The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[ian16th]

Looks a little small to carry cows!

[llondel]

Overcast and cold but 6 mm of rain last night. Moving around of CCTV cameras today. The remote connections can't cope with the thick stone walls. They did work when fitted so not sure why they don't now. Any bright ideas?

If you were in the UK I'd say it was due to increased moisture in/on the walls. Given your current circumstances I'd say that was less likely.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Looks a little small to carry cows!

AugustaWestland AW169 I believe. My mobile phone didn't do it any justice.

[Capetonian]

WiFi is simply the means of delivery of the internet from 'outside' to the local devices in your home.
The connection from the internet will terminate in a router/modem, and the local devices may be connected to the router via cables, typically Ethernet, or via WiFi.

[Ex-Ascot]

WiFi is simply the means of delivery of the internet from 'outside' to the local devices in your home.
The connection from the internet will terminate in a router/modem, and the local devices may be connected to the router via cables, typically Ethernet, or via WiFi.

Thank you Cape that is the way I understood it. In our case WIFI. Anyway don't think our CCTV problem is anything to do with our Internet. Getting it on our smart phones is but that is down to the speed of the system we are connected to anywhere in the world not our system at home.

Very little sun all day. Got genny running to get the system up to 100% before dark to avoid a power cut overnight.

[Capetonian]

I forgot to mention something else, which is the cellular network (3G/4G/5G) which also provides access to the public internet, mainly using smartphone type devices. So when you leave your home and you are out in the bundu, but can still get into coverage on your smartphone, you are on the cellular network, using the data allowance which is part of your cellular package.
If you are at Pom Pom, you have neither!

[OFSO]

The cameras I bought at £26 each required initially a wired connection to my router, during which time they sit down, swap numbers, data, chat about the weather, politics etc., And when the light on the back turns green can be unplugged (if you so desire) following which, having established a connection, they stay in touch via WiFi. However local Chinese shops sell 30 meters of CAT5/6 ethernet cable for under €20 so running it round the house to carry internet, radio, TV etc just meant plugging the cameras into that. What is an absolute must is NOT to do a firmware upgrade when offered as this buggers everything up - as I found to my sorrow.

[OFSO]

No idea what our medevac chopper was. Enclosed tail rotor and bright yellow. Does that help ?

Anyway an ambulance emerged from our urbanisation and the patient, as is usual here, was allowed thirty minutes to decease on the stretcher before being inserted into the machine and flown off towards Girona where dying facilies are available at the Hospital Truetta.

[ricardian]

We have two shops on the island (population 350), one specialises in food (mainly frozen) for those folk who like ready-meals and one specialises in fresh veg & fresh meat but has now acquired a Portacabin in which the staff make excellent bacon & egg pies, beef & veg pasties, cottage pie, and a whole host of baked goodies.

[Alisoncc]

Sorry Sir, but my first pass at the above read it as Portaloo. Causing a grimace and an audible "yuk".

[ExSp33db1rd]

And, how often do they chuck things in for free or round the total down?

Just the opposite now. Our local Supermarket - OK, not hardware but same philosophy, i.e. all the local, corner, grocers shops have gone - who IMHO deliberately fail to upgrade the cashiers compuerised tills to reflect the "Special, Bargain," offers and still charge the regular price. It is difficult to keep track of all the fast scanned items in the departure queue, so time is wasted in the car park checking the bill, and then returning to argue, usually succesfully of course, but with no apology and much time wasted and subjected to ill disguised impatience and annoyance. It's happened every day for the last three days to Mrs. ExS. and yesterday, and she also noticed that bunches of celery were being sold at $2.99, but across the aisle were half bunches at the "Special" price of $3.20 !! One has to be intelligent to shop, these days.

Today is office chair building day, with the first challenge being extraction from the box.

and the second challenge will be understanding the instructions, probably translated from the original Chinese ?

[Wodrick]

Office chair.
It was in fact one of the best bits of flat pack I have come across. Instructions in five languages, one pretty fair English and the main assembly instructions clear pictorial.
A spare wheel, and spares for the bolts and washers (deliberate bubble wrapped on to the card holding all required)
Went together perfectly. Only one problem is no brakes ! Big snag on a tiled floor.

[OFSO]

A Force Eight Tramontana coming our way today. Should blow the Corona Virii out to sea for a while.

[Alisoncc]

A spare wheel, and spares for the bolts and washers (deliberate bubble wrapped on to the card holding all required)

Don't pop the bubbles as they probably have Chinese air in them, which could be infected.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Blazing sunshine. Pool cleaning going on so can't sit there. Am on the veranda with bat ***** clearing up going on around me. Don't want to sit inside in this weather.

CCTV chaps didn't come yesterday. A emergency call out to a lodge with guests but no hot water - fair enuf. Due this afternoon.

Very impressed with the British High Commission. They have just phoned to follow upon the case of me been beaten up 14 months ago. Now they want to send me a form to say how efficient they have been. Full marks all round.

[Wodrick]

Morning all,
bright sunny day, nearly 17c already, guess 24c.
Flat calm, the natives are taking advantage and burning their prunings.

Getting concerned for SM who is getting more and more depressed with the incision, her eyes, and the Campylobacter none of which is getting any better.
The various specialists seem at a loss.

It's a Veronica the cleaner day, it is as well to keep out of the way.

[OFSO]

I cannot compare our Britannia Virus with your wife's tribulations, but we are both so expletive-deleted fed up, me with non-stop mucus in nose, wife with non-stop coughing from congested lungs, nothing coming up, despite nebuliser and all her usual range of asthma witchcraft. Neither of us is bacterially infected.

[Ibbie]

Morning

I has an appointment with urology regarding PSA level check at 12.30. This is the same mob who have been messing Mrs IB about. The PSA reading they want to discuss is from a blood test nearly four months ago.

[larsssnowpharter]

The Sproglettes came home from school yesterday.
"Dad, can you help us with the pancakes, please?'
So I dutifully supervised putting the batter together. Pulled out the crêpe pan and was astonished at the mess they could make.
Pancakes turned out well; even the first one was edible!
Then Sproglette Senior announces,
'They are just like crêpes.'

[G-CPTN]

'Pancake' in parts of Denmark are totally different - think scrambled egg/omelette with bacon - served in a heavy metal frying pan.