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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Up very betimes this morning, as I woke up around half six and didn’t even feel like going back to sleep. So I arose and prepared myself for the day, and then drove across town to see if the hairdresser was at her station early, as usual. She was! So I’ve had my Christmas haircut, and that’s one more thing crossed off the list

Her partner has made it to another Christmas, but the doctors are now giving him until spring. Still, I think that’s more than two years longer than they gave him when he was first diagnosed

Then back again, where a builder doing some work on one of the flats had taken my preferred space. Still, there was plenty of room (two spaces) on the other side of the big lawn, and it saves him carrying stuff too far, I suppose

It’s mild out for the time of year: 6°C now, as it was when I arose, and the “feels like” 0° is nonsense as there’s only a slight breeze and it felt fine out there to me. The high for the day is expected to be 7°, and the barometers are down a good bit at 984/992mB. There’s cloud down near the horizon but it’s clearer further up, and some first glimmerings are coming from the sun. But the prediction is for rain to start within the hour and continue, off and on, through the day

[WTFH]

Morning all
Heavy rain overnight means the ground is sodden and the lanes are rivers, but at least it wasn't raining on us.

[NickFitz]

In The Forgotten Soldier, it’s Autumn 1944 and the past year has been spent retreating across Ukraine, occasionally being sent forward again, then retreating some more until eventually he was retreating through Romania, just for a change

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was homemade adana kebabs (out of the freezer) in a pitta bread with sweet chilli sauce, and chips

This was accompanied by the next episode of Netflix’s Yorkshire Ripper documentary, which has plenty about the general incompetence of the investigation as it takes us up to the point where uniformed coppers arrest him for having dodgy numberplates

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Dark. Currently 7 degrees and the high was 8. Apparently cloudy and could rain later. Barometer up to 998 mBar.

Sunrise 08:27; Sunset 15:47 GMT

Busy, busy, busy today. Meetings galore. All done now thank goodness. I just have to write a presentation for a demo tomorrow afternoon but that's tomorrow's job.

An ex-client got in touch to ask if I might be coming available, so we're going to have a chat tomorrow about that. Trying to see if I can blag having three gigs next year. All part time; I'm not a complete loon.

[sadkingbilly]

(Going to post this in here with the esteemed members of the group, rather than in the main forum where any old riffraff might respond)

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the pork pie from yesterday

Outside, the fog has cleared, the sun is shining, and the sky is clear and blue

This morning, shortly before standup, there was a knock on the door from yet another plumber, still seeking the source of the leak and wanting me to run my bathroom tap while he investigated. I'd thought this was sorted after the other week, at least as far as I was concerned, but this got me wondering again if it would turn out to be coming from here

So the tap was set running, and he went back downstairs, and about ten minutes later he was back with the news that he’d identified the source of said leak and it’s in the flat beneath mine! So it looks like I’m off the hook and don’t have to fret about it any more

There have been various banging and drilling (or possibly sawing) noises coming from downstairs for the rest of the morning. I’m just glad they weren’t coming from my bathroom

[WTFH]

(Going to post this in here with the esteemed members of the group, rather than in the main forum where any old riffraff might respond)

Is anyone with Octopus Energy and would like to give me their referral code? (You can PM me if you want)

[xoggoth]

Not much old farty stuff on today apart from local history group party this evening. I know sweet FA about history but am on committe as I did the website.

PS Just got Wordle in two gos. Lucky day?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Grey.

Hints of wan sun.

Chilly in here at 13.9 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 7 in the saltinghouse.

1002.5 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 751.9 Torr, 14.54 psi, (up from 1000 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, but not enough to stop LM bagging a ZenChury despite being rained on.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Freecell: 83%, avg: 84%.

Washing frenzy in progress. Well that ended well, not: in off the line at midday & the rest of the afternoon spent feeding stuff through the TD. All airing upstairs now.

Entertainment: Infinite Monkey Cage S2 E1, E2.

Freecell: 100%, avg: 84%.

Despite much potching about & running checkers Win 98 box still falls over: not with BSOD: just stops. Very irritating.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

Scotland Yard: 1954: the dead woman in a trunk case: apparently London Tokyo is only 3000 miles. . It took 36 hours and 9 stops to fly there on a Comet 1 rather than the turboprop shown. They did show a Comet for the London to Capetown trip which took a mere 23 hours.

Yesterday: Abandoned engineering S15 E2 "Hitler's fortress of fury": some unfortunate Native Americans being screwed by the US government. Nothing new there then. . The 1975 occupation of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate in Gresham, Wisconsin, by the Menominee Warrior Society. France: Joseph Kennedy Jr. and the attempt to blow up Hitler's V3 big feckoff guns. Farm in Spain built by monks that eventually ended up as a set in "A few dollars more" and "The good, the bad, and the ugly". King Zog of Albania.


David Jason invention thing. Armstrong's Cragside and Swan's lightbulb. Baird's Televisor. The lawnmower. The Bell Telephone. Well he was Scottish even if he invented it in SepticLand with donations to a bent as a butcher's hook patent examiner. Ah, the vinegar has replaced the original pool of mercury. Odd that. Some lunatic who seems to have built a bomb shelter as a man cave.

u&w: Elementary S1 E5. "Lesser Evils". The Angel of Death one.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Foggy start here! Not very warm either: it’s 3°C but “feels like” -1°, and it’s only aiming for 8°. The barometers are up a bit at 995/1004mB

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was the rest of Downfall: The Case Against Boeing on Netflix, which I started watching the other evening, all about the 737 Max debacle

And in The Forgotten Soldier, the retreat across Ukraine continued, enlivened by a case of dysentery. Having been given convalescent leave when that had been treated, he made it as far as eastern Poland where all leave was cancelled and he was sent back to the front, roughly in the region where he’d been hospitalised

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein

Rather than chucking the ingredients together with a vague degree of eyeballing, I tried doing a bit more measuring to get things in the right proportions, and it turned out really well. Who knew!

[NickFitz]

Another working day done, and only six more this year!

The other dev and I were just having a discussion about where we are and what to focus on, as the DM has started suggesting that some additional thing (or two!) could be squeezed in somehow before the New Year. There’s loads left to do on the big thing we’re working on, and only the other dev available after I knock off next week, and she’s also got a couple of extra days of leave booked before she also knocks off until next year. So we reckon that we need to point out that there isn’t really any way of squeezing anything in, because there’ll be nobody there to do it and no working days to do it in

[xoggoth]

another £125 of interest this month

Yeh, got qute a lot in cash ISAs/savings not checked. In more typical grumpy mode, darn HMRC say I have underpaid tax by £53, not a huge amount but I hate paying tax at all.