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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I was woken at 7am by an alarm on my phone that I’d forgotten to disable, and immediately went back to sleep, waking again at the much more pleasant 9am

It’s a grey day today, and rather damp after some rain overnight. More rain due any time now, too. It’s mild enough at 10°C (”feels like” 5°) but only getting to 11°, and that only briefly around lunchtime. The barometers are down a touch at 1002/1010mB

Having considered the shopping situation, I’ve decided to just pop along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s this morning for a few bits to tide me over, then do a proper shop at Big Sainsbury’s early next week. There are some bits intended for Christmas presents that I can get at NaB, while there’s other such stuff that’s only available at B, so it makes sense to get the former out of the way now. And although the shops are always going to get unpleasantly busy most of the time at this stage of December, I have a suspicion that things won’t be quite as bad on a Monday or Tuesday morning as they inevitably seem to be on a Friday

[Pondlife]

Morning all,

TFIF etc One more to go.

Wind 12 kt from the West/Northwest
Temperature 8°C
Humidity 93%
Pressure 1013 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Scattered clouds at a height of 500 ft

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
Was raining hard when I got up, so put on full wet weather gear for the walk. By the time I got to the end of our lane the rain had stopped.
Tomorrow I get to take the old car for one last drive - up the M5 to meet its new owners. (I hope no one thinks that is just an excuse for me not having to go Christmas shopping)

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Damply dry.

Dark.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

NotSoChilly in here at 14.7 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.63 psi, (up from 1006 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of March 2020 Brillo popped in, LM & NF shared concerns with him, NF took the car for its MOT, and I was doing the washing.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was the start of The Black Swan on iPlayer, a Danish documentary about a lawyer who worked for organised criminal organisations but wanted out

And I finished the GPG 9 book. After Mogadishu, they’ve not had to do anything as big again, at least in part because of that success. But they’re still there, and carrying out around fifty missions a year in support of police operations in Germany. There’s also an interesting appendix about the East German equivalent, formed in secrecy at the same time as the official organs of the DDR were decrying them as agents of imperialist oppression

First Friday of my time off tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Is the local authority work interesting?

Remember the real rule is how does this contract help me get the next one...

Potentially, yes. I like my current client, they are a long standing repeat customer too, but the programme is just dull as dish water.

[eek]

Choces, choices. Potential new client, same rate as current but local authority with minimal flexibility. Existing client renewal offer, ridiculously good flexibility but I am a bit bored and stagnating. Dodgy Swiss client might send over an extension when they get around to it but easy to fit in anyway.

Is the local authority work interesting?

Remember the real rule is how does this contract help me get the next one...

[ladymuck]

Choces, choices. Potential new client, same rate as current but local authority with minimal flexibility. Existing client renewal offer, ridiculously good flexibility but I am a bit bored and stagnating. Dodgy Swiss client might send over an extension when they get around to it but easy to fit in anyway.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a very nice roast beef dinner

[NickFitz]

I ended up overrunning because I wanted to make sure I’d documented some stuff for the other dev, but I am now done with ClientGov work for 2026!

I thought of doing the shopping, but I think I’ll leave it until tomorrow as I’ve got dinner to cook

[Pondlife]

Afternoon all,

Wind 10 kt from the South/Southeast
Temperature 12°C
Humidity 82%
Pressure 1014 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Scattered clouds at a height of 2600 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 3100 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 4000 ft

Sooo many calls today, largely pointless but meant today's soup was consumed whilst muted in teams meetings.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky. Faint wisps lingering here and there. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 10) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 07:57; Sunset 15:52 GMT

This morning I had a 'sales meeting' with a potential client. Not sure I want the job but it was nice of an ex-client manager to think of me and give me first dibs.

[WTFH]

Morning all
overcast and dry earlier on our walk, now a light drizzle.
Wifi crashed last night and was still down this morning. After a bit of investigating, I discovered the issue was the Devolo Mesh. Somehow it was no longer running on 192.168.x.x but had switched to 169.1.x.x. Give that Devolo is the domain controller, when it screws up, anything on a fixed IP crashes.
Now trying to rebuild the wifi, initially without the mesh.
...and no, I'm not a network engineer, so I may have used the wrong terminology, but I know everything in this house should be on 192.168.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^Om.

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Grey.

Hints of wan sun.

Chilly in here at 15 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto, 9 in the saltinghouse.

1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of March 2020 WTFH arrived on a jet plane at Heathrow, NF was watching a Murder programme, and Brillo popped in a lot.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the thing at 11:45: about the Norse influence on the Shetlands (rather than continuity who implied it was yesterday's epic about bog bodies).

The items requiring the iRon came in off the line, were iRoned, and now reside upstairs airing a bit.

The remaining items came in off the line & met the TD.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Met a lady who used to work for Siliconix back in the day and confirmed it was she who I thought it was.

Everything out of the TD & airing upstairs: 3/4 of a cup of water out of the TD.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre but consistent coffee: entertainment: part of a thing about lichen.

Raining.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>

Classic Xmas Movies: Miracle on 34th street. Well it was on: probably would have been better off watching the Bletchley Park thing on BBC4.

Classic Xmas Movies: something else, I forget quite what. Oh. "Love actually". Whatever that is. <click> Zero innerest in that. .

Why are they missing out "Die Hard"?

Freecell score in the ennui of the evening: 88%, running average: 86%.

I'm trying to remember how Win95 loads up and tries to run stuff that's not called up in autoexec.bat or config.sys. There's some stuff in system.ini, i suppose it could come from there.

"The man who took Shannon Matthews". Odd sort of cove: released after 4 years of and 8 year sentence: he was sectioned shortly after & was still in hospital in 2022 (date of documentary). Died in hospital in 2024.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy-fingered dawn out there today, with various wisps and strands of cloud scattered around the horizon, while a higher layer towards the zenith is so thin that the just-past-waning-gibbous moon shines through. It’s 7°C yet “feels like” 1°, with an expected high of 11°, and expected to be a bit breezy with sunny spells. The barometers are decidedly up at 1005/1013mB

My last day of ClientGov work for the year beckons!