The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[OFSO]

But only just. Premium Bond Day tomorrow !

[Karearea]

Good morning, rabbits, rabbits, rabbits.

15.8°C expecting 21°C, overcast, might be misty/drizzly.

New calendar pages for February:

NZ Birds: the Morepork, scroll down to 'sounds' and hear why this owl is so named.

Desk calendar on mantel, Vintage travel posters of Italy: Venezia, from the water - the campanile of San Marco, the Doges Palace, a gondola with felze, a couple of traditional vela al terzo sailing vessels, the Ponte della Paglia;

Scenes of Italy: Bellagio and Lake Como, Lombardy, view from aloft looking towards the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni and beyond

NZ Weather: Golden Bay (northern South Island) with thin layer of stratocumulus and shafts of sunlight

[k3k3]

OFSO, You'll have to wait until Friday to see if you've won anything.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Speaking of winning things..
Pop Quiz.
What happened on Jan 31st in
a) 1606
b) 1943
c) 2020
?

[Hydromet]

Good morning all, grey day with a bit of rain overnight. Currently 21C, forecast max 32C, Humidity 85%.

[1DC]

Been a reasonable day on the Humber, got up to 9C and has only just started to rain.Chiropractor has said she is pleased with my progress and doesn't want to see me until February 23rd.One of the local dives is to reopen as a restaurant cum nightclub, it hasn't been open for years. I told my daughters and was surprised when they expressed interest and started relating a few memories from their younger days. Daddy didn't think that they went in such a place!!

[PHXPhlyer]

10 AM
11 PM

PP

[Hydromet]

Been a reasonable day on the Humber, got up to 9C and has only just started to rain.Chiropractor has said she is pleased with my progress and doesn't want to see me until February 23rd.One of the local dives is to reopen as a restaurant cum nightclub, it hasn't been open for years. I told my daughters and was surprised when they expressed interest and started relating a few memories from their younger days. Daddy didn't think that they went in such a place!!

It's amazing what they tell you about where they went and what they did when they get older.

[OFSO]

Yeah, rabbits to everyone. Bed linen day so up early, but won't be quite finished in the machine before cheap tarif ends at 08:00. And then have to add a fast spin cycle before I'm off to the gym again.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Kalo Mina to all our Greek correspondents. Rotten day no rain just blue. What remains of the lagoon is diminishing. No pelicans today but they all pitched up at noon yesterday.

Just a thought OFSO. You have to do laundry before sunrise whereas we have to wait for the sun before we can do it.

[Wodrick]

Good Morning All,

11°c currently, 76% humidity with low cloud.
Grismirable

Billy the Sooth predicts 17°c. Again.

Fire working well last night, SM, sat in a thick pullover, complaining she was hot.
I thought that was the idea.

Pedologist first, then hunt the kindling.

[Pinky the pilot]

I note that no-one is inserting links to the quiz anymore. I tried to get into the quiz via giggle but still encountered the 'join up' page. Phooey!!

Off to 'the big smoke' (Adelaide; capital City of SA) tomorrow for the usual monthly meeting of an Antique and Historical Arms Association, of which I am a member.

Definitely looking forward to a good feed at one of the best Chinese Restaurants in Adelaide, before the meeting. Been going to that Restaurant now for over 20 years. Get treated like Family there these days!

[reddo]

Back from a pleasant tour. We took advantage of a rare day of standby and visited the Prado art museum in Madrid. Well worth it.

[tango15]

Back from a pleasant tour. We took advantage of a rare day of standby and visited the Prado art museum in Madrid. Well worth it.

Totally agree, reddo. Whenever I had spare time in Madrid I would pop into the Prado. More to my taste than the Louvre, and not just the exhibits, either.

[PHXPhlyer]

This is the link that I have been using with no problems:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizzes

PP

[k3k3]

This afternoon was spent repairing the motorhead of a Dyson vacuum cleaner - Successfully!

[PHXPhlyer]

12 AM
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PP

[OFSO]

Interesting afternoon dismantling my home made intrusion detection system (1998) and remote central heating switch (2004). Neither was used, the former the cause of four weeks misery trying to think what was tripping the ELB and €550 for a new breaker that wasn't at fault. The latter not needed when we have the lovely Ms R coming up to turn the heating on when she feeds Fat Cat....

[llondel]

Bought myself a new wireless mouse for the desktop machine. It's only when you change to a new one that the contrast with the old one shows how bad it was. Four years of plenty of daily use has rendered the scroll wheel unreliable, both the scrolling action and the button. The new one is a different brand/model but the top plastic looks like it came from the same injection mould, so it even feels the same when my hand is on it. If I took it apart, it would not surprise me to discover it's the same circuit board too.

[PHXPhlyer]

All of my mice meet untimely demises mainly due to scroll wheel issues as well.
D#2 gave me a new light-up mouse and matching light-up keyboard.
Both feature rechargeable batteries.
The light-up keyboard is nice because I usually have light via my monitors in the evening and the color of light can be changed.
The mouse, though, cycles through its color options however that can be switched off. No option for a single color.

PP