Early Risers.

[Kingzance]

It is now quite pleasant outside. I drove into town and after a brisk short walk, I succeeded in providing Dracula’s Daughter with some sustenance. Another brisk walk back to the car and now a mug of beef tea (first calories of the day) before walking down to the bottom of the village to look at a generic L bracket for my camera that a fellow snapper enthusiast finds not suitable for his equipment / purpose. On my return, I am commanded to get eggs and cheese from the village shop because someone wants an omelette tonight. Further instructions have been issued and so I shall be going daarn the road to the madhouse to watch the formal cutting of a birthday cake later this afternoon. What could have been a restful day can no longer be described as such.

Good to hear that Brian’s Sheila is making progress, must be getting better as she wants to spend money . Apologies to all Richards offended by my earlier post and, like Jamie, I shall refrain from describing The Ricardo Incident, one that occurred in an Italian dry dock, for fear of causing further offence - even if it is a very good story! Other suffering ERs have my sympathy and best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[southern42]

' morning all from red dragon land.

 

Make the most of it - it is sunny!

Well, I would if I could - I am nursing a cold or whatever.

Weird, this one, as symptoms come-&-go.  One minute here, next minute gone.

My favoured painkillers seem to calm it all down - until the next dose, anyway.

 

Yesterday, taking my mind off it, I had an enjoyable day assembling an online photo book of my last birthday with (most of) the family.  It brought back some lovely memories.  Several copies ordered with a (Valentine's Day) 50% discount.  I just hope it turns out alright as the design section had a border all round, the review-and-buy section did not!  As I need to get one to my sister as near to her birthday as possible, I left it as is - fingers crossed!

 

It features scenes of family members with both, serious and wildly excited, little granddaughters   tackling grown up activities, sharing their new found abilities, playing, and getting what they want (in particular, an ice-cream cone)...  

 

Thus, with added text, the photo book reads:

"How to celebrate Nana's Birthday"

Lay the table : Cut the cake : Count [GDD reading to Grandad]: Get the balloons down : Have a laugh : Throw balloons : Walk through... : the Park : Have lunch in the... :  Coffee Shop : Share joke. He! He! : Take Selfie! Smile!  [Nana with eldest GDD] : Walk back [eldest GDD out of the pushchair] : Hey! Wait for me! : Get out of the cold [into ice-cream shop!] : Open wide : Make a mess : Eye's off! Get your own! : Cuddle Paddington Bear : Say Cheese! : Say Cheers! : Carry umbrella [adult assisted] : and go undercover [under another adult assisted, golf-size, umbrella] : ...back to the car! The End 

 

Just got to wait a week...or so...

 

Hope your day consists of good things.

 

Time for another dose...

_____________

Best wishes

Polly

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from LNG where it is sunny with a bit of high cloud.

 

A few beers and a curry were had last night with a couple of old colleagues.

 

Other than that, not a huge amount to report.

 

I hope those who are ailing recover quickly. Have a good weekend

[TheQ]

The Boss seems to have sorted the sick major system, only "the sick bits " have had to be remeasured, so with any luck the boss may have that sorted after I leave today..

A major system due next week was unused today, I measured all it's resistances, that may mean I can get if finished on Moonday and it can run it's cross check overnight to Tuesday Morning.

 

A high accuracy Thermometer has arrived, I won't be able to touch that till Tuesday at the earliest, Strange thing I did it last 9 months ago, at our prices normally people use ALL the cal period..

 

The keel has been redesigned again, not in shape this time,  but in construction, to make it simpler...

 

MRC tonight, landrover permitting....

[Gwiwer]

On 06/02/2020 at 14:47, Gwiwer said:

An urgent request has been sent to Fraggle Rock    Something went "Ping" in an expensive sort of way

Happy Frying Day from the Hill of Strawberries.

 

In less than 24 hours since the owl was despatched to Fraggle Rock the package arrived by return.  The required part has been fitted, tested and found to cause little wheeled objects to move to my satisfaction.  There must be some pixie magic which ensures things can travel from Fraggle Rock in less time than they can from Ford, the Ford of Guild, the Borne of Cam or indeed the Field of Shef.  

 

It has been a cold day but, once the sun showed its face, a pleasant one both at the House of Fun and Upon the Hill.  We had one for the diary today - not a single train cancelled, nor stop-skipped, nor (with one exception caused by a fault being rectified) more than three minutes late all shift.  

 

And Frying Day has lived up to expectations with eggzan bacon in the pan for lunch along with tomatoes.  

 

In other news I now officially have 2020 vision .  I collected the new glasses yesterday and found them to be perfectly satisfactory throughout today.  No more swapping between pairs or perching them on my head.  The new pair are bifocals eliminating the need for the previous two pairs and adequate for the mid-range vision which needs no correction at all.  I might need to break out the whipper-snipper for the facial fungus a bit later though!

 

[Tony_S]

I have installed the 1Gb drive from a dead tv recorder into my pc as an additional backup drive for photos etc. My pc has allegedly hot swappable drive caddies. I couldn’t get the pc to recognise the drive at first but I hadn’t pushed it in firmly enough. I was always moving disks about years ago but couldn’t recall the next stage, perhaps I have never done it on a Windows 10 pc? Anyway a quick Google told me what to click and I now have a P drive (P for photo) in addition to other backups. 
I thought about doing this while I was trying to find out why my pc was misbehaving. While cleaning out fluff and dust I noticed the spare drive slots and thought I could do something useful. As is mandatory I have a nice slice/wound  on the end of my left thumb. Fortunately I only bled into the old tv recorder not the pc. Aditi has been pruning but nothing that required my assistance to reach taller things. She isn’t very tall. 

 

[leopardml2341]

As good a Friday at work as I think it's possible to have.

 

Pleasant, if somewhat cold, trip from Tutbury to Crewe on a 156 followed by a very useful meeting at CE and return to arrive just in time t make it a bit pointless to arrive at office only to leave for home 10 mins later - so I skipped that bit 

 

i know the boss doesn't partake of RMweb, so I'm safe.

 

[Ian Abel]

POETS...

 

Work yesterday consisted mainly of creating a new report that made exporting miles of data to Excel for "manipulation" and;

<RANT warning>

I was informed that when I get there next week we have a major/urgent task to re-arrange the Cash Flow Statement.

With apologies to any accountants/auditors present --> I HATE AUDITORS, what is the matter with these people!!!!

These same folks, yes, EXACTLY THE SAME PERSONS EVEN, who had us change the Cash Flow last year, apparently have decided it needs to be different NOW/AGAIN/THIS YEAR. Good grief, no wonder health care is so @$!@$!@$!@$# expensive here, they manage to p!ss away money on the same things over and over again!

<END RANT>

 

<phew> <sigh>

Yesterday evening an enjoyable happy hour and choir rehearsal.

We added Arlo Guthries' "All Over The World" for an upcoming concert, prompted by an increasing need to feel we're all in this together!

 

Jemma dropped Whitney off as she has another 3-day trip starting today, so we're +1 again

 

Nothing exceptional planned for today, just POETS for sure...

 

-7 and cloudy with light snow falling first thing. -3 the expected high with a coating to an inch of snow (pah, how pathetic!) predicted.

 

Tally ho.

 

[AndyID]

8 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

I was quite startled to see the heads of cross head screws 

 

Phillips or Posidrive?

[New Haven Neil]

54 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I have installed the 1Gb drive from a dead tv recorder into my pc as an additional backup drive for photos etc. snip<

 

 

 

I know someone that can help, Tony...dab hand at electronics.

 

 

 

[TheQ]

But that looks like a TV set top box... Is donk qualified on PCs as well? 

Edited February 7, 2020 by TheQ

[New Haven Neil]

Just now, TheQ said:

But that looks like a TV set top box... Is donk qualified on PCs as well? 

 

It is a TV recorder actually!  He was replacing a couple of popped capacitors in the tuner.  Known fault in these Panasonic ones, it finally expired quite a while later with a HDD failure.

[New Haven Neil]

He is multi-talented.

 

 

But the drinking can be an issue.

 

Edited February 7, 2020 by New Haven Neil

[AndyID]

1 minute ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

It is a TV recorder actually!  He was replacing a couple of popped capacitors in the tuner.  Known fault in these Panasonic ones, it finally expired quite a while later with a HDD failure.

 

Looks like a good source of zero ohm resistors!

[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all,

 

The frost departed , eventually; his ladship departed at 06.30 for a weekend in St Alb. Albania. (I get confused by his movements at times); the Good Doctor departed for a swim at 08.30 after considerable defrosting of her car but it was quite ok by the time the memshaib and myself took it for a jaunt to Tesco later in the morning.   Homemade leek soup has been consumed, the Good Doctor has departed for her night shift at the Nuffield (Hospital, not to be confused with the tractor of the same name although named after the same person) and where of course she isn't a doctor so that is even more confusing.  However the abysmal labour policy of the NHS shines through, and probably contravenes the H&S Act  - I would very much like to see the risk assessment which legitimises 13 hour days as I have a nasty feeling they contravenes the H&S Act.

 

And that's about it - just another normal day.  And in the light of the recent sunny weather we have salad for dinner tonight.

 

Trusting the lurgified are on a path towards recovery.  Have a good day one and all

[Tony_S]

47 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

of course she isn't a doctor so that is even more confusing.

Aditi never uses her "Dr" title with anything to do with medical institutions. She thinks it would just confuse them. 

[pH]

One of our sons has a PhD in mining engineering. He was playing in a soccer game recently when a player stayed down after a clash with an opponent. Son shouted to the ref  "That's a head injury, stop the game!". The ref said something dismissive, along the lines of "What do you think you are, a doctor?". Son replied "Actually, I am.". The ref stopped the game. (And it was a head injury, and the game should have been stopped.)

[JohnDMJ]

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

He is multi-talented.

 

 

But the drinking can be an issue.

 

Been at the H2O again?

[New Haven Neil]

22 minutes ago, JohnDMJ said:

Been at the H2O again?

 

IPA, John.  Not the ale either!

[81C]

Evening All 

I dug out THE HANDYMAN polo shirt today and started painting the flat one old biddy in the block asked if I don't general jobs what is it you want done I don't know she said and bid me good day.

My new Babe has started to check me out on the dating site daily it pings on my phone every time she logs in to my page, 3 times today so I feel honoured. 

The hallway is now white and not sh!te I will put a coat or two of very light blue on tomorrow then paint the wood work Sunday, I still amazed the old dear that lived here before me was allowed to wallowing such a filthy

flat absolutely everything needs a clean the wood finish doors changed colour once  the muck was wiped off I've done at least a dozen rolls of paper towel so far the Estate manager stuck his head In to see how

things are going he did mutter about doing the stair well I haven't got the equipment for it now it could do with it as the finish is p!ss poor, I did however clean the paw prints off the stairwell wall some dirty

B'stard had planted there.

Rick I think your razor blade needs changing mate  , and Neil Donk doesn't beat my Flat Eric or Crazy Frog.

better get on P.I. Staker. 

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I met my friend in Tess Coes today and we discussed pick up times for tomorrows exhibition. While he was there he was buying a cake for daughter # 2's 18th birthday, also tomorrow. He did say at the time that he would be able to fit both in but just now he phoned to say that he and his son (of the £10 layout) will not be able to attend the exhibition, I half expected it to be so when he told me of his daughters birthday. I will still be there to help out. Time for dinner, be back later.  

[Barry O]

Morning!

 

Great start to the day... 3 fire engines arrive nearby, followed by the police and an ambulance arrive at a pub just down the road. Some pretty calm firefighters get off the truck and enter pub..must have been a smoke alarm had gone off. Through the middle of all this a young lady drives through the lot on her hire electric scooter (these are all the rage in oz and new zealand at the moment). No one is bothered...then they all get back in their vehicles and leave looking a bit despondent.

 

Time for breakfast and a mugacaf... her indoors bought a box of yorkshire teabags which are also in use...dilshan tea is just not up to it!

 

Enjoy the rest of your evenings.

Baz

[J. S. Bach]

Afternoon owl from a very windy Piedmont. A totally lazy day for me.

[brianusa]

12 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

When it came time to sell our house in Mesa, Arizona the market was a bit soft. Our real estate agent recommended we repaint the interior in a neutral off-white. We engaged a painter who repainted all of the interior in a single day using a high-pressure paint sprayer.

 

The only snag was everything had to be moved out of the house into the back yard.

 

The painter stood in the middle of each room and painted the walls and ceiling without moving from that spot. Took him about ten minutes for each room.

 

It worked. The interior looked like a brand new home and we sold it within a week!

 

Apparently white is out already replaced by woody colours, which is fine for us as we have a lot of wood trim, which tells you how old the house is!   I have found that many real estate people have so many ideas, most of which is for their benefit, not yours and if they can't sell your house on your terms, then pick another.  It has worked so far in our favour!

      Brian.

[Coombe Barton]

Kerry - Rainbow Bridge

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/kerry-2002-3-2020/