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[NickFitz]

Tea has been sausage casserole out of the freezer with chips

This was initially accompanied by Apple’s developer conference thing, in which they got the embarrassing stuff out of the way right at the start: admitting that they’ve had to deal with a load of tech debt in terms of bugs they’ve allowed to accumulate, and also that everybody hates “Liquid Glass” so much that they’ve had to make it possible to turn it off - though they've avoided the embarrassment of an “off” switch by instead adding a slider via which you can turn it down, all the way to nothing

Once that was done, a bit more of the shoplifting thing that they’ve stuck the “Police Interceptors” name on for no good reason

[xoggoth]

Took ghastly old ll2 to music thing yesterday. Abba tribute band was good.

Just doing boring stuff today, like fixing my shed door that wouldn't close due to wonkiness as result of subsidence. Lesson learned too late, if you get a new shed/greenhouse put it on a solid concrete floor.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

And after a hectic morning, lunch has been a hastily-prepared pancetta omelette

Back to the fray now…

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and damp. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 17 expected. More rain due and the sun might make an appearance this afternoon. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 04:45; Sunset 21:16 BST

Many meetings for gig1 this morning. Now to prep for many gig2 meetings. I need to also do something for gig3 but can't remember what.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Tonight’s reading is Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner (Third Edition, 2017) by Paul M. Sammon

I wonder what the diffs are from the 1996 First Edition. I'm not altogether sure I'm innerested enough to buy it to find out. . Oh. Added interviews with Sean Young, Harrison Ford, and Rutger Hauer, plus bits about the Director's Director's Cut Cut. Or something. I wonder if he finally caught up with Joe Turkel. Oh, and something about 2049, that dire turkey, all shiny with deafening music to make sure you couldn't hear the words. And absolutely nothing on the scale of "Tears in rain". 3 hours of boredom. Maybe I should burn the bluray so no one else has to suffer. .


Dreadful night's sleep: awake from the usual work nightmare at 04:00 (yes, literally) drenched in sweat, read book for hour & a half, dried off, got cold, then managed to return to the land of nod until 08:30.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

White sky.

18.3 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1008 mBar, 29.77 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

A400 flew over Neath as I made my way down to town.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. No need to buy multiple tins of bully beef or packets of cheese this week. Remembered to buy some ibuprofen.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about Danish butterflies: woman who wants to see every species of Danish butterfly in one season.

Shopping trip to Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Next door's lawns duly cut: after the No Mow May it was fecking hard work on the big one: managed to preserve most of the orchids aside from one I didn't know was there and another that had fallen over.

Some excitement & much foul language when the fuse in the tin shed blew, requiring testing with a lamp to trace WTF was going on. Plugged in a different socket in the salting house to complete the lawn, the fuse can wait until my hands stop shaking. I wonder how old that fuse is, it's in an old switch that has variously supplied power to sheds for at least half a century, possibly more. . And it didn't blow as such, just failed, presumably of old age. Now I'll have to find the fuse wire so I can replace it. Nice bit of asbestos in the fuseholder. .

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas & such like. Entertainment: PM.

Skinwalker Ranch.

No NCIS since it finished last week & I don't bother with NCIS Hawaii.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

As expected, it’s a gloomy, grey, drizzly start to the day. Must still be quite breezy too as the current 13°C “feels like” 8°. The expected high for the day is 16°, the rain will dwindle away during the morning, and there may be a bit of sunshine in the last few hours before nightfall. The barometers are down a bit at 1000/1008mB

[WTFH]

Morning all After a weekend up in Surrey/London, back home and it’s raining.

[NickFitz]

This afternoon’s viewing was more watery wildlife, and this evening I watched Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Tonight’s reading is Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner (Third Edition, 2017) by Paul M. Sammon

Monday again tomorrow. The rain’s here and should continue till morning, making for a suitably gloomy start to the week

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been cloudy with intermittent sunshine and some spits of rain. Currently 15 degrees and the high was 19. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 04:46; Sunset 21:15 BST

Overslept. Drove to see Mum. Fed her the dinner my brother had left for her. Uneventful drives in both directions.

The torrential rain in the week had nicely washed off the tree sap that was covering my car last weekend. On returning home, I ignored the parking spaces under trees.

Started watching the latest season of Surgeons: At the Edge of Life on iPlayer.

Tired.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a fry-up, because the bacon Needed to be Eaten™

Turning a bit gloomier out, with rain due any time now and likely to continue till morning

The young magpies were ditzing around not long ago, but I hadn’t seen them all day before that. They’re usually around first thing and back around teatime, but they aren’t here much during the day. I assume they’re quite adventurous and are off exploring the neighbourhood, or maybe messing about down on the park

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start again and it continues to be fairly windy, getting even windier later. No rain until this evening, though - well, in theory. It’s 16°C but “feels like” 10°, and aiming for 19°; the barometers are bouncing back at 1005/1013mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Grey.

Dreary.

Windy.

Sunless.

18.3 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.678 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, LM and WTFH popped in, whilst Brillo popped in a lot.

Today's dream before waking involved going to a train station somewhere only to find that the proposed journey was on a coach. Weird. Somehow or other it was going from one contract to another somewhere else. Glad to wake up.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the initial grey gloom. Wan sunshine later. Two conversations, one of which mentioned the meaning of "Maes Y Llan" and the other "Rivers of Blood".

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: not Di Ti Di.

Especially for NF:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002fjg8

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Freecell score: 70%, running average: 84%, which it won't be for long at this rate.

TPTV "Westerns". The best 25 westerns.

Book.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: R4 quiz thing.

Book.

TPTV "The Directors" Federico Fellini. Not that I've ever watched any of his films. Not only that, I didn't watch more than 10 minutes of that crap.

History's Mysteries. More Blazian bollox. Looking for Cleopatra's tomb.

Sergeant Cork S5 E2 "The case of the painted boat (1966)".

The Fonz: Hazardous History: Food. Contamination of septic food: no regs until about 1900. Dumb products: candy cigarettes. Remember them?

DMAX: more UFO bollox: Keksburg Acorn 1965. Socorro, NM, landing witnessed by Lonnie Zamora, 1964. One to beam up, Mr Scott. .

Which I achieved by switching it off & going to bed, though that, in and of itself, proved problematic.

[NickFitz]

Today’s wildlife programming was Attenborough-free and also largely underwater, so quite a few cephalopods and the like

In The Middle Kingdoms, Soviet rule came, and then it went again, though not always peacefully, particularly in Yugoslavia. And that’s that finished; I now know a lot more about the history of Central Europe than I used to. But I fancy a change from history for the next book

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Quite windy out.

Very relaxed day had; nothing notable done.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought from the South Indian place past the park. Very nice too

The cloud’s cleared quite a bit here, though I think there was a bit of drizzle this afternoon so it looks slightly damp out there