UKCasual @lemmy.world sideone @lemmy.world 1y ago

Monday morning musings

Monday is here again, which means back to work for most of us.

Has it rained yet where you are? What's happening this week?

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Desperately hoping my 16 month old has a nap so I can start my next book.
It rained up here in gloomy Yorkshire. And by rained I mean absolutely tipped it down. This week I need to get a better fan for my bedroom and some new tights. I've sat here for a couple of minutes trying to make a joke about them being related but I just can't think of one. :P
I bought some garden furniture. It rained within the hour.

I have a day off on Friday to go dormouse monitoring - assuming that it is dry then. Dormice don't like the rain and disturbing them when they will get wet is not something we want to be doing.
- dormouse monitoring
  
  That sounds interesting, are you doing population surveys?
  
  Yes - part of the national monitoring programme. I have been monitoring this particular site for almost 20 years now. The population is fairly steady here overall.
- Any chance of dormouse pics, or do you not want to intrude?
Half way through my run of 7 nightshifts, I was hoping the nice weather would last until my days off but alas in the North of Scotland we're returning to our damp grey usual.
Up at 4.15 trying to get tiny child to sleep. Then at 4.55 slightly larger child wakes up and refuses to go back to sleep. Downstairs at 5.00 watching Sarah and Duck (quack).
- Although Sarah and Duck is good at any time of day, it's especially good in the quiet hours.
Rained for most of last night, i'm running on about 5 hours' sleep and i'm in the office today. luckily there's very little for me to do so i'm lurking lemmy, mastodon and discord lol
Made the mistake of going for a run yesterday. Now full of painkillers, doomscrolling in bed.

Maybe stick to the lower impact exercise for a while…
- I see someone else was brought under the bad influence of that "what hobby should everyone try" thread yesterday.
  
  Considered trying a run myself, but then I remembered my feet are buggered and I'd die.
  
  what hobby should everyone try
  
  I missed this, where was it?
Day off today because US company I work for has given everyone today's US day off!

After a traditional trip to the tip I've got on the tram to wander about random places. First the Viaduct Garden at Castlefield. Now I've ended up at Media City for no good reason other than that's where the tram line goes.
Busy, busy week ahead. The eldest is going to high school this year, so we have a parents assembly tonight and he has three full taster days, so the routine of the week has been thrown into chaos.
- @sideone @rubikfrog
  
  ‘High school’? Since when did we become Americanised? Surely you mean seniors? 😄
  
  TIL it's High School in Scotland and not in [edit: some parts of] England!
  
  West midlands people call it High School, and did twenty years ago
  
  My friends.
  
  Maybe this is our chance to get rid of the tiresome Reddit trope of trying to catch people out in so-called "Americanisms" (that usually just ended up being different British dialects anyway).
  
  Maybe this is our chance to be better.
How. HOW. Is it already sodding Monday?!

It poured down here last night and I had high hopes but somehow it's sunny and hot again this morning? Feels like a bait and switch, not impressed.

Last week work was a nightmare of technical difficulties so today is gonna be equally a nightmare of recovering from them. I've put extra honey in my tea to help cope. Can't really go out and do social things because other half is off on a lads holiday at the weekend and the last thing we want is germs getting into the house, so I guess it's just us and tv and video games and maybe if we're feeling spicy...a crossword or two.

Goal for the week is to spend less time on Lemmy because currently it's becoming way more addictive than Reddit ever was and that's saying something 😅

(I sound properly grumpy this morning don't I? Clearly not a morning person, or a Monday person, or a person who likes ever being outside of comfy bed ever)
- Haha. Tickled me at least.
  
  Last night I stood out on the back steps for 5 minutes or so just absorbing the moisture in the rain directly to my soul.
  
  Somehow it was still dry as a nuns wotsit this morning when I walked into the office.
  
  The trick to avoiding nonreddit is reminding myself how angry everyone is at reddit. 😂
Morning everyone. It has indeed rained! Had a good heavy shower yesterday evening. Today is a day of housework and food shopping now that it’s a bit cooler. Starting the week in a relatively positive mood - hopefully that continues!
- Looking at the rest of this thread you seem to be the only one :D
Is anyone finding that posting comments are a lot faster today?
- Ruud (instance owner) said he solved this issue earlier, so it isn't just you! Turns out he left a debug setting on for 19 days.
  
  Haha, oh well we've all been there

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