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There seems to be a soundcheck going on in the park ahead of Kasabian's gig tomorrow
Can't believe the previous one was ten years ago. Covid has really confused my perception of time over the last decade; I would have said five years, maybe six
Sunny and Simpsonesque out, as one would expect under a Labour government. It's 20°C which is the high for the day, and the barometers are down a little more at 993/1000mB. Chance of rain this evening varies between 35 and 45%
For the record, last night's viewing included the Highways Agency programme (though they aren't called that any more). Then, during the boring gap between the exit poll and results starting to flow, a rewatch of Independence Day (1996)
And then, of course, the election. I was still up for Truss, which I think many will regard as this time's primary Portillo moment
WTF! My solid Labour constituency has fallen to an independent! I had a leaflet through the door from him in the first week, and even had a look at his website, but dismissed him out of hand - and he's got a majority of nearly a thousand!
As foretold by "The Second Sleep". .
Morning.
Friday.
Grey.
Dreary.
Damp.
Cool in here at 18.9 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.
1002 mBar, 29.589 in Hg, 751.56 Torr, 14.533 psi, (down from 1006 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 17th of October 2019 it was raining old women & sticks, so I took the opportunity for a nice bonfire to get rid of some garden waste & some chicken & duck bones, NF related the fate of some radio station in Bristol where he'd previously worked, whereas I related the demise of a place in Bristol where I'd worked, followed by xogg relating that he'd worked at Filton for a while, and northernladuk asked about what to do about someone sitting in your booked seat on a train who refuses to move: it's obviously Justifiable Homicide. .
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom changing to bright sunshine.
Met a chap in the cemetery who thought a funeral was due. It was. Just not in Llantwit but rather in Margam.
In other cemetery news, the parents' & brother's grave now looks terrible, all the daisies are dead having been sprayed, and the horsetails are loving it.
Lunch: scrambled egg etc.
Entertainment: the endless bollox on R4 about some election or other.
Freecell score: 90%, running average: 86%.
Nothing to Declare S11 E7&8. More Oz customs nonsense: haven't seen this before.
Lucky with Wordle, my first geuss was just one letter out. Not sure what to do today or next few days, ll1 still in US and not sure I can put up with ll3 anymore. Wanted to get on with doing garden but it's raining. Need a brothel in the village.
WTF! My solid Labour constituency has fallen to an independent! I had a leaflet through the door from him in the first week, and even had a look at his website, but dismissed him out of hand - and he's got a majority of nearly a thousand!
Tea has been a Sainsbury's microwave chicken chow mein, and I can assure the Chinese takeaways of this world that they have nothing to fear from that particular form of competition
Meanwhile at ClientGov, a call has gone out on Teams asking people to come into the main office tomorrow if they can. Turns out there's a possibility a new minister could be appointed by mid-afternoon, and there's a tradition of the staff lining the corridors to "clap them in". Of course, almost nobody works in the office all week any more, and not many people at all go in on a Friday. So I gather they're worried that the new Secretary of State will turn up to be greeted by a few security guards, a cleaner, and the cat
Out has been popped to, specifically, Lesser Sainsbury's as I didn't really need much. However, I had good Nectar prices available to me on a number of non-perishable or long-lived items that I buy fairly regularly, so I was able to stock up on those and save a few quid
Nice sunny evening out, though with quite a lot of cumulus floating around. The wind is still there but has settled down quite a bit compared to earlier
Suppose I'd better make the bed, then sort my tea out - though the latter will be easy as I decided I couldn't be bothered cooking and got a ready meal
A developer has created a flat file for me that then goes to another system. It's a .txt file. A flat file, no commas, no delimiters, all data is aligned to be in a particular location on each line.
The other system is managed by one of Murthy's finest.
He has complained that one of the "fields" is formatted as a number.
New one on me that a flat text file contains formatting for characters in particular locations.
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