- entry 2022/01/15

Am I a Plague Zombie?

I'm not in the clear yet, there's still a test to do on Monday, day five. But it's a good start.

Only one red line!

A cold night, but feeling warm in the morning

It's weird. I am sitting in my room writing this and I'm cold. Yet, I got up and fed Anna, did the test, and since I was happy about not being a zombie, I put on hat/scarf/gloves and went up to get the bin from the top of the lane (it was about half a degree below zero at that point).
Then I sawed up the stuff I cut down from the trees a week or two ago into manageable pieces, and finally scaped moss and weeds off of part of the driveway (the uncovered parking area), and swept all the detritus to a pile by the side.
I came in because I was really rather warm.
But typing? That's a lot less effort. The chocolate calories are being stored as fatty gunk rather than being burnt.

Where's my paper?

If you wonder why I'm thinking it's the post as much as the paper delivery, well, let's just say that I took out the newspaper in the first place because a previous postal worker (a decade ago) couldn't be bothered coming down, she'd stash the mail until there was enough to justify coming. Unfortunately this tended to make things go missing. Of five letters we sent ourselves from various different post offices (Vitré, Clisson, Vallet, and the two local ones), three never arrived. We made a complaint, but when you're complaining to the people who are the problem it's clearly not going to go anywhere. So I subscribed to the newspaper, and made a complaint for every non-delivery until it arrived daily.
It's been arriving on time pretty much since then, with the exception of days of industrial action, and a period when the post person was retired from the job and they had nobody to cover, and of course, a period in 2020 when everybody was freaking out over Covid and one sniffle meant an entire building would immediately self-isolate.
I'd like to believe that it's a delivery issue with the paper itself, like the van drivers are out protesting the sanitary pass. But...

I didn't bother going to Châteaubriant for the first weekend of the sales. A mixture of "too many people" and "too cold, don't get up early, stay in bed".

Domestic bliss ☺

Just when you thought that there was no part of the
washing machine that I've not yet photographed... ☺

Of course, best laid plans can still crash into roadblocks. As the video shows, things were hung up nicely, and then frozen. Oh, okay......

I have now dried the shirt and the jumper on the radiator, and the trousers to follow.

The cause of the IP cam's weirdness

Night vision mode.

Turns out, nothing so fancy. The cause was, actually, my weather recording software. There was a time, many years ago, when I set the camera up in the window, and every five minutes (as the weather station data is read), it would take a snapshot looking straight out of the window, and another one looking up towards the sky. This only happens if there is a reply to the IP address of the camera. And, as I said, it was so long ago I completely forgot about it.
It also explains the other unexplained behaviour, such as the image size unexpectedly reverting to QVGA, and the IR night-vision being turned off.

1230 :       REM Okay, now call the function to do the heavy lifting...
1240 :       PROCDoWeatherCollection
1250 : 
1260 :       REM Do image collection
1280 :       PROCFetchImages
1290 : 
1300 :       REM Now generate the HTML document
1310 :       PROCGenerateHTML

Hungry

I guess I'll warm up the oven and make dinner early. Fish (cod) and frozen veg.
Here's a picture of exactly that from the 11^th of December. Probably better for me than oatmeal...

Fish and vegetables.

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Rob, 15th January 2022, 21:34

I think you embedded the wrong video... No worries; I found it. Very glad to hear you're not plague-ridden though!

Rick, 15th January 2022, 22:59

Thanks for the heads up.  Yeah, I copy-pasted the embed code from an earlier blog entry and forgot to update the video ID.  Duh! 🤦🏻‍♀️    Now fixed.

David Pilling, 19th January 2022, 13:03

Seems to have been some disruption going on with Oats - not the only thing where they apparently used Xmas to change packaging, clean the factory,...

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