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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Thursday.

    Dry.

    Sunny.

    Blue sky.

    Bet that doesn't last long.

    Chilly in here at 17.5 deg, 17 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

    1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (up from 995 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 29th of February 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, BR14 popped in, LM watched Timewatch and had garlic prawns, whilst NF went to the pub & didn't go to the Chinese, who were, presumably, devastated by this.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 09:19.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    13C out on our walk, no rain but overcast. No chance of seeing the aurora.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    There’s cloud of various kinds very low on the horizon in all directions, but above that the sky is clear and blue. The forecast thinks it’ll get cloudier though, so it’s a race between the sun trying to get high enough to shine down upon us and the cloud trying to conceal it. It’s a mild 12°C, though it “feels like” 7°, and expected to get to 14° which seems to be standard at the moment; the barometers are about the same at 993/1001mB

    Most importantly: it’s Thursday!

    Even better, a relatively meeting-free day; and I have a reasonably interesting problem to work on, to do with some five-year-old code that many parts of the app depend on but which needs adjusting for our present requirements, without breaking anything else. Always fun finding a way to sneak in and change how things work without the existing code realising you’re there

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  • NickFitz
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    Tonight, I started reading Elvissey, in which the world under Dryco isn't really getting any better

    Thursday tomorrow! And it’s Viz publication day too

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been the belly pork braised in cider that I forgot to make yesterday, with chips

    Current watching part two of the Jimmy Savile thing

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    OM.

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  • NickFitz
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    Another day done! Only seventeen to go!

    In a gap between meetings, I finally tracked down my parcel - it was in the nearest hallway of the adjacent block, for no good reason

    In there was qntm’s rewrite of There is No Antimemetics Division, published yesterday. He got a deal with an imprint of Penguin Random House last year, so he’s been able to rework it with the input of a professional editor. So that’s something to look forward to once I’ve read the last two Jack Womack books

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  • xoggoth
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    Walk with ll3 followed by coffee. Nice & sunny and paths not half as muddy as I had feared.

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  • ladymuck
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    All meetings done. Brain fried.

    Now to get some work done

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  • NickFitz
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    Pukka sausage roll for lunch

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  • NickFitz
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    Too many meetings this morning

    But there’s more to come this afternoon!

    Yesterday’s missing Amazon parcel still hasn’t reappeared. I’ll have to go round the other blocks checking if it’s been left in any of them. It was supposedly delivered around 13:30 so once the mandatory 24 hour wait is up, I can report it vanished and get them to send out a replacement

    Meanwhile, the rain that was supposed to continue has stopped instead. I suppose there may be showers but though it’s still cloudy, it doesn’t look too likely to restart at the moment

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Wednesday apparently.

    Unpleasant dream at 04:30 dispelled by reading more book for 4 pages then returning to nod.

    Grey. (The weather not the dream).

    Sunless.

    Damply miserable but no water in next door's garden.

    Chilly in here at 17.2 deg, 16.5 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

    995 mBar, 29.38 in Hg, 746.3 Torr, 14.43 psi, (up from 994 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 29th of February 2020 BR14 and Brillo popped in, LM popped out to the storage unit, scruff had tea, NF thought it was a bit cold out for a trip to the pub, and my bol managed to stick to the pan whilst "simmering".

    Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: dead people on Everest. I'd rather read a book than pay £30k. An expensive way to die.

    Feck me it's a miserable day & no mistake.

    Book. Approaching the end of this book.

    Sky Arts: Cold War Films (E2 of 3) "duck & cover", "Failsafe", "7 Days in May", "Doctor Strangelove", "On the Beach".

    Crash Detectives.

    Last half of the Nazi programme.

    David Jason: Secret Service. E2 WWII: more stuff I couldn't do to save my life. SOE.

    David Jason: Great British Inventions: the wheel. Bikes. Steam engines. Cars.

    Alba: Nuclear testing in the Arctic: on later this week, so:

    U+W: Elementary S1 E2.

    Bit of "Once upon a time in Hollywood".
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 23:11.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Started off cloudy now looking much brighter with some wispy fluff. Damp. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Cloud cover set to return with a risk of rain. Barometer remains at 1004 mBar.

    Sunrise 07:14; Sunset 16:16 GMT

    Another busy day beckons. Five meetings in the diary. Four of which are back to back between 1030 and 1330. Then a half hour break before a 2 hour meeting to finish me off. Hurray.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    Wet and wild last night. Very stormy. Chairs blew over on our main deck. a plastic plant pot blew off the top of a wooden water butt and smashed.
    But by the time we went out for a walk earlier, it was 14C with gentle rain and barely a breeze.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    After a night when it has, I think, rained constantly, it’s a rainy start to the day with no signs of letting up soon. The forecast suggests it’s likely to continue raining until late afternoon! it’s a touch milder, though the current 13°C “feels like” 9°, and the high will only be 14°. The barometers are down very slightly at 990/997mB

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