Early Risers.

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

.only had chance for a quick scan of the goings on sorry if I’ve missed a rating.

Hopefully the medic dealing with Andrew P have got it wrong somewhere along the line.

Rick, hope you feel better soon.

Tiger hope the eyes get sorted soon,

Good to hear Lucy is on the mend.

As for me, we’ll I’ve spent the day down in Newark with mum and reassuring staff that their jobs are safe and that there’s nothing to worry about regarding the business that is effecting my sleep.

Got a funny feeling in the side of my face. Hopefully nothing.

Anyway Goodnight,

Robert

[J. S. Bach]

48 minutes ago, polybear said:

Eight years and seven years.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60166481

Ol' Sparky would be more appropriate!

[TheQ]

Evening Awl,

Just reviewed fruit juices diabetics and joint pain, basically I'm stuffed..

 

Remember my 3 choices? well a full second coat tomorrow is stuffed too. SWMBO's brother and wife are appearing tomorrow for 24 hours thereafter. The phone call came just after my last posting, So tomorrow there will be a quick inspection, a touch up if required in odd places and that's it. Then domestic duties will take over.

 

Just as I arrived at the edge of the industrial estate the MRC is at there was a smell of burning plastic, not good on an estate with a boat builders, a boat window makers, fibreglass moulders and various engineering works. Luckily on exiting later  I noticed it's from a bonfire in someone's garden blowing over the estate.

 

At the MRC I turned the layout 90 degrees, and did some of slartybartfasts work.

 

Our internal walls are brick, so WiFi is iffy in places, but just about acceptable, I have a  WiFi over the mains extender, it's planned to put one in the garage workshop as a repeater, to get round the corner to the mobile home.

 

Muggachoccy time then good night Awl,

 

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Everything is almost back to normal now, temperature, appetite, etc. Though still feeling a bit weak. 

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Eight years and seven years.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60166481

The other prison inmates know how to deal with such people.

14 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Evening Awl,

Just reviewed fruit juices diabetics and joint pain, basically I'm stuffed..

That reminded me that though I'm not diabetic I have to keep an eye on  my BG to make sure that I avoid becoming so. During the summer months I used to drink a lot of fruit juice until I was told that my BG was getting close to diabetic levels. I have since found a replacement in a milk substitute based on oats. Not only can it be drunk hot or cold but it also lowers cholesterol and reduces uric acid. Its made by Alpro and can be found in the lactose free chill cabinets. There's  a couple of different types, I go for the 'no sugar' one.

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[Pacific231G]

On 27/01/2022 at 00:54, pH said:

The country may not officially change to metric. However, metric is used in the US. My brother-in-law was an engineer in the States (now retired) and he did a lot of his work in metric.

The ambivalent British attitude to metric v imperial is well illustrated by ratios developed long ago such as 2mm/ft, 3.5mm/ft 4mm/ft and 7mm/ft that are still commonly encountered in certain circles which must not be spoken of here lest eternal damnation should follow.

They can't be American because they only use imperial units (or a corrupted American version of them full of short measures) and they can't be European because they almost never use imperial units so they have to be British in origin, even if most British people who move in such crcles think that the 3.5mm/ft one is something nasty, foreign and alien. Both sorts of foreigners turn them into a ratio (so it doesn't matter if things are measured in furlongs, cubits or league) but the Americans do it more pedantically as 1:87.1 while the Europeans sensibly rationalise it to 1:87.

The Briions in this field make life even more confusing by scaling things using two different  ratios (4 and 3.5mm/ft at the same time) and blaming it on a Geordie engineer.

[PhilJ W]

14 minutes ago, Pacific231G said:

The ambivalent British attitude to metric v imperial is well illustrated by ratios developed long ago such as 2mm/ft, 3.5mm/ft 4mm/ft and 7mm/ft that are still commonly encountered in certain circles which must not be spoken of here lest eternal damnation should follow.

They can't be American because they only use imperial units (or a corrupted American version of them full of short measures) and they can't be European because they almost never use imperial units so they have to be British in origin, even if most British people who move in such crcles think that the 3.5mm/ft one is something nasty, foreign and alien. Both sorts of foreigners turn them into a ratio (so it doesn't matter if things are measured in furlongs, cubits or league) but the Americans do it more pedantically as 1:87.1 while the Europeans sensibly rationalise it to 1:87.

The Briions in this field make life even more confusing by scaling things using two different  ratios (4 and 3.5mm/ft at the same time) and blaming it on a Geordie engineer.

I recall an American railroad magazine giving measurements on a drawing in 1,000ths of an inch, and that was in the seventies.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[monkeysarefun]

12 hours ago, PupCam said:

Morning All!

 

I feel I have truly joined the Early Risers now!   Haven't been sleeping well lately and last night was a bit of a record I woke every 30-40 minutes.  I think it's a combination of the Cold I have inherited from Mrs Puppers (Phew -ve LFT again) and my new medication.  I'd planned to go for the the first blood tests following the medication change but I'm not up to it today so looks like a job for Monday.

 

Disappointed that I had to cancel my attendance at the mates Pie and Pint night down the local last night but I did manage to spend a short time outside in the early evening sky gawping.   The Pleiades are amazing.   Barely detectable with the naked eye (at least my naked eye) you're better off sneaking up on them using your more sensitive peripheral vision.  But, WOW! when you finally find them in the telescope they are like a box of sparkly gems.   A minor first last night was I actually managed to find and focus on them with the camera body attached - hitherto all I could see on the camera screen was blackness.   Whilst the photographs are all a bit fuzzy mostly due to the combination of long exposure and the slight breeze that was nudging the scope it's definitely another step forward

 

Alan

 

 

There's a couple of worthwhile things in nearby Orion. The Orion nebula is easily seen with the naked eye, it's the middle 'star' in Orion's sword that hangs below his belt so give that a squizz.

 

Also if you have a dark night the Horsehead Nebula is locatable with a scope to the south of the most easterly star that makes up his belt.

 

There's yet  another nebula in Orion bit I've never managed to locate it...

 

32 and sunny as - to the beach, Batman!

Edited January 29, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[Two_sugars]

Today was a 'phone appointment with the practice nurse about my diabetes, following blood tests last week(ish)

 

All numbers within normal parameters . . . . no more Metbloodyformin .  . . . ,. ,keep doing what you're doing. . . .

 

And I thowt I wuz being a naughty boy . . . mind . . I didn't cut the carbs completely.

 

As for Darlo Shed . . . Poor Bugga . . . . Fotty Yors rang side of the Tees . . . .

 

Goodnight all  . . . .Sleep well . .

 

John

 

 

[Coombe Barton]

31 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

There's a couple of worthwhile things in nearby Orion. The Orion nebula is easily seen with the naked eye, it's the middle 'star' in Orion's sword that hangs below his belt so give that a squizz.

https://xkcd.com/1020/

[Ozexpatriate]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

1,000ths of an inch

A common measure in manufacturing and confusingly called both a "mil" and a "thou".

 

It remains widely used.

 

Edited January 29, 2022 by Ozexpatriate

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[monkeysarefun]

8 hours ago, polybear said:

 

When the laptop is plugged into, or right next to the Router (i.e. WiFi) it's 36 Mbps; when in the conservatory (16 Mbps or less) it's via WiFi

How old is the laptop, if it's a couple of years or more then maybe a new wifi  card is something to ponder if you don't want to replace the whole thing.

Wifi 6 (802.11ax) is a whole new world compared to the old 802.11ac and earlier  pre 2019 stuff. I bought a new laptop last July with it, previous uploads/downloads over wifi to/from my NAS were 4 to 6mb/sec with my  2014 era laptop, now it's 70mb/sec plus using  the new protocol.

 

The NAS has a 1gb ethernet  port connected to my wifi router and claimed transfer speeds over wifi were up to 100mb/sec.  I'd been blaming either the NAS software or  the laptop  windows configuration for the poor performance and spent ages fiddling around with that end when it was the old school  laptop wifi all along.

 

Edited January 29, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[Darlington_Shed]

2 hours ago, Two_sugars said:

Fotty Yors rang side of the Tees

Quite! But I've become accustomed to it now - I suppose you can get used to anything in four decades. And i still have visiting rights... my sister lives just outside Darlington, and Mrs Shed's family are further north in Newcastle. So I get to drive in and through the Land of the Prince Bishops at regular intervals (or did until the recent troubles curtailed travel).

 

Hope your diabolicals continue to improve!

[iL Dottore]

Good Morning to all,

 

The week ended on a good note yesterday. The vet called with Lucy’s test results - her pancreas is not the problem - all OK there. Having ruled everything else out, it would seem Lucy had been clobbered by some sort of GI infection. Having recently had giardiasis and a bout of acute pancreatitis (both confirmed by lab results), I would imagine Lucy’s GI flora are all over the place - rendering her susceptible to picking up a bug… Current Rx? Continue with the proton pump inhibitor and pancreatic enzymes, start a new Abx Rx and continue with a bland diet of boiled rice and boiled chicken. The latter being most happily taken by Lucy - she absolutely loves boiled chicken (which is not really boiled - but simmered - with a pinch of salt - in just enough water to cover until no longer pink. Thus providing meat and a thin jus to flavour her rice).

 

Interesting posts about blood sugar. From my perspective non-fasting blood glucose is one of the least helpful blood tests around. When I was working (a while ago) on a drug for diabetic neuropathy, the requirement for monitoring was fasting blood sugar and - for Type I diabetics - glycated (or glycosolated) haemoglobin (aka HbA1c). Interestingly the test was renamed from glycosolated haemoglobin to glycated haemoglobin to correctly reflect the process.

 

The renaming of lab tests I find a little bit annoying - after spending years working with something like SGOT (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase) to then have to start referring to the test as AST (aspartate aminotransferase) irks. The new nomenclature may have sound reasons for adoption - based on a better understanding of the biology/mechanisms of action - but I still find it “a significant disruption to my fragile world view”* But, hey-ho, that’s progress for you.

* is that irony, hyperbole, sarcasm or cynicism - not sure

 

A busy weekend in the kitchen awaits: I have a birthday cake to make, a kilo of chicken strips to dehydrate for Lucy (and Schotty, of course) and a Cheese Soufflé to make for dinner.

 

And then there’s the workshop to continue to tidy up…

Edited January 29, 2022 by iL Dottore

[chrisf]

Those who enjoy walking, and also Nurse Diabetes, will approve of something I did yesterday.  I have applied for “the opportunity to walk proud within a group of individual participants” in the parade at Pride In London on 2nd July.   Applications opened at 3 pm yesterday and the deed had been done by 3.30.  I now have five months to deal with the aches and pains that afflict my knees from time to time.  Should my application be successful, it means that I will be marching from Broadcasting House to Trafalgar Square with about 30,000 other people.  Even more impressive is the number of spectators lining the route, applauding and cheering – up to one million, some say.  It’s a terrific atmosphere and I shall be disappointed if my bid is unsuccessful – which is all too possible given that the march is always hugely over-subscribed.  The organisers, in the person of someone called Zed, were sufficiently alert to inform me that I had used “an e-mail that is no longer active” [so why was it still shown on the webshite?] and to say that they were “still working out what individual participation will look like exactly”.  You don’t get rid of me that easily, folks, and somehow I feel that the likes of Peter Tatchell will not be easily deflected either!

 

Back in the all-too-real world, I had planned to visit the Southampton show today but it is not there to visit.  I save 200+miles’ worth of petrol and miss out on breakfast at a motorway service area.  No doubt Nurse Diabetes would approve.

 

Chris

[jamie92208]

5 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

A common measure in manufacturing and confusingly called both a "mil" and a "thou".

 

It remains widely used.

 

What about the tad and a measurement based on the length of a follicle on the underpinnings of a gnat.

 

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good moaning to all and of course sundry from a still dark Charente.  We had an excellent  start to yesterday when we went to see M Balluet at his distillery.  We pondered long and hard as to which sorts of liquid antiseptic  to purchase and of course had to sample some.  Brandy breakfast anyone.  We also discovered that hechas a special fizzy Cognac that has to be kept in the freezer and it's equivalent fizzy Pineau that also has to be chilled. Theseclast two are only available  for local distribution. It would have been rude not to buy some samples to taste.  By the time we'd finished being entertained there it was 11.30  so we decided on lunch and found an excellent restaurant and enjoyed the plat du jour.  A call at a garden centre completed the trip out.

 

Today we will start with our hourvon rhe video link to Emily and her Mums then some fencing work is on the agenda.

 

Thoughts with all those ER's who are ailing or trobled and hope to see BoD soon.

 

Regards to all

 

Jamie

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl inner temple Hare,

5.5hours sleep and ... No more. Joints playing up, paws painful, I blame Malik.

 

RMweb terrible this morning, this is the third attempt to get on.

 

I notice the local area website makes remarks about the burning plastic smell I reported last night. Seemingly newcomers just moved in burning a lot of packaging.

 

I here SWMBO has surfaced about to go into panic mode, with visitors, 

 

Time I put the kettle on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

The use of mil (especially as in milliradian has caused problems for some designers over the years. Another concern was how the x,y,z axis is orientated (x into the ground or x into the sky)

 

Much constination in Leeds.. @Dave Hunt will love it. " a large mystery airplane has been seen flying around Leeds" yes it is an RAF C17.. perhaps they have missed that and the A400M training visits that have been going on for months?

 

Time to have some breakfast and get back to the walkabout!

 

Stay safe!

 

Baz

[NGT6 1315]

12 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

If it's red or yellow then it's probably got a lot of iron.

Good Faraday cage material.

 

My parents' house oop narf is somewhat structurally averse to wi-fi signals too. It's not made of iron-laced stonework to my knowledge but apparently there's some kind of structural reinforcement which limits signal propagation. Or the material might simply be very dense, as Dad once mentioned drilling holes for dowels and such is a lot of effort, even with his high spec impact drill. That being said, distributing four or five repeaters (I think) throughout the house seems to have largely eliminated the problem.

 

Moaning owl. Wet and windy outside, but I will have to venture out for some foodstuffs later anyway. I still have some leftover CCC from last night, so I guess I'll use that up either today or tomorrow. For the other day, I was thinking along the lines of stir-fried prawns and veg with Asian noodles. In my experience, cooking something for the soul, if you will, helps me a lot, too.

 

The basement renovation (I'm sure I mentioned that at some point!) is finally expected to get going by February, too. The builders will also dispose any kind of junk that we would like to get rid of, so there's a huge pile of that in one of the  basement rooms right now. I gather they'll carry everything to the local recycling yard, so I hope they won't overwhelm the facilities there!

 

Later, Gator…

[polybear]

6 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

How old is the laptop, if it's a couple of years or more then maybe a new wifi  card is something to ponder if you don't want to replace the whole thing.

Wifi 6 (802.11ax) is a whole new world compared to the old 802.11ac and earlier  pre 2019 stuff.

 

 

Many thanks; Bear's Laptop is an Acer Aspire 5 A515-51G-574F (at least that's what the sticky label on the front says...) with an Intel Core i5-7200U 2.5GhZ and running Windows 10; it does indeed have 802.11ac wireless.  What all that b0llox actually means is lost on this Bear....

Would such an upgrade to the wireless be practical?  Bear had a quick google but when it started mentioning "Generation 10 oojimaflips or later required" I beat a hasty retreat.....

 

44 minutes ago, TheQ said:

I notice the local area website makes remarks about the burning plastic smell I reported last night. Seemingly newcomers just moved in burning a lot of packaging.

 

How to win new friends and introduce yourselves......

 

6 minutes ago, NGT6 1315 said:

My parents' house oop narf is somewhat structurally averse to wi-fi signals too. It's not made of iron-laced stonework to my knowledge but apparently there's some kind of structural reinforcement which limits signal propagation.

 

Ah-ha......Bear's router is at the front of the house (literally - any further and it'd be in the garden....) and the Conservatory is at the back of the house (no surprises there....).  In between the two is the kitchen - which has numerous walls covered in Expamet Mesh before being plastered.....

 

In other news.....

Bear will finally attempt to patch the Artex today; I also have two PIR's to return to Amazon - they were a good price and Bear was aware that they came from Amazon EU, not UK.  They failed to mention that the EU devices operate at different frequencies though - and the manufacturer has just confirmed that they "may interfere with other electronic devices, or be susceptible to false alarms".  Turdycurses.  At least Amazon are picking up the tab for the postage.

Apart from that it's MIUAIGA day; at to what actually gets "Made Up" will depend on how much of a groove Bear is stuck in - at the moment that groove seems to be dangerously close to the dreaded Black Dog Kennel.

 

One result at college on thurs was the acquisition of a sample of "Owatrol Oil", which apparently is good for retarding the drying of oil based paints (there is also "Floetrol" for water based paints) and avoiding brush marks etc.  I've been wanting to try it for a while, but at something like thirty quid a litre it runs the risk of being an expensive test if it doesn't help Bear get a decent finish (I like to be able to faff around with paint - which is fatal ever since the likes of Dulux, Crown etc. tailored their flavours to suit the likes of EU etc. regulations.