Early Risers.

[TheQ]

Hmmm every computer in the company is going to have Zscaler Zap application installed, an all singing anti virus, anti virus,  anti unfortunate site software installed.

If I go off air you know it's because some one on this site refered to models.. (which is what happend last time they tried something like this... I couldn't access any MRC...

Edited October 23, 2019 by TheQ

[tigerburnie]

Afternoon all, a lot of the "G" word has just been completed, much shredding(I do like playing with toys lol) and cut the flippin' grass again, we had a frost on Monday, but it seems to be still growing, finished off pulling a few carrots and parsnips to have with a roast free range chicken for dinner.

I run the electricky for the tools from the old summer house, so whilst the power was on, a short running session of motorised models on parallel bits of metal took place, satisfying...…………………..

[Ian Abel]

HUMP day <yawn>

 

Yesterday we continued the emptying of the garage at the old place - amazing how much carp you accumulate - almost done now though!!!

 

Interrupted nights sleep, Whitney didn't get a walk yesterday, mostly due to it p!ssing it down most of the day, so decided to get up twice in the night. Didn't "really" need to go out, but seems like she wanted to wander around the back garden for 5 minutes each time <sigh>, I could now do with a nap instead of working all day

 

1 and sunny first thing, expecting 7 for a high and some clouds this afternoon.

 

Carry on...

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Been checking up on the Human Tissue Authority, apparently they will want all the bits, if you've had something removed they don't want you, same if you've donated any of your organs. All my bits are where they should be so thats no problem. Tea is ready to be drunk so I'll be back later.

[81C]

All 

Had a busy day dog walking /minding Zeus never fails to make me laugh he had somehow got his blanket covering his head and was running around crashing into things, off to

the new Quackery where a very pretty nurse carefully removed some blood from my arm without loosing a drop just taken the plaster off and the wound is clean as a whistle.

On the way back I stopped in the garage to get the outside of the car cleaned it's now maroon it was well weather into a brown hue, next stop was the hairdressers it was empty

at 3:30 which was a surprise got the barnet trimmed, new girlfriend tomorrow so I'm trying to make an impression.

[JohnDMJ]

6 hours ago, TheQ said:

OOh the fancy new Monitor on the wall  infront / above me is all up and running.

Temperature zone 1, 23.21C

Temperature Zone 2, 21.9 C

Temperature Zone 3, 22.21 C

 Temperature Zone 4, 22.54C

Airconditioner supply temp, 22.41C

Average lab temp  22.53C

Mains frequency, 49.97Hz

Mains Voltage 222.88VAC

Each reading has a graph running across the screen of the last 2 days readings..

 

All in my little 15ft square lab..

 

 

That all seems outside of the Spec. I was 'taught' for a calibration room!

[81C]

4 minutes ago, JohnDMJ said:

That all seems outside of the Spec. I was 'taught' for a calibration room!

It looks like a load of b0ll0x to me. 

[New Haven Neil]

Slightly less meh today.

 

Not getting any answers to the lethargy issue is persisting me off I think - there's nowt left to check, bodily functions all in spec.  I don't mind feeling 60, but feeling about 80 is getting to be a bore.

 

Forgot to mention Ian A's family photo while I was wallowing in selfpitying mehness, what a lovely shot!  

 

 

[Gwiwer]

Evening all

 

A cold and mostly grey day at the House of Fun enlivened by a message from SWMBO. She received an unexpected email from the university where her PhD is registered.  
 

It was suggested that her submission was two years overdue and they had no record of offering her an extension. 
 

Cue anxiety spiking to the moon and back. She messaged her Australian-based but globe-travelling supervisor who luckily is not only in Australia right now but is also in the same city as the university. She has gone into bat for SWMBO armed with tools more damaging than an awl and language bluer than a blue-tongue lizard’s. 
 

SWMBO has managed to calm herself a little and has been encouraged by myself to leave this with her supervisor and to only concern herself with what she has control over.  
 

She does have documentation clearly giving her until March next year to submit. Someone somewhere has unintentionally elevated her already severe stress level to a higher level through failure to be across the full facts of the matter. 
 

In other news - Electrostar 377 departs the House of Fun for Victoria

 

And a hybrid Volvo waits for departure time beneath the trees at the Upper Walthamstow terminus of the 230. 

 

 

 

[Gwiwer]

And the curse of phone images strikes again. One on its side and cannot be righted and both are obviously transposed. 

[Tony_S]

39 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

  I don't mind feeling 60, but feeling about 80 is getting to be a bore.

Unfortunately I keep meeting 80 year olds with more “get up and go” than I have. Even the nicest doctors eyes glaze over if one mentions being “tired all the time”. I specifically mention what I can’t do rather than complain of general fatigue. I do remember one conversation about this with a previous GP, who said “Tony, you do realise not only are you unwell, you are taking some pretty unpleasant medication. “. However nowadays I don’t know whether how I feel is normal for someone of my age. My GP suspects it isn’t hence new blood tests and x rays recently. My routine ( 3 monthly ) full blood counts, liver function and kidney tests exclude a lot of things fortunately. 

Tony

[monkeysarefun]

22 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

 

 

Honestly, I've not kept up. I suspect it is one of these - apparently made by Bombardier in India. (It is a Bombardier unit.)

 

 

Hopefully the QLD government ran a quick tape measure over them before clicking the 'Buy now" button, unlike the funkwits here in NSW..

 

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-nsw-government-ordered-new-trains-worth-over-2-billion-that-are-too-wide-to-go-through-existing-tunnels-2018-3

Edited October 23, 2019 by monkeysarefun

[TheQ]

1 hour ago, JohnDMJ said:

That all seems outside of the Spec. I was 'taught' for a calibration room!

The temperatures are out of spec 23+-1/2C but not in my main corner. Zone 1, This because most of my equipment has not yet returned after the lab rebuild . Official UK lab temperatures were changed from 20C to 23C over 20 years ago. 

The frequency and voltage are in spec, because In the UK, the declared voltage and tolerance for an electricity supply is 230 volts -6%, +10%. This gives an allowed voltage range of 216.2 volts to 253.0 volts.

As it is most of our equipment these days will run on 110 ish volts up to 250ish. 50 or 60 Hz

 

SWMBO complains in her art group,  Maisie will pick up anything dropped before she can... Maisie is over 100...

It appears Dad has an infection,  and is resident in hospital yet again. 

 

My sailing compatriot is getting better but the doctors still want him to use a walking frame so as not to stress his femur which is missing a bit of bone. 

 

Goodnight Awl. 

[Kingzance]

6 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

Hopefully the QLD government ran a quick tape measure over them before clicking the 'Buy now" button, unlike the funkwits here in NSW..

 

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-nsw-government-ordered-new-trains-worth-over-2-billion-that-are-too-wide-to-go-through-existing-tunnels-2018-3

No wonder we don't have enough idiot bureaucrats to deliver numerous government projects, some of them have clearly emigrated to NSW!

[Coombe Barton]

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/coping-06/

[JohnDMJ]

25 minutes ago, TheQ said:

The temperatures are out of spec 23+-1/2C but not in my main corner. Zone 1, This because most of my equipment has not yet returned after the lab rebuild . Official UK lab temperatures were changed from 20C to 23C over 20 years ago. 

The frequency and voltage are in spec, because In the UK, the declared voltage and tolerance for an electricity supply is 230 volts -6%, +10%. This gives an allowed voltage range of 216.2 volts to 253.0 volts.

As it is most of our equipment these days will run on 110 ish volts up to 250ish. 50 or 60 Hz

 

 

Thanks for the clarification!

 

Whilst I am aware that the UK voltages are nominally 230V single phase and 400V 3-phase (and that most respectable single phase power supplies have the wider range), I was not aware that temperature for calibration had increased; 20C was the norm last time I worked in a calibration lab! I guess that everything in the UK is still traceable back to the NPL in Teddington?

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, Kingzance said:

No wonder we don't have enough idiot bureaucrats to deliver numerous government projects, some of them have clearly emigrated to NSW!

Didn't Shakespeare have some quote about saying something as a bit of a laugh but it turns out to be fair dinkum?

 

"Howard Collins is the Chief Executive of Sydney Trains. Previously the Chief Operating Officer of the London Underground, he had a 35-year career with London transport."

Edited October 23, 2019 by monkeysarefun

[polybear]

2 hours ago, 81C said:

It looks like a load of b0ll0x to me. 

 

The yearly (1980's) visit from the British Standards Audit man to our (Aerospace) firm resulted in said man wrestling the six-inch steel rule from breast pocket of my bosses' suit.  Said man demanded to know where Cal. Sticker was (= not calibrated), thinking he'd scored points.  Boss snatches it back, pointing out that cal would only be valid in a temp controlled building at 20 degrees C.  British Standards man crashes and burns.

Dept. Head witnesses entire scene, and later gives Boss a mild bollocking for baiting B.S. Man, even though Boss was right.

Boss didn't give a sh1t, being used to it....

 

[Gwiwer]

! I guess that everything in the UK is still traceable back to the NPL in Teddington

 

Shall I pop in and ask them?  It’s only a stroll up the road from the Hill of Strawberries. Or a short hop on the no.33 bus if wet. 
 

Dad used to claim that the NPL people would pump some extra volts into the trolleybus overhead back in the day which would cause an unwary driver some problems. I never found out whether there was any truth in that but no smoke without fire eh?
 

And he lived as far up the road, but in the other direction, as we do. About 80 years ago. 

[Simon G]

Evening all, 

 

More work done today on painting the replastered walls.  Also cut all the new skirting board to size and primed/under coated all the cut pieces.  Fitting them might be tricky in places as size/space requirements mean that I had to use 15mm skirting, which is more prone to warping than thicker versions.  I had hoped to use such as No More Nails to fix them, but some screwing may also be necessary.

 

Now watching The Apprentice, which I find most amusing.  Every year there appear to be some unpleasant clueless candidates, but this year they all seem to fit that description!  If I were Alan Sugar, I would happily fire most of them.

[brianusa]

The deck repair saga continues.  It only took one man a couple of hours and the wood is off to be recycled.  The other deck is yet to be undone but the new lumber arrives on Friday so that's when the noise really starts.  Nice guy, he made a ramp for our cat as the ground is now about 4' below the door sill.  Poor thing hasn't shown up since it all started.

      Brian.

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

The weather has been lovely all day and my wetsuit is almost dry! More progress has been made on the new shelving, another 2 coats of varnish have been applied, tomorrow will see me turn it all over so that I can varnish the underneath of them all. In between applying the coats of varnish, I spent a bit more time in the workshop, doing a bit more tidying up and re-organising of my tools. It’s all starting to look tidy! Whilst I was doing so a large wasp appeared and started buzzing around the light fitting, so I picked up a large piece of 2 x 1 and wielding it like a cricket bat hit it across the workshop, where it bounced off the far wall and fell behind some boxes. These were moved and the offending insect was taken outside and dispatched with my size 9, just to make sure. 

 

This afternoon we had Ava, Evie and Max round for tea, spag bol was the order of the day and it didn’t stay long on the plates, I’m sure they’ve all got hollow legs, as I don’t know where they put it!

 

Goodnight all.

[Tony_S]

According to an article I read on Facebook we shouid be kinder to wasps. Can’t remember why though.    

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Club night tonight, still sorting out the alterations to the clubroom but its coming along. Wasps like spiders kill some of the insects that carry diseases such as flies and mosquito's.