[00:05] <davef> 'twas good
[00:23] <davef> Twas the night before Christmas eve, when all though the IRC channel, not a user was stirring, not even an @op. 
[00:23] <penguin42> shhh you'll wake em
[13:12]  * DJones wakes
[13:13] <DJones> davef: As above
[13:14] <daftykins> DJones: \o 
[13:15] <DJones> Hi daftykins Hows things, not been coming online due to health issues, but glad to see people still around
[13:16] <daftykins> ah sorry to hear that, hope it's something you can overcome! yeah not too bad here thanks, very glad to hang up the 'support' hat and have some peace though this year :)
[13:16] <daftykins> at least i will just as soon as they'll stop calling... D:
[13:21] <DJones> Heh, I finished on Tuesday afternoon, spent about 4 days prior to that sat in the office, with no customers coming in..... I'm in a an office/customer facing non-it position (accounts & finance). We run a swimming pool, bar, function room, coffee shop/cafe.  Bookings cancelled all over the place due to covid (Not sorry about that, family are on vunverable list, so less people is good for me)
[13:21] <daftykins> sounds good!
[13:22] <DJones> Go back 4th Jan (subject to  Bob-a-Job rules when covid goes through the roof and we alaign wiith Wales,Scotland & NI
[13:22] <DJones> 3rd Jan is wifes 40th Birthday, celebrations/commiserations at home I think
[13:24] <DJones> Wierd thinking its her 40th, I left school when whe was 6mths old 
[13:26] <DJones> And before anybody askes, I'm almost 16 years older than her, been married for almost 18 years.
[13:26] <daftykins> :)
[13:27] <davef> Oops, I woke a chanop :)
[13:27] <zxmpi> here, borrow my copper hat
[13:29] <DJones> davef: Wouldn't worry, first time in 2 years I've felt awake, so not likely to happen very often
[13:46] <penguin42> hey there DJones
[13:48]  * davef is making Christmas Eve breakfast
[13:48] <davef> Waffles & Bacon with Maple Syrup .. mmmmmmmmmMMmmm
[13:49] <penguin42> if that's Christmas Eve, what do you get on the day?
[13:49]  * zxmpi nibbles on buffalo flavoured crisps and eyes stack of jaffa cakes calling out to me
[13:49] <davef> Probably more bacon and waffles
[13:51] <davef> Or I go to the grocery store later and get some pastries for tomorrow morning for the kids and I to consume.
[13:55] <penguin42> will they last that long?
[13:56] <davef> Probably not. Will buy twice as much.
[13:56] <penguin42> will they last that long?
[13:57] <davef> OK, fine.
[13:57] <davef> I'll go to Costco
[13:57] <penguin42> ah, a palette of pastries
[13:57] <penguin42> or one of their muffins
[13:58] <zxmpi> in 2 days there will bargins to be had on mince pies 
[14:10] <davef> I hate to tell you guys this, the Bacon & Waffles was flipping delicious. 
[14:51] <davef> Oh, sweet! We've been told to finish work at noon today. 
[14:51] <zxmpi> half day \o/
[14:51] <davef> However, I'm on-call from tonight until Sunday evening. Hoping for a quiet weekend.
[14:52]  * davef prays to the IT gods
[14:53]  * zxmpi throws an inkjet cartridge on the dot matrix alter and recites the charm 'pc load letter'
[16:47] <knightwise> hey everyone
[16:47] <knightwise>  Hey everyone, hope that everybody is doing okay his fine Christmas eve ? 
[16:48] <zxmpi> the mountain of food is awaiting a 2 day pigout. :-)
[16:52] <zxmpi> time to dig out die hard i+ii for crimbo movies
[16:52] <zxmpi> or maybe wallace and grommit the wrong trousers. it's a toss up :-)
[16:54] <davef> I just so happen to wearing a Wallace & Gromit Christmas jumper
[16:54] <daftykins> :D
[16:54] <daftykins> impressive
[16:54] <knightwise> hahah 
[16:55] <knightwise> w&g rocks
[16:55] <knightwise> I once blurted out during family diner that "we had the wrong cheese"
[16:55] <knightwise> my wife almost lost it while nobody knew what we were talking about
[16:55] <daftykins> hehe
[16:56] <zxmpi> you had christmas without wensledayle cheese?! is that possible?
[16:56] <knightwise> Been doing some readin. Just finished "The Vertical Plane": The book based on the Dodlestone papers
[16:56] <knightwise> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDgG5MKndo&ab_channel=NostalgiaNerd
[16:56] <davef> https://www.instagram.com/p/CX34JU1Ljka/
[16:58] <knightwise> that is GRAND ! 
[17:02] <knightwise> We are going out for diner.
[17:02] <knightwise> We havent been out in ages, wife is desperately looking through her wardrobe for stuff to wear
[17:02] <knightwise> Stupid Covid
[17:05] <davef> Indeed. I got it a couple weeks ago, but fully recovered now.
[17:09] <daftykins> you just can't keep a good jaffa cake lover down
[17:09] <daftykins> (incidentally, picked up another discount triple pack today \o/ )
[17:10] <knightwise> I had a wee bit of the sniffels when I had my second shot. man .. if you get this stuff "uncut" its gotta be a real PITA
[17:11] <penguin42> daftykins: Do you think they've tried Jaffa Cakes as a preventative?
[17:12] <penguin42> perhaps whenany one gets a positive PCR they should ship them a triple box
[17:13] <zxmpi> proven to be much more effective than horse paste
[17:16] <davef> Oh, the CVE online is frightful,
[17:16] <davef> But the patch is so delightful,
[17:16] <davef> And since we've no DSL,
[17:16] <davef> Let it fail, let it fail, let it fail.
[17:18] <zxmpi> someone's hit the tape head cleaner a little early :-P
[17:19] <daftykins> davef: xD
[17:19] <daftykins> i could be doing any manner of entertaining things and yet i'm playing with VMs
[17:19] <davef> I'm done with work for today.
[17:21] <daftykins> oh i don't need to be doing this, it's just fun 8D
[17:22] <penguin42> what VMs?
[17:23] <daftykins> i'm experimenting with shrinking some thin-provisioned VMs on the XCP-ng host i manage for a friend
[17:23] <daftykins> the worst culprit has 9GB used but on the host, it is using 300GB - so i'd like to shrink it all back down so my remote backups speed up nicely
[17:25] <daftykins> little test run with a basic VM, original size = 27 GB, after cloning to a fresh VHD - 7 GB
[17:25] <penguin42> yeh that's quite a difference
[17:26] <daftykins> the worst one has encryption so that'll make the task roughly a million times harder :(
[17:34] <zxmpi> have you tried the password '1234'? :-P
[17:37]  * daftykins checks over his shoulder for a man occasionally glancing at a nokia
[18:12] <daftykins> sweet, and 32 GB -> 11 GB