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[ladymuck]

Will wonders never cease? Someone has fixed the forum emailing feature and I'm now being alerted to things.

[Pondlife]

Good Afternoon All,

Wind 11 kt from the North
Temperature 5°C
Humidity 70%
Pressure 1014 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Few clouds at a height of 3400 ft

Soup for lunch because, well, it's a weekday and that's all I ever have for lunch midweek. Homemade and this weeks seems more carroty and less spicy than normal.

Was up in Scotland for the weekend to watch Ice Hockey and I have determined that the best rink served food is in Fife.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a cold chicken leg. Made a nice change

Still haven’t detected any evidence that anything’s leaking. I started panicking when I realised that the pressure valve on the boiler was showing a lower number than I vaguely remembered it being at previously, which can be evidence of a leak. But a minute or so later the thermostat told it to warm the place up and it went back to where I expected it to be, so I think it’s fine

I really must get it serviced though; the previous owner had it done just before I moved in, at my instigation, but I haven’t got around to having it looked at since

[Snooky]

Windows 11 keeps nagging me to install it on my work laptop so I think I will turn off the TPM in the bios to make it go away. My main desktop PC is deemed incompatible because of some hardware non-compliance. I have the extended 1 year support enabled so I'm not living dangerously unpatched.

Our main PC is still running Win 7 but now various things refuse to work on the latest version of Chrome that Win 7 supports, so I guess I ought to upgrade to Win 10 at least. I very much doubt it's Win 11 compatible but I have a spare sitting in the loft ready to go when this one finally gives up.

[xoggoth]

I have the extended 1 year support enabled so I'm not living dangerously unpatched.

I didn't but still getting updates. Move to me Windows 11 PC once finished doing toothpaste inspection reports. Off to group walk soon, book reading PM and I ain't read anything, history group this evening. Free day tomorrow, thank fictional god.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

Damp.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Windy.

Chilly in here at 14.1 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto, dunno about the saltinghouse.

1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.634 psi, (up from 1005 last night), 53% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of March 2020 LM had hired a Fiat 500 to take tat to the storage, BR14 was given encouragement about his new gig, AndyGarbs popped in and remarked on the new plastic notes, NF watched a programme about an Orangutan who could undo nuts & bolts, whilst WTFH and scruff discussed moon watches and 8.5 months after 1969.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked: wind in face going up, despite two extra layers it was fecking perishing. Took 3 miles before I could feel my hands.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about the Chinese & their inventive scams for the cold weather payment. Time to shut the interweb off.

And another afternoon spent scrolling mindlessly through crap on FB.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Entertainment: PM.

[ladymuck]

SNOW



Morning all

It's been raining all morning but it's just turned to snow. Big fat lumps coming down. The ground is too wet for it to settle. Currently 4 degrees ('feels' like 1) with a high of 6 expected. Cloud cover set to lift by mid afternoon. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 07:26; Sunset 16:07 GMT

Windows 11 keeps nagging me to install it on my work laptop so I think I will turn off the TPM in the bios to make it go away. My main desktop PC is deemed incompatible because of some hardware non-compliance. I have the extended 1 year support enabled so I'm not living dangerously unpatched.

[WTFH]

Morning all
4C feels like -5C. 30mph gusts. Not the most enjoyable of walks, particularly as it started to sleet on the way back home.
Last billable day of the week for me as I'm off over to visit dad tonight.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

The rain continued through the night, but seems to have just stopped, though there may be a little more of it over the next hour or so. It’s going to be a windy day and not at all warm: the 3°C we currently enjoy “feels like” -6°, and the high will only be 4°, dropping below zero this evening. The barometers have fallen to 997/1005mB

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was Going Going Gone, the final Dryco novel

Apparently it’s going to rain overnight, though it won’t be as cold as it’s going to be tomorrow night

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been cider-braised pork and chips

This was accompanied by E1 of Spycraft on Netflix, a documentary series. Unfortunately, it’s from the USA, so it’s utterly lacking in depth as they assume viewers are incapable of either taking in complex information or paying attention to any specific subject for longer than a minute or two. So they either say the same vague thing several times in different ways (“drones let agencies look at things from the sky”), presumably hoping one of them will stick, or they start talking about something interesting (the Thing, various US covert operations from the Cold War) but they don’t stay with it for more than a couple of minutes, during which time they’ve imparted about as much information as you’d expect to get from the first couple of paragraphs of an article on the subject

[NickFitz]

Another day done! That means only fourteen more working days for me this year

Today was quite enjoyable. Among other things, I devised an ingenious solution to a mildly tricky problem. I felt it advisable to check the source code of both Python and Django to ensure that the way I was going about things was legit - everything in the relevant docs suggested it should be fine, but it’s always worth making sure and Code is Truth. It was indeed fine, and worked perfectly

[NickFitz]

Cloudflare London appears to have crashed.

Apparently DownDetector was down because of it

[WTFH]

Cloudflare London appears to have crashed.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a leftover pork cutlet in a bap - white, because I used the last of the brown ones yesterday

Yesterday afternoon, a plumber knocked on the door and asked if I could flush my toilet repeatedly for a few minutes as they were trying to determine the source of a leak downstairs somewhere. I obliged, but he never returned so I didn’t think any more about it. Today comes an email from the management company saying they need access to several flats, including mine, on either Friday or Saturday morning to work out where the leak is coming from. I’ve told them Friday would be best for me. Hope it doesn’t turn out to be coming from my flat; I could do without the hassle of having the bathroom torn apart