Mundane News

[Reynard]

Had a lovely day yesterday 1st a late morning visit to the science museum. Only been with school before but we only got to go in the kids bit. So never got to look around the rest. Then the evening spent round at the brother out law and his partners new house.

Back home today so having a steady morning before getting the tube to the station. We’ve plenty of time as we don’t need to be out till 11.

I love the Science Museum!

I'm an Imperial College gal (PhD), and the Science Museum is right next to the Mechanical Engineering department where I had my office. So all I had to do was cross a side street and pop round the corner. Wasted spent many an hour in there. And in the attached library as well.

 

[postman]

My word Headingley coffee houses were busy.But it was lovely out,my case comes up next week.

You lot do like an innuendo.Well if Kenneth Williams saw one he whipped it out.And i had two copies of Harry Potter Omnibus,so i gave my female neighbour one.

 

[postman]

I have got Spotify on,i have just downloaded a playlist from ed.02 male/female i have no idea.Title is The Ultimate Vietnam War.It's piggin superb.Early doors yet but For What it's Worth,Buffalo Springfield and Riders of the Storm The Doors White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane are crackers this is good.

 

[classic33]

On late shift this week so im at home in the morning .
Yesterday i dropped mrs ck off at work in the morning as i had to take mini ck 1 to the hairdressers and the plan was for mrs ck to catch the bus home . I had just sat down just before midday to have my early dinner and had taken one bite of my food when i get a phone call on mrs ck phone from her work as mrs ck was ill and they had called the ambulance .
I rushed over and she was not very good at all with stroke like symptoms so they took her to hospital , mini ck 1 phoned my up wanting to be picked up but i couldn’t as i was following the ambulance bit luckily i had given enough extra cash and there was a taxi firm next to the hairdressers so she got a taxi back to grandads ( they let her off the £1.50 she was short ) .
At the hospital they did the tests for stroke and sent her for a ct which didnt show anything and after about 5-6 hours she was back to normal so they think it was a mini stroke or TIA that you recover from with no long term side effects but they kept her in overnight as they wanted to observe and do an MRI as it is more detailed.
She had a TIA in 2012 and a vertifo stroke in 2019 as she has a higher risk due to the chemo shrinking her brain vessels in the past .
I phoned work and they were great and looks like i will take the rest of the week off as holiday and cancel a week i had booked later in the year to keep an eye on her .

Best of luck to all of you, and don't neglect your own health at this time.

Take care.

 

[classic33]

Win11: the gift that keeps on giving.

IT Dept. has decreed that now we are on Win11, every thing will be lost stored on The Cloud: all client data is now entered online, but also everything from Holiday application forms to client progress reports are kept on a secure server. Because things regularly vanished in to the ether, several of us kept nonconfidential items on USB sticks which turned a twenty-minute manual search into a thirty-second click-and print. Then IT department realised what we were doing and remotely locked our USB ports*. Everything would be stored on The Great Cloud.

This system "worked" at least from the IT department's point of view: we wasted time finding everything on Teams which we previously could just open in seconds, and all was decreed to be well.

Until earlier this week when the W-Lan went from being slow and awkward to non-existent, and then today even the wired network went down, so we are all sitting around waiting for someone in central office to get around to switching it off and on again so we can actually do our job.

Fortunately the Industry Standard till programme has been declared incompatible with the new network, so that runs on a separate Win10 based "Shadow System" run by a local tech, so at least the shop could still open...

Latest status is that IT "Support" will get it back online when they've dealt with important things like the colour of the new user dashboard. The opinion locally is that they're sulking because we broke their shiny new system.

*Or possibly they just stopped working, it's hard to tell.

Sounds as though whoever "runs/is in charge" of your IT department has worked for our council at sometime.

Do they happen to work from home?

 

[Jenkins]

What an absolutely lovely day. Wall to wall sunshine, warmth and a mostly tail wind for the whole time.

Got to Diss around 10:30 and then spent 3 leisurely hours including stops making my way up to Norwich on a route crossing the London mainline 12 times and the Cambridge line once. Then had another 2 hours sat outside the pub in the sunshine having lunch & drinks while watching the world go by before getting the train home.

After the grotty weather we've had so far this month, it's amazing how much one day's sunshine can improve your mood.

Since getting home I've showered and shaved, had a coffee, half a chocolate orange and a hot chocolate. The route for tomorrow evening's hotel - venue - hotel walk has also been confirmed.