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[NickFitz]

The car tonight was the unsafe-at-any-speed Corvair, again. And some of the gold diggers had successful ends to their seasons, while some still have a way to go.

And then I ended up watching a bunch of WWDC videos, including several from 2020 that covered various aspects of SwiftUI I didn't previously understand too well. In fact, I could have saved myself a lot of time by watching them ages ago. Ah well

Early night again now, which I'm hoping won't feature the same kind of weird and disturbing dreams that woke me up last night

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: Cumberland sausages, chips and beans

Still looking very pleasant out

[NickFitz]

Stuck a towel wash on to try to give meaning to the day

[ladymuck]

Workshop done. All a shower of ****

Definitely looking to exit stage left asap but at least I have two weeks off coming up.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was ham toasties, just like yesterday, because I enjoyed them then and fancied more of the same

It's turned quite Simpsonesque here now

Possibly getting up to 28°C at the weekend

If nothing else, I'll be able to get an idea of how this place is in the heat. Rather more bearable than the old place is my guess, but we shall see

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny, blue sky with occasional lumps of fluff. Breezy. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer down a bit further to 1021 mBar.

Busy morning at the coal face. There's a 2.5 hour workshop this afternoon to discuss the changes that are afoot. Had an hour on the phone with the senior report developer who gave me a rather interesting summary of how reporting approaches have changed every couple of years with huge migration projects kicking off to do the next big thing each time. The current changes are because the previous change (from postgres databases to snowflake) is proving too expensive.

[wattaj]

Chilly start to the day. Cold, in fact, and slightly breezy. Some hope that it'll warm up a bit later.

Bored. Not sure what to do with the day... might have to start looking for some work. Might not. Might just look for a fight to get mixed up in around here instead... seems to be plenty on offer.

Everyone needs a hobby.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Cool in here at 19.9 deg, 21.5 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1013 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (down from 1014 last night), 68% RH (GDR hair), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of June 2019 NF cooked a nice meal while I read some bollox about that Hitler's secret weapons, many of which were pure fantasy on the part of the author. I'm rather grateful that I have no recall whatsoever of that book. It met Oxfam.

The recycling engineers made their merry way along the road earlier.

The cleaning of the springs in the junkroom continues apace.

Stuff that hasn't been moved in years has been moved, including the desk in the bay window (there being an ulterior motive for this of course, being the glass fragments on the windowsill).

Found a curious little pile of "stuff" that may or may be something left by another inhabitant. I may wash the curtains for the first time since 1998.

Desk duly polished and the carpet thereunder duly vacced to death. The Orange Vax will be pressed into use to access some of the areas I can't reach with the other Vax. There was another little pile of death woodlice, possibly offed by a spider.

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

Entertainment: Y&Y about someone who sells pans, Sliced Bread about waterproof/water resistant clothing.

The little pile of "stuff" turned out to be a decomposed foam filter from a piece of test equipment.

Curtains in the wash.

The vertical blinds, much like the bay window, appear to have reached their limit of utility, with a cascade of bits when disturbed. Bit of potching with some wire put them back up well enough for now.

Curtains out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Nearly brained myself once or twice. Fitted a stabilising brace to the over desk equipment rack. Charged the assorted drill batteries.

Put much stuff back whence it came. Even put the antistatic mat on the desk. It's only been in here about 10 years, no rush. Lots of filth collected in assorted vacuum cleaners.

Knackered now.

Tea: chilli con carne with rice, the last of the mango slices, a yog, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: PM.

Wheeler Dealers S13 E6 1963 Corvair "Unsafe At Any Speed" particularly if the tub o' lard is driving. Bought (from a scrap yard): $2k, total: $11,345, sold: $18k. New interior. Uprated the rear suspension to stop it tucking under. New shocks & springs all round. Engine refurb: new gaskets & oil seals on the rocker tubes. Yet another keyless unlocking of the doors. All the tub o' lard's wittering was via subtitles.

Digging for Britain: red hair again.

House through History: 10 Guinea Street Bristol. Inneresting.

Alien Chronicles on Blaze. More bollox. UnInneresting even by my low standards. No way to listen to that droning on for an hour & a half. I'll read a book instead.

Alien Files unsealed: Yet more bollox.

Curse of Skinwalker Ranch: utter & indisputable bollox.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Yet another grey start out, 11°C now, 19° later, barometers down some more at 1009/1017mB

I was awoken around half one by weird and unsettling dreams involving the dead rising from their graves and seeking me out. Unusual for me to be disturbed by classic horror trope nightmares, but there we are. I went for a piss, and then slept reasonably well the rest of the night

[NickFitz]

The car tonight was some kind of Mustang; they seem to have done a few of these now, all of them repeated endlessly. And the gold diggers had their usual variable rates of success.

Later, an episode of The Repair Shop, of which I now have many in reserve, having not watched it for a while

And then I watched several WWDC23 videos about some of the cool things Apple are adding to SwiftUI

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: chicken madras with rice and naan

[wattaj]

A cool morning has blossomed into yet another glorious afternoon... despoiled only by some utter burgher petrol strimming the entire jungle he calls a garden.

I have come to learn that living in a generally well kept neighborhood is the best argument for living in a remote and sparsely populated part of the country.

Bacon sandwich for lunch.

[NickFitz]

Ham toasties for lunch

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy and breezy. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 22 expected and cloud cover set to dissipate. Barometer continues its slow descent to 1023 mBar.

Woke early but I didn't look at the clock. I think some noise outside woke me up. Managed to get myself out of bed to attend work.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Woke at 05:35 but managed to return to the land of nod until 07:15 and again until 08:25. Which was good.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 19.3 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1017 and a tad, 30.04 in Hg, 763.0 Torr, 14.754 psi, (down from 1017.5 last night), 68% RH (GDR hair), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of June 2019 covbob was upset about his poor old cat(s), whilst WTFH got an Om, whereas I was cooking chilli con carne using ancient tins of stuff rescued from next door when I cleared the house, plus I discovered that the builders had nicked my dad's wooden loft ladder which pissed me off a tad.

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

Lunch: scrambled egg and poached tomato on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toasted crust, bramble jelly and marmalade on slices of toast, red corner yog, a Morrisons mini pork pie (reduced), 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Y&Y with, unusually, Something Vaguely Inneresting, to whit: horology, horology courses, and the degree in such at Birmingham.

Which led me, inevitably, to The Clock of The Long Now.

https://longnow.org/clock/

I like their definition of "readily available materials" that includes stainless steel, titanium, and high grade ceramics, with artificial sapphire thrown in for good measure. That cam thing looks odd. I wonder what the aliens will make of it in 10,000 years time.

(Wanders off & spends half an hour reading "History Lesson" and "3001" by that Arthur C Clarke cove).

The afternoon has been spent moving stuff and cleaning under it in the front room office cum junk room.

Stone me it's hard work.

How come, when you take stuff out, clean under & behind it, it never then returns the way it was before. It must be some kind of magic where stuff expands when moved about.

It's about half done, as it transpires, so more exertion tomorrow. I'm getting too fecking old for this sort of thing, it must be time for another bonfire of the paperwork that infests the place. Then again I could leave it for whoever gets the pleasure once I'm dead.

Tea: chicken in white sauce with rice n peas, a yog, some mango slices, 0.91*1.55 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: PM (though it's currently <click>).

Wheeler Dealers S13 E5 88 Ford Mustang "Fox-body" 5 litre V8: bought: $2k5, total: $7335, sold: $9k2. The lump of lard is so irritating now that his bits are entirely subtitled which also removes the "music". Changed the LSD since the clutches were toast: changed it from 3.08 to 3.73 (or somesuch) and changed the speedo drive gear too (there's posh then). Changed the exhaust headers and much of the exhaust, changed the induction side too, and changed the pulleys so the ancillaries didn't take so much power. Respray. Changed the wheels. Added red highlights since it looked like a hearse when it was all black. Changed the shocks. Did a dumb drag race for no readily apparent reason. What the feck was the geiger counter for?

Just finished the bottle of Islay malt. I wonder what's next. I think there's some meths here somewhere.

Digging for Britain: watched for long enough to see that her hair was red again.

Just plugged in an old countdown timer for a UV exposure box that's been sitting on the floor in the junkroom for 10 years or more: cue lots of smoke as a capacitor promtply short circuits and cracks open. It's a Rifa of course: the bane of old BBC B computer power supplies.

The Bad Skin Clinic S5 E8: a young chap with erythromelalgia (burning hand syndrome) plus keratosis pilaris. He gets laser treatment for the redness & botox for the pain. A woman who's stretched her earlobes. Well that fix was quick & easy. . A lady with necrobiosis xanthogranuloma. Laser treatment for redness & different laser treatment for lumps & bumps. Tattoo to give her eyebrows. Chap with skin tags. Diabetic. Also acanthosis nigricans. Snip snip. Well that was easy. 80 skin tags removed.

Dr Pimple Popper S5 E8. Chap with eczema on his hands. Oral corticosteroid to start, cotton lined gloves instead of rubber gloves. The steroids worked but can't be on them for very long, so it's ongoing. Woman with bumps around her eyes. Hydrocystomas. Difficult trying not to twitch with sharp things next to your eye. Elderly gent with cysts on his back. He's been treated by doctors who don't believe in local anaesthetic. He had some impressive cysts. And blackheads. He's 79 & still working.