The Hall is rented and the band is playing.

The rules:
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1. The winner of the last thread starts the new one with a post of these rules.
2. Chooses a future event which triggers the winner, e.g. post number, date-time, and records it privately somehow (yellow sticky, etc.)
3. Everyone has fun posting until the target event is reached.
4. When the target is reached, the old winner posts a declaration of the new winner and also PMs them.
5. Shortly after this a Mod will lock the recently won thread. (My preference is for the winner to ask the mods to lock the old thread after the new one is started.)
6. No double posts. Violators buy drinks or a meal for the house in Rocky's.
7. Additional rule retained from the last round - No posts that APPEAR to be blank - these will be ignored or deleted. (Sig lines do not count as part of a post)
8. No posts from the ISS or from the TSS. ;) Just making sure yer woke up.

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It must be time for a 2nd Sunday coffee by now.

After a slightly frosty 1C (felt like -1C), there was not enough humidity for a proper frost, we're now at 7C (feels like 5C) on our way to an expected 17C for today.

Anyhow I better go and turn the kettle on.

Cheers.

Oooer!

What happened??!!

Here and there was I, lost and bouncing between worlds...

And....


Congratulations Admiral!

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Well that's a myriad of chores done outside this morning as we get to 16C (feels like 11C) so I reckon that it's time to wander up the hill 3 doors for a well deserved LLB and possibly a feed while I'm there on this mostly sunny Sunday.

Cheers.

Congrats Admiral. All I can say is I missed it by that much.

Congrats Admiral. All I can say is I missed it by that much.

Same here. LOL

Well a few beers were had, while running into a few old school boys from my days back on the buses (they're still as cheeky now 40yrs later), and a pizza was grabbed, along with with half of it was had a special spinal pill that I should've had last night (I may have got a whole 8hrs of sleep in instead of 7 otherwise), so now I'm ready for another spinal reset in the hope that I'll get of this kink and twinge that I still have.

Cheers.

Congratz Admiral.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

The sun has gone to bed here while the temp has dropped down to 9C (feels like 5C) and a frosty 0C is expected in the morning.

Cheers.

14C here. Still a few hours before the golden globe appears.

Congratz, Admiral!

Looks like most of the catastrophic rainfall in the Czech Republic and Southern Poland is now over. We are getting heavy floods on the Oder (border DE/PL) and Elbe rivers. But because it didn't rain extremely in Saxony, we won't see any flooded villages and towns here.

It's totally different in Lower Austria. Half of the annual rainfall has fallen there in the last 72 hours. All historical records have been broken and exceeded by at least 50%. Im most parts of the state (300mm in 72 hours; 12 inches). The whole State of Lower Austria has been declared a disaster area by authorities. Things are looking really bad there.

It's down to 4C (feels like 0C) now, but unless this wind drops and the humidity rises a lot I doubt that we'll get a frost here in the morning, so I'm no going to snuggle down to see if I can get another 7hrs of sleep again.

Cheers.

Why have the expense of the bridges across the widest part of all the railway sidings? Why not across just the one or two tracks at one end??

... It's not as though the USA is stuck for space??!!

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Historical/hysterical/geographic reasons - the reader may choose their own reason.

There does appear to be a big lump just to the west, and a lot of buildings to the east.....

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Continuing in the Food Desert...

And I'm run ragged ridiculously running around fixing things only for other consequences of non-optimal working to catch up for another painful episode to fix and clear...

The exploding filter has exploded another couple of times, even when run at way way below maximum spec... Even with me operating it directly. Normal operation is to operate that unit continuously. It very much doesn't like the presently enforced very irregular usage! I'm guessing pressure bubbles, or material drying and clogging the filter mesh, is part of a whole new phenomenon as a consequence of all the other consequences...

And everyone is exhausted. Especially me.

There's too many interruptions/emergencies to be able to get anything done. I'm even stymied from arranging for some new equipment to preempt looming problems turning into post-looming expensive fixes...


All this has proved to be beyond the fortitude of my relief bod... And I'm not happy too keep with this either!

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Posting on a chilly Monday morning on top of this range where it's 1C (feels like -3C) with 17C being expected, but too much air movement and too little humidity has resulted in no frost on the ground.

Anyhow after another good sleep it's time for a coffee.

Cheers.

What can go wrong with automation?...

We have some whirry machine with lots of rotating and oscillating parts that is reasonably 'modern'. It has push buttons but with magically a flat panel display. Thankfully, the display panel is NOT a touch-control display. There are multiple automatic modes of operation. Most users operate the thing full manual only.

Here's me, using the automatic modes to gain some extra efficiency and to reduce my workload keeping the thing on track. Activation of whichever of the auto modes is displayed top centre of the display panel. So that should be good then?

... Except...

The display panel is very 'busy' with other dials and numbers and indicators which need constant monitoring. The automode engaged is a hopelessly small indication amongst all that lot. And you must change the mode settings upon occasion dependent upon surrounding happenings...

... Which all works well until...

You get bored and lose track of what mode is operating...

Or worse still, you get distracted by 'something else', and completely lose the plot and things unexpected start running seemingly out of control...!


There's a lot of science in a successful and safe User Interface that hasn't been applied to this example!

Cue various production line comedy sketches...

All good fun?

Time to finish my latest reheated (caffeine) brew.

(I'm missing last beer orders, AGAIN).

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There's a lot of science in a successful and safe User Interface that hasn't been applied to this example!

Didn't read Bruce Tognazzini's books.

Well I just went to see what is was like outside, I wasn't too keen on the temp downstairs, then I opened the door to be hit by that icy breeze, so I quickly closed the door and came back upstairs. It's 6C (feels like 1C) out there and the wind is yet to arrive here, but it has in town where it's 5C (feels like -4C), so I may stay inside for a couple more hours. It is sunny though.

Anyhow I need a coffee after that.

Cheers.

It feels like summer is finally over. We have a low of 46 tonight and a high of 57 with rain tomorrow night.

If you want to watch some of the Barstow bridge removal here is the Virtual Railfan camera view.

Starts at 8:47

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPE84ljryPg

Also another segment featuring the huge crane involved. Starts at 21:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuoU2E1kLrU