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[NickFitz]

There was more David Attenborough on today; I gather they’ve been rerunning it because of his 100th birthday

Later, I watched the first episode of Breaking the Bank: One Trader, 50 Billion on HBO Max, a French documentary series about the rogue trader at Société Générale who’d set up that amount (in Euros) in trades at the time things started falling apart in early 2008. Ironically, he’d made 1.5 billion the previous year by anticipating the subprime crisis, having been given a target for the year of just 12 million; but he'd hidden that from his bosses in the belief he could do even better

And then some more of Goodbye Mickey Mouse

Bank Holiday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Computers, monitors, and so on will have to be moved back in. I might have tea before I bother with that, given that I didn’t get around to having any lunch

I decided I couldn’t be bothered to cook, being too knackered. But there was stuff in the hall blocking the door, so I couldn’t get out to collect a delivery! So I ended up getting the various computers and things back in there, then moving the junk back in too. At least it’s arranged more conveniently for going through now

I also set up the UPS I bought the other week, so the important things are now powered by that

And with that done, I was able to order tea from the Turkish place. It didn’t arrive as quickly as it sometimes has but it was here within twenty minutes, which was fine

[ladymuck]

The parking spot I had secured over the road was under a tree. I expected bird poop but didn't expect the level of tree sap and bits of tree flower completely smothering my car. I managed to get the windscreen clear enough to see out of but the rear was impossible and I didn't fancy driving down the motorway unable to see what's going on behind me. This meant I had to stop at the hand carwash on the A30 to get the muck cleaned off. For a mere tenner they did a fab job. I might stop there more often.

Cloudy but warm and occasionally sunny down on the coast, which meant gardening did get done. The task for the day was to remove, as best as possible, a plant that has taken over the rockery. Mum also got stuck in.

It wasn't going to be possible to get all the roots out without taking all the rocks out and digging the whole thing over. A bit OTT when there were lots of plants that could remain. I added some new planting and left my brother a note to water them in the week if it doesn't rain.

Sorted out an outfit for Mum to wear to my cousin's wedding next weekend. Whether she will want to go on the day remains to be seen.

[NickFitz]

The desk is done!

And I am knackered!

I’m not sure the stuff I moved out of there to have room for assembly will all go back in. But I think I’ll worry about that tomorrow, and put up with stuff cluttering the hall, kitchen, and bedroom for now

Computers, monitors, and so on will have to be moved back in. I might have tea before I bother with that, given that I didn’t get around to having any lunch

[xoggoth]

Usual people missing from local club today so didne bovver. Heard one Dave is having an op and other Dave depended on him from lift so prob. can't make it. Stopped at village cafe where there was a guitarist playing and sat with lady I know from history group. Quite nice.

[NickFitz]

All the parts of the desk have been unpacked. I was beginning to wonder if they’d dispensed with old-fashioned notions like including instructions, but the bottom of the smaller of the two boxes turned out to contain a placcy bag with the fixings, and folded up tightly in there was an A4 sheet with diagrams. So I’m taking a break to digest those. Apart from anything else, it’s far too warm and close for this kind of thing today

I was initially dismayed at the amount of corrugated cardboard I was going to have to deal with. But once I got stuck in with the Stanley knife, the whole lot reduced to a bit less than a foot cubed, so it’ll be easy to get it all in the recycling bins once they’ve been emptied on Tuesday - they’ll be too full now

[sadkingbilly]

I still use an IKEA table I bought 30ish years ago as a desk.
the printer lives on a even older Bisley steel file cabinet which is only 1 inch lower than the table.
All works fine for my needs.

[NickFitz]

Today is desk switchover day, so I’ve been sorting out the study. There’s far too many boxes of junk in there, including one that’s thirty years old, though it’s possible some or all of the contents are only twenty-odd years old. An old box from an Epson printer I got rid of years ago is full of things like serial cables, ribbon cables, and the like. I need to go through and junk almost everything, I reckon - or at least pack it all properly in a better box and stick it at the back of the garage

But today, the main focus is the desk. I’ve cleared and taken apart the old one, such as it was. It was actually an Ikea desktop with two legs, the other end resting on an Ikea cupboard designed, they said, to be the right height. The new desk is going to live nearer the window, so I need to move the small desk with the printing press on it down to where the old desk was, which means moving that cupboard, and a 2x2 Kallax unit as well. But I’m having a rest now while I work out the next steps. I need to give the areas that have been inaccessible a vacuum; it’s surprising how much dust can build up in three years

[sadkingbilly]

g'day all

lunch was leftover pepperoni pizza <with extra pepperoni>.
dull, dank and dreary today, as befits the English Bank Holiday.
considering rejecting my new project due to the sheer weight of beaurocracy attached to the target systems.
bean counters and box tickers, - bah.
PM's are bad enough.

[xoggoth]

Got rid of some unused guttery stuff this morning via Freecycle. Nowt on today apart from walk and messing about in garden. As said before, not worth going to village club as people I know seem to have disappeared. May have a look thorugh the window.

PS Inneresting farticle, maybe for your Monday links thing Fizzy Knickers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day here, and still a bit damp from the overnight showers. It’s 13°C; the weather app says this “feels like” 9° because of the wind, but it doesn’t seem that windy. Anyway, the expected high is 17°, and the barometers are down to 997/1004mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with flecks of grey. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 19 expected. There may be rain later. Barometer down to 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 05:30; Sunset 20:28 BST

Down in Sussex-by-the-Sea, the forecast is cooler but likely to stay dry and sunny. This bodes well for the garden tinkering I have planned at Mum's.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Misty.

17.5 deg in here, ?19? deg in the kitchen, 16 deg in the leanto.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.576 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 LM managed to pop in a post, edgeways like, whilst AndyGarbs and Brillo chased the century, with AndyGarbs the winner.

Today's dream before waking involved me working somewhere again. Ho hum. This time it involved kunifer 10 copper brake line for no readily apparent reason. Makes a change from the usual dream of hiding my incompetence at whatever crap I'm supposed to be doing, normally by attempting to hide under a desk. .

Sun came out.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in wan sunshine and light shower. Conversation held with a lady I used to meet occasionally when walking up the hill to the country park. So that's Neath & The Halifax put to rights. .

Lunch: brunch: Entertainment: thing about Emily Thornberry.

PBS: 3 hours of how we managed during WWII whilst being bombed, V1ed, and eventually V2ed as well.

Amusing enough. What was less amusing was the following on tale: Spyops: Operation Jawbreaker: the story of the CIA going into Afghanistan in 2001 after 9/11.

The Orange Mother****er 45 appeared towards the end in his endeavour to return the Taliban to power, which was accomplished with great success under 46. 86 47 as they say.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: thing on R4 about reading: apparently Martin Luther (the diet of worms one not the king one) changed our brains since Protestants tend to read the Bible rather more than the other lot. Or something.

Beyond Skinwalker Ranch. More Blazian bollox.

Sergeant Cork. S4 E1 "the case of the vengeful garnet". You silly moo, Alf. Our hero is fitted up by a previous naughty person.

Hazardous History with The Fonz: early 1890s roller coaster that reached 45 mph and achieved a mere 12G in a loop the loop: the Flip Flap Railway. The Atomic toy kit with Real Uranium and a cloud chamber. The click clack. Lawn darts. The loop the loop water slide. The 1950s Ray Gun that shot ping pong balls using acetylene gas (now classed as a firearm). The wing thing that you could tow behind a speed boat: banned since it killed people.

Ancient unexplained files: funny stone balls found on Orkney. The overly close brother & sister found in the New Grange burial mound. Keeping it in the family. .

[NickFitz]

The telly people did that weird thing of not having Monkey Life because of the Bank Holiday, instead giving us a few hours of David Attenborough

And tonight I continued reading Goodbye Mickey Mouse

The promised rain arrived, but not very much of it really. And I also found time to do the mundane laundry

Once the laundry was done, the washer-dryer announced it wanted to install a software update. Just so long as it doesn’t start showing ads

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight came from Nando’s, mainly to use up the free half-chicken reward that would have expired at the end of this month