also revealed that this must be the flat where the dogs live with their two servants! I like seeing the dogs coming and going; it's a shame they're moving

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been leftover Turkish bits, which needed to be finished off before they went off

To go with this, part two of the new 24 Hours in Police Custody which is about a thoroughly wretched affair

[NickFitz]

can't get your bike into the car??
roof/boot rack?
wait........... you're a contractor. get your driver to take it!
honestly, i don't know What the world's coming to.

I did realise after I'd posted that I could use the bike! I'd scoped out the bus stuff when I was first thinking about the wheel problem, back before the bike arrived

And a further check suggests that I can miss the worst of the uphill bits coming back by taking an obscure but still fairly direct route along some little-known suburban roads that I remember because a friend lived on one of them when I was a student