It started raining yesterday and has carried on today. Yes, water is falling from the sky. It’s not raining heavily, but it has noticeably reduced the number of pedestrians visible. It’s a lot cooler today, too. Not exactly cold, at 21°C, but there’s definitely been a change. Whenever it’s been overcast previously in my stay here it has been very humid but not cooler, especially overnight when the cloud cover keeps the temperature high. Now it’s actually rather refreshing. We’re in for a bit more rain over the next few days too. Nice.
It seems more than a little overdue:
Today hasn’t been a great day so far. I was thinking of doing this morning’s scheduled Zoom call from home using the Wifi connection there. Unfortunately, there was quite a bit of construction noise from elsewhere in the building so I decided to come into the Department and do it here instead. When I got here Eduroam decided not to work for me, so I had no internet connection and consequently had to postpone the Zoom call altogether. I may have to miss a telecon this afternoon for the same reason.
Now there are intolerable levels of construction noise outside my office window too. Sigh.
On top of all that, my phone is refusing to send SMS messages. “Error 0” it says. I’m not sure how to fix that, so I’ll probably just wait for it to fix itself. My mobile data connection is working fine, so I have no idea what the problem is. I shall adopt my usual strategy in such situations of waiting for the issue to correct itself.
Annoying, though. It never rains but it pours…
In the Dark 