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[ladymuck]

all this talk of doing time takes me back to my yoof

Contrary to popular opinion, I do actually prefer it when I deliver something useful rather than have endless meetings about meetings

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but dry and bright. Feels a bit humid and stuffy. Currently 25 degrees with a high of 26 expected. Barometer steady at 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:43; Sunset 21:22 BST

Too many meetings today. Not much in the way of doing time available. Handover for gig2 has started, and lots of interesting things are coming out of the woodwork. Eight billings days left. Smile and invoice...

all this talk of doing time takes me back to my yoof

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been nothing

I had multiple dependency updates to deal with this morning, which isn't arduous but is time-consuming. They took me through to about 13:15, so I decided to pop across town and get a haircut, being in dire need of one anyway but particularly wanting to get it done before the heatwave gets any worse

She was there, as her husband hasn't died yet, but there was one chap sitting in the chairs. I looked enquiringly at her and him, assuming he was first, but she laughed and waved me into the chair, saying "I can't take any more off him!" at which point I realised that the guy had a completely shaved head and was therefore unlikely to be waiting after all; turned out he was just having a chat after being shorn

So I didn't have to hang around and ended up back home exactly an hour after knocking off. It would have taken less than that but I checked the car's tyre pressures and topped two of them up before I left. And I decided that rather than bothering with lunch, I'll just grab a coffee and some biscuits and wait for teatime

[NickFitz]

Well you read that quickly. All 800 pages of it. . Did he manage to meet with Joe Turkel in this one?

He did, in May 2017 when the chap was about ninety years old but still very much compos mentis - he quotes him quite a bit

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but dry and bright. Feels a bit humid and stuffy. Currently 25 degrees with a high of 26 expected. Barometer steady at 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:43; Sunset 21:22 BST

Awoke at some unearthly hour, pre-6am. I only succumbed to looking at the clock at 6am but I'd been awake and trying to ignore that state for some time prior. Needless to say, I'm feeling a bit tired.

Too many meetings today. Not much in the way of doing time available. Handover for gig2 has started, and lots of interesting things are coming out of the woodwork. Eight billings days left. Smile and invoice...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

And tonight, I finished Future Noir in which the Blade Runner 2049 chapter turned out to have been written before the film was actually finished, so it’s basically just a bunch of quotes from the people working one it saying what a good job they’ve done (spoiler: they hadn’t). And then interviews, which didn’t contain much of any great interest

Well you read that quickly. All 800 pages of it. . Did he manage to meet with Joe Turkel in this one?

Damp.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Misty.

20 deg in here, 20.9 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.649 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, Churchill, LM, NF, Vetran, WTFH, and I popped in, with me exercising The Leg by walking up & down the stairs 10 times, going out being verboten by Bunter & co at the time.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Quite humid out there. The wax jacket might have been a bit over the top.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Toast: Izal Medicated Lavatory Paper.

Book.

The remainder of the privet carted off to the greenhouse to dry.

Raspberries and gooseberries picked. The gooseberry harvest is dreadful. Can't remember a year when there's been so few.

Mix: Oz customs S8 E2.

PBS: Titans of the cold war. Never previously been awar of Anthony Eden being defined as a Titan, but there you go.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Similar weather to yesterday with a murky start but slightly milder.
Managed to get the flooring laid in th lawnmower shed yesterday evening. Will soon be time to put up shelves etc.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another cloudy start, though brighter occasionally when a thinner patch comes along, and not rainy. It’s 18°C with an expected high of 24° as we start heading into the hot spell, with temperatures mostly in the high 20s for the next week. The barometers are only up a little at 1005/1012mB

Thursday!

It’s also Tech Debt day, meaning a break from the usual stuff to get security patches and the like deployed. And it’s also Viz week, which means a trip to Big Sainsbury’s; but it takes too long to get there and back in lunchtime traffic, so I’ll have to do that tomorrow

[NickFitz]

I finished watching Police Interceptors from last night earlier

And tonight, I finished Future Noir in which the Blade Runner 2049 chapter turned out to have been written before the film was actually finished, so it’s basically just a bunch of quotes from the people working one it saying what a good job they’ve done (spoiler: they hadn’t). And then interviews, which didn’t contain much of any great interest

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the last of the weekend leftovers, which lasted until now because there were things that Needed to be Eaten the last couple of days

Turning sunny again out there now

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka sausage roll

Still grey here but the rain has stopped

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Started off grey and damp from overnight / early morning rain. Now brightening up. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:43; Sunset 21:21 BST

The weekly all hands programme meeting at gig3 this morning was spent cleaning my hairbrush. It's one of those bristle ones and each tuft of bristles seems to have a never ending supply of fluff firmly tucked within. Each time I thought I had it pretty much clean, I looked from another angle and there was more to be found. I haven't cleaned it in a long while; it's my own fault.

[xoggoth]

Bit too many things today, group walk this morning, "book reading" thing afterwards and, as usual, I've hardly read anything, then Scrabble with old lady neighbour. At least I've finally got my shed fixed.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Wet.

Drizzly.

Grey.

Sunless.

Misty over by there: can't see Drummau so it must be raining, March Hywel invisible too.

19.8 deg in here, 21.25 in the kitchen (nice graduations on this thermometer), 19 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.6343 psi, (up from 1008.5 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the the 30th of March 2020 LM's fan heater arrived, NF posted a picture of a clogged fan heater fan, and Brillo popped in.

Sleep was disturbed last night: the 4 a.m. reading took place, with the land of nod eventually reentered sufficiently to finally awaken at 08:12, just in time to turn the wireless on, then turn it off again due to lack of innerest, probably due to our glorious leader spouting some nonsense or other.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the thing about 1976: cricket. Well it was a good year for playing it, being a drought and all. .

Book.

Still can't see Drummau or March Hywel.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. I achieved warmth by the end of it, as in unzipping the waxed jacket.

Mix: Oz customs thing: more Chinese foods: AuD3756 fines. More concealments: MDMA and ketamine. All good clean fun.

PBS: The Titans E2: Eisenhower and dear old Khrushchev. All the way through to the U2 incident & "the Military Industrial Complex". Plus all those wonderful CIA takeovers in middle & south America: making things safe for Cocacola and United Fruit.

The Great supporters of Freedom & Democracy busily overthrowing democratically elected governments so they could install the usual bunch of fascist dictators of whom they are so enamoured.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. The Beeb are saving £500M by killing off news programmes so I wonder how much longer that & TWATO have to run. .

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town: dogs. clocks. The latter being the more inneresting.

No ginger prof this week: the last half of Bab5 S1 E7 War prayer.

My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance

Poor old Londo, it's just as well he didn't know what was coming. .

Book.

BBC Alba: Operation Mincemeat in Gaelic. Was it really Glyndwr Michael? etc.

Toad rescued from the bucket of water outside the back door. It had been there a while.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and rainy start, after overnight rain heavy enough to wake me a couple of times. But I felt like I didn’t sleep so well anyway, being beset by vivid but inconsequential dreams; I ended up ignoring the first alarm and having to drag myself out of bed when the second went off. It’s mild, being 16°C, which is where it was overnight; the rain’s expected to finish soon, though it’ll remain cloudy, with the day’s high being 21°. The barometers are up a little at 1003/1010mB

Two of the young magpies were just round the back, pulling up moss on the corrugated roof of one of the garage blocks. I’m a bit worried about the third, as I don’t think I’ve seen it for a couple of days. I noticed from the start that one of them seemed a bit more clingy, so maybe it’s just staying closer to home while the two bold ones go off adventuring. But it’s also possible they’ve lost one, which would be a shame