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[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. Woman with bumps around her eyes. Hydrocystomas.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Yet another grey start out; 10°C, 18° later, you know the drill. Barometers are down a little at 1012/1020mB though, so at least something's changed

[NickFitz]

The car earlier was the Chevrolet Luv, a small flatbed truck sold to a brewery. And the gold diggers were doing OK as they approach the end of this season, which I think was the last season before the coming season. Maybe they'll go back to the opal hunters once this one's done?

Then later, S1E4 of Slow Horses, Visiting Hours (TV Episode 2022). There's an awful lot of smoking in this one for a recent series

Then another chapter of Attack Warning Red! about Protect and Survive and similar efforts

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips

[NickFitz]

You mean you had to, er, WAIT?

Like some sort of animal?

Shocked.

I know! I thought the whole idea of doing everything online was that it would be ready when I arrived, but they seem to regard that as some kind of sorcery with which they will have no truck

[DoctorStrangelove]

TFBSZ

After work, I headed round the corner to the chemist to pick up the monthly prescription. I ordered this a week ago today on the surgery website, and records show they issued it electronically to the pharmacy the next day, so I assumed it would be ready for me - in fact, had been ready since last Thursday (I kept forgetting to go and get it).

Instead, they appeared shocked and confused by the notion that a prescription might have been issued, deliberated for a long time over the computer before finally managing to track it down, and then informed me it would be "a few minutes" as they prepared to deal with dispensing it, possibly for the first time ever judging by their demeanour

Anyway, all sorted and I daresay they're now having a nice cup of tea to help them rally from the shock

You mean you had to, er, WAIT?

Like some sort of animal?

Shocked.

[NickFitz]

After work, I headed round the corner to the chemist to pick up the monthly prescription. I ordered this a week ago today on the surgery website, and records show they issued it electronically to the pharmacy the next day, so I assumed it would be ready for me - in fact, had been ready since last Thursday (I kept forgetting to go and get it).

Instead, they appeared shocked and confused by the notion that a prescription might have been issued, deliberated for a long time over the computer before finally managing to track it down, and then informed me it would be "a few minutes" as they prepared to deal with dispensing it, possibly for the first time ever judging by their demeanour

Anyway, all sorted and I daresay they're now having a nice cup of tea to help them rally from the shock

[eek]

This was accompanied by Apple's WWDC keynote. The Vision Pro alternative reality thing looks pretty cool - well, it looks pretty ridiculous from the outside as these things always do, but it looks like an impressive bit of kit. Won't be available in the UK until at least a year from now though, which will at least give me a chance to save up the three or four grand it'll cost

Nice overview of the Vision Pro at https://www.techradar.com/reviews/ap...ore-the-future

Love the fact they took the glasses away to work out what lenses were needed for it to work...

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but with enough gaps for it to be quite bright. Currently 16 degrees and the high will be 17. Barometer down a bit to 1024 mBar.

Rubbish day at the office. I just seem to deal with complaint after complaint. I never signed up to work in customer services.

Tapped up various contacts in the hope one of them has something on the go.

[wattaj]

A cool start to the day has warmed considerably. Now comfortable without being overbearing.

Weather same.

Dog walked in the cool of the day. Dog now asleep.

"Hunters 2" now finished following a child free evening luxuriating in the peace and my first beer(s) in over three years (Amstel thanks for asking).

Will scour Amazon Prime later for the next big thing whilst waiting for season 2 of "Reacher", "Peripheral", and Season 4 for "The Boys".

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been Scotch broth, accompanied by seedy wholemeal as that's the only sliced one they had when I was shopping

The disabled fox was wandering around earlier but the lawn is now deserted. Nice roses of various colours in the central flowerbed though