I have an issue with a leaking skylight in the bedroom i use as a home office. My youngest brother examined it today and recommended removal of the external part of it, saying it only need a few concrete tiles to replace it. He’ll also replace the damaged ceiling plaster (aka drywall).

Sometime between August 1st & august 4th, I inadvertently deleted a desktop folder containing 2.93 GB of stuff. The Time Machine backup for Aug 4th didn’t show it but the one for Aug 1st did, so I restored it from that date.

UK: We call it Autumn, from the French word "autompne" and later, the Latin "autumnus.”

USA: We call it Fall because leaf fall down.

Just had word that one of the floor-layers due to come here in three weeks can’t make it, so the job has been rescheduled for two weeks hence.

A recent study found people who take their coffee black are more to exhibit psychopathic traits.

People who order a quad shot, non-fat, vanilla soy, extra foam, light whip with caramel drizzle are more likely to be their victims.

Assemble instructions for an IKEA office cabinet with four easy-close drawers showed a picture of a person kneeling in front of the various bits with a cloth on the floor to protect the assemblage.
No way does my back or crook knee let me do that so my assembly surface was a towel-draped coffee table. I was able to finish the job from a seated position.

I also kept using QT 7 Pro after QT X first came out. No choice now though!

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Just a shade under 1.5 square metres.

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A new computer desk from IKEA arrived today. My sister organised it and it had to be delivered because at 2.5 metres long, it wouldn't fit in her car. The trick is to get it into the destination bedroom. There's a right-angle bend in the corridor that leads from the front door to the three bedrooms. It may be possible to go through the lounge, kitchen/dining room, laundry, toilet and bathroom to arrive at the other end of the corridor but that will be a tight fit.

In all, it's going to be easier to go in through the window of the destination room. At present it's in the loungeroom and will stay there until the carpets are taken up in the corridor and bedrooms – new imitation floorboards are replacing the carpet and an assembled desk would get in the way, especially since it will be partially wall-mounted. The earliest time the vinyl floor-layers can attend is September 19th, five weeks away.

The new desk is actually a laminated kitchen workbench that's 246cm long and is to be attached to the wall with two telescoping legs to allow for different height choices.
Also included is a five-drawer storage unit to go under one end.