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[NickFitz]

The new desk has arrived!

The delivery notifications had dire warnings about “kerbside-only drop-off”, not taking away pallets, and so on. Based on past experience of delivery people, I suspected I was going to end up out on the road with 70Kg of flatpack, and had roughed out a plan for dealing with it using the sack truck

But the guy couldn’t have been more helpful! He’d wheeled it in from the road to the door downstairs and rang the bell, so I told him I’d pop straight down. I’d already put the tape measure and Stanley knife in my pocket, just in case. When I got down there, about the first thing he said was “I assume you won’t want the pallet” and started stripping off all the sheet plastic bits holding it on there. There were two separate flatpacks, the big one being the desktop - it’s a corner desk, 160cm wide and 120cm deep.

He helped me get them both into the hall, and when I wondered aloud if the desktop would fit in the lift and started measuring it, he said “Let’s check, otherwise I’ll help you get it upstairs”. So we shifted the small box to the lift, where he took one look with his practised eye and said “Yeah, no problem” and went back for the big one. Got them both in, he said “There you go, all yours now!” and off he went. Excellent service, well above and beyond what I’d expected from the notifications!

[WTFH]

Ordered some stuff from my local garden equipment supplier and was £3 short of free deliver, so I looked at their sale section and saw they had Stihl gloves on offer at £3.50, so I ordered a pair.
They came with 11 pages of documentation/test certification.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky, barely any cloud, still breezy. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer down to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 05:35; Sunset 20:23 BST

Instead of laying in until I really had to get up, I was summoned from my bed at 8 am by a knock on the door. Amazon delivering a parcel that wasn't for me. I have something arriving today but that wasn't it. That's my good deed done for the flat upstairs today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Windy.

Blue sky.

16.4 deg in here, 17 in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

1014.5 mBar, 29.96 in Hg, 760.9 Torr, 14.71 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 BR14, Brillo, covbob, NF and I popped in.

Managed to get into the other fitted wardrobe in the front bedroom & found a big box full of keyboards. Some AT, some PS2. . I have several ancient systems that use AT. Must have bought them donkey's years ago. There was a brand new AT case in there too. That'll come in handy. . There's a Dragon 32 (new in box) in there too.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the nearly unbearable heat of the morning. Lots of gnats and tree seeds blowing in the wind like snow. Saw a funny little yellow/brown bird on the way home. No idea WTF that was. It completely ignored me whilst pecking at weed seeds.

Nearly scalded my leg whilst cooking brunch. The bag of frozen peas was employed to cool things down.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4. Scambusters. FB podcast scam. <click> Sliced Bread: vibration plates. It didn't say if they're more inneresting to sit on than the spin drier. .

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc with no breeze this morning, which made for a very pleasant walk earlier.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another sunny start, and once again destined to get a bit breezier again soon. It’s already at 10°C (“feels like” 7°) and will hit 20° for much of the afternoon! The barometers are down a touch at 1013/1021mB, presumably a portent of the cooler and more changeable weather that will arrive over the weekend

The other day, I ordered a new and bigger desk for the study, and today’s the day it’s supposed to arrive. Haven’t heard anything from the couriers yet though. The big question is whether the flatpack will fit in the lift

[NickFitz]

As expected, I finished SS-GB tonight. Five more Deightons arrived during the day, so I think I’ll move on to one of them next

Thursday tomorrow! And a Bank Holiday weekend!

The downside is that I discovered today that the other dev finishes next week, so I’ll only have a few more days to pick her brains before I become the only developer for this thing of which I understand about a fifth. A fifth of the app’s code, that is - I understand virtually nothing of what the users actually do with it. Oh well, I’m sure it’ll be fine

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Just back from a talk about the psychology of serial killers with not loony lady 3. Pixked up a DVLC licence application form for ll2 at the post office. She opened the front door wearing nothing below the waist.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was the last of the weekend leftovers. And tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

This was accompanied by a thing on iPlayer about the Belfast police. It’s much like the rest of these programmes, except that the people of Northern Ireland are far more inclined to form large crowds and hurl abuse at the police, whatever they might happen to be doing, than people tend to be in other parts of the UK

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with no cloud from my vantage point. Very windy. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer down to 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 05:37; Sunset 20:21 BST

I was supposed to be in the office today, for Gig3, as there's a social on later. I decided not to go in.

I think I need to rescue some things that are being blown about my little garden.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Not far off finishing SS-GB now. But more Deighton is arriving tomorrow

There's about a foot of Bernie Samson books to read without counting the Palmer books. .

You may find the Anthony Price novels of equal innerest. (The Labyrinth Makers, Colonel Butler's Wolf, etc.).

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

The dream before waking involved the dying Win98 box. .

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Windy, rather.

16.1 deg in here, 17 in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.6 Torr, 14.765 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine & semigale.

First indications of hayfever with continuous sneezing & itchy mouth. So I'm not going to get away without it this year, unlike last year.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about Section 21 evictions etc.

More cleaning of the (very heavy) springs in the front bedroom.

Feck me, those old Philips VCRs were heavy. And awkward. Not to mention how awkward the N1500 was if it lacked the 3M modification and jig. It never struck me until I bought one from a junk shop & then tried to repair it on an ordinary bench. All the test points are on the underside.

So knackered moving those VCRs about that I had coffee early.

Moving the cardboard box with 100lbs of service data in it is the next challenge.

I may be some time.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: the meja prog. PM.

"Nunc Dimittis" from Tinker Tailor on youtube.

<taps screen> Is this thing borked or what?

"The lost neanderthals" BBC4. Secrets of the Mandrin Cave in that France. Managed to doze through bits of that.

Blaze: Thw unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd. Inventions. Baby cages for hanging kids out of 15th floor windows so they get some fresh air. WWII UK baby gas masks. They didn't point out that dear old Adolph had nerve gas (tabun) that would have walked straight past the filters. That Avro UFO "Mach 3" disc shaped plane thing that appears so often. An even nuttier inverted helicopter thing for ground troups with the fan blades underneath. What could possibly go wrong. .

That Scottish nutter climbing mountains on BBC Alba. Climbing in winter compared with climbing in summer. I wouldn't do either. Particularly not when it's gusting to 100 mph on the tops. Not a great deal more snow in the winter than there wasn't in the summer. 'Tis global warming, see.

Bit of "Enemy of the State (1998)" with an undemented Gene Hackman and Will Smith.

Bits of the news as if I wasn't depressed enough as it was. Why is Heggsy such an obnoxious ****? It's a mystery.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS but very windy overnight and still windy now. It's a cold wind from the north.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear blue sky this morning with just the odd vapour trail, though they're already dissipating. It’s 9°C (“feels like” 5°) and aiming for 17° later, though the wind is expected to get a bit stronger too so maybe it’ll “feel like” a bit less. The barometers are steady at 1015/1023mB

Wednesday! This is the fortnightly day of meetings for sprint planning and the like. I think the other dev finishes at the end of this sprint, so that’s the thing most needing to be planned for. Once she’s gone, it’ll just be me left on the dev side - and we’re working through putting the project into maintenance mode, after which I’ll move onto something else as well. Tempora mutantur…

[NickFitz]

Not far off finishing SS-GB now. But more Deighton is arriving tomorrow

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Funny coincidence. As I said earlier, loony lady 3 was looking for a parasol and then one popped up on Freecycle this morning, don't recall ever seeing one there before. Anyway, I collected it and delivered to her earlier. Seemed brand new and usused. Got her off me back for a bit.