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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was The Perfect Neighbor (2025), a documentary film on Netflix about an obnoxious woman hassling all her neighbours, ultimately shooting one of them because she was annoyed about her kids playing near her house. It’s largely made up of body cam footage from the local police, because she called them so often to make spurious complaints and unfounded allegations about the neighbours. Horrible woman

And speaking of horrible people, Sam Pepys really isn’t doing himself any favours by keeping that diary of the things he gets up to

I also managed to get the mundane laundry done during the evening

Meanwhile outside: snow! And plenty of it. But the last time I checked, it had gone back to sleet. Looks like a heavy band of whatever it may be is circling back around to us now though, so it’ll probably still be very white out there tomorrow

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Twice recently I've noticed expensive items that I haven't looked at, or even considered looking at, added to my Amazon basket! This evening it was a HP printer. The first time occurred while I was at HWMBO's; it was some games console. It's all very peculiar.

[ladymuck]

Meanwhile on the 10th of March 2020 ... LM was going out to the theatre later.

I went to see Message in a Bottle at Sadlers Wells' Peacock Theatre. A dance thing set to a number of Sting's songs.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

Casseroles and stews and so on are all very nice, but sometimes you need a chunk of fried, grilled, or roasted meat

[NickFitz]

Heavy rain here too. If I’m interpreting the symbols correctly, this will turn to sleet in a couple of hours, and then snow

But: it’s Thursday, and I’m done with work for the week!

[ladymuck]

Much rain, which I was unaware of until I left the office. Many large puddles on the drive home.

[WTFH]

Meeting ended an hour early and the rain had eased, so I decided to take Max out for a walk. About half way round, the rain got heavier and then turned to sleet. Now drying off. Max has his smoking jacket on.

[NickFitz]

I found it sometimes got stuck when playing on Safari, I just went for the standard IT solution: close down web page, close Safari, reboot machine. That worked most of the time for me.

I got an email from him late last night so I checked on Chrome and Firefox, where it worked. Then I tried on Safari in a Private Browsing window, and that worked too. I then cleared the cache, but a normal Safari window still didn't work. So I advanced the hypothesis that there's something in the data held in local storage (or a cookie, but that's unlikely) that's incompatible with some recent change he made

Editing to add: I just went and checked my MBA while waiting for a container image to build, and it's working again in Safari! He said he might roll back to a build from a few days ago, so maybe that's why. Or maybe he found and fixed it, or maybe it was just Safari being weird

[sadkingbilly]

lunch was TTD lamb samosa's with a tamarind dip.
very nice too

[NickFitz]

The forecast is now for heavy rain from around 16:00 turning to heavy snow between 18:00 and 19:00, so I decided to pop down to Not-as-Big Sainsbury's in my lunch break

Lunch has therefore not been completed yet as it was time to get back to work once I'd returned and put everything away - I'm snacking on some cold cocktail sausages while investigating yet another bug reported this morning

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Flat calm.

Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 8.5 in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (down from 1003 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of March 2020 WTFH, LM, covbob, and DaveB popped in, with covbob missing a call from a pimp due to a comfort break, whilst I watched the commentary on "Their Finest Hour" after reading yet more of "Bright Shining Lie", whereas NF still had a lurgy and LM was going out to the theatre later.

Raining.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: something on R4 waffling on about kinema.

Raining. A lot.

Er, it's now 985 mBar, 29.1 in Hg, 738.8 Torr, 14.286 psi. . 15:47.

Er, it's now 979 mBar, 28.9 in Hg, 734.3 Torr, 14.199 psi at 17:48

Tea: cheesy beans on toast etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM <click> Enough of Orange murdering scumbags. That's Orange scumbags that commit murder, rather than the preferred option of scumbags who murder the Orange Mother****er & his motley crew. Well one can but hope.

978 mBar, 28.88 in Hg, 733.56 Torr, 14.185 psi. at 18:35.

978.5 mBar at 20:37. Looks like the thing is passing.

984 mBar at 22:57.

Book. Other book. 3rd book with cartoons (Dilbert: the joy of work).

Bits of "First Blood (1982)" with the sound muted.

Lucy Worsley: Victorian Murder Club.

[Pondlife]

Good Morning all,

Wind 2 kt from the South
Temperature 5°C
Humidity 93%
Pressure 1003 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Broken clouds at a height of 3800 ft

Seems calm ahead of this evening's storm. Mind how you go.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull. Overcast. Damp. Mizzle. Currently 3 degrees with a high of 6 expected. Barometer steady at 1005 mBar.

Sunrise 08:05; Subset 16:11 GMT

In the office today. Roads busy. Not helped by what looked like a major accident on the A4 that closed two lanes.

[WTFH]

Scrambled Maps is broken on Safari. It broke last night but still isn’t fixed, and I remembered the chap doesn’t have a Mac. So I’ve dropped him an email with the error messages I found in the console

I’m having to play it on Chrome instead. Hope he fixes it soon

I found it sometimes got stuck when playing on Safari, I just went for the standard IT solution: close down web page, close Safari, reboot machine. That worked most of the time for me.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a bit cloudy out, and there’s even a hint of mist in the air. It’s non-freezing again though, having stayed at 1°C all night up to now, with 3° expected by lunchtime. The barometers are up a touch at 992/1000mB, though I expect they’ll drop soon as the approaching storm moves in. That’s promising “severe weather” from this evening onwards, with snow predicted to arrive around 18:00 and continue through the night

This leaves me in a bit of a quandary when it comes to the shopping. I had thought of going this evening after work to avoid the snow, as that may rule out going tomorrow, but that was when the snow wasn’t expected until later tonight. As it’s now predicted to show up at teatime, I might pop along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s at lunchtime as I know it’s possible to get there and back in an hour. I wouldn’t be able to get Viz, but I won’t have enough time to go all the way to Big during the day, so I’ll have to leave that until next week