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[eek]

Morning all
A short walk has been walked (5.1km)
The sky was menacingly black looking north, but that has blown through without any precipitation round here.
Already in discussions with project managers about the next few weeks of meetings: what is the purpose of them, who is attending, where are they being held, etc. You know, the important stuff. I've been told 3 different hotels for the first week, and for the next trip, since it was first mooted:
Day 1:
PM1: If you can go, book your flights
Me: I can go, will reorganise a few things.
PM2: Don't book your flights, PM1 is not authorised to ask you as they have not checked with my plan
Day 2:
PM3: We'll let you know today if you should book your flights
Day 3:
PM3: We'll let you know by close of business today if you should book your flights
Day 4:
PM2: Book your flights
Me: These flights are a LOT more expensive than normal.
PM2: Don't book your flights
Day 6:
PM1: Have you booked your flights yet?
Me: These flights are a LOT more expensive than normal, if you're authorising me, I'll book them.
PM1: Give me an estimation for the the full cost of the trip
Me: Researches it all, prices up hotels, parking, mileage, etc
PM1: I'm not sure I should authorise that, but you have to be there. I need to speak to PM4.
Day 7:
Let's see what happens today.

For context: PM1 is full time employed by the client and signs off all time sheets and expenses. The other 3 PMs are contractors brought it to manage different parts of the project.

Oh the joys of having to explain to people -

Me: I need 3 weeks notice
PM: Why
Me: Flights start to get really expensive 3 weeks before the flight date
PM: but we don't know if we can do things that week
Me: Trust me get things sorted
PM (2 weeks later): Everything sorted can you book flights now
Me: Find another £2k - I did warn you..

Hotels we always had the continued joy of client please use our discount code - hang on that's €40 more expensive than me using my own, are you sure this hotel likes you?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey. Gloomy.

Sunless.

"Dry" except it seems to be picking with rain.

Cool in here at 18.8 deg, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.43 Torr, 14.627 psi, (down from 1021 last night assuming I tapped it), 78% RH (GDR hair), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of October 2019 I was thinking of doing some "gardening" until it started raining which put that on hold, followed by watching yet more of S2 of Jeremiah which proved less than inspiring after the first two eps, followed by World War Weird, whereas NF was doing the laundry and then discovered that the film he was thinking of watching had a score of 3.5 on IMDB so didn't bother.

[WTFH]

Morning all
A short walk has been walked (5.1km)
The sky was menacingly black looking north, but that has blown through without any precipitation round here.
Already in discussions with project managers about the next few weeks of meetings: what is the purpose of them, who is attending, where are they being held, etc. You know, the important stuff. I've been told 3 different hotels for the first week, and for the next trip, since it was first mooted:
Day 1:
PM1: If you can go, book your flights
Me: I can go, will reorganise a few things.
PM2: Don't book your flights, PM1 is not authorised to ask you as they have not checked with my plan
Day 2:
PM3: We'll let you know today if you should book your flights
Day 3:
PM3: We'll let you know by close of business today if you should book your flights
Day 4:
PM2: Book your flights
Me: These flights are a LOT more expensive than normal.
PM2: Don't book your flights
Day 6:
PM1: Have you booked your flights yet?
Me: These flights are a LOT more expensive than normal, if you're authorising me, I'll book them.
PM1: Give me an estimation for the the full cost of the trip
Me: Researches it all, prices up hotels, parking, mileage, etc
PM1: I'm not sure I should authorise that, but you have to be there. I need to speak to PM4.
Day 7:
Let's see what happens today.

For context: PM1 is full time employed by the client and signs off all time sheets and expenses. The other 3 PMs are contractors brought it to manage different parts of the project.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start out, 14°C with 17° due later, and the barometers are down again, to 1000/1008mB

On the bright side, it's bin day! And indeed, the bin wagons are just arriving - both recycling and general waste travelling in convoy today, it seems

[NickFitz]

Teatime viewing was an old Police Interceptors

And then E1 of D-Day: The Unheard Tapes on iPlayer. Very interesting hearing accounts of the day in people's own voices.

And in Atomic Accidents, the Castle Bravo H-bomb test produced a much bigger bang than expected, and shut down the entire Japanese fishmongering industry for a while when the fishing vessel Lucky Dragon 5 returned from the vicinity with a catch of highly radioactive tuna and a highly radioactive crew

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Quick bit of gardening done (2hrs of digging up the roots of an old tree so we could reposition a bird feeder), followed by dinner. Been watching our fox, who hasn’t interacted with any of the hedgehogs yet tonight, but it’s only a matter of time.
Meanwhile Max is exhausted from being a good, but stressed out, boy over the last few days, having finally got his home back himself alone. Will take him for a walk in the morning before sorting out hotels and flights for work over the next 2 weeks.

[ladymuck]

We're supposed to be able to get that round here; they announced it not long after I moved in, when I'd already arranged a two-year business broadband contract through MyCo

That runs out in December, so I'm going to see what's on offer in the autumn - I assume they'll need to run the new connection up to the flat somehow, and that will almost certainly involve the property management company, so it might take a few weeks to sort it all out

I went with Hey!Broadband and their home worker package. I wanted something that didn't have to come bundled with a phone line.

[NickFitz]

Booked broadband installation (full fibre!).

We're supposed to be able to get that round here; they announced it not long after I moved in, when I'd already arranged a two-year business broadband contract through MyCo

That runs out in December, so I'm going to see what's on offer in the autumn - I assume they'll need to run the new connection up to the flat somehow, and that will almost certainly involve the property management company, so it might take a few weeks to sort it all out

[NickFitz]

Tea: chicken and chips with gravy

Today turned cloudy after the promising start, and has remained so

[ladymuck]

Uneventful morning.

Paid the moving deposit. Booked parking suspensions for moving day. Booked broadband installation (full fibre!).

[xoggoth]

Music thing yesterday and ll1 didn't turn up, said she'd lost track of time. It was pretty boring anyway so glad I didn't have to stay. We all put flowers outside today for neighbour's funeral, seems she had viral pneumonia. Knackering long footpath inspection followed by brief call on another neighbour. Various falls again when she couldn't get up. Same thing with neighbour other side. hope I don't get like that soon.

[NickFitz]

A meeting overran and there wasn't much time to do anything before the next one, so I bought myself a new iPad Air just for something to do. Delivery tomorrow

[NickFitz]

CovToyota developed a blow on the exhaust over the weekend. It's due an MOT next month and so I may be reaching the point of deciding whether it lives for another year. It's on 115k so should have a little while left yet with some nursing along. Thankfully I no longer get through cars like I did before the Covid times when I'd just accept driving all over the country for contracts.

It's a Toyota - patch up that bit and the rest of it will keep going forever

Can't remember exactly what mine's on but I think it's about 165K at the age of 23

[covbob]

Afternoon denizens!

Rather cool and cloudy here today but at least it isn't raining.

CovToyota developed a blow on the exhaust over the weekend. It's due an MOT next month and so I may be reaching the point of deciding whether it lives for another year. It's on 115k so should have a little while left yet with some nursing along. Thankfully I no longer get through cars like I did before the Covid times when I'd just accept driving all over the country for contracts.

8 weeks left here on my notice. No signs of another job yet but that's OK I guess. I'd be hoping a bit to find a contract this far out! I just need to fight through having basically no enthusiasm and not a huge amount (though not zero) of work to do.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Which took me back to 2nd of October 2019.

This software really is borked.

Unlike this one which took me back to October 5th 2019. .