How was your day?

[crissdee]

Spoke too soon.....

[amanda]

Had a better night's sleep but don't think I'll be going into the library today as I'm still not 100% from this viral bug and have the long bus ride/train replacement to get there too.
Have a headache that I think is mostly viral related, my body tends to be shattered the day after up and down fevers as yesterday was.

[Bondee]

My neighbours are having a new wall built across their front garden. I'm sure I went to school with the builder. His face and voice are familiar, but I can't put everything together and get a name.

I could go and ask him, but if I did go to school with him, there's a very good chance that I didn't like him and it's been too hot to sit in a cell.

[crissdee]

Many years ago, walking back from my (so far) only stint on jury duty, I was greeted by a chap around my own age. We stood and talked for a while, and the whole time I was thinking "Who TF are you?" His face and voice seemed familiar, but I couldn't place him. It was only when I got home I realised it was the guy I had sat next to for two years......

[tetsabb]

We met up with friends in Uckfield fir a showing of Inside Out 2, in which Riley hits puberty. A while lot more emotions appear in her head, including embarrassment, and Ennui, depicted as a French-accented semi-Gith.
Ggreat entertainment. As usual, we sat through to the end of the credits, in the hope of a blooper reel, but we're rewarded with the revelation of tge Deep Dark Secret...

Ooddly, after merely driving a few miles there and back, and sitting in the cinema for a couple of hours, I was shattered. I slept till after 1030 this morning...

[franticllama]

Inside Out 2 is good, we took the newly minted 11 year old to watch it. I've seen the first three quarters of it, but unfortunately had to vacate the cinema for the final quarter as I'd stopped being able to breathe sufficiently.

My day is an ok one so far. I have a decent chunk of work to get through and have just had to explain, in intricate detail, to said 11 year old how to boil pasta. I did not anticipate the level of detail that would be required.
Will hopefully now be left alone long enough to do a tiny bit more work.

[efros]

Very sleepless night down to various aches and pains. This morning was an early one as I had given up on sleep around 3 am. Feeling a bit wabbit right now and may break my daytime nap rule later on. The bills from the wife's appendicitis adventure are beginning to roll in, the biggest one so far is the ambulance. $2200 for a 10 minute ride in an ambulance. Insurance covered it up to $1950, we have to pay the rest.

[jenny]

Frantic! How nice to see you :-) I gather you got my email...

[crissdee]

Not really "my day" except in as far as they were posted today, but if you click on;

lawdogsandladies.co.uk/members-gallery

you will be able to see (should you wish to) the motley crew that makes up our cowboy show. Don't blame me for the poor English in two of the captions....

[jenny]

A villainous looking bunch!

[suze]

Jul 25, 2024 15:38:12 GMT crissdee said:

 Don't blame me for the poor English in two of the captions....

Three ...

[crissdee]

What one did I miss? I saw the "your in town" and the "to good", what was the other one?

[barbados]

She got guns?

[bigmartin]

School holidays, so plenty of younger visitors to engage with at "work" and a couple of "thank yous" from parents for doing so.

[Bondee]

Been feeling like crap all day. Had to run to the cludgie several times and the thought of eating anything makes me want to throw up.

[jenny]

I hope you feel better soon Bondee. I'm not feeling so great myself - had a blood pressure scare last week so saw the doctor on Tuesday and have to increase my tablets. I intended to go swimming today but woke up with a headache which worried me a bit because of aforesaid blood pressure scare which had included a headache, but a check on my home blood pressure machine puts me in the 'a bit higher than we would like' territory rather than heading into stroke territory. Swimming will have to happen tomorrow.

[jenny]

So... swimming will not happen tomorrow. As the day wore on I started to develop a scratchy throat. "Hmm" I said to myself, " the last time I had a scratchy throat just like this I had Covid." So I did a test and yes, I have Covid. That's me shut up at home for a few days. Woodsman is symptom free so far, but the last time we both had Covid he was symptom free throughout. He is, though, taking a Covid test as I write, so we'll find out soon enough.

[amanda]

I didn't even bother doing a test for this virus I'm just getting over, I've either been a lucky one to not get Covid so far that I'm aware of, or I had it early with barely any symptoms (and what runny nose I do have I tend to write off as hay fever)

The neighbour must be having her guttering etc replaced, a group of men on top of her garage, having taken part of it off and lots of banging and drilling noises, the latter reminding me of the dentist. 

Mostly for next week away in Sydney (Aust) but maybe for the upcoming Open House weekend, with my current digital camera a bit old and with 'spots' on the lens that can't be fixed, I looked around for a cheap option and have got a ye olde style 'one time use' camera as they call it now, with film that has to be wound, just like I had to do when I first started with these basic cameras.

The box says to develop these shots by next January so I'll have to use it up if I don't use it all for Sydney. I take 90% of photos on my phone now anyway but there are some far away/zoomed in shots that I prefer to use for a camera. 

[tetsabb]

Warm healing thoughts to all those who are in less than top condition
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[jenny]

Woodsman tested this morning and is still negative for Covid - he slept in the spare room last night and we're staying at least six feet away from each other. He's out mowing lawns at the moment so I can sit in the office and use my desktop, but I will retreat back upstairs when he comes home.

[suze]

Lest anyone were worried about the fitness of their entire moderation team, I have been swimming today.

[AnneB]

I am writing. This is the second draft of the story--the part where I find and fix all the plot holes. There's a sort of delirium to it.

It's called Aventurine at Sea and is the fourth book in this series.

This is really the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

[amanda]

I am getting over my viral bug, my neighbour has picked one up, describing her throat as feeling like razor blades.

Today with no rain at 9am, I got out of the place to get to the inner suburb for the planned Open House events. Half way through the talk/tour of the first place (outside) the rain started.....but we had all planned and coats came out, umbrellas went up.
I then went to the next place, a suburban church, by tram, in the rain.

Had a welcome cuppa there and a short tour of the stain glass windows by the parish priest. Then some of us stayed for more chat after that, which was nice. I left the church at 3pm and that burst of rain had stopped, which was nice.

[tetsabb]

Our village has a flower show/fete/brass band concert/dog show.
I have made friends with many dogs, including Best Puppy , an 18-week old Leonberger, who was also second Best inShow.


photos.app.goo.gl/rLsgHPTA7hcJSooNA

The Best in show, a young retreiver/German Pointer 
photos.app.goo.gl/NhwqRqdhV3BFBGpx7

And a standard poodle 
Not a labradoodle, or cavapoo or any other version

A poodle

photos.app.goo.gl/Px5kgHzNrGxiiCXeA

[crissdee]

Busy, busy, busy, and then a bit busy. Drove up to workshop, spent the morning and some of the afternoon repairing the cowboy scenery that got damaged in the storm in Wisbech, then temporarily repaired the exhaust on the green monster, which really needs to be replaced. Then helped two other members of the club build a new "outhouse" for the town, which will fall to pieces when the pyrotechnics inside go off. Then I walked home, as the green monster is still on axle stands, and I need someone to drive the forklift to get it down again (long story). A hot bath and an early-ish night is on the cards...

[bigmartin]

Stewarding for "Hamlet" at "work". After having passing cloudy spells all day, the evening was clear and sunny and I only had to fetch my fleece from the office for the last half hour of the play. Yet again I missed the beginning (assisting processing late arrivals) and the end (preparing to be the person that divided the departing audience into "walkers" and "on the bussers") but it was a great evening and the audience seemed very happy with it as they filed past me.

[Bondee]

Cats aren't talking to me because I gave them their flea treatment yesterday evening, although Coco is still happy to take Dreamies from me.

I feel a bit iffy after catching the sun* while I was cleaning my bike yesterday. I don't think I helped matters by pigging out on the plums that we picked from "my grandad's tree". First decent harvest since we planted it just over 3 years ago. They're very sweet. Some of them tasted like mangoes.



*Boy, are my hands sore!

[amanda]

A very cold morning to start my second day of the Open House weekend - had to leave home at 7.30am to allow time for the bus replacement and just as well I did - for I get to the stop and was told it was at least 20 minutes until the next bus.

Nearly froze as I walked up the city street (a wind tunnel at the best of times anyway) to my building, which was nice and warm inside.

One of the best buildings I've ever been at.
The ornate floor tiles that are now only in a small section, were covered over with carpet for many years before being restored in the last year.

The ceiling panels represent the different aspects - the three lions England etc (this was the English, Scottish, Australian bank originally before a series of mergers made it into the current bank it is.

Also family history for me - my grandfather worked here at some point in his career.

openhousemelbourne.org/event/transforming-anzs-gothic-chamber-into-a-21st-century-banking-museum/

[RLDavies]

How my Saturday went:

I've been playing the classic adventure game "The Dig" and writing everything down, with an eye to a second playthrough for recording purposes, one that will be nicely watchable and not have all the stupid wandering around and false starts and so on that always accompany playing an adventure game for the first time.

So far so good, I'm getting through the game. At the moment I'm a bit fed up with it, because we're at a point where several things can be done in pretty much any order, and I'm tired of considering which would be dramatically the best. Because the order in which you do things also affects dialogue, so I'm thinking things like it's logically simple to do X now, but then I'd miss that good line of dialogue, so maybe we'll put it off, but then it's awkward to find a reason to come back to it, etc.

Anyway, thought I, we've got the first act nailed down, and that's a video's worth on its own. So instead of faffing around with this scripting, I'll play through the first act properly on fullscreen, and record it. So I did that. It's about an hour of play time, and there were a few false starts, so it took a while to do. OK, now we'll edit the video. Not that there's a lot of editing to do, but there's the first bit where I'm starting up the emulator, and then I want to finish it at the dramatically appropriate moment (which is the middle of a cutscene), and there are a few little whoopsies that need clipping out here and there. I'm not very familiar with the video editing software, so it took quite a while to finish that. OK, editing's done. We need to export the finished video in MPEG format. That takes half an hour, 45 minutes. And now let's go ahead and put it on YouTube. That takes... God knows. At least an hour, what with YT doing secondary rendering.

So all in all I've spent my entire afternoon and evening messing with this thing. Finally YouTube says it's ready. Let's play it and make sure everything's OK.

Everything is not OK. The whole right edge is cut off, which means a lot of the subtitled dialogue is cut off. YouTube, how did you do that? Check back... the original video was cut off. It looked fine while I played the game, but the recording software screwed up. Never caught it while I was editing.

So that's pretty much a day gone to pot, and the only thing I have to show for it is being a little more familiar with the editing software. After some messing around, I've figured out how to get future recordings looking right -- instead of recording the game window itself, I need to record fullscreen. Which (because of emulation of lower definition) produces a recording of the complete game screen in the corner of an expanse of black. I've also figured out how to fix this in the video editor, hoorah, and the final result doesn't look too bad. And isn't cut off.

And so I might have the heart to try the whole thing again today and see how it goes.

[jenny]

You have a lot more patience (and technical know-how!) than me, RLD.