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[NickFitz]

Another episode of the motorway programme was consumed along with tea. Then I started reading The New New Thing by Michael Lewis, about Jim Clark of Netscape, Silicon Graphics, and various other enterprises. I originally started reading this the other year but wasn't in the mood for it at the time, as evidenced by the bookmark just a few pages in; I've got further this time

Friday tomorrow! About time too

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Flat rental negotiations have stalled. The landlord has stated they do not wish to remove any furniture. If the letting agent had advertised the property as furnished I would never have bothered going to see it, so I am now very grumpy about the time wasted.

Very annoying

[NickFitz]

I say work, - I mean consultancy
V persuasive chap. fully remote. loadsamoney*. interesting project.
I was getting bored anyway, and i've run out of authors.

*TBC - awaiting final offer on day rate

That sounds relatively harmless

[NickFitz]

Tea, then, has been crispy chilli beef with aromatic rice. It was rather nice, actually. I'll bear that one in mind for the next time I can't be bothered to cook after going shopping

[ladymuck]

HWMBO has fired up the BBQ

[NickFitz]

It's a beautiful spring evening, summery even, so what could be better than going to Sainsbury's! Quite a few things, I imagine, but here we are

On the way I was able to pop into the chemist's to get the monthly prescription, because they open until 18:30. I have a feeling they stopped doing that for a while, but Google said they did now, and it turned out to be right. Then onwards, but only to Not-So-Big Sainsbury's as I didn't need a huge amount

The route back from there adds a bit of a detour if I want to go to the chip shop. Instead I got a ready meal, which I do occasionally to remind myself of why I seldom get ready meals

[ladymuck]

Flat rental negotiations have stalled. The landlord has stated they do not wish to remove any furniture. If the letting agent had advertised the property as furnished I would never have bothered going to see it, so I am now very grumpy about the time wasted.

[ladymuck]

Thanks, but it's books i'm running out of, not stultifyingly boring TV. covbob is the TV enquirer.
no-one writes good SF anymore, - it's all recycled crap, based on proper books from '50 - '98 ish

So it was, apologies for the inexcusable oversight. No idea how that happened (other than a distinct lack of paying attention)

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all

For some reason I failed to post yesterday morning's weather observations.

Anyway, it's dry and sunny out with hazy high level fluff. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Yesterday the barometer was up to 1028 mBar but today it's dropped back a bit to 1027 mBar.

sadkingbilly I'm surprised no-one mentioned The Curse of Oak Island. There's 11 series of stuff to watch that will definitely require no effort on your part.

Thanks, but it's books i'm running out of, not stultifyingly boring TV. covbob is the TV enquirer.
no-one writes good SF anymore, - it's all recycled crap, based on proper books from '50 - '98 ish

[cojak]

Hi Everyone!

Back from a week in sunny Tenerife. I’m very pleased to see that the weather has sprung back to warm weather.

[DoctorStrangelove]

I'm surprised no-one mentioned The Curse of Oak Island. There's 11 series of stuff to watch that will definitely require no effort on your part.

It's excellent if you get your rocks off on ancient wood or FDR's dap. . Treasure, on the other hand, not so much.

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

NotSoChilly in here at 16.2 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 16 deg in the leanto, 13 deg in the saltinghouse.

1023 mBar, 30.21 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.837 psi, (down from 1024 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of September 2019 WTFH had managed not to sneeze or have hiccups, whereas NF related that at one point he hadn't sneezed for five weeks, since, post op, the prior sneeze had caused him such angst as to require lying down for an hour, around here it was intermittently raining old women & sticks, and the horse chestnut trees opposite NF's old gaff were showing signs of autumn, which had distracted NF to the extent of his forgetting to press the "START" button on the WM which came as a disappointment when he went to empty said device.

Cottons in the WM: it's a fine day for doing the cottons.

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

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the warm sunshine, phew wot a scorcher. .

3 inderminate white butterflies 3 inderminate brown butterflies, a swift/swallow/martin, a red kite.

Lunch: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: Sliced Bread waffling on about LED face masks. Who knew that was a thing? protection required. Red, Blue, and Magenta colours, yellow not so popular.

Assorted smalls, jeans, cords, gloves, jacket in the WM since the cottons are drying well and some of that stuff really needs washing.

Stuff out of the WM & pegged out on the line: would have helped if I'd check all the pockets of the jeans, but the watch has survived the experience again, whereas the bus timetable on the back of an envelope hasn't.

It's warm out there, the cottons are almost dry.

Trauma avoided: bed remade.

Jeans & cords & jacket rotated to even up the sun exposure.

Washing in off the line: the cottons requiring the iRon met the iRon, everything now airing upstairs.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM. <click> <click> <click>

Dan Do: repeat from 2022. The one with the big house divided up into apartments. Impressive ceiling.

Last 15 minutes of "Deep Impact (1998)": no Bruce Willis was harmed in the making of this film.

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 86%.

Bits of "Ronin".

The last half hour/40 mins of "The Killers (1964)" with that Lee Marvin chap and some chap who went on to be Governor of California & POTUS.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Very misty as we set out on our walk at 6am, but even then I could see it was going to burn off.
Clear skies and sunshine now.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

For some reason I failed to post yesterday morning's weather observations.

Anyway, it's dry and sunny out with hazy high level fluff. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Yesterday the barometer was up to 1028 mBar but today it's dropped back a bit to 1027 mBar.

sadkingbilly I'm surprised no-one mentioned The Curse of Oak Island. There's 11 series of stuff to watch that will definitely require no effort on your part.

[sadkingbilly]

I've done work and I can't, in all honesty, recommend it

I say work, - I mean consultancy
V persuasive chap. fully remote. loadsamoney*. interesting project.
I was getting bored anyway, and i've run out of authors.

*TBC - awaiting final offer on day rate

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Partly cloudy out, but with enough sun getting through to make it look like a bright start. Going to be another warm one too: 13°C now, 21° due later. The barometers are down a touch at 1015/1023mB, though I don't expect that'll make much difference