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[ladymuck]

Lunch was scrambled eggs on toast.

I got some fancy pants eggs from Waitrose and the colour of the yolks is very striking indeed. The eggs themselves tasted nice but, without doing a side-by-side comparison with normal free range eggs, I don't know if they're 'better'. I had heard some farmers feed their chickens things like turmeric to make the egg yolk more orangey coloured. I don't believe the colour has any bearing on the nutritional content.

[ladymuck]

Some Indian leftovers for lunch

Om

[xoggoth]

Glad me few remaining brain cells don't have to deal with such complex problems anymore NF. Still trying to figure out how me mappy thing is about 15 x 5 pixels off.

[NickFitz]

Some Indian leftovers for lunch

First day back and there’s a bug in something I did before Christmas. Interestingly, it’s the direct opposite of the bug I initially set out to fix - that one caused rows of data to be returned that shouldn’t be, this one is missing rows that should. I wish we could just throw this whole thing away and start again, or at least tidy up the database schema! But it’s got too many years of data in it, and anyway, nobody any longer understands how large parts of it work

[ladymuck]

One contract has arrived.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[xoggoth]

Freezy morning removing screening from round oil tank in preparation for the boiler service man's visit. Me fingers nearly dropped off.

Nowt else on today but things getting back to normal from tomorrow, old arty farty thing in morning and karaoke in evening. Bloke who runs it has got over his latest stroke.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear blue sky. Cold. Dry. Currently -2 degrees ('feels like' -4) with a high of 3 expected. Barometer remains steady at 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 08:06; Sunset 16:08 GMT

Despite the lack of any contracts, I have logged on. The level of effort being expended is currently minimal.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday. .

White.

Sunny.

Cold in here at 10.8 deg, 8 in the kitchen, 3 in the leanto, 1 in the saltinghouse.

1011.5 mBar, 29.87 in Hg, 758.7 Torr, 14.67 psi, (up from 1009 last night), 52% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 9th of March 2020 NF was a bit but managed to change the bed and flip the mattress, LM had a non flippy mattress, WTFH went for a wet dog walk, and I watched "Their Finest" whatever that was.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: more of the thing about "Progress" which, apparently, has been discontinued for the 99%.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, -1C earlier. No wind. The road isn't slippery, but once the frost starts to melt, it's going to be fun out there.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Last thing last night, I noticed that we seemed to have had a brief rain shower which had washed the last vestiges of the snow off the car. This morning, I arise to find there’s been more snow overnight, so it’s now a little more covered than it was last time

Unsurprisingly, it’s cold: -5°C now, which “feels like” -9°, and only expected to get up to 1° for two or three hours this afternoon, dipping back below zero before we’ve even made it to sunset. It’s expected to be clear and sunny all day though. The barometers are back down a touch at 1000/1008mB

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on this afternoon and early evening

Tonight, I resumed reading Ted Chiang’s short stories in Exhalation. Good stuff

Monday tomorrow and, even worse, I’m back at ClientGov. So I’d better get an early night and remember to set the alarms

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

That's definitely a phallic block of ice!

Sorry to hear about your lady friend.

[NickFitz]

Darn it! The nice lady neighbour I used to spend Sunday afternoon with has died.

Sorry to hear that <- manly

Strange walk, sun shining on open field that still had little patches of snow behind the grass clumps and they looked blue. Wasn't just me old eyesight, took photo and they looked bit blue in there too.

I’ve seen that phenomenon before. My theory is that it’s reflecting the blue of the sky

[NickFitz]

Tea: chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

This was accompanied by a Netlix thing which is Ambulance-equivalent but in New York. But it does that US thing of chopping and changing all the time, in case our attention span should wander if we’re required to concentrate on the same patient for more than two minutes, so I don’t think I’ll bother watching the rest of the series (or season)

And the laundry has been accomplished