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Another day, another airport! Although this is nothing compared to previous, more bonkers, trips nor the one coming up in a couple of weeks' time.
Anyway, we are at Lisbon airport, in the ANA lounge. (Not ANA the Japanese airline) Last time we were here the lounge was an overcrowded zoo and I hated it. This time, it's much calmer, and cleaner.
You've still got time to arrange a change at Vladivostok
Work done. Enjoyed a beer. Now need to prepare the oysters. Prosecco is cooling in the outdoor fridge, known as the garden table. Currently 2°C and dark.
An interesting thing I found out while my contract extension was being sorted out: the contract with the consultancy that's supplying the rest of this project team comes to an end at the start of April and if it doesn't win the tender process for the new contract, which is happening now, they'll all vanish at that point. This would mean that the sole remaining repository of knowledge about this very complex project that has directly affected every online service in the department will be… me!
In fact, the project is expected to be largely done and dusted at that point. But because it's involved putting in place a new digital infrastructure for everything, there will almost certainly be questions arising for ages to come which I'll be expected to have some kind of answer to. I suppose I should start paying a bit more attention to whatever it is we're doing
Anyway, the bad news this week is that I've got to start work at 7am on Thursday, as I'm playing a small role in the migration of a service from the old PaaS to the new one and that's when we're doing it
So another week with 2 days in London and a Show on Wednesday night to kill the time.
Tomorrow it's Tina the Musical - which annoyingly starts at 7pm not 7:30 but hopefully has the person who came third on Pop Idol and has managed a decent career in the West End...
Tea has been homemade Adana kebabs in a pitta bread with sweet chilli sauce, with fries
I'd left the kebab meat for these in the freezer for months and it seemed to have dried out a little, which in turn gave it a slightly grainy texture once it was cooked. Tasted OK though; I'll have to remember not to leave them so long in future
Tonight's viewing was a new episode of Traffic Cops, just for a change
And then I read more of the Colditz book. It covers some stuff that wasn't mentioned in Pat Reid's books, and also goes into a lot more depth about things, having the benefit of material that has been published or otherwise come to light since he was writing in the 1950s, such as Hauptmann Reinhold Eggers' memoirs of life there from the German point of view
Seems like a cloudy start out, and expected to stay that way. Marginally warmer than it was at the weekend at 1°C heading for 4°; it'll get a touch warmer over the next few days, but that comes with some rain. The barometers are anticipating this by dropping to 993/1001mB
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