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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a cloudy and blustery day, but we don’t have any rain, and only a 15-20% chance of some showers later. It’s 9°C but “feels like” 1°, and is aiming for a high of 11°; the barometers are creeping back up at 995/1003mB

[ladymuck]

Yesterday was sunny with spits of rain. Warm if not caught by the very strong, and cold, wind. 13 degrees.

Today has also started sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer at 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 06:12; Sunset 19:33 BST

Yesterday HWMBO and I went to see a 'performance' by the youtuber behind the channel RobWords and it was very entertaining. Afterwards we went for a couple of cocktails and then for a very delicious dinner at Norma.

Today we will be heading down to see Mum.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

The Finals dream again: this one involved microwave filter design or some such. Very odd. Something I've never done anything significant with. A box with internal baffles & various coupling holes. No idea WTAF that came from.

Wet.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Almost chilly in here at 14.7 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto.

1003 mBar, 29.62 in Hg, 752.3 Torr, 14.55 psi, (up from 1000 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020 see above.

Hammering down. But at least it's not hail.

Hammering down again. .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus which is particularly there this morning due to the right ear being blocked. I do miss the days when you could get your ears syringed at the local health centre.

Hammering down: hail.

[NickFitz]

Monkey Life was back after last week’s inexplicable hiatus, making the TV not entirely useless

And in the Rasputin book, he’s been murdered by a bunch of aristocrats who were wholly unsuited to the task and made a right mess of it

Very windy out, and likely to rain soon

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight was brought to me from the Thai restaurant in town. Very nice indeed, and they didn’t forget the rice this time

[xoggoth]

Nice sunny circular work with younger, not loony, lady followed by cuppa tea and small apple pie with cream at my dump. No unavoidable mud at long last.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Sunny and Simpsonesque out, and there’s a bit of a breeze. As a result, the current 10°C “feels like” 3°; the expected high is 11°. The barometers are plummeting though: down to 992/1000mB, and a 70% chance of rain tomorrow

The heat detector in the kitchen has started making an annoying chirping noise every few minutes, suggesting its battery is on the way out. So I’m going to have to deal with that at some point

[WTFH]

Afternoon all
Light rain overnight, then dry on our walk, but since then we’ve had a heavy hail shower. Currently trying to build up the enthusiasm to start tidying/clearing a shed.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chillier in here at 14.9 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (down from 1001 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).


Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020 as well as an SMS from Boris, AndyGarbs, covbob, DaveB, openstrike, NF, quackhandle, WTFH, and I popped in. The amount of Good Glengettie Tea consumed was corrected from 1.05 pints (Septic) to 0.91 pints (Imperial) as is only rite and proper, having actually measured the quantity involved using a measuring cylinder as being 520ml.

Hail.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC. noon o'clock news.

More hail.

April showers with added hail.

Freecell score: 85%, running average: 84%

Walk (abbreviated due to frost bite) walked in the cold howling gale.

Stone me, it's better to have a gun scarf and not need it, rather than need a gun scarf and not have it.

Couldn't feel my hands for much of the time dspite having gloves on.

No chance of sweating today.

Freecell score: 83%, running average: 84%.

Tea: soup. Nice enough, though not the kind I usually have, having opened The Wrong Can on Thursday.

Entertainment: PM.

A look at life: fragrances/perfumes.

Maigret S4 E4 "The Lost Life". The one about the dead girl dumped on the street.

Book. Other book.

More bollox on Blaze: Dennis Quaid, followed by a thing about the Celts.

A look at life: The Design Council. The Duke of Edinburgh's award for elegance in design. Lord Snowdon.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Eddington (2025) in which the sheriff and the mayor of a small town in New Mexico (the eponymous Eddington) are feuding over some small town bulltulip during the Covid pandemic. Matters aren’t helped by the fact that the sheriff is into anti-masking conspiracy theories, his wife is into child abuse conspiracy theories, and his mother-in-law is into just about every conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard of. Meanwhile, the town’s teens are riled up and protesting on empty roads about BLM, though the local police force is the sheriff and two deputies, one of whom is black (and the other is into Bitcoin)… I was thinking around the forty minute mark that it would turn out to be a sententious story about social relationships and the like, and that was also around the time it started to become something much stranger and went in directions I never expected. It’s a very good film, but once it starts doing your head in, it doesn’t let up

Incidentally, I was one off when guessing its MPAA number: I guessed 55474, and it’s 55473. As you may remember, I got it right once in 2020 with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) which was also about a cop in a small town in the USA having a grievance with local government. Maybe if I watch more films like that, I’ll get it right more often

After that, a rewatch of In Time (2011) because satirical exposés of the fundamental nature of capitalism are always worth revisiting

Finally, E1 of Pluribus (TV Series 2025– ) in which a space virus causes the entire human race to have one conjoined mind except for eleven people, one of whom is our protagonist: a writer of trash fiction with a huge fanbase. This first episode was entertaining and people have spoken highly of the series, so I have high hopes for the rest of it

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips, being my own recipe mango BBQ ribs

Earlier, I bit the bullet and upgraded to the latest version of MacOS. This, in turn, enabled the AI integration features in Xcode; so I bit a further bullet and took out a Claude AI subscription, started a new project, and let it rip. I’m actually quite impressed with what it’s come up with! Looks like crap, mind; they clearly haven’t trained it on the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. But it created the underlying functionality, and it works, and it changes it in appropriate ways when I ask it to add features. In less than an hour (which includes the time I was playing with what it had produced and reading the code and so on) it had produced something that is, at least, a respectable prototype at a level which would have taken me a couple of evenings to come up with

Next up will be suggesting increasingly complicated improvements to see if it hits a wall. But as I mainly wanted this app for my own use, it’s saved me a few hours to end up with something perfectly usable but which I wasn’t so interested in that I would have have bothered getting this far myself

[ladymuck]

My state of well being improved greatly throughout the course of the day. A great relief.

HWMBO says we're having 'picky bits' for dinner but there's lots of food prep sounding noises coming from the kitchen. This implies these will be not my council kind of picky bits, such as opening different shapes/flavours of crisps into bowls, but actually something resembling food.

[xoggoth]

Is that a ufemism??

If only! The light bulb was in the bathroom but she did invite me into her bedroom afterwards. To turn the mattress!!!! Bah!

Nice sunny Bluebelly walk anyway.

[sadkingbilly]

Nice old fart coffee morning at local historic place this morning. Got me, a bit, out of me brain fog after a cr**y night's sleep. Off to Bluebell walk with loony lady 1 soon. She expects me to replace her light bulb afterwards. Grumble.

Is that a ufemism??

[NickFitz]

In catching up on nerdy news earlier this week, I forgot to mention this from our old pal Diamond Geezer:

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2...-line.html?m=1

I thought it quite informative and almost made me consider being more accurate in my sunrise and sunset times, rather than use what value my weather app provides.

Excellent stuff!

FWIW my iPhone weather app is accurate to the times for Leicester according to https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ so your app might be fine