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[NickFitz]

Later viewing has been Knowing Me, Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge which is still very funny, though it's a bit disconcerting to realise that it's from Christmas 1995 and that is, apparently, almost thirty years ago

I also read another chunk of Behold the Man. And I even managed to squeeze in a little bit of work on the SpriteKit/SwiftUI stuff

Time for bed now. With luck the lift engineer will come and fix it tomorrow, and I can resume the attempt to get the table and chairs out of here

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

An uneventful journey home was successfully completed.

[NickFitz]

After a light lunch of a bit of pork pie, I was feeling a bit peckish this evening. So I got some exercise by popping round to the kebab shop for tea

And the eating was accompanied by Prof. Hannah Fry explaining how Deliveroo and suchlike services work, which involved digressions to cover the history of GPS and so on

[NickFitz]

It may be of innerest to some that Monkey Life is on at 14:00. .

They let them trickle out over the course of the week, then round them up and show them all again at the weekend

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

After getting very windy overnight it remains pretty breezy, but the trees seem to have coped this time. It's 6°C and so it will remain for the rest of the day, while the barometers are down to 991/999mB

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all, Happy New Year!

Overcast, windy, wet. Currently 3 degrees ('feels like" -1) and that's the high for the day. The rain may ease up for a while late afternoon. Barometer up to 1002 mBar.

Flying home early evening and BA have already emailed to warn me my flight may be delayed due to weather in the London area.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Aha! The Real(tm) NF is back rather than the pod person! Off to bed at 05:04, that's more like it. None of this getting up at 08:00 to watch monkeys.

Morning.

Wednesday.

Wet. Very wet.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto.

1003.5 mBar (rising), 29.63333 in Hg, 752.6868 Torr, 14.55454 psi, (down from 1008.5 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of December 2019 LM was gifted a week's food leftovers by HWMBO, xogg found a new way to find porn links, NF was to have a lift from his brother for the annual Xmas trek, and I watched Angel S5 E1 twice, once with the commentary turned on, followed by the ever present & increasingly tedious Oak Island nutjobbery. How the feck can this still be going on? Still no mention of the oncoming chinese plague.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: NZ Motorway Patrol. S3 followed by S12 E1.

It may be of innerest to some that Monkey Life is on at 14:00. .

Freecell score (W95): 57%, running average: going fecking down. Dunno wtf was going on there.

Book.

Other book. Stone me, reading this is like pulling teeth.

Book.

Tea: chilli con carne (tinned) etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: some waffling about The Meja. PM. Oh what a surprise. .

Am Dro Selebs: "famous" people I've never heard of* going for a walk.

* Apart from Guto Harri, the Fat Owl of the Remove's PR chap.

Vera S14 E1.

ITV News. BBC News. Gosh. That youtube vid I watched earlier has been taken down. Odd that.

10 seconds of "When the Boat comes in". Have a bloater or a haddock or something.

Stone me, it's 49 years old. Even more disturbing, James Mitchell also wrote "Callan".

[NickFitz]

Last year's final major motion picture premiere was Alien: Romulus (2024) and frankly, it wasn't very good. I think Alien 3 is a good film, and also like Prometheus and the one after that that I can never remember the title of; but this was more of an Alien clip show than a new story, with nothing happening that we haven't seen happen before and, worse, all the bits that everybody remembers being done all over again, just in a slightly different spaceship with new actors. As I've said before, I seem to have formed the habit of watching all of them again every few years, but I'm not sure I'll even bother including this one next time around

After that disappointment, and because I felt vaguely in the mood for something with good music at the start of the New Year, I rewatched Elvis (2022) which really is very good. I intend to watch Priscilla soon too, which was another reason to have a look at this side of the story, insofar as one can understand anything about these people from biopics

Finally, the final part of Chernobyl

Happy New Year again, and goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Happy New year, denizens!

[xoggoth]

Just back from loony lady 1's dump. We plated Scrabble. I won as usual but only just.

[NickFitz]

Very windy out now. Hope the trees are all OK

[NickFitz]

After some leftover KFC hot wings for lunch, tea has been steak and Guinness stew that I found at the bottom of the freezer, unlabelled and forgotten

[ladymuck]

The sun came out for a short visit and then disappeared back behind the rain laden cloud.

[eek]

Morning all

Very, very wet. Breezy. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 11 expected. Rain set to continue all day in varying levels of enthusiasm. Barometer down to 997 mBar.

Following the revelations announced by BA about their changes to the Executive Club from April 2025, I have been re-evaluating who I will choose to travel with in future.

Given that I'm never going to do enough flights to retain lounge access with KLM I just got the Lloyd's / Halifax World Elite Traveller card.

That gives (basic) lounge access and priority security at most airports which is all I really need.

[NickFitz]

One of the tasks I've been putting off for ages, but particularly during my extended Christmas break, is moving the dining table and chairs that I never use to the storage unit, pending a decision on whether to just get rid of them altogether. I've already disassembled the table to make it easier to get the new recliner in, so it's all just stacked near the living room door waiting to be moved.

I just finally managed to motivate myself to get it done. Not too complicated: take two of the chairs down to the car, get the sack truck from my storeroom while I'm down there, take the other two chairs, then use the sack truck to take the rather heavy tabletop down.

So I shifted other stuff that was in the way, grabbed two of the chairs, went out to the landing, and… the lift's broken

It's stuck just above the ground floor, and I assume the chance of an engineer showing up before Thursday is minimal

Ah well, I tried