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[xoggoth]

Nice sunny wonky today. Brought meself a new PC with monitor, keyboard and mouse. Shall set it up tomorrow as a spare in spare room and get it sorted before I make it me main PC.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Pukka sausage rolls

It's turned sunny out, though with various high wisps trailing across the sky

I found a few minutes this morning to pop down and put the door trays and salad crisper back in the fridge. The shelves can go down when I'm taking it out for collection this evening, as the door needs to open wide to get those in and out which means dragging it out of the storeroom. Said storerooms are more like deep cubicles, albeit with solid brick walls separating one from another. Wide enough for a fridge with a foot and a bit to spare, but not wide enough that you can swing the fridge door all the way back

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ OM.

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Frosty.

Cold in here at 11.5 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto, 2.5 deg in the salting house.

1023 mBar, 30.2 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.837 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of December 2019 I'd had my first 's flu jab and my arm still hurt along with feeling quite (as has happened every year since due to the added shark in the jab), whereas eek had found some inneresting coding to do, whereas LM offered to do the boring stuff for him, having cancelled a 09:00 meeting the next day, and opm was off out on an xmas jolly that evening. And DaveB suggested acupuncture on my sore arm after it made his bad knee betterer.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM.

Everything else in the WM.

Everything else out of the WM & pegged out on the line to accompany the shirts which got there first.

It was sunny but now it's overcast. And my hands nearly fell off with frostbite when pegging stuff out.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the increasingly grey gloom & brisk breeze. This latter seems to be drying the shirts rather well.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y: Gapfinders: Penetration expert (Mitnick style): surprise! from that Liverpool. .

Toast: phones4you.

TWATO was interrupted by rain so the washing came in off the line & met the TD.

Shirts roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Cottons roughly iRoned where required & airing upstairs.

Smalls airing upstairs.

Not quite what I'd planned but there you go & there I went. .

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage: "Are we what we eat?". "Supervolcanoes". Little bit of "Wasps vs Bees".

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy fingered dawn out there, and a little frosty too: -2°C now, aiming for +5° later. As with last week, it's expected to warm back up at the weekend. The barometers have shot back up, to 1015/1024mB

[eek]

Back at hotel after a rather enjoyable visit to the ENO to see Elixir of Love.

£30 for second row seats in the Grand Balcony is not a bad deal...

[NickFitz]

More of Shepperton Babylon has been read, pointing out (among other things) that Ealing Studios made a lot more films in genres other than comedy, which was something they only really got into after a number of years making things like Went the Day Well? and Dead of Night

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Dinner was fish and chips from Mick's Chips up the road. They used to be cash only but I see they now take cards.

I didn't leave at 2pm, and will instead leave at 1pm tomorrow.

Hopefully the shower will arrive back from being reconfigured for high pressure water flow in the morning.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been roast chicken thighs and chips with ketchup

Accompanied by a new Police Interceptors - though possibly not that new in terms of the events shown, as it was with Nottinghamshire plod, who were the subjects of preceding series, and the rest of this series has been with Northamptonshire

[NickFitz]

Popped down and gave the inside of the fridge a quick wash with some warm soapy water, and left the door slightly ajar so it has a chance to dry overnight. I probably didn't do a perfect job, but it's free and no longer has any obvious spills so what more do they want

I would have done it earlier if I'd thought it through, though. The overarching storeroom and all the little storerooms off have concrete floors, which aren't that comfortable to kneel on when it's getting chilly. And as it's dark, I had to come back up and get the head torch so I could see what I was doing without dragging it out under the lights, which are also on countdown timer switches and thus turn off after a couple of minutes anyway

Next, I need to clean the shelves as they're slightly too big for the dishwasher, though the plastic trays from the door and the "salad crisper" ones from the bottom fitted in there. Once that lot's taken down and reinstalled tomorrow, it'll be ready to go to its new home - they're collecting it around 7pm

[xoggoth]

Just went for a local walky as so gray, left my planned one for a nicer day. Lucky got huge open access woods almost on my doorstep.

[WTFH]

Just been advising a ClientCo manager that "requesting a new report 3 months after go live" (my words) is not the same as an "urgent bug fix" (his words).
The system works the way it was designed to based on the requirements that he was involved in creating. If we were not made aware of the requirement during design or testing, and it's taken 3 months after go live for it to be thought up, then it's not a) urgent or b) a bug.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

There's still some fluffy bits hither and yon, but it's generally cleared up and started turning sunny sooner than forecast

[WTFH]

Afternoon all Off to see the paternal figure later.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, still in Sussex

Dull and damp out. Much rain overnight. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 9 expected. Barometer at 1009 mBar.

I am hoping the boiler work completes before 2pm so I can head home in nicer driving conditions. I have a 4pm meeting so if that cut off is missed then I'm here till gone 5pm.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damply dry.

Grey.

Hints of blue sky but not many.

Hints of sun through the gloom.

Chilly side of chilly at 13 deg in here, 12 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto.

Sun's out.

1010.5 mBar, 29.84 in Hg, 757.94 Torr, 14.656 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electronic with the dehumidifier on for an hour & a half).

Meanwhile on the 4th of December 2019 more BTVS & Angel were watched along with some criticism of JW who thought he could produce 3 shows at the same time, including Firefly, which, oddly enough, he couldn't, and the quality shows, whereas NF's soup had come to fruition in very acceptable terms, with five portions for the freezer, presumably in addition the one that was consumed immediately.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom: not very sprightly this morning for some reason. Probably did too much yesterday with the Tesco & Aldi shop on top.

Sun's still out.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about "my voice is my password" and how to get around that to steal everybody's money.

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 80%.

House very roughly vacced. Didn't move much to vac underneath, couldn't be arsed, there's too many things on top of other things. There's a society for that apparently.

Tea: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: Nazi hunter thing: Martin Bormann. Well they found him eventually. . And he wasn't in Uncle Adolph's Bar & Grill in Argentina after all.

Digging for Britain: what colour is her hair in this one? It's the only inneresting thing about the programme.

Maigret and the reluctant witness. The one with the biscuit factory facing liquidation after the boss is shot with a 6.35mm (25ACP in English) automatic. Tanning comes into it too.