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[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

Accompanied by Gregg-free Inside the Factory on the subject of sliced white bread, with asides covering wartime flour, bagels, toasters, and brewing

[NickFitz]

That's the working week done!

[NickFitz]

Just had a phone call from the dentist's to remind me I have an appointment with the hygienist on Saturday and asking if I wanted to switch to an earlier slot they had open. TBH I'd rather not go to the hygienist on Saturday at all, but if I have to then I suppose getting it out of the way earlier is the next best thing

Which reminds me that in standup this morning, somebody announced that they had a dental appointment at 2:30, which caused much amusement

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup with white toast

Very sunny out

And as I was typing, Halfords Man arrived and replaced the Corolla's battery!

It still took four or five goes to start though. Maybe it's the starter motor?

[sadkingbilly]

Morning
SKB* this morning
blue sky and fluffy bits.
* Seriously KB, not SadKB , where's the Freezing my nuts off emoji??

[NickFitz]

Good day at the office. Sat next to a friend of mine, had a coffee with another. Got offered an extension of three, maybe four, months.

Boomed!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with some cloud. Currently 1 degree with a high of 3 expected. Small chance of a shower this evening. Barometer up to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 08:04; Sunset 16:13

I was supposed to be in the office today but I couldn't be bothered so I'm at home. I do have to go in tomorrow though.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Frosty.

Blue sky.

Cold in here at 9.8 deg, 7 deg in the kitchen, 5 deg in the leanto, 1.8 deg in the saltinghouse.

1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3121 Torr, 14.6 psi, (up from 998 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of December 2019: much as yesterday's post.

The recycling goods retrieved from the pavement were frosty, the canvas bag was frozen solid. Glad I wasn't the recycling engineer this morning.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine: despite an extra layer and the Lidl(tm) thermal gloves it still took two miles before I could feel my hands.

Moron observed wandering about in a t shirt.

Lunch: brunch.

I see from the news that We're Doomed again. .

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/style/padd...133049557.html

Happened when we interred my parents' ashes. My dad would have laughed his head off.

Tea: soup etc. Plus a piece of xmas cake. The only thing I like about xmas.

Entertainment: PM.

Book.

Railway thing on PBS: mail trains. Railway telegraph.

Digging for Britain (not Wales: ever grateful for Freesat & the option to watch something not afflicted by the obsession with tedious ball games irrespective of the shape of the ball). Alice Roberts hair: pinky blonde. Orkneys. Jacob Jones wreck, Scillies, war grave. Violet bank, Jersey. Neanderthals. Kame of Isbister, Shetland. Midge Central. Cairns Broch, South Ronaldsay.

Some UFO bollox on Blaze since I don't think I can watch "Nobody" again on 4Seven.

Ancient Clint Eastwood interview from 1977. "The man with no name". Stone me, he looks young. Critics: Pauline Kael, Dilys Powell.

[WTFH]

Morning all
273K out, and yesterday's snow/slush meant that walking was a tad treacherous, even with ice grips on my wellies. Got my heart rate up though, at one point I hit 138bpm.
Did The Wife's tax return last night, disappointed to find that she owes £154. Was tempted to: buy a coffee machine, liquidate a company, or something similar to see if that would reduce it a bit.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another frosty start. Currently -4°C, and once again an expected high this afternoon of 2°. The barometers are up a touch more to 993/1002mB

Halfords haven't provided any more detailed estimate of when they'll be here than 08:00-20:00 but maybe they will once they get on the road. Or maybe they won't

Thursday! Just got to get through today and that's another week invoiced

[ladymuck]

Good day at the office. Sat next to a friend of mine, had a coffee with another. Got offered an extension of three, maybe four, months.

Absolutely knackered though.

This evening's entertainment has been a couple of episodes of The Diplomat, which I think originally aired in 2023 on Alibi.

[NickFitz]

Tea: sausage and onion casserole with chips and peas

Accompanied by a new episode of Traffic Cops

[NickFitz]

Just as well it wasn't controlling a rocket. .

It wasn't controlling a rocket, was it? Just askin' like.

Shades of FORTRAN IV encode & decode from dear dead days far beyond recall.

No rockets, sadly. I think that would be the Ministry of Transport?

Speaking of transport, I've booked a visit from Halfords tomorrow with a new battery for the car which they will also fit, saving me the trouble of finding an 11mm spanner. They gave me the option of either choosing a two to three hour time slot for an additional thirty to fifty quid, or any time between 8am and 8pm for no extra charge beyond the £25 fitting fee. I chose the latter

Thinking about it, they didn't make clear whether the exorbitant charges for the shorter time slots included the £25 or were in addition to it. Either way, it's too much. But now, in theory, the car should start OK when I want to go shopping on Friday morning, which is expected to be very cold and might be more than the gradually failing battery can handle

[DoctorStrangelove]

Lunch has been the rest of the duck, pancakes and plum sauce

This morning, I did what I do best: be the only one of four people looking at something to spot that a configuration value that was supposed to be a floating point number was being passed as a string, which was why the thing being configured wasn't doing anything

To my mind, it ought to have complained about the invalid value rather than going into a silent sulk, but maybe whoever developed it had their reasons for doing it that way

Just as well it wasn't controlling a rocket. .

It wasn't controlling a rocket, was it? Just askin' like.

Shades of FORTRAN IV encode & decode from dear dead days far beyond recall.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the duck, pancakes and plum sauce

This morning, I did what I do best: be the only one of four people looking at something to spot that a configuration value that was supposed to be a floating point number was being passed as a string, which was why the thing being configured wasn't doing anything

To my mind, it ought to have complained about the invalid value rather than going into a silent sulk, but maybe whoever developed it had their reasons for doing it that way