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[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Drizzly.

Grey.

Dark.

Dank.

Cool in here at 17.1 deg, 18 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.825 in Hg, 757.56 Torr, 14.6488 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 76% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of July 2019 NF made a large batch of chips, I went shopping to Tesco & Morrisons, and later on sent an abusive and sweary communication to Aunty BBfeckingC when they stopped showing a programme about the Shuttle on BBC4 so they could show a fecking tennis match. I thought the box had broken.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rather gloomy out and quite breezy too. Currently 16°C heading for 19°, and the barometers are unchanged at 1004/1011mB

Currently pottering around vaguely feeling as if I ought to be getting ready to go, even though there's no need to make a move before eleven at the earliest

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife in Africa on the box this afternoon

And the usual endless repeats of Road Wars early evening

And then I rejected further TV in favour of re-reading the early short stories of H.G. Wells

Early night now, as tomorrow I travel in a southerly direction for a ruby wedding lunch gathering

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Dinner was very nice, we had a laugh and raised a glass. Back home now. Rubbish drive down, decent drive back. All in all a good day.

[NickFitz]

Popped round the shops. First: the chemist, to collect the monthly prescription. Then on to Sainsbury's Local for a couple of bits, as I didn't go shopping this week.

Finally, to the kebab shop; so tea has been kebab and chips

[xoggoth]

Driving to Worcestershire tomorrow for a boring visit to sister. Fortunately got an old work mate and old uni friend nearby/on way.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: the last of the assorted charcuterie in a wholemeal bap, and a bag of plain crisps

[NickFitz]

Today is the first anniversary of my Dad's death. Heading down to Sussex where we're having a family meal this evening.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rather Simpsonesque out today, though not that warm at 15°C with a prophesied high of 16°. The barometers are bouncing back at 1004/1011mB

The squirrels have left some more conker husks down on the corner of the lawn. I've noticed from my bedroom window that there's a conker tree at the end of next door's rather long garden. They have a small dog, which seems amiable enough, but is perhaps enough reason for the squirrels to gather chestnuts there and bring them over here for consumption, if that's what's happening

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear sky with occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer up to 1016 mBar

Today is the first anniversary of my Dad's death. Heading down to Sussex where we're having a family meal this evening.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^Gorky Park. One of Mr Marvin's final epics. Read the book & watched film many years ago (knocking on for 35 to 40 from the sounds of it).

Morning.

Saturday.

More nightmare dreams about work: this time the car had two punctured tyres when home time came & the batphone was very odd indeed, plus the landline in work seemed even stranger. I was glad to wake up.

Dry.

Misty.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 16.1 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 13 deg in the leanto, 9.5 deg in the saltinghouse.

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.663315 psi, (up from 1006 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of July 2019 the steam engine "Tornado" bypassed Neath on the Swansea District Line. Which was disappointing.

Cottons in the WM.

Cottons out of the WM and pegged out on the line.

Walk walked for the first time in months, since June 23rd as it transpires apart from once in July.

Lunch: baked beans on toast & suchlike.

Entertainment: Money Box. America's book of secrets on Bollox Blaze.

Cottons in off the line still slightly damp, duly iRoned & airing upstairs, the roller towel was damper than I'd thought.

Freecell score: 95%, running average: 86%.

Still sunny here. I brought the cottons in because it had gone very grey.

Tea: spag with last portion of bol, pity the preceding portions weren't as nice as this one.

Entertainment: PM.

WWII in colour: gotterdamerung.

Pink Floyd "The endless drivel". <click> WWII in colour: Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Little Boy & Fat Man.

Maigret S2 E11 "The reluctant witnesses". The biscuit factory one. Lacks the emphasis on the antisemitism in this production. It also lacks Gromit despite having Peter Sallis.

The Four Just Men E38 "The boy without a country". Cabin boy runs away from a ship.

It's A Royal It's a Knockout on 5+1.

1976 on 5.

[NickFitz]

Not one but two major motion picture premieres tonight, starting with Lola (2022) in which a couple of gifted, eccentric, and isolated sisters invent a machine that can pick up radio and TV transmissions from the future in 1938. Initially this allows them to get into Dylan, Bowie, The Kinks, et al. decades before anybody else, but then war comes and their technology is turned towards assisting in the fight against the Nazis. But, as so many have discovered (or will discover), using knowledge of the future to change the present can have unexpected consequences… It's presented as found footage, or rather found B&W film, because one of their eccentricities is that they tend to film everything they do. Some aspects of the war seemed to be depicted in a rather simplistic and unrealistic way, but of course it's the war as affected by their discovery, so it's an alternative timeline to the one we know. And it isn't really about that anyway. I thought it was intriguing, and they've done a very good job of manipulating real historic footage to depict the alternative history of the story. Worth eighty minutes of your time, I reckon

And then Gorky Park (1983). It's a pretty good murder mystery based in Moscow and involving the usual aspects of Soviet society. I read the novel way back, maybe a year or so before the film came out, and I enjoyed it but don't remember it much. Decent film of that ilk

Finally, a rewatch of Jupiter Ascending (2015) because I haven't watched that in at least a few months and I like it, no matter what the people who have nothing better to do with their lives than complain about things not being as good as The Matrix think

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Frustrating week. Glad it's over.

Very grumpy with the work tulipe. Equally grumpy with the trainee accountant who is causing me to spend hours checking their work and explaining why they're wrong. At some point over the weekend I have to go through all my fixed asset records to prove how their adjustment of depreciation is wrong. Time to change accountants me thinks.

[NickFitz]

Tea: spag bol, and very nice too

[NickFitz]

As expected, a hectic day

I had this important demo to get ready for this afternoon so, of course, I was also needed for an hour-long session with an external supplier this morning

In time honoured tradition, I had the final pieces in place for the demo approximately ninety seconds before it was due to start. It went very well to start with, with my email making its way through the various things I've plumbed together and ending up where it was supposed to be and configured as it should be, which was the bit they were after (and which at least one of them had previously opined we wouldn't be able to do). When they tried, a couple of problems arose, of course. But they didn't mind really as they'd seen that it could do what was needed, and understood that there would be teething troubles. All in all, it counted as a success

So then I spent the rest of the afternoon, once I'd had the lunch I hadn't had time for, working out what the problem was. It was, of course, Microsoft: they'd been sending from Outlook, which chooses to construct its emails in a rather peculiar manner which trips up the Python email parsing library. A very easy fix once it was tracked down, just telling the Python method to ignore the MS wrapper and keep digging deeper to find the content. So I was able to reprocess one of their original emails and send them a screenshot of it in the right place with the right config, and at that point I packed it in for the weekend

Timesheet was done earlier, of course