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[NickFitz]

Tea has been the beef curry I made the other week with rice

It's not that good, to be honest. Edible, but nothing special. I should find a proper recipe next time I want to make something like that

Anyway, that means there's a little more space in the fridge-freezer, as the other one doesn't seem to have revived

In laundry news, I stuck a towel wash on this afternoon

I'm very impressed by how quick the drying process was. I split it into two batches once the wash was done as it can help dry them quicker if they're done in smaller loads, and the first two large ones were done in less than fifty minutes! I forgot to time the second batch, which was a large and several small, but it was about the same

[NickFitz]

I am pleased to report that a minor update to Firefox has resolved the issues with Scrambled Maps. I've tested several times over the past couple of days and all seems to be restored to working order.

[NickFitz]

That's Wednesday done! Just got to get through Thursday, but it's one of the ones on which we collaborate across dev teams to address tech debt. There's some stuff I was dealing with last month that exposed a bug in some other stuff altogether which stopped it being completed, but that's been fixed now. So I'll pick that back up, and with luck nobody will ask me to do anything else, and I know from last time that I can have it all sorted out by lunch

And apparently the target completion rate across the department for the mandatory training has been increased, which reminded me that mine was probably long out of date. I checked, and it is, to the extent that my account had been deactivated for lack of use

So I'll spend the rest of the day getting that out of the way, because it's easy (if a little tedious) and should see me through until it's time to knock off!

[ladymuck]

I am pleased to report that a minor update to Firefox has resolved the issues with Scrambled Maps. I've tested several times over the past couple of days and all seems to be restored to working order.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Overcast but bright enough and dry. Currently 17 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 07:14; Sunset 18:23 BST

A pottering around kind of day so far. I have things on my to-do list but am not currently enthused about them.

The GP surgery called to make some appointments. Turns out that I need a B12 jab, not one but six . Three times a week for two weeks. Much juggling of diaries to find slots for it all. Plus more vials of blood to be taken for more testing. Considering the headaches seem to have eased up, I'm feeling a bit on the fraudulent side. On a positive note, the doctor didn't ask my weight or tell me that things would be better if I lost some.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup and white toast

When going to get the bread for this, I discovered that the freezer from the old place seems to have finally given up the ghost. It's been struggling for ages, just about managing to get to around -12°C rather than the desired -18°, but it was at -8° and the compressor (or whatever it is) wasn't kicking in at all, suggesting it's done. I tried turning it off and on again and it flashed its light and sounded its alarm for being too warm, but was unable to start trying to rectify the situation

I've only been using it for stuff that doesn't turn poisonous at higher temperatures such as bread and frozen chips; there's no meat in there, not even leftovers. I'll see what the situation is this evening but if it's defunct, I'll have to start changing my shopping habits and so on, as the freezer part of the built-in fridge-freezer here is relatively small and unable to handle the amount of stuff I'm used to having around

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damp.

Blue sky in parts.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 18.2 deg, 18 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.6 Torr, 14.76 psi, (unchanged), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of February 2020 NF had hot buttered toast for lunch, then was off out to Sainsburys, I had poached egg & tomato on toast, WTFH was busy getting the guineas and chickens out of next door's vegetable patch, LondonManc popped in, and LM was off out to the Baltic.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine alternating with grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: that Chinese lady thing: today how her grandmother's feet were bound.

Pottering about seems infectious. Several things I want to do & I've duly pottered about thinking about doing them & getting nowhere.

Easiest would be an earth spike for the Short Wave radio to see if it reduces the interference a bit. Got the Big Drill (SDS) out, got the long SDS drill (right diameter) out, measured the earth spike & one of said drills (Lidl's finest metre long SDS), then duly put it all back where it came from.

Then contemplated the front room office cum junk room: the floor seems a bit dodgy in the corner juding by the way the bookcase in the alcove is leaning. .

The amount of stuff that requires moving for access thereto is overwhelming, hence: made a cup of mediocre yet consistent coffee & started typing this guff.

Tomorrow, as they say, is Another Day. .

On the defunct freezer front, I recall the fun of emptying the defunct chest freezer in the salting house, and the even greater fun of getting it out of there with my late mother having kittens over it all for no readily apparent reason, since it came out as easily as the slightly smaller replacement went back in.

After a few days the remaining stuff in the old freezer had defrosted, fermented & was flung on the roof the salting house for the birds to eat, which probably explains the self planted gooseberry bush next to the "patio". .

Sadly no Maigret this evening, the final ep with Bruno Cremer was last week.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Lots of high, thin, flat cloud again, though there are some near-gaps here and there and some blue on the horizon to the northwest. It's much as it has been temperature-wise: 13°C reaching 16° for most of the afternoon - though the wind is lower, so the "feels like" figure now is 11°. The barometers are steady at 1011/1019mB

[NickFitz]

In Random Acts of Senseless Violence, things continue to fall apart; the centre is unlikely to hold, and we all know what happens after that

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: cottage pie

This was accompanied by NEW! Police Interceptors

And there's also NEW! normal Traffic Cops, as opposed to the motorbike cops one. Spoilt for choice!

[ladymuck]

Today was uneventful.

Supposed to have a telephone call with my GP around 1130, and it was 1430 before they got around to calling. Just as I was about to join a meeting.

Now watching Cleopatra's Final Secret which was aired on National Geographic recently. About people who think they found where she was buried. It's amazing to think how ancient Egypt was in her day.

[NickFitz]

Another day done and, as I keep forgetting every Tuesday, that means I'm halfway through the week!

A productive afternoon, I thought

[NickFitz]

Lunch: pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

[NickFitz]

Well, that's been quite an enjoyable and productive morning!

I'm not usually that keen on "pairing" for programming tasks. But the other dev understands the rather complex and occasionally ramshackle system we're working on much better than I do, so it's the only viable option a lot of the time, or at least makes more sense than me badgering her with questions as I try to work on one thing while she's trying to work on something else. She was the one operating the keyboard while I tried to offer helpful suggestions and talk through complicated bits yesterday, so today the roles have been reversed, and it's been working very well for us

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday?

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 18.1 deg, 18 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto.

1018.75 mBar, 30.08 in Hg, 764.1 Torr, 14.7757 psi, (down from 1019 and a bit last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 21st of February 2020 BR14, Brillo, and AndyGarbs popped in, LM suggested Brillo should burn his socks, I was in with the hoi polloi and NF mentioned the previous day's mundane washing.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath), walked in the grey gloom.

Shopping trip to Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Easier to find the needful buyings this time, though stocks seemed a bit limited so I bought all I could find.

No covid jab for me this year. Well there's a thing.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment Y&Y waffling on about house purchase.

"A Lawless Street (1955)" with that Randolph Scott chap and Angela "Jessica Fletcher" Lansbury.

Am Dro. Swiss Valley Llanelli. Gwbert to Mwnt, Cardigan (teaching student at Ye Sloughe of Desponde). Clorach, Anglesey: Hairy Handed Will. Bethesda: more slate.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM. <click>.

Dial 999. "Payroll job (1958)". Didn't we have proper money delivery trucks in 1958.

The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder "The Poetical Policeman (1969)".

Why does everyone hate the British Empire? South Africa.