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[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was an episode of The Crash Investigators. Another one in which nobody died! Some pretty terrible injuries, mind

And later I read more of There Is No Antimemetics Division v2. While reading, I also exchanged a couple of messages with qntm on Bluesky about a weird JavaScript thing he’s come up with for representing binary data in base 1. It’s a funny old world where you can be reading a book and simultaneously having a conversation with the author about some completely unrelated matter

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

This evening HWMBO and I have been watching the darts and discussing whether it's worth adding Sky Cinema to Mum's package (with me paying the difference in subscription fees).

It's been a very good couple of matches so far.

[DoctorStrangelove]

do you live on old mine workings?

Not so far as I'm aware: there's holes all around here but the Neath Disturbance blocks the obvious outcrop from this side of the valley. Up the hill there's lots of holes, sufficient to prevent an extension of a housing estate.

I was wondering when they were putting in the tanks for the rainwater runoff it they'd find a coal seam.

Curiously I recall a circus in that field about 20 years ago and nearly took a photo of an elephant sticking its head through a hedge.

Looking at it now you'd never think there was an oak tree with swallows/swifts slope soaring and catching insects there.

Sic transit & all that. It was all green fields around there then. .

And yes: there are drift mines under the cemetery across the road in a dell which was used in the 1930s as a rubbish dump, thus leading to the refrain "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, half brick to half brick, empty bottle to empty bottle".

[NickFitz]

I wasn’t too hungry this evening after all the pigs in blankets earlier, not to mention a dip into the Quality Street. But I had some leftovers from last night’s Indian, so that was tea

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been pigs in blankets in finger rolls, again

That’s the last of them, unless I get any more

This was accompanied by E1 of Titanic Sinks Tonight on iPlayer, a new documentary. I assume the title is to be imagined as being bellowed by Poseidon as he swims up towards the surface of the ocean, thrusting his trident upwards and swearing vengeance on the presumptuous White Star Line

[sadkingbilly]

This morning's excitement was the inexplicable failure of the inner pane of the landing window which smashed itself and deposited glass all over the stairs and the dvd library.

do you live on old mine workings?


I just bought the Video version of colossal cave to cheer my self up (£12.95 - GOG)
I remember long standby support evenings, playing the original on an IBM VM/370 system in 197?.
could be a mistake though, revisiting memories is usually disappointing, as the reality never matches up.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull. Overcast. Currently 6 degrees with a high of 7 expected. Sun not likely to make an appearance today. Barometer down to 1036 mBar.

Sunrise 08:48; Sunset 15:50 GMT

HWMBO's dinner was a delicious feast. Many leftovers remain for snacking on. Lazy day today. Back to work tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

As expected, the grey weather continues. The wind must have dropped a bit though, as the current 5°C only “feels like” 2°. The expected high is 7° later in the afternoon, and the night ahead will be pretty mild too. The barometers are down an amount that makes no difference at 1023/1031mB

Amazon are circling with a couple of parcels, yet no matter how many different parts of the neighbourhood they go to according to the map, they remain seven stops away

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly hints of sunly.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto, 6 in the saltinghouse.

1028.75 mBar, 30.38 in Hg, 771.6 Torr, 14.92 psi, (up from 1028.5 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 8th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, LM & NF discussed the best treatment for muscular injuries, whilst all of us discussed the ongoing assorted non covid lurgies with which we were afflicted, and I cooked a very nice piece of beef and an equally nice rice pud.

This morning's excitement was the inexplicable failure of the inner pane of the landing window which smashed itself and deposited glass all over the stairs and the dvd library.

Amazingly enough I managed not to cut my feet whilst searching for the source of the loud bang at 07:30ish, despite all the glass on the stairs.

Cleared away now but I'll have to run the Orange Vax over the stairs to catch all the fine bits of glass that the dustpan & brush missed.

What is life if full of woe, woe, and thrice woe?

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked without an extension to The Gnoll.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some nutter walking around the world in 27 years for no readily apparent reason.

Book.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nearly eaten all the xmas food. Back to basics next week. .

Entertainment: the joining up programme on R4, mentioning Xmas Island in this ep, though not mentioning if it was the radioactive one.

Sergeant Cork. S2E5 "The case of the Bristol Mail". Amusing enough.

Now outside half a bottle of wine (had the other half yesterday) so bits of the Good Sergeant were a bit blurry for a while. Nice enough wine.

Thirties in Colour E2: Countdown to War.

[NickFitz]

They deigned to give us some wildlife repeats today, which were topped up this evening by E1 of Planet Earth III on iPlayer

And tonight, I started reading There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, this being the rewritten v2 that was recently published. If you’re familiar with v1 at the SCP Wiki and/or in the self-published editions, you have to get used to the Foundation becoming the Organisation and the SCPs becoming the Unknowns, but there are also some structural changes and certain aspects of the story have been changed, tightened up, and so on. It’s still excellent stuff though

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Om

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tiddley pom ti

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, I tried a new-to-me Indian place. I’m not sure why I hadn’t tried them before as they’re quite close by, in what’s generally thought of as the poshest area of the city - estate agents try to claim that where I live is there, but it’s not

Turns out they do the deliveries themselves, so I was denied the pleasure of watching on a map as they got closer. I went down to wait at the front door as soon as I was notified that they’d set off, and only had to wait a minute or two before it arrived, as they were in a car. It turned out to be very nice indeed, and excellent portions

I’m glad I only went for the “a little spicier” option when the form asked how hot I wanted it, as it was pretty hot! This is one of the perils of living in a city where so many people are of Indian heritage. The next option up was “desi hot” and I know enough to realise that I surely wouldn’t be able to handle that

[NickFitz]

local private dentist opens Monday. i'm hoping they can sort it (for ~£100 or so, i guess) and only £4 away from home
antibio's should be here Monday, too.
fingers crossed it doesn't get too bad, too fast.

Good luck! Dental abscesses are awful; hope they can sort it out quickly

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

The ham ought to have been eaten by yesterday, but I daresay it’ll be fine. It still smelt and tasted like ham