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[NickFitz]

Dentist gone to. Nothing drastic needed, though they pull the stunt of booking you in for a hygienist to do the old scale and polish rather than the dentist doing it, because that way they make more money. Oh well, can't blame them for it really; they must have spent a bomb on the refurb, and the place is looking better under the new regime

I had planned to pop round to Greggs for lunch on the way back, as it's just up the road, but it was closed

I didn't go there so often that they would have ceased to be profitable once I moved away, but it seems it's temporarily closed for refurbishment or something.

And I saw from the local rag's website that the road was closed by my old flat last night, and residents warned to keep their windows shut, because of a fire in a garage. I had my suspicions about where this might be so I nipped in the big back gate (I'd parked on the side road near the flat as it usually has more spaces free than the next road where the dentist is) and sure enough, it was the derelict old garage next to which the Super Monkey Car has parked for so many years until it finally got a garage of its own here. The door's been broken for yonks and one or more junkies have got into the habit of using it for whatever purpose over the last year or so, which was why I suspected that would be the place. Good job I moved before it went up - at least it gave the fire brigade more space to work, assuming nobody else was parked there

Anyway, now I need to decide what to have for lunch. I've got one chicken bake left in the freezer, I think

[eek]

Boy off for a week's outward bound thing with the school. His first time away without a parental. Empty nest for a few days. Laithwaites on speed dial.

Twin B is in Iceland for 3 months (left Saturday)
Twin A is in Germany for 2 weeks (fancy Scouting badge)...

It's quiet here but too much clientco work to do to make the most of it.

[ladymuck]

Links are up

Om

[NickFitz]

Busy week ahead. Then off for two weeks to do a tier point run to Hawaii. Having looked at the various time zones I'll be passing through (six in total) I suspect I won't know if I'm coming or going.

Been a while since we had somebody in a suitable timezone to keep TPD active overnight

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[wattaj]

...Then off for two weeks to do a tier point run to Hawaii...

Nice. Enjoy.

Cool start to the day. Prospect of heat later. Could get used to this.

Boy off for a week's outward bound thing with the school. His first time away without a parental. Empty nest for a few days. Laithwaites on speed dial.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Stone me, talk about dreams. Lots of ultraviolence too.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 19.8 deg, 21 deg in the kitchen, 18.5 deg in the leanto.

1019.8 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (up from 1019 last night), 70% RH (GDR hair), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of June 2019 nothing had changed due to inadequate posting yesterday.

As I'm about to consume breakfast, R4 is waffling on about faecal transplants.

Telex machine moderately clean.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. 34 bus out, 34 bus back. Timed that right then.

Lunch: scrambled egg and poached tomato on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toasted crust, bramble jelly & marmalade on slices of nearly toasted hot bread, red corner yog, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Y&Y until it went off air due to power problems to be replaced by Sliced Bread on toothpaste. It would appear that the above meal fails on every tooth preservation modality.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy and windy again. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 18 expected and the cloud being blown (or evaporated) away. Barometer hasn't moved.

Yesterday was scorchio! 23 degrees down on the south coast.

Busy week ahead. Then off for two weeks to do a tier point run to Hawaii. Having looked at the various time zones I'll be passing through (six in total) I suspect I won't know if I'm coming or going.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start out, and not very warm at 11°C, maybe reaching 18° this afternoon when it brightens up a little. The barometers are unchanged again at 1014/1022mB

I'm due at the dentist this afternoon for a checkup; sadly at 2 rather than 2:30

My resident's parking permit for my old neck of the woods has now expired, but I still have a bunch of visitor permit scratchcards so at least I won't have to pay and can park in the residents' bays

[NickFitz]

There was the usual Canadian borders and New Zealand roads policing stuff earlier, and also a number of those ones about people hiding cameras in old people's alarm clocks because the cleaner's nicking stuff, of which they seem to have an inexhaustible supply

And later, an old 24 Hours in A&E

Earlier on, the Yore Computer account on Twitter, which is a bot that tweets individual pages randomly pulled from the Internet Archive's scans of old computer magazines, tweeted a page with one of the very few reviews my work received when I was a game developer in the 1980s. September 1988, The Games Machine, 29% for the PC conversion of Dream Warrior, which is fairly generous if anything because I thought the game itself was rubbish

Early night now, as sadly the supply of Bank Holidays has run short

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

And for tea, a roast pork dinner

I realised right towards the end of cooking that I'd run out of Yorkshire puds, and didn't have the necessary ingredients to make any

[NickFitz]

Lunch: mixed charcuterie butties again, this time on non-seedy bloomer as that's the only kind they had sliced when I went shopping

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Sunny and Simpsonesque out. Not as warm as it could be though, being 17°C with 19° forecast but a bit of a light breeze making it "feel like" 16°. The barometers are hovering around 1014/1022mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 19.7 deg, 21.5 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1018.5 mBar, 30.076 in Hg, 763.94 Torr, 14.77 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 71% RH (GDR hair), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of June 2019 it was grey & wet, LM was working, while MS was playing spider solitaire, & I was irritated to find that there was a drip from the roof over the front bedroom, which, it turned out, wasn't a shifted slate, but rather a slate smashed by whatever scaffolding oik had built the tower around the chimney back in 2010. I glued it back together from the inside to stop the drip a few days later.

Walk (abbreviated) walked in the sunshine and not very cool breeze. A horsefly met its end.

Lunch: baked potato with cheese and baked beans, a yog, bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of toast, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: John Cleese talking to some Archbishop or other.

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

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

The last 20 minutes of "The Day the earth stood still (1951)". Klaatu barada nikto as they say, apparently.

NZ Highway Patrol from 2013.

NZ Motorway Patrol S12 E5 & 6. Turned out I'd seen bits of 6 with the idiot driving a lowloader plus digger under a bridge unsuccessfully.

Tea: soup with rice again, some peach slices, a red pippy corner yog (they're down to £2.50 again), 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

30 deg in the saltinghouse earlier. Cooled down a little once I'd opened both the doors.

America's book of secrets with Lance Reddick: The FBI, Mary, and their pursuit of MLK.

The WWWC explaing The UneXplained about Mars. Well he should know, Utopia Planitia shipyards & all that.. Oh feck, the Chief Autist has just got a mention.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Special Delivery (2022) (Teuksong in Korean) which is kind of Korea's answer to the Fast and Furious things, in that it involves a lot of fast and furious car action. Also some rather corny humour, gangsters who turn out to be corrupt cops… it's a bit complicated, but reasonably entertaining

And then a rewatch of the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man (2018). Turns out they really did go to the Moon! Who'd've thunk

Speaking of which, there's a very nice full moon setting in the west right now, complete with a number of Apollo Lunar Module descent stages

Goodnight all