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[DoctorStrangelove]

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).

[WTFH]

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.

[NickFitz]

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!

[ladymuck]

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.

[ladymuck]

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

[NickFitz]

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

[NickFitz]

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

[NickFitz]

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

[ladymuck]

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.

[WTFH]

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

[NickFitz]

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam in 26 moves (6 x 5 map)

21 on a 5x5

[NickFitz]

Lunch was Heinz oxtail soup with white toast

Not too bad an afternoon, as these things go. One more day and I'm (temporarily) free!

[NickFitz]

Ah it must just be new to me as I'm very much behind on TV viewing. S32E4 IIRC

The C4 website thinks I haven't watched various ones from S32, but have watched others from S33. So no idea what they're up to

I did my appointed popping out for medical stuff, which involved a trip to Glenfield. The exciting news from there is that the famous pile of gravel has been replaced by one of those big builders' sacks full of gravel!

Whether it's the same gravel put neatly away, or other gravel, is hard to say

And they've improved the car parking situation somewhat with an ANPR system: it records your number going in, then when you want to leave you start typing your number and it says "Ah! This one?" while showing a photo of your car, and works out your bill. It also accepts contactless which is very good news, the need for change having long been an unnecessary burden of going there.

Sadly, this wonderfully efficient system fell apart when I tried to drive out, as it misread an N as an M on my numberplate and stubbornly refused to raise the barrier because I was in an "unknown vehicle"

There was no button for "Try again, you stupid robot" and by now I had somebody behind me who appeared oblivious to the meaning of a reversing light. So I had to get out and walk back to them to explain that I needed to reverse so it could try again. By then, of course, somebody had arrived behind them, so it took another minute or so of general confusion before I was able to back up. I turned away into a bit of space at the side to let the waiting ones through first, so the machine had a chance to clear its head, and on the second go it finally worked it out correctly and I was able to leave

And after all that excitement, I made it home and back to work just in time to agree with my pair's suggestion that it's time for lunch!

[sadkingbilly]

morning all

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam in 34 moves (6 x 6 map)
submitted various bodily fluids for testing this morning. hope the reds don't get them (DrS?)

fingers (and toes and eyes) crossed................

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday according to the clock.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Cold side of chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 11.5 deg in the kitchen, 9.5 deg in the leanto.

1030 mBar, 30.415 in Hg, 772.56 Torr, 14.93889 psi, (unchanged), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of December 2019 cojak popped in to say hello, and NF was battling with the SJD accountancy software that wouldn't let him do the needful doings with open ended contracts.

In other news, the Golbourne vintage radio site deleted one of my posts that referred to The Other vintage radio site that banned me. . Said post was about the Tom Evans copyright debacle that's causing a minor furore amongst the electronics fixit world. It is said that there's no such thing as bad publicity. We shall see. £25k for a magic phono stage. Who'd have thunk. The pictures of the internals make my bodging look positively professional.

This chap is singlularly unimpressed:

Oh dear, how sad, never mind. .

Odd thing observed this morning: mushrooms inside a treetrunk that would have been invisible before it fell over & got chopped up.

Lunch: brunch.

Freecell score: 78%, running average: 80%.

Tea: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: Nazi Hunters: dear old Fat Herman gets his just deserts.

UFO bollox waffling on about the usual nonsense.

Thing about Canals. Fell asleep.

Thing about the Industrial Revolution. I watched this in 2013.

Maigret and Number 1 lock with that Bruno Cremer who reminds me of my dad. I think it's the pipe, the hat, and the overcoat. My dad outlived Mr Cremer by 5 years.