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  • NickFitz
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    No more telly tonight, but more Sassoon read

    Holiday time may have begun, but I have the dentist tomorrow; just a checkup, or at least I hope so. So it's an early night again

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    Bah! Humbug!
    Indeed

    Tea has been a roast beef dinner, including pigs in blankets to give it a suitably celebratory touch

    This was accompanied by the most recent episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody. A very sad story

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Done and dusted so…
    It's Christmas!
    Bah! Humbug!

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  • NickFitz
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    Done and dusted so…
    It's Christmas!

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch of sardine toasties, being the "in tomato sauce" variant

    Not too bad a morning, now that there's some stuff to do. I was pairing with a chap who'll carry on once I'm done for the year - except he finishes for the year tomorrow, so I'm not sure things will end up going much further until January

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Thursday.

    Dry.

    Grey.

    Sunless.

    Calm.

    Chilly in here at 11.7 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

    1029 mBar, 30.386 in Hg, 771.81 Torr, 14.924 psi, (down a tad from 1029 & a tad last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 10th of December 2019 LM agreed with NF that the SJD invoicing thing seemed a bit redundant, NF was playing with that Linux stuff and SQL and things, DaveB was off to the physio, whereas I was watching Yet More BTVS S7 and Angel S4, beginning to tire of both: the end being nigh, while NF was Just Saying No to Drugs after the surgery had randomly changed some drug or other without informing him of the reasoning thereof.

    Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom. Quite chilly out there.

    Lunch: brunch: in addition to the usual I've started consuming some Weetabix (BBE 4/10/2014).

    Entertainment: Y&Y gap finders: the chap who started SuperDry, Sliced Bread: best bits compilation.

    Photocopied the late mater's cookery book: it didn't come out too well, I may scan it on the old scanner on the win98 box (assuming that still boots & works, like).

    Entertainment: WWII fighter planes.

    Nazi Hunters: Himmler. Suicide. Or was it murder by the evil British? Files locked until 2045.

    UFO bollox: Brookhaven & Livermore labs. are they being surveilled by LGM?

    Some walk or other on BBC4.

    Dalgleish S3 E3. Still nowhere near the Roy Marsden version from 1985.


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  • WTFH
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    Morning all Overcast but dry out. Nice 6km walk done mostly in the pitch black, but at least both our torches were fully charged and working.
    Early start as I forgot to do timesheets last week and I have a big meeting this morning which I need to prep for.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Cloudy start and a cloudy day ahead, and it's actually turned a bit foggy out; whether this will get thicker remains to be seen. Relatively mild, being 5°C and aiming for 8°; the barometers are still hanging around up high at 1021/1029mB

    Last (working) day of the year today!

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  • ladymuck
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    As is common for me, my usual thing of "take Google / City Mapper estimates and add wiggle room" has resulted in me being at Waterloo early enough to get the 0730 fast train rather than the 0800 I was aiming for.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Dark. Sunrise not for another hour yet. Dry. Currently 5 degrees with a high of 8 expected. Rain forecast from mid afternoon onwards. Barometer still at 1032 mBar.

    An Android system update has changed the weather app and barometric pressure is now to 1 decimal place. I shan't bother reporting the extra precision.

    On my way to ConsultancyCo offices in Guildford, necessitating an even earlier start to the day than the past two days of office based working

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  • NickFitz
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    Tonight's viewing was Why Bridges Collapse: The Baltimore Disaster on iPlayer. In fact, I tried to watch this on Monday, but it didn't have subtitles then; they seem to have found them down the back of the sofa, so they're there now. There isn't anything in it really new (it collapsed because a sodding great ship took out one of its piers) but there was some interesting stuff from the people who had to deal with the aftermath, and it had a slightly more detailed explanation of the problem with the ship's electrical systems than I'd seen elsewhere

    And some more Sassoon has been read, in which George Sherston has won his first point-to-point race on the horse he bought cheap the year before

    Last working day of the year tomorrow!

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been homemade pork chow mein. Very nice again; the very slow roasting technique I developed for slices of belly pork is definitely one of my better ideas

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    The 24 Hours in A&E mystery deepens.

    On my "Watching" list C4 are saying S32E4 is the next episode. Yet, when I look at the available episodes, S33E6 is the most recent, aired on 5th August 2024, and I've watched it.

    I feel I'm being tricked somehow.
    If you've gone back and watched an earlier one, it will show the one after that as the next episode. Mine is currently saying one from series 28 is next, because of watching old ones. Even when there's a brand new one available, it will still say the old one is the "next episode" under those circumstances

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  • ladymuck
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    The 24 Hours in A&E mystery deepens.

    On my "Watching" list C4 are saying S32E4 is the next episode. Yet, when I look at the available episodes, S33E6 is the most recent, aired on 5th August 2024, and I've watched it.

    I feel I'm being tricked somehow.

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  • WTFH
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    And just as I solve the GCHQ puzzles (all 7, then the final one), Facebook goes down.
    Coincidence?

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