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[ladymuck]

Morning all, Glasgow calling

Dull and overcast. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 10 expected. Rain forecast off and on for most of the day. Barometer at 1024 mBar.

HWMBO tells me localised flooding is forecast for 30th/31st and high winds on the 1st, when I'm due to head home.

Big family dinner this afternoon.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) in which the mighty ape busies himself with important work in Hollow Earth and the hitherto unknown Subterranean Earth region (complete with tautologous name), while the big lizard does its dumb lizard stuff of smashing places up for no good reason up on normal Earth. There's also the big moth, which doesn't seem to do anything much but apparently it's friends with the lizard and that helps. It's quite good fun as these things go, but I'd be happy enough if they just stuck with the ape rather than dragging the lizard in, and the ape seemed to have things pretty much in hand

And then a rewatch of Gladiator (2000) because the new one is out now and I'll need to remember the old one well enough to moan that the new one isn't as good

Time to get to sleep now as I need to be up for Monkey Life tomorrow, hopefully without giant lizards

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I finally arrived at HWMBO's a couple of hours later than planned. Much weather afoot down in Europe and southern England. Less so up here

I was thinking about you when I read the story on the BBC News website about the delays. Glad you got there in the end!

[ladymuck]

I finally arrived at HWMBO's a couple of hours later than planned. Much weather afoot down in Europe and southern England. Less so up here

[ladymuck]

23 moves for me, despite not getting any wrong. I didn't get any two-for-one moves though, where the one swapped out moves to the right place

I got lucky with a couple of 2-4-1 moves

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by some Trucking Hell though as mentioned before, I'll soon be running out of that and will have to find something else

[NickFitz]

's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands was completed in 21 moves (5x5 map). I've been there, a lovely little walled city where the bonkers artist Hieronymus Bosch lived for most of his life. They have a fab (or did when I was last there) exhibition of his works there. All reproductions but that doesn't make them any less enjoyable to look at.

23 moves for me, despite not getting any wrong. I didn't get any two-for-one moves though, where the one swapped out moves to the right place

[NickFitz]

I finally gave in and subscribed to Netflix, as I want to be able to experience some of their exclusive cinematic masterpieces, such as Scorsese's The Irishman and the Indian SFX extravaganza RRR.

But first up, of course, had to be the surprise hit of the season Hot Frosty (2024) in which a young widow brings a handsome snowman to life with a magic scarf. It's surprisingly entertaining and although some would argue that the premise is unrealistic, we should bear in mind that a lot of things in The Hunt for Red October are equally unlikely to happen, or at least to happen in that way

[xoggoth]

geez, i Hate microsoft!

I like it. Only got to PCs but all synching ok, was easy to set up via ethenet.

[ladymuck]

Foggy out. Or misty. Poor visibility either way.

My flight was first delayed an hour and then cancelled. I swiftly rebooked myself onto the next one, due to leave about 45 mins later. This too is delayed about an hour but hasn't (yet) been cancelled.

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon
v misty today, and PKB to boot.
Scunthorpe, United Kingdom in 31 moves! (6 x 6 map)

Why is Windoze networking an absolute clusterf*ck??
simple LAN, - 3 laptops, 1 PC.
does it work? does it feck!
geez, i Hate microsoft!

[NickFitz]

Pork pie for lunch

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning Afternoon (if only just).

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Gloomy.

Misty.

Foggy.

Haar, Jim Laaaad.

Chilly in here at 12.7 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto.

1029 mBar, 30.38 in Hg, 771.8 Torr, 14.924 psi, (down from 1029.5 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of December 2019 NF eventually made it home but missed his brother, LM was subjected to 2ndary search of handbaaaag for no discernable reason & partook of the gin to make up for it whilst waiting, and the library computer room was replete with stinky again. Unknown to us all at the time, There Was A Storm Coming.

Walk (greatly augmented) walked in the grey gloom in the reverse direction to yesterday: this proved to be a mistake with the hilly bit at the end rather than the beginning.

Lunch: brunch. Nearly half of those BBE 2014 Weetabix are gone.

Freecell score: 82%, running average: 81%.

Tea: soup etc. Meh. And I've bitten my tongue so there's an enormous blood blister. Ho fecking hum. Seems to happen quite frequently now.

Entertainment: surfing the web for criticisms of Doctor Who. There's rather a lot. .

Book. Other book. Other other book: 3 lines & put back whence it came.

Having scanned the EPG it looks like another dreary Friday night's not viewing, though AC/DC on Sky Arts may warrant a look.

Freecell score (W95): 82%, running average: 83%.

Book (out of Normandy to the Siegfried line).

Other book: Dark forces from the Across the River lot. Stone me there's another 250 pages of this. I can see why the reviews on Goodreads aren't exactly glowing.

AC/DC. Back in Black man. No SR71 touch & go though. <click> Exceeded my tedium threshold. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Damp but no active precipitation. Currently 6 degrees with a high of 7 expected. Low chance of rain all day. Barometer at 1033 mBar.

Working today. I think I may be the only one.

's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands was completed in 21 moves (5x5 map). I've been there, a lovely little walled city where the bonkers artist Hieronymus Bosch lived for most of his life. They have a fab (or did when I was last there) exhibition of his works there. All reproductions but that doesn't make them any less enjoyable to look at.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The rather foggy conditions in which I drove home yesterday persisted, getting even foggier by evening. And they've remained overnight, so today is foggy. Out of idle curiosity The distance to the block opposite (measured on Google Maps) is about 55m or 60 yards, and the fog isn't concealing it but is making it look slightly diffuse; so that's how foggy it is. It's 5°C at the moment and will creep up to 6° later, while the barometers are, I think, down a little at 1021/1030mB