Back from the surgery, where we went through the annual ritual about units-per-week and also discussed my surplus of weight and deficit of exercise, before getting to the highlight of the day: blood
At least the walk there and back closed the green ring
Due to the flooding earlier in the year, the ground floor is still unusable, so access is via a back entrance on higher ground which opens on to the first floor. Apparently the idea of the ground floor being so far below the surrounding ground didn't raise any alarm bells with the architects about where water might collect
Anyway, this means having to cut through the university campus to get there, so that made a change. Forty years ago, I was just about to start taking my finals there
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Morning.
Wednesday.
Sunny.
Blue sky.
Dry.
Chilly in here at 14.3 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen & leanto.
1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 67% RH (Lidl electric).
Glad to see the board is running like a slug on mogadon again. .
Meanwhile on the 20th of September 2019 NF was making scotch broth whereas I went shopping.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 09:11.
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Morning denizens
Sunny and Simpsonesque start out there today, though it's supposed to get a bit cloudier later. Still not as warm as it could be too, at 5°C rising to 9° this afternoon. The barometers are down somewhat at 1006/1014mB
On the question of fasting for blood tests, I vaguely remember being told last year that it wasn't necessary any more for the ones I have. Investigation reveals that although it used to be required for the triglyceride level test, it was decided a few years ago that it doesn't really affect the results and isn't needed. So I'm having my coffee after all and if it turns out I shouldn't have, well, they should have told me
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Morning all
Chilly at 6am, but at least it's dry.
Garmin app is running but has been updated to be more useful. Has taken me 10 minutes to find the information that used to be right in front of me.
9.52km walked.
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E2 of the Pompeii thing was also very interesting
And I've read the first few chapters of The Sisterhood by Katherine Bradley, being the other book that covers the events of Nineteen Eighty-Four from Julia's perspective
Tomorrow, I go to the GP surgery for my annual blood tests. Just remembered that, at the old surgery, they expected me to fast for them. They haven't said the same here but I think I better had just in case, meaning no coffee when I get up
Goodnight all
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20 wheelbarrow loads of topsoil moved, 20 more to do tomorrow, then the same of mushroom compost for the following 2 days.
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Tea has been leftover chicken and chips
This was accompanied by E1 of Pompeii: The New Dig on iPlayer. Very interesting, so I'm going to watch E2 as well
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In reading the obituary of Eleanor Coppola in the Torygraph today, I was made aware of the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991) Which is available on archive.org. So this evening's ents is watching that.
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Afternoon denizens
Rather on the grey side again today, with the odd light shower. And once again it's not as warm as it could be at 9°C, maybe getting to 10° shortly. The barometers remain uncommitted at 1011/1019mB
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Morning all
Overcast with some grey clouds in the mix. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Rain forecast early afternoon. Barometer down to 1023 mBar.
A quiet day today. Am looking forward to a flat viewing this afternoon which I am hoping is "the one" so I can tell my landlady to naff off.
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Morning.
Tuesday.
Grey.
Gloomy.
Wanly sunny.
Picking with rain.
Chilly in here at 14.7 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen, 14 deg in the leanto.
1021.5 mBar, 30.164 in Hg, 766.188 Torr, 14.815 psi, (down from 1022 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 20th of September 2019 there was much discussion of the Septic scum who took over Cadburys and other enterprises then shut the factory down as is their scumbag Septic wont.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom & wan sunshine.
Lunch: beans on toast etc.
Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about id theft: woman banned from driving due to others giving her details for speeding fines.
TWAO: more handwringing.
Two washing lines and the bit of rusty galv wire replaced. Knackered now.
Entertainment: Veronica Mars S1 E16 "Betty and Veronica".
Tea: chicken portion with some random sausage and bacon with gravy etc. Nice enough.
Entertainment: PM.
The Mentalist S2 E19 "Blood Money". The serial killer (not that one) one. Not the finest of eps.
Scotland yard "The Wall of Death (1956)". The death at a circus one. Poor old cat.
Maigret's Boyhood Friend: S13 E1. Well instead of the usual 6.35x16 (25ACP) this time a n ancient 12mm pinfire revolver was used. Made a change.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 22:07.
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Morning all
As the sun streams in the window of my office, I can't help thinking about how it was overcast and misty 2 hours ago when we went out.
9.64km done, and I was 30 metres short of 10min/km, not bad when the first km was 11.13.
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
Congrats Nick another year wiser!
Tonight's major motion picture premieres were a Birthday Barbenheimer Special!
First up: Oppenheimer (2023) because Lynda Carter, aka Wonder Woman, asserted on Twitter that this should be watched before Barbie as "he created the world in which she lives"; and who am I to argue with that? It's very good indeed. I remember a lot of discourse last year in which people asserted that it should have made more of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with one bloke even complaining that it wasted its final hour on the political matters affecting Oppenheimer's later career rather than those matters. I can only assume these people had misread the title and thought the film was called The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Its Deployment Against Japan, and the Consequences Thereof; but I made sure to read it carefully and it's definitely called Oppenheimer. So it makes sense that it's about him and not stuff that happened thousands of miles away from him, that he wasn't involved with, and over which he had no control, as is made very clear in the film
After that, something completely different… or is it? Barbie (2023) starts out seeming like a lighthearted toy spinoff, but soon reveals itself as an acerbic satire on modern society - though still fun! The association of the two films because of their simultaneous release dates last year may have started out as an online joke about the distinct contrast between the subjects of the two films, but maybe they're closer in spirit than one would expect… and maybe Lynda Carter had a point?
Goodnight all
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