Well our sunny 7C (felt like 5C) start here is about over as the temp hits 17C (feels like 15C) and the clouds float in with showers and a possible thunderstorm expected this afternoon, but we're expected to hit 20C by then.

The Garbo was earlier than usual this morning, but I had nothing for him this week which is good as I'm still painfully paying for last week's effort.

Anyhow I think that I'll have another coffee before I go and check on my veggies.

Cheers.

As the sky to the SW gets darker and more clouds float overhead the mercury here has reached 20C (feels like 17C), but I have folded up the veggies' frost protection, watered them and turned over the the 1st compost pile (upsetting a lot of worms and other little critters) while leveling out the beginning of the new 2nd lot. So everything is ready for this rain that we're suppose to get over the next 10 days.

Well it's too early for a beer so I may just have an early lunch instead so that I can take 1 of my special spine pills seeing that I've now taken my obligatory 2 day break from them
after a 3 day run before taking a spinal reset while doing some more reading.

Cheers.

Got to see a nice sunset on the beach. So Cal has its moments.

Now that the last of the daylight has gone we're down to 15C (feels like 12C) after hitting 21C (felt like 17C) today as we dodge roaming showers.

Cheers.

So, I'm already tired and hungry!... Uncomfortable cool and damp also.

Difficult start, but got some good results.

Next for me, I'm wading through a wide range of technical specs and costs to dream up something workable for a fast fix. Normally, that would be interesting and good fun even. However, that is very much not the case when there is no time to think. Just had a bit of a jolt with one set of assumptions turning up wrong... A better solution is turning up to be less cost!

Mmmmm... Less cost?... Lets see, tech spec be damned, the less cost will win (regardless) with some of the more typical mentality that are to be shepherded along...! The fortuitous good spec is a happy aside!

Here goes another pint... Of my proper ground coffee, yay!


Which is a good reminder for:

Must contrive some interlude to dash off for essential human supplies sometime today.


... And we have a date for a do-or-die meeting. At least we have 2 weeks to get something together...

And present progress/output is disruptively erratic.

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At John Wayne Airport for my flight back to Reno via Oakland. (Hi Timelord). Or should I say leaving the Line Fire for the Davis Fire?

Hmmm, the old saying was wrong then, you are going out of the fire into the fire.

Take care, we don't want to hear about a crispy Carlos.

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Winning on a cool Tuesday morning in the highlands.

The old spine is feeling a lot better today.

Time now for a coffee.

Cheers.

Filth, flaring flaring, filth. It’s only going to cost the flat management team more to prolong the maintenance request. The flat I share a common wall with had a water leak in the wall somewhere. I found that out when I found water on the floor in my kitchen and bathroom. They fixed that leak. My floor is dry now. Same flat I’m guessing now has sprung another leak. The ceiling in my bathroom has started dripping water. Luckily for me it is above the bathtub. So the water is going down the bathtub drain. I first found the leak mid afternoon Sunday. The management team is M.I.A. on the weekends. So I reported it on Monday. They said someone would look at it “Today”. Big waste of my time waiting on a no show. A water leak only gets more expensive the longer it lasts.

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So... I've missed Last Orders by a day with this one...

Well into a triple shift, weary, behind schedule, and still yet to clear the latest emergency.

We still have various alarms popping off...

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After doing my veggies, some lite domestic duties and a few beers at the pub we've reached our expected max of 21C (feels like 19C) as those clouds gather here up again, but whether we'll get that expected rain is another thing altogether,

Anyhow it's time for a feed followed by another spinal reset.

Cheers.

Through into a new dawn... Under a ragged grey sky.

At least the alarms have quieted. Ready for the next shift to pick up the lost dregs from overnight...

And I remain here ever ready still...

(There are also some long tired staff with yet more hours to do...)

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Winning back in town.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Now that the last of the daylight is gone and this easterly breeze pushes the smell of bushfires thickly upon us after reaching 22C (felt like 20C) here today it's time to think about dinner.

Cheers.

Beware travel bugs. I caught something. Not Covid but really sore through and cough.

You didn't pick up that RSV Carlos?

Anyhow I better head off before tomorrow gets here.

Cheers.

Smoke gets up one's nose and mauls the back of the throat.....

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Bob Smith
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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Winning on a Hump Day morning as the sun rises.

Cheers.

I don't think it's RSV. I don't have Fever, Headache, or Tiredness. I do have a runny nose, sore throat, congestion, and cough.

Winning now that my bed has been fully stripped, the mattress flipped and then remade.

Now my back wants a break after that and I need a 2nd coffee break.

At least there's no bushfire smoke in the air here this morning.

Cheers.