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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Monday.

    Grey.

    Wanly sunny if you use imagination.

    Breezy.

    Cold side of chilly in here at 11.5 deg, 10.5 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto, 8 deg in the saltinghouse.

    1030.5 mBar, 30.43 in Hg, 772.938 Torr, 14.946 psi, (up from 1027 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

    Cottons in the WM.

    Meanwhile on the 9th of December 2019 it was cold, I was and the washing was in the WM.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 09:23.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all stormy overnight again, but it's settled a bit now to a mild 7C.
    Might have to take an hour or two out of my billable day to re-felt the summerhouse now that I have battens ready to go on top.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    There's some banks of cloud low on the horizon and the trees are still shimmying a bit, but it's generally much calmer out than it has been. It's currently 5°C and only getting to 7°, while the barometers are bouncing all the way back at 1022/1030. Chance of a few minutes of light rain in thirty minutes or so, though

    I struggled to get to sleep last night but once I did, I seem to have slept like the proverbial log. I'd probably feel better for it if I hadn't had to wake to Monday morning. But at least I'm nearly done for the year

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been Turkish leftovers

    Today's viewing was, of course, Monkey Life (albeit interrupted by artists, as noted earlier)

    Nothing new at the Canadian border, or at the Australian border that got thrown in for good measure, or on the roads of New Zealand

    This evening, I read some more Sassoon.

    I also found a bit of time here and there to sort out some bags of stuff that had been cluttering the side of the living room for ages. Apart from a small nest of tables that needed reassembling, they mostly contained books from the parental home, it turned out

    It still seems to be pretty windy, though the rain seems to have petered out

    Monday again tomorrow, but at least this will be the last working week of the year

    Goodnight all

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

    42
    Congratulations: The Meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    44 on 6x6
    42

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    44 on 6x6
    Ok, I'm going in…

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Yellowknife in 24. Not as easy as it might have been
    44 on 6x6

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  • NickFitz
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    Yellowknife in 24. Not as easy as it might have been

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  • sadkingbilly
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    San José de Jáchal, Argentina, on 6x6 , in 36 moves.
    dunno if that's good or not

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  • ladymuck
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    On a 5x5 grid, Yellowknife, Canada took 27 moves. Shameful performance.

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: a bacon butty, done properly with white bread fried on the inside in the bacon fat

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    don't mention Hex, whatever you do! - or EBCDIC for that matter
    There was a thread on Bluesky earlier about Byte Order Marks in XML encoding, and I was thinking about possibly having to explain that to them at some point

    It's quite possible I will have to explain it, in fact, as Excel includes a BOM when it exports to CSV. This was causing Unicode problems a couple of years ago in handling data being sent back by the trade attachés (they aren't called that any more, but it's the same thing) at our embassy in China

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Just remembered that I was working with a developer who I think is about thirty years old last week, and when I said something about how you need to understand octal to change Unix file permissions, he said "What's octal?"
    don't mention Hex, whatever you do! - or EBCDIC for that matter

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  • ladymuck
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    Forgot to mention that I successfully recovered my food waste bin yesterday on my way out. It was over the road, between two parked cars.

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