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[xoggoth]

How are you chaps keeping?

Pretty spry for me age, lot more ancient than you.

Walk with old fart group this morning. Except me, all ladies as usual. In cafe afterwards a lady I know decided to start talking about my, ahem, rear preferences. Not summit I'd have brought up meself with people I hardly know.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup with some white bloomer toast

It's been a hectic morning. There was a long meeting to review various aspects of our product to decide whether it can go into production, all of which discussion was somewhat derailed when it was realised that nobody has ever planned which team will take it on for ongoing maintenance once it does - we aren't a long-term team, just a loose assortment of misfits brought together to get it shipped and move on

And i hastily added the new PM to a system he needed to look at to get some work done, forgetting that I was supposed to go through a convoluted process to do so because it's stuffed full of extremely sensitive information. The people responsible seem to have calmed down a bit now I've confirmed he's got clearance

Finally, I managed to deploy a bug yesterday which caused our staging service to go haywire and post the same data to an external system nearly three hundred times in the space of two hours. Maybe that meeting about being ready for production was a bit premature

Oh well, back to the fray!

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all, New York calling, local time 1643

Dull but dry on arrival. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) and that's the high for the day. Rain due soon.

Currently in the Chelsea lounge at JFK and will be leaving for LAX in just under an hour.

It's probably either/both:
1. Save on flight tax because the tax on flying to Dublin is a lot less than the tax flying to Mexico, and then if you are just In Transit through LHR on the other flight then you pay a minimal tax.
2. She needed one more sector/a couple more points to stay BA Gold, and the flight did that.

But more likely, it's a late birthday present from HWMBO, who forgot it was her birthday last month and thought a trip to Dublin would make up for it.

Option 1.

HWMBO isn't on this trip but will be meeting me when I get back to Dublin next week for a weekend away.

This trip will contribute towards the points needed for GGL renewal.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been roast breast of lamb with chips. I like a bit of breast of lamb occasionally; it's very fatty so has a good flavour

It was accompanied by a new episode of the Brighton nighttime police thing, as a new series of that has just started

[NickFitz]

Further viewing was the first half of an episode of World in Action from the early 1990s about New Age Travellers, on YouTube

And I started looking through some SceneKit docs about materials and textures but decided it was too heavy going for a Wednesday evening - definitely a topic to approach earlier in the day, when one has some mental energy left to devote to it

Thursday tomorrow, but Friday-shaped!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Been rainy overnight but it's a sunny start. Not so warm at 5°C and not getting past 9°, with the barometers down yet more at 964/972mB

Last day of the working week!

[Dactylion]

Morning denizens

Last day of the working week!

Morning

Yaaaaaaay!!! Last day of week.... and a short week next week....

No mega plans for the weekend... happyness is a a quiet long weekend! :-)

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Awoke at 05:10 with my stomach growling for some unknown reason.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.1 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto.

971.5 mBar, 28.6884 in Hg, 728.68 Torr, 14.09 psi, (down from 973 last night), 76% RH (GDR hair) 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of September 2019 there was further discussion of the iRon and the propensity of Strangelove Mater to iRon everything in sight, while True Movies had renamed as Sony Movies Xmas before it disappeared off the EPG this year after yet another rename to "Great", in addition NF was afflicted with some sort of lurgie.

And he seems to have passed it on to me.

Urgh.

Must be some kind of computer virus.

Entertainment: The Mentalist S2 E1 "Redemption".

After which I took to my bed & remained there, aside from visits to the bog, until the end of "Desert Island Discs".

So I didn't watch Trucking Hell. No great loss since it not the same without Rory.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Filthy weather from about 8pm yesterday through the night. Blue skies just before 6 this morning and a chilly 3^oC, so we headed out. 20 minutes in there was a brief squall, and then about 50 minutes in the heavens opened with sleet.
It eased up maybe 20 minutes later, and we're now dry and warming up.
No snow here, unlike the videos I've seem from Plymouth and Dartmoor.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: pork cutlet and apple sauce in a wholemeal bap with a bag of plain crisps

Morning survived, and there's a couple of developer sessions this afternoon which will help fill up the time to COB

Timesheet already submitted, as the authorising person asked for them early to get them out of the way before she goes off on holiday