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[NickFitz]

Links are up

[xoggoth]

Back from sister's. Had a drink with old workmate while there and stayed at old uni mate's house for couple of nights on way back. Both with various serious medical conditions, glad I ain't like that yet.

Crazy problem with Excel. Bing API link to get drive miles ain't working. Click link and page opens with completely wrong key. Yet copy and paste into browser and page is ok with right key. Makes no sense.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dryishly dampish.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Cool in here at 18.9 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

1013.5 mBar, 29.928 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.699 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Back bad.

Telex machine gleaming.

Meanwhile on the 16th of July 2019 nothing much happened in the morning.

Shopping trip to Tesco done, bravely with bad back, duly washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

It's raining now. Big drops widely spaced.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about the usual bollox.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, 0910 Oslo time

Misty this morning. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 16 expected.

Check out is at noon and we'll be off to catch our flight to Doha then onto Bangkok. Had a lovely time in Oslo, would recommend!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Slightly misty start; the sun looks like it might break through the fairly wispy cloud soon, though the forecast says not. Currently 13°C, with 18° being the expected high, and the barometers are steady at 1006/1014mB

[NickFitz]

This afternoon saw the usual run of US borders and NZ police

And then a bit of time playing around with SwiftData

Later: the standard Sunday evening fare of the latest episode of Ambulance and a couple of old episodes of 24 Hours in A&E

I'd better get to sleep now. It promises to be a busy week: there's all the remaining stuff from the not-actually-ended project to do, plus it's my first week on a new project with a new team

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been oniony sausage casserole with chips and peas

There's been a little bit of light drizzle but other than that, it's just been grey and a bit breezy. Mild though

[NickFitz]

Couple of leftover KFC drumsticks for lunch

[NickFitz]

^^^No Chinese! Up before midday on a Sunday! WTF is going on?

The world turned upside-down

[NickFitz]

Rubbish and recycling have been carted over to the Place of the Bins

And while I was sorting that out, I set my MBA to work upgrading to the new version of MacOS, mainly because I want to have a play with the new SwiftData APIs

[NickFitz]

Toasted teacake with plenty of butter for breakfast

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^No Chinese! Up before midday on a Sunday! WTF is going on?

Morning.

Sunday.

Dark.

Dank.

Drizzly.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 18.7 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 18.6 deg in the leanto.

1014 mBar, 29.9434 in Hg, 760.56 Torr, 14.7 psi, (unchanged), 77% RH (GDR hair), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

Woke at 03:00 to find myself out of bed & in agony with the back, apparently on the way to take a leak. . Plainly the automatic reflex didn't take account of the state of the back during this enterprise.

The dreams included one about working somewhere or other doing something or other. I was pleased to wake up, though listening to R4's "Something Understood" relating some poor sod's experience of being torpedoed in the Merchant Navy in WWII was less restful than required.

Meanwhile on the 16th of July 2019 NF had finished watching Spiral, whatever that is, while opm found it grey in Manchester, whereas it was sunny around here.

Lunch: beans on toast since I couldn't be arsed to get a spud, etc.

It's still drizzling.

Apparently I watched "Heaven's Gate (1980)" on a region 1 dvd about 6 years ago. I wasn't impressed. There are 27 1* reviews on imdb. I think that's unforgivably generous.

The NZ Highway Cops & Motorway Patrol. So that's how you change a rear wheel on a classic Citroen DS. I wonder how long that then 87 year old chap has been pushing up daisies.

Tea: the first portion of yesterday's batch of chilli con carne with rice etc. It turned out ok, rather nicer than the last lot.

Entertainment: Jop. JoP. Not on: replaced by The Shadows final tour. .

"The world's biggest bomb" on PBS: you know where you are with a thermonuke.

The River diver thing on Blaze. Vikings this time. River Trent. Feck me. Lots of junk. Not a Viking object to be seen. .

NASA's unexplained files. Eagle 1202 alarm. Quite how that was supposed to kill the CM pilot is a mystery. Jupiter's too hot. Mars anomaly (they've found Musk's Secret Base): chunk of something that looks artificial. Using NASA image processing in a 1989 murder case (cash dispenser camera footage processing). Mysterious spheres found on farmland: probably pressure spheres from a reentered Centaur state, the mystery being why it was noticed by those who should have noticed it.

The WWWC waffling on (possibly). Repeat.

Retro Electro Workshop thing if there's owt worth looking at on it. Not on.

Discovering Jamie Foxx on Sky Arts.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Oslo calling. Local time 1105

Sunny with wispy stuff. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 15 expected.

Off to the Munch museum today.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start out and still a bit breezy, and it looks as if there may have been more rain overnight too. Mild for the time of year though, being 18°C with 22° expected later, and the barometers are back down a bit at 1006/1012mB

There were seven pigeons scattered around the lawn just now, having a bit of a graze. Then one of the squirrels emerged from the flowerbed and, after a bit of random scampering, rushed straight at one of them, causing it to take flight and eventually come to rest in one of the trees along the hedgerow. The squirrel turned round, proving it hadn't even been going in that direction, and then charged at another pigeon at the edge of the lawn, which was also forced to fly off! What a dick

[NickFitz]

Lots of African wildlife on again this afternoon

And then the endless repeats of police stuff got turned off, in favour of an evening of reading: Book 1 of The Iliad in Emily Wilson's new translation, and a load of H. G. Wells' early short stories

Windy out now

Goodnight all