When I rented a flat nearly 10 years ago, we had to get a wireless broadband solution as the local area hadn’t got any decent broadband installed yet (despite being a brand new village between two towns), however to install it they needed to drill through the entire wall. To do that I needed the landlords permission, but it turns out it was owned by someone (or an entity) in China and the estate agent couldn’t get ahold of them, so I said fuck it and just said yes they can go ahead and do it.

Cheers for asking! Been a pretty chaotic week for various reasons, including but not limited to having to call an ambulance and fire brigade for my dad to get him to hospital on Friday.

Ahh I’m sorry to hear that dude. Sounds like he’s getting the best send off ever.

Are there any printers that aren’t balls? Anyway, I hope it all went smoothly!

What’s thanksgiving music?

Nice! How was it? First week at a new job is always so tiring!

Yeah, but not because I bear allegiance to the monarchy.

British citizens as His Majesty’s subjects bear true allegiance to His Majesty King

The vast majority of us don’t do this, no.

Damnit Melon, you could have posted this the other week!

Agree with everything about Sky. I refuse to become a customer and support their model. I do enjoy their F1 coverage but it’s a shame it’s so expensive, and it has ads! Don’t charge a fucking subscription AND show ads - ridiculous.

From what little news I’ve read since… I’ve not actually missed anything interesting.

Ehh I think there’s been more interesting seasons rather than bad ones. 2021 was absolutely insane and this year has been fantastic too in my opinion.

It’s dark… it’s grey… and it’s fucking miserable.

Totally feel this. It’s depressing isn’t it? You feel like it’s about 10pm but it’s only just turned 6pm!

What did you end up watching?

Did you know that UART serial doesn’t need a clock wire to synchronize communication in the way that I2C does?

I didn’t know this, but I’ll now sleep soundly tonight knowing this! :D

What will the presence detectors be for? Switching on and off lights?

It’s been ok ta. Only managed one run. Took my son to play badminton on Saturday though which was fun! Enjoyed the F1 this weekend, have to you managed to catch up?

I’m definitely looking forward to more sunlight and warmth!

Can confirm

Haha thanks! It’s a £90 IKEA table that we’ve had for over 10 years now. The cats doing her fair share of damage to it, second only to copious amounts of porridge that never finds its way into the children’s* mouths!

**^Maybe mine too^

Exactly what I said to them!

We’ve been using Ocado these past few weeks and ordered 7 bananas.

Turns out I forgot you can’t order individual items and this turned up:

Enjoy! You’ve got a bit unlucky with the weather though!

I had a long span of about 12 weeks earlier in the year of not working 5 days a week due to bank holidays and taking time off. Was a shock to the system to do 5 days again!

I really hate these early dark evenings, can we skip forward to spring already?

It was fine cheers, honestly pretty uneventful.

I started playing Satisfactory and have been pretty hooked (I was up till 2am Sunday morning, after the clocks had gone back) playing, I haven’t played a game like that for a loooooong time (like 15+ years). My son loves it too so it’s been great talking with him about various strategies!

I haven’t heard of the V&A museum! What’s in it? Glad the kids had fun, that’s pretty much always the metric for success as a parent!

Running is OK. I’m still carrying some kind of calf soreness that flares up after a couple of runs a week. It’s a bit demotivating and I really should see someone about it, but… I’m lazy.