The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[Hydromet]

I'm pretty sceptical, but we once had an old school & teacher's house. At different times, D2 and MiL claimed to have woken up to see a young girl standing next to the bed. Both swore they weren't dreaming. I don't know about MiL, but D2 wasn't & isn't one to let her imagination run wild. In the school's history there is a record of a young girl student dying there from a snakebite many years ago.

[OFSO]

Before going to bed at 23:00. I finally locked the front door from the inside as the gale kept blowing it open. Blowing straight at the flue as heating didn't come on. Wind was down to a solid 40kph by seven am and speed falling. Unbeknownst to me but beknownst to her, windy in bedroom as she opened a window at 3 am, just an inch or so.

[OFSO]

This house has the occasional ghostly visit, mostly felt, sometimes seen, but last night it was just the wind.

I found a load of cactus spines in my wrist on waking this morning. Bathroom, tweezers.....

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks blazing sunshine. Having a huge broken branch taken down over the meru tent bathroom. It is tricky not to drop it. Driven me to drink. Our project manager is in charge and he has done a few dodgy ones before with success. So statistically......

[Ex-Ascot]

Tree down with no damage. Generator taken away for servicing. Took 4 chaps to lift it and the mechanic wanted me to just pop it in the back of the car and take it to him. We have to be very careful with the solar now with no back up.

[1DC]

Many years ago Mrs 1DC and I went to look at a house for sale, the owner showed us around. It was a very nice house but Mrs 1DC clung on to me and whispered 'don't leave me alone with this man'
He did have nasty eyes! We didn't buy the house but found out that the mans wife had committed suicide in the garage two months earlier under strange circumstances.A couple of years or so after that the man went to prison for killing his father,by shotgun, in a row over his girlfriend. Many years later a policeman told me the police we re always suspicious about the wife's alleged suicide.

[reddo]

Been away on tour. Seen snow and sand.

[OFSO]

Hasn't been a haunting for years in the house. However previously:
- Wife of previous owner, Marie-Clair Respondek, oddly hated the house but appeared here.
- Ghost cat jumped on people in bed, walked up and down, experienced by many guests.
- Poltergeist, took books off shelf, strewed things about.

[llondel]

If something goes bump in the night here, I tend to blame one of the cats for knocking something off a shelf or counter. Sometimes it's one of the dogs lying down, if they do it on certain parts of the floor, there's a noticeable bump.

[llondel]

Fairly productive weekend here. New hard disk arrived for the server on Saturday, so installed that. It was part of a RAID array, so I left it to get on with it. Also finally got around to taking the dishwasher out to see why the heater wasn't working. Deduced it was the element, not the thermostat, so order a new one. Left the dishwasher lying there on its back.

Sunday, decided that as it wasn't raining, I'd go tackle the fallen tree. Before the rain started, I managed to chop enough of it that it's clear of the retaining wall, now it's just a case of reduce the size of each bit, which doesn't have to be my doing. Also upgraded the main internet router to the latest OpenWRT firmware. That obviously worked because I'm still on-line.

Monday (a holiday here), the heating element arrived, so that was duly installed in the dishwasher, which now generates warmth at the appropriate time. Also made a start on this year's taxes.

[Hydromet]

Good morning all, started out clear, but now 100% cloud. Currently 20C, forecast max 26C. Looks like it might rain later.
Off to buy some timber, then lunch with some photography friends. No real work will be done today. The client whose job the timber is for has been very involved (in a good way) in the design, and I'll be facetimeing her as we select the timber. Haven't done it this way before, should be interesting.

[PHXPhlyer]

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[Karearea]

14/15 in this morning's quiz: did not know the Q about the dams.

Did not need to sign in, huzzah!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/quizzes/3501484 ... ry-21-2024

[Pinky the pilot]

Thanks PHXPhyler; Did not have to log in!

Fingers crossed that it remains so.

Most interesting story, Jimtherev! There are indeed '....more things under Heaven and the Earth than meet the eye.'

Any more to relate?

[EA01]

Got a call (& answered) to attend the Byron Bay clinic tomorrow....extra 2 hours pay, little do they know I am rather up for a early Body surf at Mainland Australias eastern most point before work.

Still stunning natural beauty, but full of w@nkers and degenerates is Byron...

[1DC]

7/15 first time it has let me in for a long time.Been raining all day on the Humber,wettest winter I can remember. Off to York tomorrow so that Mrs 1DC and number 1 daughter can have a shop at the designer outlet centre, that will be it I aint going anywhere else..Im just waiting to see if it is going to stop raining to see if I can check the car tyres in the dry, the car will tell me what the pressures are but I like to see if my expensive tyre pressure checker agrees!!

[ricardian]

Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die.

Voyager stored its internal data on a digital tape recorder. Yes, a tape recorder, storing information on magnetic tape. It wasn’t designed to function at a hundred degrees below zero. It wasn’t designed to work for decades, winding and rewinding, endlessly re-writing data. But it did.

[Woody]

My first reaction was that they’re being incredibly rude towards Ricardian

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg447y13nzo

[limeygal]

Ricardian-both articles were very interesting. Please keep us informed on ship developments.
Re. Voyager-before its launch, they found that it was overheating. Some of the technicians went to local supermarkets and bought up all their tin foil to insulate the capsule. Voyager's achievements are incredible, considering it has less technology than a smart phone and it is packed with supermarket tin foil. Occam's razor at its finest.

[PHXPhlyer]

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