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[NickFitz]

Ah, UPS don't fly from Cologne to the UK - apparently it's brought here by road or rail via some place called Stanford-le-Hope on the banks of the Thames near Canvey Island. No chance of it getting here tomorrow, then

Turns out this is not always the case - they flew it over to EMA around three this morning, and it's out for delivery as of about twenty minutes ago!

I was about to go shopping, but I'll have to put that off to this afternoon now

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Bright, glorious sunshine! Had you going, no it's just cloudy and dull again. Currently 9 degrees and that's it for the day. The weather app claims the sun will appear this afternoon but I don't believe it. No rain forecast. Barometer at 1024 mbar.

Scratchy eyes this morning, sniffles still sniffling. First coffee inhaled, I suspect I'll need a couple more before I feel like doing any work.

Forgot to mention yesterday that smalls and such were laundered. They will be replaced on the clothes airer by work dresses and other larger items of clothes later.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Overcast and gloomy, but dry.

TFIF, etc.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Yet another grey start. A touch sillier today though, being 7°C now and not getting any higher than 10°. The barometers are down a bit at 1015/1023mB

Last night's sleep wasn't too bad. The Covid jab is making its presence felt, but the arm isn't too sore and the lurgyish symptoms are relatively mild. I did think on to take a couple of paracetamol immediately before going to sleep, which has maybe helped. Anyway, I feel a bit tired and run down, but not as bad as it's been some years

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Today's dream before waking was SF rather than working somewhere nightmare: parallel world or somesuch with shapeshifters and a dog thing that turned out to be a big shapeshifter. Then I woke to find the Orange Nightmare was real.

Curious difficulty finding the bedroom door at 02:00 on the way to the bog. Had to turn the light on. Very odd.

In other other news, my injection site is aching a bit. Probly in sympathy with NF. .

Grey.

Gloomy.

Sunless.

Dry.

Chilly in here at 16.3 deg, 16.5 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto, 13 in the saltinghouse.

1020.5 mBar, 30.135 in Hg, 765.44 Torr, 14.8 psi, (down from 1022 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of November 2019 it was cold, frosty & sunny for NF, WTFH, and others, whereas I was doing the washing. Bit like today really.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Smalls in the WM.

Smalls out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Cottons in the WM.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's reading has been the first few chapters of The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place, published last month. It has a particular emphasis on the way the case was covered by the tabloid journalists of the day, particularly Harry Procter of the Sunday Pictorial, sister paper to the Mirror, which paid for Christie's defence in return for access to his side of the story

The Covid jab is starting to kick in: arm's beginning to get sore, and I'm feeling rather meh. Best to get an early night, I think, in the hope of still being able to do something useful with Friday

On the bright side, I came across a study which found that adverse reactions to the jab were directly correlated with higher levels of antibodies three months later - as much as 30%

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Ah, UPS don't fly from Cologne to the UK - apparently it's brought here by road or rail via some place called Stanford-le-Hope on the banks of the Thames near Canvey Island. No chance of it getting here tomorrow, then

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

Accompanied by yet another new episode of Traffic Cops

The Mac Mini is descending into Cologne. If it gets switched to a plane for EMA tonight, they could get it to me tomorrow! But I suppose customs and stuff will prevent that

If it does come tonight (but not too late), I'll be able to wave to it as it goes by - inbound EMA traffic from that direction is down to a few thousand feet when it gets here and flies past my living room window

[ladymuck]

What is it with CVs for crappy jobs. Saw a temp job 2 mornings a week till Jan to go to local shops and sort out their greetings cards. Figured I might as well apply cos I'm driving myself mad. "Upload CV" - I mean there's **** all on my CV that's relevant, and what exactly do they expect to see. Can you drive? yes, can you stick cards on a rack? yes. Honestly what are you supposed to put on a CV? Anyway - has made me decide not to bother - I don't need £50 a week that much!


Edit - Oh and we can't say **** now??? wtf?
Edit2 - maybe we never could and I just got swearier in my dotage

Edit3 - How rude of me - hello all

Hello!

Tell me about it - I looked at some £15 ph temp jobs i could do in my sleep but couldn't even get a call back. I made it clear in my covering letter that I was looking for a step down from my career to date (a lie but otherwise people wonder), but it seems that they only want idiots for the dumb work.

[ladymuck]

Evening all

Dull day, in many ways. Barely looked out the window. Apparently the high was 12 degrees.

Sniffles aren't too bad but used as sufficient excuse to not leave the house at 7am to get to Guildford.

[NickFitz]

That's me done for the week!

About half an hour ago, actually

The Mac Mini (if it's on that plane) has passed over Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and will shortly cross Cyprus

[WTFH]

I was about to post something worthy of El Reg/On Call on here, but based on the number of contractors brought onto a call, I'm almost certain some would be members here.
Anyway, without giving anything away:
Hands up if you were on a call today where I had to work out why the backend system I designed had wrong data in it, only to discover that you had pointed a test front end system at a production backend.

[NickFitz]

My new MacMini has left Dubai. Assuming it's on the UPS flight to Cologne that took off twenty-odd minutes ago, it's just passing Qatar at 30,050 feet with a ground speed of 503 knots

[xoggoth]

I seem to have picked up a sniffle.

Today's interview was ok. Got through to the next round, where I have to do a presentation about stuff. This is for a FTC role that will require me to be in Crawley 2-3 days a week. However, they have booked the second interview for next week, when I'll be in Seattle.

Oh dear. Crawley ain't far from me. Watch out for a zombie.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the assorted charcuterie in the rest of the bread

I went and got my jab. Hope it doesn't make me feel too bad tomorrow - I need to go shopping for bread

And yes, **** has long been censored. I could post the full censored word list, but it'd be censored so there's really no point