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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy and breezy. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 22 expected and cloud cover set to dissipate. Barometer continues its slow descent to 1023 mBar.

Woke early but I didn't look at the clock. I think some noise outside woke me up. Managed to get myself out of bed to attend work.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Woke at 05:35 but managed to return to the land of nod until 07:15 and again until 08:25. Which was good.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 19.3 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1017 and a tad, 30.04 in Hg, 763.0 Torr, 14.754 psi, (down from 1017.5 last night), 68% RH (GDR hair), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of June 2019 covbob was upset about his poor old cat(s), whilst WTFH got an Om, whereas I was cooking chilli con carne using ancient tins of stuff rescued from next door when I cleared the house, plus I discovered that the builders had nicked my dad's wooden loft ladder which pissed me off a tad.

Shopping trip to the bank & Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: scrambled egg and poached tomato on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toasted crust, bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of toast, red corner yog, a Morrisons mini pork pie (reduced), 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Y&Y with, unusually, Something Vaguely Inneresting, to whit: horology, horology courses, and the degree in such at Birmingham.

Which led me, inevitably, to The Clock of The Long Now.

https://longnow.org/clock/

I like their definitiion of "readily available materials" that includes stainless steel, titanium, and high grade ceramincs, with artificial sapphire thrown in for good measure. That cam thing looks odd. I wonder what the aliens will make of it in 10,000 years time.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Yet another grey start out; 10°C, 18° later, you know the drill. Barometers are down a little at 1012/1020mB though, so at least something's changed

[NickFitz]

The car earlier was the Chevrolet Luv, a small flatbed truck sold to a brewery. And the gold diggers were doing OK as they approach the end of this season, which I think was the last season before the coming season. Maybe they'll go back to the opal hunters once this one's done?

Then later, S1E4 of Slow Horses, Visiting Hours (TV Episode 2022). There's an awful lot of smoking in this one for a recent series

Then another chapter of Attack Warning Red! about Protect and Survive and similar efforts

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips

[NickFitz]

You mean you had to, er, WAIT?

Like some sort of animal?

Shocked.

I know! I thought the whole idea of doing everything online was that it would be ready when I arrived, but they seem to regard that as some kind of sorcery with which they will have no truck

[DoctorStrangelove]

TFBSZ

After work, I headed round the corner to the chemist to pick up the monthly prescription. I ordered this a week ago today on the surgery website, and records show they issued it electronically to the pharmacy the next day, so I assumed it would be ready for me - in fact, had been ready since last Thursday (I kept forgetting to go and get it).

Instead, they appeared shocked and confused by the notion that a prescription might have been issued, deliberated for a long time over the computer before finally managing to track it down, and then informed me it would be "a few minutes" as they prepared to deal with dispensing it, possibly for the first time ever judging by their demeanour

Anyway, all sorted and I daresay they're now having a nice cup of tea to help them rally from the shock

You mean you had to, er, WAIT?

Like some sort of animal?

Shocked.

[NickFitz]

After work, I headed round the corner to the chemist to pick up the monthly prescription. I ordered this a week ago today on the surgery website, and records show they issued it electronically to the pharmacy the next day, so I assumed it would be ready for me - in fact, had been ready since last Thursday (I kept forgetting to go and get it).

Instead, they appeared shocked and confused by the notion that a prescription might have been issued, deliberated for a long time over the computer before finally managing to track it down, and then informed me it would be "a few minutes" as they prepared to deal with dispensing it, possibly for the first time ever judging by their demeanour

Anyway, all sorted and I daresay they're now having a nice cup of tea to help them rally from the shock

[eek]

This was accompanied by Apple's WWDC keynote. The Vision Pro alternative reality thing looks pretty cool - well, it looks pretty ridiculous from the outside as these things always do, but it looks like an impressive bit of kit. Won't be available in the UK until at least a year from now though, which will at least give me a chance to save up the three or four grand it'll cost

Nice overview of the Vision Pro at https://www.techradar.com/reviews/ap...ore-the-future

Love the fact they took the glasses away to work out what lenses were needed for it to work...

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but with enough gaps for it to be quite bright. Currently 16 degrees and the high will be 17. Barometer down a bit to 1024 mBar.

Rubbish day at the office. I just seem to deal with complaint after complaint. I never signed up to work in customer services.

Tapped up various contacts in the hope one of them has something on the go.

[wattaj]

A cool start to the day has warmed considerably. Now comfortable without being overbearing.

Weather same.

Dog walked in the cool of the day. Dog now asleep.

"Hunters 2" now finished following a child free evening luxuriating in the peace and my first beer(s) in over three years (Amstel thanks for asking).

Will scour Amazon Prime later for the next big thing whilst waiting for season 2 of "Reacher", "Peripheral", and Season 4 for "The Boys".

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been Scotch broth, accompanied by seedy wholemeal as that's the only sliced one they had when I was shopping

The disabled fox was wandering around earlier but the lawn is now deserted. Nice roses of various colours in the central flowerbed though

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another grey start, currently 11°C, 17° expected, and the barometers are stuck on 1014/1022mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Awakened unbidden at 05:30. Sleep did not return. Book read. Sleep still did not return.

Freecell score: 89%, running average: 85%.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Clouds. .

Cool in here at 19.9 deg, 21 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.56 Torr, 14.765 psi, (unchanged), 69% RH (GDR hair), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of June 2019 it was raining, and covbob's unfortunate cat was about to lose an eye. .

Massacre of the brambles 2023 version. Stone me they grow fast.

Lunch: baked potato with cheese & baked beans, red pippy corner yog, bramble jelly & marmalade on slices of almost toasted hot bread, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

No Glengettie tea bags in Tesco yesterday. Must be another world shortage.

Entertainment: Y&Y <click>.

Flagging a bit now. .

Much of the house roughly vacced aside from the front room cum office cum junk room (though most other rooms also qualify as junk rooms really, it's just that the front room is packed to the gunwhales) which will receive some attention tomorrow.

Did I mention that one of the opening lights in the bay window has detonated itself rather more than the other two did? Whilst the glass in three windows merely cracked but stayed in place, the one in the bay window has smashed with bits falling inside and little pieces of glass decorating the inside windowsill. Can't reach said windowsill without moving a shedload of crap. Looks as if the window is leaking a bit too. I wonder how much a new bay window costs.

.

£2k+ apparently. Reroofing it is extra.

Tea: battered cod (or maybe haddock), some mango slices, a yog, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: PM.

Wheeler Dealers S13 E4 Chevrolet Luv: it's the one where Edd is missing on & off all the way through and mouthy fat boy claims himself a tool cabinet and starts hammering the crap out of stuff. Bought: $1k, total: $2,555, sold: $3k5. Edd demos a couple of paintless dent removers: one using electromagnetic induction to warm the metal up and the other using hot melt glue and some pegs plus a puller thing to remove other dents. Added air shocks and a in cab compressor, plus a bluetooth radio. Edd changed the sump plug gasket, the gearbox to propshaft oil seal, and the oil seal on the RHS halfshaft housing.

Should have remembered that Colonel March and are on from 18:00, rather more inneresting than the above. Which ain't difficult.

Freecell score: 90%, running average: 85% (85.39%).

Human Jungle. "Fine Feathers".

Maigret's Mistake (1994). S4 E4. Bit out of order after S5 last week but there you go.

Brian Cox in Calcutta back in 2009 about the Dundee jute workers.

[NickFitz]

No idea what the car was as I was watching the Apple thing. I recorded the gold diggers, but didn't pay much attention to it as it was much the same as usual.

Then, in the new gold diggers, Shane was back without Russell, as the gold company that's offered to buy his land wants him to prove it's got a decent amount of gold left in it, so he gets to do some more prospecting on his own. But the main thing was that his digger had been left in a sort of depression that had been subject to heavy rain and had sunk deep in the mud, leading to a kind of Trucking Hell scenario where he had to get it lifted up far enough that a friend could then haul it out with a very large piece of earthmoving machinery. He found some decent gold after all that though, as did the others

Another early night against the early sunrise now

Goodnight all