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[NickFitz]

Bit of old Traffic Cops earlier

And then yet more tinkering with Swift. I haven't really got the hang of the way the language uses optionals yet, but at least I got around to implementing a SwiftUI ViewModifier, which is one of those things that's quite straightforward to understand in the abstract yet one somehow feels one understands better after implementing even a very simple one

Didn't get around to reading any of my book, again. But there's a long weekend coming up, and I'm off the week after that, and maybe for longer if we get this project shut down by then and I decide to take a few weeks off before starting anything new, so I'll find time for it

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and blustery start out after a windy night. It's expected to continue much the same though it'll be a little warmer than it has been recently, reaching 22°C from its current 15°. The barometers are very much down at 991/999mB

[WTFH]

Slept in. Chopping wood on a school night is not a good idea. Overnight precipitation (but not much) has lead to an overcast morning. A short perambulation was had - less than an hour - but at least it achieved the necessary 2 project plans from MMtSH.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Grey.

Wet, very wet.

Windy to make the wet horizontal.

Sunless: to show there's a BH on the way.

Cool in here at 19.2 deg, 20 in the kitchen, 18.5 in the leanto.

999 mBar, 29.5 in Hg, 749.3 Torr, 14.489 psi, (untapped), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of November 2019 Ye Giante Ratte of Neathe was observed making its way from Ye Giante Ratte Holee near the sheltered housing to the greenery on the other side of what once was a road, whereas the ATM in Barclays ate my expired cashcard to my alarm, having forgotten it was expired.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc. Discovered the reason the bread hasn't gone blue: it's not the usual pumpkin seed & thingie one. Which is lucky.

Entertainment: more mildly amusing Sledge Hammer.

The commentary on "The Stone Tape (1972)" which has the added advantage of quieting THE SHOUTING and the ASR33. I wonder if they knew there was a quiet cabinet available for same?

Walk (abbreviated) walked during which the cause of yesterday's flashing yellow lights on the lane were discovered: hedge trimming.

More Sledge Hammer.

Tea: beans on toast (non blue) etc.

Entertainment: more of the book about The Orange Moron.

Fringe S1 Pilot.

Trucking Hell S8 E15.

Fringe S1 E2.

More Sledge Hammer.

[NickFitz]

Busy, busy, busy! Not me, of course. But the senior manager who has to officially tell us to start closing the project down is covering for an even-more-senior person's leave, and as a result has been too busy to deal with what has always, TBH, been the redheaded stepchild of projects in the department. So although the PM has made a nice organised plan of what we have to do, and I've made a nice list of everything that needs to be shut down or archived and who I need to liaise with to achieve this, we concluded at this morning's standup that we can't actually start on any of that until the shutdown is officially promulgated

So after standup, I went to Big Sainsbury's and did the shopping

As a result, lunch has been a couple of the nice garlic and herb chicken thighs from the hot food counter with a bag of plain crisps

Not sure what I'll do this afternoon should we remain rudderless. Read idiocy on Twitter until it's time to knock off, probably

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Dull, damp, windy. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 20 allegedly still to come. There was some rain early this morning but none forecast. Barometer down to 1004 mBar.

I received a call about a role I'd applied for. Appalling rate but I prefer to be bringing something in rather than burning through the war chest. Although they only want someone with a couple of years' experience, I'm sure the role will go someone with more experience than I have and probably in something that wasn't on the job spec.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken jalfrezi with rice and naan

Still no word from on high, so the afternoon was very peaceful

And before tea, I had a quick play with the Swift stuff and got it to a point where it's usable for the original purpose I wanted it for: working through the book Mazes for Programmers, which I bought a few years ago but have never got around to digging into properly. The stuff I've done is sufficient for a graphical display of mazes generated by any of the algorithms in the early chapters

[NickFitz]

Telly earlier was an episode of the Gloucestershire police night shift thing. This included a vehicle stop just before Boots Corner on the High Street in Cheltenham, just outside WH Smith and, unsurprisingly, opposite Boots

And then the book was again ignored as I extended the mazes thing so I can have a list of algorithms in the side navigation and switch between them. This made me realise that the technique I'd initially adopted of implementing the algorithm as an extension on the maze map class wasn't sufficiently flexible, so I rejigged it to use a protocol instead, which is much better

Friday tomorrow! Not sure if I'll have anything to do though, other than submit a timesheet

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

After a blustery and rainy night it's a sunny start, adorned with numerous discrete lumps of cloud (very similar in appearance to those symbols on the weather map) moving at pace along the line of the horizon if one directs one's gaze in a direction perpendicular to the wind. It's already 15°C and aiming for 20°, with the barometers down some more to 985/993mB

I've had the chicken carcass plus veg in the slow cooker overnight, so a pleasant aroma filled the flat when I arose this morning. The downside is that I then have to muck around first thing, moving it to whatever Stage II I have planned. But I shall now be having herby chicken, tomato and lentil soup for lunch, so it pays off in the end

[WTFH]

Morning all