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If you need pin-money, virtually every Industrial Site outlet around here is looking for drivers as Prime, DPD etc have scooped up most casual drivers. As you know the ropes it should be pretty easy for you to join the opposition, e.g. Ocado, Waitrose etc.
If you do not need the cash then as John said, volunteering can help you fill your time in a very productive way. The only downside to volunteering is that it is very easy to join, but you soon become essential to their operation and leaving becomes hard.
Out of interest I just made a SWAG estimate of the chances of being pinged. The case rate for Hinksey was about 500 per 100000, so assuming 100 people in the beer garden, we had a 50:50 chance of a ping event.
@WOF Lucky you!
I think my ‘ping’ was in a riverside Beer Garden that probably had 60 to 120 people sitting on bench tables that were spaced well over 3 metres from each table edge (huge garden, smallish well behaved crowd). We did not share our table with anyone, but were there for 45 minutes or so.
Many of those at the garden were younger people who had just been rowing or swimming in the Thames. (it was a nice toasty evening). As the epidemic seems to be hitting the 20-30s it is quite likely that one of those had the virus. If he/she also had a BT5+ phone they could have been >10 metres away from us, but the app would think <2 metres.
The PCR test result (negative as anticipated) came back within 24 hours which is pretty good. The bad part is that we still have to continue isolating for a few more days despite the ‘ping’ probably being completely spurious. (Statement made based on both wife and I being exposed to the same ping events. Taken together with four negative tests and both of us double-jabbed this statistically indicates a false ping with a high degree of certainty ) At no time were either of us within less than four metres of anyone for 15 minutes. and even when we were 4+ metres away that was at an open air pub/restaurant.
It is starting to become a bore.
SWMBO reminded me that the real value of using the Lateral Flow Test as practice is that in addition to giving a result, it indicates if you have screwed up by either contaminating the sample or have not picked up enough cells from either the tonsils or nostril. You get NO indication of a successful technique with the PCR test.
The PCR test pack came next day so that was pretty prompt. Of course the order system had the usual Government racial overhead but was fairly simple. The PCR test itself is very similar in process to the Lateral Flow test, and as these are freely available I’d recommend getting a test pack and use it to hone your technique — it is not hard, but some may find poking things in the back of your throat or a long way up your nose to be difficult/nauseous. (Whether you report the LFT finding to HMG I leave up to you) The PCR test has been done by both SWMBO and I, and sent back via the Priority PostBox (a new one on me). You are allowed to break isolation to visit the nearest Priority PostBox. The only hard thing about the whole exercise was using the provided ‘leakproof’ bag as that seemed to have a life of its own.
The result of the test Positive/Negative or Void is sent back by EMail, so the clock is now ticking.
Just to follow-up. I ordered the lateral flow test pack and that was negative (we continue to have no symptoms). As we have been pinged the rules allow us to have PCR tests I’ve ordered the Home Pack of those as well (I’m damned if I’m doing a 40mile round trip to a test centre). If that is negative as well it indicates that we are yet another one of the 60% false positives that the app gives.
Lee, I reposted, so you can just kill the ;Private’ thread.
Congrats on becoming an octogenarian, I still have a couple of years before reaching that exalted status, though to be honest I’d much rather be twenty two and know what I know now!
I like your heavily wooded garden, and the very neat log piles. When I lived in Connecticut I had a similar big log pile, but the darned thing used to get infested with both Black Widow Spiders and Timber Rattlers, which meant I only ever ventured near it with heavy gloves and when it became really cold (-12C) . A log bin in the house was a complete no-no! I used to warn the kids never to play in the log pile, so when SWMBO picked up a log without gloves and felt a sharp pain (probably a splinter), the nine year old then promptly told her the potentially lethal effects of a bite from either of these beasts.
Great ‘Steam’ disk as usually you just load the game and the SSD cache handles most of the games disk access.
Just a wild idea for getting wifi comms around a 2k site – use a tethered balloon kitted out with a wifi repeater and a parabolic reflector to get signals back to the mother-lode. The US are very familiar with using tethered balloons in military use, but they call them aerostats.
Good luck with it Dave, sounds like you know a few people with enough chutzpah to be willing to cross swords with the MOD procurement mafia. As you may remember, Bruce (Micromart) retired from a high level technical job in the MOD, and he never had a good word to say about those in charge of procurement, and their near corrupt relationships with the Arms industry.
Sad, but inevitable. Bob kept a keen interest in life and was a fighter right up to the end.
He will be missed. I will certainly miss all his anecdotes concerning his life from childhood, through the Army and into his latter years with his beloved SWMBO and grandson.
As a number of physicists postulate a cyclical universe(Expansion, then contraction et seq), maybe we will meet up next time around, and he can enlighten us with some new life stories!
RIP Bob.
When the Insider Channel started I cloned a fully setup Windows 8 (I think) across into a VM and registered the VM on the Insider programme. Today I received the M$ request to try Windows 11, and did so. The upgrade took roughly two hours, but went very smoothly. Note of course that M$ detects a VM so no warnings about secure boot etc were given. About the only thing I noted was a barf from Kaspersky complaining about a couple of remote access files from M$. However I deleted those with no impacts.
On a VM, Win 11 is little different from Win10 however I have not tried any games as the VM interface is not a full DX12. The only complaint I had with the new taskbar was that I could not see a shutdown button. and had to resort to Winkey X to select a shutdown option.
El Reg has written an update on the matter, saying the f-bomb may need to be used.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/audacity/
If you are uncertain whether you have a TPM module or if it has been enabled then open the command line (type com in the search area, and run as Administrator), once there type tpm.msc.
If this opens a dialog then you have tpm installed and enabled. If not then check your bios (normally an advanced section item) and turn it on if you have it. You should get dire warnings of what will happen if in future you change the cpu, other than that I think it is generally a harmless switch that gives you more protection against some forms of ransom-ware. (If anyone knows better please yell!)
If you do not have tpm, then check if your mobo allows a tpm module to be added. (These items are already being back-ordered, so you may want to get ahead of an even bigger queue later on!
I’m using Storage Spaces on my new setup. One space is just a conventional pairing of two drives into one storage space for the C drive, and the other is a pool two-way mirror for the data drive. It will be ‘interesting’ to see how 11 handles this. Me thinks a good backup before install may be needed!
A quick overview of the interface is here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-11
Probably the biggest news of general interest is the DirectX update, as I’ll admit it, PC gaming remains the forte of Windows. Linux remains poor and Apple is still a limited platform despite the M1’s core speed. (Imo this is the fault of Apple’s walled garden and greedy developer tax),
Introductory video here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/event?ocid=prod_sv_cons_win_eng_WatchAnnounceAC
Skip first 4 minutes of BS!
Well as one translation for bokeh is ‘cloudy’ and the other side of the glass is in perfect focus, I think I would take that glass back to the publican and complain! Ignoring the nasty looking beer, it is a very nice picture.
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