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[covbob]

Morning denizens

Grey and overcast here. The wet stuff is descending now.

Feeling tired and fed up. Real CBA vibe today with me. My head hurts too which doesn't help.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 17.5 deg, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 16 deg in the leanto.

1011 mBar, 29.855 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.6633 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of October 2019 the car wouldn't start & I couldn't find the old battery charger so had to use one that was approaching 60 years younger, whereas NF was Instantpotting something or other to go in the freezer, having had the luxury of a hotdog for lunch.

Entertainment: More or Less. Waffling on about lying Tory bastards.

Poor night's sleep due to lack of air through either nostril: dunno what this lurgie is but I'll be much happier when it's fecked off.

[WTFH]

Currently trying to work out why the LG TV I am using as a monitor on my other computer has suddenly decided to only show 95% of the picture, the rest being off the screen.

TV problem solved, switched the ratio from 16:9 to "Just Scan".

[WTFH]

Morning all
Short walk this morning in the sunshine (5.3km)
Currently trying to work out why the LG TV I am using as a monitor on my other computer has suddenly decided to only show 95% of the picture, the rest being off the screen.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start with patchy cloud out, though this is predicted to revert to generic cloudiness later. Relatively nippy too, being 8°C, and not getting past 14° this afternoon. The barometers are hovering at 1001/1009mB

[NickFitz]

The wind suddenly got.up and the rain came down.

We had that this afternoon, but then it turned into a very nice evening

Lots of time spent this evening on setting up the new iPad, checking out the keyboard-with-trackpad that makes it like a little laptop, experimenting with the Apple Pencil, and so on

The evening's viewing started with yet another of C5's innumerable police things

And then E2 of the D Day tapes thing. Omaha Beach wasn't very nice at all, from the sound of it - though nowhere was at all good

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The wind suddenly got.up and the rain came down.

[NickFitz]

First post from the new iPad Air

Tea: roast duck leg in plum sauce with chips

[ladymuck]

I had my final check in for the flu jab trial I've been on for the past 9 months and that triggered a payment of £935. Not exactly a new career but it pays for the removal chaps.

[NickFitz]

The iPad Air has arrived!

Unfortunately, I don't even have time to open the box right now

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cajun chicken breast butty (wholemeal)

[ladymuck]

Morning (just)
are landlines still a thing? when I moved my BT broadband the 'landline' was VOIP, so i canned it (NBG in emergency. - no power = no router = feck all comms)

Well, yes, it is all moving over to VOIP. A lot of offers are still bundling a landline of some flavour with broadband. The new fibre connections seem to be unbundled for the most part.

[sadkingbilly]

I went with Hey!Broadband and their home worker package. I wanted something that didn't have to come bundled with a phone line.

Morning (just)
are landlines still a thing? when I moved my BT broadband the 'landline' was VOIP, so i canned it (NBG in emergency. - no power = no router = feck all comms)

[NickFitz]

I went with Hey!Broadband and their home worker package. I wanted something that didn't have to come bundled with a phone line.

Yes, I'm glad there are now services without a phone. I paid Virgin Media for a phone line that didn't work for years. Sky Business added insult to injury as the phone line they insisted on turned out not to even be a proper phone line - it's a VOIP thing that plugs into the router, hogging a port. Due to a shortage of power sockets in the relevant spot, it's never even been connected

[NickFitz]

A meeting overran and there wasn't much time to do anything before the next one, so I bought myself a new iPad Air just for something to do. Delivery tomorrow

The iPad is apparently going to spend much of the day wandering the land, as it left the depot at 9:15 but won't be here until after 16:00

During standup my phone rang with a number I didn't recognise, so naturally I ignored it. Afterwards I Googled the number, and it was from a small hairdressing salon near the seafront in Swanage, a place I've never been