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[NickFitz]

There was a reasonable amount of wildlife stuff on today, though surely it’s about time we got some new Monkey Life?

Later, I continued reading The Jane Austen Project in which the intrepid time travellers are making good progress at inveigling themselves into the Austen family’s good books

The weather app informed me that there might be some light rain lasting twenty minutes or so. That was forty or more minutes ago as I listened to a torrential downpour beating against the windows, and it hasn’t stopped yet

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from Nando’s

[xoggoth]

I celebrate EVERY day mate

Good for you. I need to sign up to some miserable old git therapy lessons.

[sadkingbilly]

Can relax as nowt on today for a change, had things on all week. Back to normal tomorrow, volunteer thing at nature reserve followed by lunch with loon lady 1 for her birthday. Dunno why we celebrate birthdays at our age, should be bemoaning them.

I celebrate EVERY day mate. still above room temperature is a Good Thing.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Patchy cloud here, so there are occasional sunny spells and it doesn’t look as gloomy, though there’s also some light rain expected from time to time into the evening. It’s supposed to be a bit breezy as well, making the present high of 10°C “feel like” 4°, but the trees aren’t showing much evidence of it right now. The barometers are shuffling back up at 981/989mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast and the wetter side of damp. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Drizzle forecast for most of the day, with a chance the clouds may clear early evening. Barometer up to 994 mBar.

Sunrise 07:30; Sunset 17:02 GMT

Will be heading down to Mum's in the next hour or so. My aunt and uncle have decided to visit and we are all going out for dinner. A late drive home but I can lie in tomorrow.

[xoggoth]

Can relax as nowt on today for a change, had things on all week. Back to normal tomorrow, volunteer thing at nature reserve followed by lunch with loon lady 1 for her birthday. Dunno why we celebrate birthdays at our age, should be bemoaning them.

[WTFH]

Morning all
It’s overcast out and there’s been some overnight rain, but it’s brightening up now.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.3 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

985.5 mBar, 29.1 in Hg, 739.2 Torr, 14.293 psi, (up from 985 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric)

Meanwhile on the 15th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked. Started raining as soon as I reached the hill. Then I discovered why I'd retired that pair of shoes: wet feet. Not sure they're even any good for gardening.

Lunch: brunch:. Entertainment: FOOC.

The afternoon's excitement: a little Thomson mains/battery tv smoked one of those evil RIFA capacitors and set all the smoke alarms (those that still have batteries) off. Nice to know they work. . It was the LED rather than the Am241 alarms that sounded.

In other other news it's been hammering down for a while now, only to be replaced by that endless drizzle.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Amazingly enough Robinson talking to someone & I didn't turn it off as soon as he opened his mouth. James Graham, playwright.

Maigret S3 E7 "The Dirty House". A 6.35 auto (.25ACP) makes the usual appearance. The French (and James Bond) seem to like the .25ACP for some reason. Maigret can't do anything but beware of tooled up Grannies. .

History's greatest mysteries: "Somerton Man" Tamam Shud. Nuclear spying in Australia in 1947? WTF? Bollox even for Blaze. We might have been firing V2s off now & again but would that be worth spying on? The Monte Bello islands are rather a long way away.

Book. Other book. Other other book.

Freecell score: 80something.

Book.

[NickFitz]

Tonight there was not one but two major motion picture premieres, opening with September 5 (2024) in which terrorists kidnap the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics - but this is about the TV coverage, because the ABC sports team refuse to give back responsibility for covering the story to the news team, on the basis that they’re on the ground and the news team are in the USA, and end up providing the only live TV coverage of the incident from beginning to end, watched by hundreds of millions of people. I like these stories of how stories are covered, and I thought this was a particularly good one

Then Unhinged (2020) in which a young mother annoys another driver by honking her horn, but it turns out he’s a misogynist who already has nothing to lose… This started slow but then turned very violent very quickly, as is the way with psychopaths. Much better than I thought it was going to be for the first fifteen minutes or so, and well worth a watch

And finally, a rewatch of Oblivion (2013) because I hadn’t watched that in a while, and it's good

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a NEW! Sainsbury’s TTD wagyu ribeye steak with fried onions and chips. Very nice

This was accompanied by the rest of yesterday’s Police Interceptors

I stripped the bed and left the mattress to air this morning, so now I need to go and remake it before settling down for the evening

[DoctorStrangelove]

Shopping done!

I was also randomly selected for a rescan at the self-scan checkout. And this wasn’t the usual one where they do eight or ten things picked at random out of your bags: this was the Entire Shop Rescan! So I had to go over to the counter where they keep the security-tag-removers and such and she went through every bag. But it was the nice lady who’s been there for years, long before Covid even, and she was very careful not to mix up things from different bags and mess up my System

Think yourself lucky you weren't like that poor sod the other day mistakenly ordered to leave because the face recog s/w had a false positive and/or the security morons got the wrong chap. .

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sainsbury-...175424281.html

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a couple of spicy chicken thighs out of the freezer

And then much of the afternoon was devoted to the new forum stuff. They have an importer for vB5, but this is vB5.4 IIRC and the vBulletin people kept changing things between point versions. So they gave up trying to make the importer keep up and it only works up to vB5.1, I think.

So I’ve been through the source code for the import process, checking everything I can think of, which involved a lot of looking at the vB database and then the equivalent thing in the new database. Most of it works OK, but there are a few things I need to patch. And there’s important stuff like Thanks and Likes, which I need to dig into more because they’re handled by a third-party plugin here, but the new software has a builtin system, so I need to make sure all that stuff gets copied across

But it’s all useful stuff to learn. I’ve been able to get a test framework together that lets me make sure individual bits are working OK, and some other stuff that lets me run bits of the new forum code in isolation to make sure I understand how things work

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Not only did I get Viz, I was also randomly selected for a rescan at the self-scan checkout. And this wasn’t the usual one where they do eight or ten things picked at random out of your bags: this was the Entire Shop Rescan! So I had to go over to the counter where they keep the security-tag-removers and such and she went through every bag. But it was the nice lady who’s been there for years, long before Covid even, and she was very careful not to mix up things from different bags and mess up my System

Next: lunch

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another dull, damp day. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Drizzle expected all day. Barometer up to 984 mBar.

Sunrise 07:32; Sunset 17:00 GMT

HWMBO is off home today. He wants to watch NFL things on his huge TV rather than my piddly one and, as it takes place in the wee hours, I'm grateful for the lack of sleep disturbance. He'll be back in just under a week as it's my birthday (a big one!) next Sunday.

Gig3 confirmed start date on Wednesday. Just getting the contract reviewed before I sign my life away.