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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear blue sky. Currently 13 degrees ('feels like' 11) with a high of 18 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:38; Sunset 19:13 BST

Many meetings today. Some of them I actually have to participate in.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday?

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Calm.

Cool in here at 18 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto, 14 in the saltinghouse.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759.1 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of February 2020 there was much discussion of food from NF and BR14, LM popped in: apparently HWMBO had seen blue sky at one point, Doctor Who was mediocre, Endeavour was better (the rivers of blood one), and Homeland seems to have reappeared as a thing, though memories of same were dim due to the two years between seasons.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Entertainment: Infinite Monkey Cage: building an athlete again for some reason. Listened to that last time but couldn't be arsed to change it.

Shirts roughly iRoned & airing upstairs. So far, despite the forecast, it's been ok.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y on buy to let.

Shopping trip to Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. I had to reach far back on the shelf to get the stuff I wanted, which wasn't half a cwt of dried cranberries.

Entertainment: Am Dro: Cardigan bay, Llyn peninsula, Pontypridd, Craig y Nos, Swansea valley: where Dame Adelina Patti lived long long ago. She had her very own railway station: I knew the chap who removed her very ornate lavatory when the line closed back in the 1960s. The woman whose walk that was is in Dexy's Midnight Runners: the viola player.

[covbob]

Morning denizens.

Grey, overcast, drizzly. Not the sort of day to inspire energy and drive.

[NickFitz]

Roast pork and apple sauce bap (wholemeal) for lunch

Still mainly cloudy out, but there have been sunny spells. The wind isn't as strong as it was, but it still seems quite breezy

Such deliveries as I was expecting today have arrived, so I can stop fretting over them and get some work done… oh wait, there are several meetings this afternoon

[NickFitz]

Another day done! Despite meetings, I managed to get stuff done to the extent that I'll be demoing it in the fortnightly Show & Tell tomorrow

As I managed to keep my commit history fairly well structured and with meaningful comments, I've just checked and I'll be able to checkout a specific commit and demo how the UI for this bit of the app used to work (clunky), then checkout the latest version and show how it now works (elegant)

[NickFitz]

I tried to make dinner in the InstantPot™ and, once it was heating up, left it to its devices. I had a quick glance now and again, and the time was counting down and everything seemed fine

Returning to the kitchen a few minutes before it was due to finish, I realised that the pressure valve had never popped up! So it hadn't been pressure cooking at all, just boiling the stuff

So I took the lid off and played with the valve, which seemed fine, and put the lid back on and stood there waiting while it heated up again. Except the boiling had reduced the liquid too much, so it started sticking to the base of the pan which triggered the sensor that stops it if that happens, so it doesn't burn

And so I added more water, and stirred and scraped until all the stuck stuff was off the bottom, and now it's finally heated back up and come up to pressure, and dinner will be about an hour late

At least I now know that it doesn't actually use a pressure sensor. Apparently, it starts the countdown based on the temperature it's got to and (I think) how long it's been at it for, as that should normally correlate with it having reached the pressure that forces the valve shut