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[NickFitz]

I was going to make a wholemeal loaf this evening but I forgot to put it on when I finished work, so I used the “quick” programme that only takes three hours instead of five. It’s turned out not very tall, so I reckon it’ll probably also turn out to be quite dense. Oh well, I’ll just have to have dense toast for a while

Tonight I read more of Endurance, in which said vessel has finally succumbed to the ice. After letting a floe carry them roughly in the direction they wanted to go for a couple of months or so, they’ve set out west, hoping to get somewhere they have a chance of launching the boats and heading for the Antarctic Peninsula. But they’ve ended up blocked by huge pressure ridges, and the floe they’re on is starting to break up

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I got there with 10 mins to spare; plenty of time to buy a G&T and preorder ice-cream for the interval.

Excellent!

[ladymuck]

Ah well, at least you’ve got air wedges to play with instead

I got there with 10 mins to spare; plenty of time to buy a G&T and preorder ice-cream for the interval.

[NickFitz]

Tea was the remaining leftovers from Saturday

To accompany this, I started watching Catching a Killer: Buried Truths on All4, about the murder of a Turkish chap in Chelmsford

[NickFitz]

And guess forgot they were supposed to be at the theatre this evening.

Ah well, at least you’ve got air wedges to play with instead

[NickFitz]

I think the WM may be fixed, although I didn't do anything in particular. The air wedges were helpful, thanks for tip NF!

Woohoo!

[ladymuck]

And guess forgot they were supposed to be at the theatre this evening.

[ladymuck]

I think the WM may be fixed, although I didn't do anything in particular. The air wedges were helpful, thanks for tip NF!

[NickFitz]

And the old boy’s annual magazine turned up in the post, in which I found that a chap I was in the same form as for several years has died

Scrub that - it's his brother who died. He came from a huge family. When I started there at age 11, he had an older brother in every year ahead of us. The school used the convention of assigning Roman numerals to distinguish boys of the same family, so he was officially designated Barker vii in my first year, counting down by one every year until he was finally just Barker when we were in the Upper Sixth

[WTFH]

Zappi is now installed, and the app now shows that our house on tickover with 3 computers on is using 300-400W.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the cold cocktail sausages from the other day

I suspect they should have been eaten by COB Saturday, but I’m sure it’ll be fine. Sainsbury’s aren’t going to poison a loyal customer of such long standing, surely?

Rather grey and gloomy out, but no precipitation. The wind seems to have settled down slightly too

I also had minor IT woes this morning. The ClientGov laptop suddenly decided, about three minutes before standup, that networking was something it had never heard of and had no intention of getting involved with, and had to be rebooted. It was fine after that, but Docker then decided to have one of its funny turns, so I had to restart that. And then PyCharm claimed it couldn’t connect to Docker, so I had to restart both of them. All OK after that

And the old boy’s annual magazine turned up in the post, in which I found that a chap I was in the same form as for several years has died

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all
Yes, I should be asleep, no, I’m not.

you can be up to no good, being awake at that time in the morning

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all

Cloudy. Wet from overnight / early morning rain. Currently 12 degrees and that's the high for the day. Further showers expected. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.

Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 16:17 GMT

Spent most of my billable time this morning fixing a Citrix VDI issue so I could continue to connect to clientCo's systems.

I spend ~30mins every morning entering pw's and replying to security pushes on my phone, just to access the end client site.
kerCHING!

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Wet from overnight / early morning rain. Currently 12 degrees and that's the high for the day. Further showers expected. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.

Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 16:17 GMT

Spent most of my billable time this morning fixing a Citrix VDI issue so I could continue to connect to clientCo's systems.