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[NickFitz]

Another working day done, so just six more to go this year!

Today, a bunch of problems were pronounced "urgent" so it was all hands on deck to fix them. Of course, we then ended up dithering because the people we needed to speak to were in meetings and so on. But before lunch, I was called upon to help on one thing, only for the problem to resolve itself at the time that I joined; and after lunch, the same thing happened with the next thing I was invited to jump in on! I still have no idea what was going on with either of them because we never got to the point of them being explained to me, but it gained me a brief reputation as some kind of lucky charm

[ladymuck]

The drive down to the nether regions (then left a bit) of the M3 was uneventful, as was the drive back.

I have a parcel arriving via UPS. It's been out for delivery from the Feltham depot since 7.15 am and not made it to my place yet. Annoyingly, there is no tracking functionality on the website for me to see where the driver is. It's possible that's a feature offered to those who wish to register with UPS.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: half of a Melton pork pie

I'm expecting a delivery via DPD today. Just checked the map and the driver is just down the road, about fifty yards away. Despite this, he's apparently on delivery 48 and I'm delivery 111. I assume their algorithm has its reasons but it would literally take him three minutes or less to walk here, drop it off, and walk back to the van

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 deg in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.56 Torr, 14.764 psi, (up from 1017 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Met the birdwatcher chap from Port Talbot. Haven't seen him for over a year. Was beginning to think he'd popped his clogs, but he looks fit enough.

Meanwhile on the 6th of December 2019 covbob was babysitting his daughter, whereas I was still recovering from the 's flu jab with added sharkness this causing the uncontrollable shivering of the previous evening, WTFH was paying off his mortgage, and NF was going shopping.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling about recycling & wheelie bins. Apparently Swansea doesn't have wheelie bins.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 80%.

The Bronze Age Apocalypse Part II on PBS: 150 year drought.

[WTFH]

Morning all
A proper autumn/winter morning - clear skies, mist in the valley, 3C when we went out. Very pleasant.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Fairly cloudy start out, maybe getting cloudier later and then reverting. It's 2°C at the moment, with a balmy 6° expected for a short period mid-afternoon. The barometers are bouncing back at 1010/1019mB

Seven working days to go this year, including this one

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dark, sun is not yet ris. Cloudy and dry. Currently 6 degrees ('feels like' 4) with a high of 7 expected. Barometer up to 1021 mBar.

Do not adjust your set, the end of the world is not yet nigh. Up early to drive down to NATS near Fareham. Heard there's freezing fog in some parts of the UK. Here's hoping it's not along the M3.

[NickFitz]

I read some more of Shepperton Babylon covering the exploitation films (skin flicks, often horror ones, to you and me) of the 1960s and 1970s, culminating in The Great Rock and Roll Swindle

I'm feeling a bit under the weather again; headache, runny nose. I always seem to get this kind of thing at the start of the week, presumably because I go to places containing other human beings on Friday. With luck it'll be a mild one

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribeye steak with chips, fried onions and beans, as the steak Needed to be Eaten™

Accompanied by an episode of the motorway cops thing that's hardly ever on a motorway

Scrambled Maps for me was 23 moves on a 5x5 of Poznań, Poland

[NickFitz]

Another day done. I thought that I'd get to help out some other guys on something which, though possibly not hugely interesting, would at least keep me occupied. But the chaps who needed to tell me what it was about and what needed doing etc. got bogged down on some big problem, during which they weren't responding to any messages. Then the consultancy that the rest of them are with had one of their meetings. So in the end, I didn't have anything to do until mid-afternoon when one of them was finally able to get me helping with something

[NotAllThere]

Still having bouts of fatigue. But managed to fix a few issues for customer. Coldish (8) here, and wet.

Pass the cyanide, xoggoth.

[xoggoth]

Funny. Had a rotten nights sleep last night and not tired at all today. Yesterday felt tired after a good night.

Think everything one reads about health is rubbish. Going to stop sleeping and just lie about all day and live on a diet of alcohol and cyanide. Should live to be 120.

[NickFitz]

More KFC leftovers for lunch

Turned a bit drizzly off and on here, which was not forecast

[xoggoth]

Darn it! Me little van failed the MOT. Hopefully will all be repaired today. Nice local walk but woods I used to wander in all fenced off now. B***ds!

Coffee looked/tasted bit odd this morning. I'd dropped a tea bag in the kettle. Or was it the evil spirit again?

[ladymuck]

Morning again.

going to see about my other eye this week
scrambled maps Belém, Brazil in 34 moves! (6 x 6 map), and wiv lotsa sea, too

My scrambled maps this morning was somewhere in Poland. 23 moves on a 5x5 map.