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Dull. Overcast. Wet. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 0) with a high of 6 expected. Not currently raining but more expected. A bit on the breezy side. Barometer down to 993 mBar.
Sunrise 08:04; Sunset 16:13 GMT
Meetings this morning. Time sheets to submit. Then I need to decide whether to head off to South Kensington / Knightsbridge way this afternoon or tomorrow morning. The coffee cups I bought for HWMBO need to be returned.
Oh, and contract no.3 start date postponed to w/c 19 January.
Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 8.5 deg in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto, 6 in the saltinghouse.
997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (up from 986 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 10th of March 2020 Scruff and BR14 popped in, LM cleared up where the theatre was (not Woking), NF was Feeding His Cold, whilst WTFH was variously egg collecting, with 35 in the fridge, and shooting at rats but contemplating a night sight, and I listened to some drama or other on Di Ti Di Hello Tom Me Old Pal Me Old Beauty.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Some thing on R4. Book. Other book. TWATO. <click>
It’s a snowy start, though it seems the overnight snow must have turned to sleet or rain as some of the snow that fell in the evening has been washed away and the drive is slushy rather than icy. It’s 2°C (“feels like” -8°) and won’t get above 3° and, though no more precipitation is expected, it’ll remain windy. The barometers are, as could be expected, well down at 982/990mB
Morning all
TFIF, etc.
The storm blew through, a lot of rain/sleet fell. Worst damage I have found so far is that one of our (empty) wheelie bins blew over.
Tonight’s viewing was The Perfect Neighbor (2025), a documentary film on Netflix about an obnoxious woman hassling all her neighbours, ultimately shooting one of them because she was annoyed about her kids playing near her house. It’s largely made up of body cam footage from the local police, because she called them so often to make spurious complaints and unfounded allegations about the neighbours. Horrible woman
And speaking of horrible people, Sam Pepys really isn’t doing himself any favours by keeping that diary of the things he gets up to
I also managed to get the mundane laundry done during the evening
Meanwhile outside: snow! And plenty of it. But the last time I checked, it had gone back to sleet. Looks like a heavy band of whatever it may be is circling back around to us now though, so it’ll probably still be very white out there tomorrow
Twice recently I've noticed expensive items that I haven't looked at, or even considered looking at, added to my Amazon basket! This evening it was a HP printer. The first time occurred while I was at HWMBO's; it was some games console. It's all very peculiar.
Meeting ended an hour early and the rain had eased, so I decided to take Max out for a walk. About half way round, the rain got heavier and then turned to sleet. Now drying off. Max has his smoking jacket on.
I found it sometimes got stuck when playing on Safari, I just went for the standard IT solution: close down web page, close Safari, reboot machine. That worked most of the time for me.
I got an email from him late last night so I checked on Chrome and Firefox, where it worked. Then I tried on Safari in a Private Browsing window, and that worked too. I then cleared the cache, but a normal Safari window still didn't work. So I advanced the hypothesis that there's something in the data held in local storage (or a cookie, but that's unlikely) that's incompatible with some recent change he made
Editing to add: I just went and checked my MBA while waiting for a container image to build, and it's working again in Safari! He said he might roll back to a build from a few days ago, so maybe that's why. Or maybe he found and fixed it, or maybe it was just Safari being weird
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