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Zappi is now installed, and the app now shows that our house on tickover with 3 computers on is using 300-400W.
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Lunch has been the rest of the cold cocktail sausages from the other day
I suspect they should have been eaten by COB Saturday, but I’m sure it’ll be fine. Sainsbury’s aren’t going to poison a loyal customer of such long standing, surely?
Rather grey and gloomy out, but no precipitation. The wind seems to have settled down slightly too
I also had minor IT woes this morning. The ClientGov laptop suddenly decided, about three minutes before standup, that networking was something it had never heard of and had no intention of getting involved with, and had to be rebooted. It was fine after that, but Docker then decided to have one of its funny turns, so I had to restart that. And then PyCharm claimed it couldn’t connect to Docker, so I had to restart both of them. All OK after that
And the old boy’s annual magazine turned up in the post, in which I found that a chap I was in the same form as for several years has died
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you can be up to no good, being awake at that time in the morningOriginally posted by WTFH View PostMorning all
Yes, I should be asleep, no, I’m not.
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I spend ~30mins every morning entering pw's and replying to security pushes on my phone, just to access the end client site.Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
Morning all
Cloudy. Wet from overnight / early morning rain. Currently 12 degrees and that's the high for the day. Further showers expected. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.
Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 16:17 GMT
Spent most of my billable time this morning fixing a Citrix VDI issue so I could continue to connect to clientCo's systems.
kerCHING!
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Morning all
Cloudy. Wet from overnight / early morning rain. Currently 12 degrees and that's the high for the day. Further showers expected. Barometer down to 1002 mBar.
Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 16:17 GMT
Spent most of my billable time this morning fixing a Citrix VDI issue so I could continue to connect to clientCo's systems.
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Morning.
Monday.
Damp.
Grey.
Misty.
Chilly in here at 12.2 deg, 10 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 10.5 in the saltinghouse.
996 mBar, 29.4 in Hg, 747 Torr, 14.445 psi, (up from 995 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 11th of March 2020 NF was still
, Brillo and AndyGarbs popped in, LM was due to do some gadding about with HWMBO abroad, and there was someone in front of me in the queue at the post office who was coughing well.
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Trip to that Swansea: 38 down, T6 back, stack of books disposed of, nothing bought.
Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. They had no skimmed milk FFS.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about fat jabs.
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Morning denizens
There’s some patches of flat cloud around the horizon but the sky is mostly clear, though apparently won’t be later. No rain expected though. It’s still pretty windy, so the current 8°C “feels like” 1°; the expected high is 10°. The barometers are back down a bit at 987/995mB
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6am: Clear skies, 9C feels like 8C
8am: Overcast, 9C feels like 8C.
Summer jacket was worn on our perambulation.
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I continued reading Endurance tonight. They made it south, and entered the Weddell Sea where they became trapped in the ice and had to spend the winter there in constant darkness. And now, after managing to break free for a short while when spring came, a gale has blown up and the pressure of millions of tons of ice being blown into them is about to send poor Endurance to the bottom, and they have to get off
Speaking of gales, it’s very windy out tonight. Unseasonably warm though: 10°C now and not dipping below 8° before sunrise
Monday again tomorrow. Best to make the most of it while it lasts, I suppose; I heard last week that when my contract is up at the start of February, they can only give me a six month extension, as the department isn’t doing twelve month ones right now due to budgetary constraints and general uncertainty
Goodnight all
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A wet and windy drive home and a sub-optimal parking space acquired due to a van pulling into the one I wanted to allow me to pass.
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Tea has been chicken tikka masala out of the freezer, with rice and naan
It was OK, but I think I prefer the madras
This was accompanied by The Crash Detectives on iPlayer, which was a fatal after the relative respite of the last couple of episodes
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Lunch: a couple of leftover spicy chicken thighs from the other night
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A whole 5 today going up to 10 tonight. Would be good if not for 100% heavy rain. Monday meetup has been moved to Tuesday when I 've got me arty thing, so nowt to do for 2 days, apart from drink at village club maybe. Mostly just me and me puppet parrot.
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