And we're back to hot weather again. No rain at all today and a nice day to walk

After several days of extremely hot weather, today was pretty much constantly raining.

Did go for a walk, but got caught in some (light) showers. Nothing major, fortunately.

My walk today was bit interrupted as my dad lost his driving license and Freedom Pass (memory + age are bit of a pain) but oh, well.

Another hot day on the trot, and yet another day without a cloud in the sky, although somehow it did seem to spatter with rain for short periods, I've been told (but I never noticed that happening)

Another hot day, with almost no clouds in the sky. Another day of angry drivers on the road too.

Found out why I couldn't backup my new machine -- Windows 10 had BitLocker setup which meant CloneZilla couldn't clone it. Ubuntu installation on computers running Windows and BitLocker turned on - Documentation - Ubuntu Community Hub told me how to remove it. But still had a few issues with the backing up, namely Clonezilla still reporting some filesystems being read-only.

Turns out Fast Startup was also enabled by default https://help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/213195423-How-To-Disable-Fast-Startup-in-Windows-10 for disabling it.

Trying to back up the machine before installing Ubuntu

Backup was fine, completed successfully, and was able to install Ubuntu

Benchmarked both Windows and Linux on 4K, and Linux performed a bit less, presumably due to the APIs being different

And it's been another hot day, and people have been really tetchy today, lots of horn tooting and then, inevitably, this happened

The heat really does bring out the worst in people.

I've been slacking logging my walks lately, so apologies for that.

This was should have been logged yesterday. It was very hot, so much that I didn't even need to worry about wearing a jacket or anything while walking, and perhaps I should have worn sunglasses, it was that bright.

In other news, my laptop seems like it's on its way out so I have got a replacement and an upgrade, and spent Saturday trying to set it up but clonezilla seems to be having trouble registering the partition labels. I had already purchased a 2TB NVME so instead of cloning then restoring, I cross-device cloned directly, making the 2TB disk exactly the same as the 1TB, but with the space at the end of the disk which I will use for Ubuntu.

Then took the rest of the day downloading my games from Steam. Warframe and Stellaris are the main ones I've been downloading

Streaming also seems fine, with only a slight fps drop.

Another wet day, but also very windy today, multiple bins had been blown over and I had to hold my hood from not being blown off my head in the wind -- haven't had to do that for a long while.

Rain started during the walk, nothing too heavy, mostly drizzle and made it back before it really turned heavy.

Delayed logging from yesterday. Another walk in between rainshowers. Made it back home before it totally pelted down with hailstones too.

Warmer day, but still rained, didn't get caught in any rain today during my walk, so that was good.

Forgot to log this yesterday, but it was another on-off rainy day. Went for my walk in a period where the rain was easing and it was fine, but it started to rain on the way back home, so got a little wet.

Also got called by the hire car company from my accident last year (just over a year ago now) -- the insurance company on the other side are still resisting paying the hire car charges and now its going to legal action. So potentially I might end up in court.

But since the accident is a no-fault accident from my side (my car was stationary and parked, and the other driver was arrested for drink driving), I should not be getting any costs coming my way.

A very mixed bag of weather today. Windy, then sunny, then rain, then repeat.

Did my walk and decided to wrap up warm in case the wind came round again.

Just my luck, it didn't and the stayed sunny meaning I was sweltering by the time I got back from the walk.

Had my MOT done today. Took surprisingly low amount of time -- I dropped the car off at 10:30 for the 11:00 appointment and they called me back at 2pm saying it was done.

They had a check-in process where you sign in, and deposit the car keys (with a tag saying which bay you had parked the car) into a small locker and that signals the mechanic you have left your keys. It's contactless so you are never near another human.

My daily walk as a result, was much later than normal.

Had to shop for more milk, so went up to Tesco but they didn't have the organic milk needed. Went to Sainsbury's instead and they did.

Booked my MOT, but they said they did not have any "While you wait" slots for that date so it would be booked as a drop-off.

So instead, I booked for this weekend.

The showroom is only a single bus ride (plus a 15-minute walk) so it's not too bad.

Forgot to log this yesterday.

Was another wet and windy day, didn't really do much of a walk, and just managed to walk to the local Co-op to get some milk in the pouring rain.

Toyota later called me advising my MOT on the Yaris was due next month and I should book in the MOT.

Did that today and surprised that they offer a "While you wait" MOT that you can drop the car off and wait for them to do the MOT and then pick it up afterwards.

Next available slot for that is in two weeks. Still in good time for the 9th June deadline where the MOT expires.

Today's been raining, windy, sunny, rainy again and repeat all day.

Managed to get a walk in between the rain and wind phases

Finished reinstalling my apps and had a few issues with location. Waze and Google Maps had trouble locking onto GPS and found out that even though the option to allow location "only while app is running" was available, I needed to set the permission to "at any time" otherwise they would lock on.

Citymapper had no issue

Just Eat still has issues and does not have a "at any" level for location permission, so I just use the postcode for that.

Most of the apps are now working. A few will not install from Play Store, presumably they're not built to support Android 11 yet:

• WeChat
• Fenix 2

For Fenix, I went back to Plume (I had previously paid for the Premium version and that works fine). I installed GBoard so I can put gifs into my tweets again (one feature I really liked from Fenix)

WeChat, I ended up sideloading from apkmirror and it worked fine.

Decided to finally action the upgrade notification on my phone and Lineage OS wanted to update from Android 10 to Android 11.

The upgrade went off without too many issues, but I then found out Open Gapps had no package fro Android 11, meaning I had to resort to MindTheGapps -- a minimal package that only allows Google Apps to work, but doesn't actually install any. Consequently the Google Apps I had installed via OpenGapps decided to stop working as a result. I had to uninstall and reinstall everything from Google -- Search, Notes, YouTube, Maps, Home, etc.

But fortunately everything else seemed to work. Camera MX decided to stop working, so I've gone back to CameraZoom

I also went round the torched fence and managed to get a pic of the new fence

Didn't log this yesterday, but did my usual walk, pretty warm day and most of the pubs are now open, though my local one isn't still. And I'm beginning to wonder whether it ever will.

Meanwhile, I finally got round to going to Costco and sorting out my physical membership card.

Did my walk and today was mostly me lying in bed trying to move without my body feeling like absolute s**t. Aches were difficult to deal with in the morning, headache slowly subsiding and the fresh air help clear my head a bit more.

Did my walk earlier today -- I've developed a headache (one of the common symptoms of the jab) and it's been making it difficult to concentrate.

The walk helped, but my jabbed arm is aching again.

Still have a bit of nausea, but no diarrhoea or vomiting.

Plus it looks like it's about to rain..

I have now finally had my first covid jab. It took a while queuing outside the centre before I could get in and go through all the checks and stuff.

I got the AZ vaccine

I finally got my jab in my right arm (I'm left handed) and it immediately started to sting. I did not need to wait 15 minutes as that was only required if you were driving. I took the bus in.

Moderately cold today, but comfortable to walk in. Did some shopping for more dairy milk on the way home.

Also, I finally got the notification for my covid jab, and I managed to book in for tomorrow and the second jab in July.

In other news, my Curve card had some fraudulent transactions against it which I have been talking to them about today. The transaction is now reversed, and also on Monzo (on which the transaction went to), so we are now even, but to be safe, I blocked and have requested new cards for both.

Colder today than yesterday, so had my hands in my pockets most of the way, but when I walked in the sun, it felt good.

Walked past the house whose fence caught fire recently and they've now put up a new fence. The charred remains of the tress that got burnt have been trimmed down to the trunk roots.

Today was cooler than yesterday, still okay to walk with running jacket. Did some shopping for dairy milk while doing my walk and headed back afterwards.

Another nice warm day, but roadworks are bloody EVERYWHERE. The past week it has been roadworks up the road from me, and then this weekend are more road works, jamming up my local shops.