Carbon Intensity Forecast. I now have a tidy-ish way of representing how such intensities change over time.
Annoyingly, my headset used rather intensively for lockdown, broke. But I got to test the replacement with my favourite phonetic pangram.
[recorded on the new EPOS | Sennheisser SC 165 USB, 48ksps mono]
Testing: 1, 2, 3. Are those shy Eurasian footwear, cowboy chaps, or jolly earthmoving headgear?
[02:32]
On the corona front: Omicron appeared and boosters were available and taken quickly, with our old local health centre (re)opened to administer them. And our children will likely be getting their next shots in January.
Along with most of the planet I am hoping for a more normal 2022, though it has been pointed out that that sounds just like "2020, II"! [or "too"]
There's more on my "Earth Notes" Web site at Earth.Org.UK
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Show Notes
Full diary notes:
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2021-12-28: still growing the hair and beard! - 2021-12-27: very assiduously, EPOS called me twice on my mobile today in response to my filed report, once in the morning with a couple of useful suggestions and once in the afternoon to find if they'd fixed everything. I gently suggested to Bharat from their Global Support that I would not know if the problem was fixed until I'd had at least one working day (the 29th) because this was still the Christmas break!
- 2021-12-26: I have been charging my Fairphone from the off-grid system only, but the weather has been so gloomy, and the battery for that so low, that I have gone for a charge from the mains given a tiny bit of generation, even some excess, today.
- 2021-12-25: I have stayed at home this Christmas, while the rest of my family has ventured to north London, again. Adding to the bodies travelling through central London in the throes of an outbreak seemed like a bad idea.
- 2021-12-23: a letter inviting our younger child to book a second vaccine shot arrived today.
- 2021-12-22: the original Amazon supplier of the Jabra sent a free-of-charge direct replacement, a EPOS | Sennheiser SC 165 USB, though I experienced some apparent software issues with them, which I reported to EPOS in due course. I had an excuse to test the SC 165 with my favourite shy Eurasian footwear pangram!
- 2021-12-20: [archive] Andrew Boff GLA member, assembly chair, and member of the Planning and Regeneration Committee visited Alison F and me this afternoon to talk about the CRE redevelopment. We discussed our concerns that, for example, the GLA's own rules were not being followed and may result in bad outcomes for biodiversity, climate change, fuel poverty, and so on. The planning meeting to sign off detailed stage one (and the rest in outline) of the redevelopment is tomorrow.
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2021-12-19: chirpty.com
snapshot. - 2021-12-09: my Jabra headset broke (physically snapped without obvious reason) and I'll have to get an alternative at least to make my regular Teams/Signal/Skype calls better, since my cheapo mobile headset has less good audio and is physically annoying eg the silicone earbud covers keep coming off in my ear.
- 2021-12-05: I was corona-boosted with Pfizer, and then Jean was a few days later.
- 2021-11-27: Omicron variant was detected in the UK ... the pandemic is definitely not done yet.