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    Tonight's reading has been Greg Bear's Eternity, sequel to Eon. In fact, I started reading this a while back, but couldn't get into it; I just wasn't in the right mood for it. Making more progress this time

    Goodnight all

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      Morning denizens

      Very gloomy grey day out there, with spots of rain continuing from overnight and expected to carry on until mid-afternoon when we'll just be left with wind instead. The barometers are up a little but not really encouraging at 996/1004mB

      The Halifax direct debit was taken from my account this morning, so they haven't yet cleared up all the loose ends of the mortgage. Oh well, it'll come back soon

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        Morning all CBS, etc.
        Dog walked, wife still away, car booked in for a service, hotel booked for later this week, been a busy morning so far.
        …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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          Morning.

          Tuesday.

          Didn't wake at 06:05, woke at 04:44 instead & read book for half an hour.

          Grey.

          Sunless.

          Misty.

          Damp.

          Dreary.

          Chilly in here at 15 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 13.5 deg in the leanto.

          1007 mBar, 29.7366 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (up from 1006 last night), 76% RH (Lidl electric).

          Meanwhile on the 18th of November 2019 it was sunny, WTFH was getting the hot water fixed, I was in with the hoi polloi where some poor sod was being taught how to jobsearch on line on instruction from JobCentre+.
          Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 08:11.
          When the fun stops, STOP.

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            The new team has finally realised that I'm around and have nothing else to do. So now I'm shadowing somebody in a meeting with another team to get an idea of the various things "we" deal with, pending a more formal induction this afternoon

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              Morning all

              Dull. Wet. Raining. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Rain set to continue for the rest of the day. Barometer up a bit to 1005 mBar.

              In the office today. A requirement I only found out yesterday lunchtime because I logged in to see what time I needed to be online today for a meeting. That meeting got brought forward half an hour so I'd have missed it if I was only to work the half day I'd originally planned. I do like that consultancyCo assume I check emails when I'm not working.

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                Lunch: pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

                Very rainy morning, and it's not stopping yet

                There's a weekly (or maybe fortnightly?) team retrospective meeting shortly, so I'll be able to find out who I'll be working with

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                  Well, that's the afternoon done. Still raining a bit from time to time, and very breezy

                  The team I'm on is a bit biased towards devops, which is a change though not really my usual thing. But as it happens, I had to do a lot of the same stuff myself on the doomed project, so I should be OK, and if anything it'll be pretty easy work compared to that nonsense as most of it is quite straightforward. The interesting bit comes when things go wrong and nobody can work out why, but I enjoy investigating stuff like that so I'm hoping it happens a lot

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                    Tea has been oniony chicken casserole - a fresh batch made in the Remoska, so instead of chips it had slices of potato spread over the top to soak up the fat that rises and get crispy

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