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Cloudy day out, but with fair amounts of blue dotted around. No excessive heat either, being 18°C and going for 21°, while the barometers are down very slightly but not much different at 1003/1010
Meanwhile on the 2nd of November 2019 Brillo got a millennium, there was much discussion of the trauma of odd socks emerging from the WM, and I spotted a copy of "Colossus" in a charity emporium for £1, my £20 copy will probably end up in Oxfam fairly soon.
CBS, etc. Looks like it could be warm in the garden. The Wife has taken MMtSH to the beach before the grockles turn up, meanwhile it looks like I will be clearing the boundary at the bottom of the garden in preparation for a fence going in. This is not a small job, as it is 30 metres long, up to 4 metres wide in weeds, etc, will involve emptying one log store, chopping that wood to go into one of the indoor wood stores, moving the outdoor wood pile and chopping it to go into the first store. Might not all happen before breakfast.
Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) being the initial film of that ilk. It was entertaining enough, though perhaps not to the extent that I shall rush to watch the remaining films of said ilk
Then, as I felt the need for some lighthearted entertainment after the week I've had (see above), I decided to rewatch Legally Blonde (2001) which is funny and entertaining, though one does have to avoid getting distracted by various very strange aspects of the American further educational system. I think the best strategy is to assume that they were just made up for the purposes of a light comedy, though I suspect that they actually run things that way over there without ever realising how ridiculous it is
I was briefly distracted by the familiarity of the actress playing the female nemesis (who later becomes a friend) of the central character until IMDb revealed that she plays the central character in the excellent psychological thriller Columbus Circle (2012) so I watched that again, and realised for the first time that the building my sister and her husband lived in during their time in NY doesn't just appear in many establishing shots because it's close by there - the film is actually set in their building! The interiors are obviously not filmed there because that would have cost a fortune and been a nuisance the residents (such as Goldie Hawn who lived in the penthouse, and still does for all I know) wouldn't have put up with, but it's definitely supposed to be happening in there
Cool in here at 20.7 deg, 21.5 deg in the kitchen, 18.5 deg in the leanto.
1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.6633 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 2nd of November 2019 NF had watched the director's cut of "The Exorcist" , followed by "MI: Rogue Nation" as a way of calming down afterwards , LM recalled watching the trauma of watching the original, meanwhile around here Ye Cracke of Doome had sounded which took out the local FM transmitter so I was reduced to LW for Today wherein Matthew Paris had left the Fourth Reich for the Lib Dems.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine.
Lunch: scrambled egg etc.
Entertainment: The Mentalist S7 E7, E8.
Tea: soup etc.
Entertainment: The Mentalist S7 E9.
Some massacring of brambles since I was getting a bit bored.
Entertainment: The Mentalist S7 E10, E11.
HIGNIFY (2021) edition.
Americast.
All being well tomorrow sees the end of The Mentalist, then it's time to find sommat else to watch.
It's been a very frustrating week. It now seems clear that the likelihood of the project being binned is around the 99% mark, but nobody will say anything officially until various things have been through various processes. So we have to carry on getting things ready for Go Live whilst pretending not to know that any steps towards that goal are almost certainly a complete waste of time and effort, which is annoying to say the least
Luckily, we've been held up for much of the week waiting for another team to sort some technical infrastructure out. I strongly suspect that the head of that team knows perfectly well what's going to happen, and has told the chap who's supposed to be doing the work not to bother unless pestered for it by us, "us" in this case meaning me. So I've left him alone because once he gets that done, my stuff is ready to go and I'll have to start inconveniencing other teams by getting them to do work which they'll have to undo a few days later
Earlier on, a couple of blokes visited the flat across the landing. They left in separate vehicles and one of them looked like he might be a builder or tradesman of some kind so there may be some activity over there soon, and a new neighbour
Lunch has been a cold pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce
My brother received the Grant of Probate in the post this morning! So now the house sale can go ahead, with the timings depending on the buyers. They're at the end of a chain of four IIRC, so let's hope everybody can get things coordinated
I've spent part of the morning scrolling through photographs, trying to work out when our parents had the electric fire installed in the living room. I got back to 2011 when about two inches of the side of it can be seen at the very edge of a photo of our Dad unwrapping presents on his 80th birthday. But I think my sister must have found some paperwork relating to it, as the date that's been reported back to the estate agents is 2009
Cool in here at 20.7 deg, 21.5 deg in the kitchen, 18.5 deg in the leanto.
1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.6633 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 2nd of November 2019 NF had watched the director's cut of "The Exorcist" , followed by "MI: Rogue Nation" as a way of calming down afterwards , LM recalled watching the trauma of watching the original, meanwhile around here Ye Cracke of Doome had sounded which took out the local FM transmitter so I was reduced to LW for Today wherein Matthew Paris had left the Fourth Reich for the Lib Dems.
A sunny Friday morning with the wind having died down, though the open skies will presumably be letting the heat out: currently 13°C but not getting any higher than 21° later. The barometers are back up a bit at 1004/1012mB
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