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Tonight I finished A for Andromeda, in which it transpired that whatever sent us the message may not have had our best interests at heart, or was at least likely to prioritise its own agenda
Next up: Andromeda Breakthrough (which the back cover mistakenly prefixes with The)
Thursday tomorrow!
Unfortunately, it's "tech debt" Thursday, when the various project teams in our subsection are supposed to put their work on hold and come together to deal with the kind of stuff that gets put off otherwise: security updates to dependencies, version upgrades for libraries and frameworks, and boring stuff like that. Shame, as we've made excellent progress on our stuff this week and it would be good to get it wrapped up. But with luck, there won't be much tech debt to deal with and we can get back to it later in the day
Sunny start, albeit with cloud about. Should get sunnier later, though. It's 9°C and soaring to 17° later, which seems quite decent for autumn; the barometers are down a touch at 1016/1024mB
Thursday!
I think I'll go shopping tomorrow morning, but I'm not sure; I may go this evening instead
Chilly in here at 16.8 deg, 15.5 in the kitchen, 13.5 in the leanto.
1022.5 mBar, 30.19 in Hg, 766.9 Torr, 14.83 psi, (up from 1022 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 18th of February 2020 there was discussion of the 2020 CUK meetup . Talk about tempting providence. . BR14 was watching the decimation in Midsummer Murders, whilst I was watching ST:V: the one where the WWWC talks to "god", while eek relieved LM of the burden of said Xmas do, and LM celebrated with free wine when the wine bar's electric card reader thing didn't work.
Damn thing logged me out this morning.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Took a while to get up to speed for some reason.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The Bottom Line (calm down xogg) waffling on about e business startups. TWATO with that Davis chap waffling on about something.
4 lawns mown. Knackered now & bathed in sweat. Glad I don't have to do the idle git's lawns any more. You can't mow them: they'd required strimming/brush cutting before you could even start.
Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: PM.
More than might be said of the Idiot Lantern since there's feckall on that I've found on the EPG.
Timeshift: The Trains that time forgot (2015).
The proof is out there: giant goldfish (cross bred carp). More bollox. Well it is Blaze innit?
Lunch: cold pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce
It's sunny and rather Simpsonesque out now, but it's getting a bit breezy
This morning was mainly devoted to tedious upgrades, as expected. There's a meeting with "stakeholders" in a while, after which we should be able to get back to the interesting stuff
I must admit, the term "stakeholders" always makes me think back to working on Ubisoft's "Night Hunter" in which you played Dracula and Professor Van Helsing would appear once you'd collected all the treasures, chasing you around and throwing stakes at you as you tried to make it to the exit to the next level
Old fart Mahjongy thing this morning. I won again. Walky and boring shopping soon followed by equally boring preparation of rubbish for trip to the dump tomorrow.
The stakeholders came up with one of those "minor" details that hadn't previously been mentioned about the stuff we're working on which I thought could be a bit tricky. But then I worked out a way of doing it that was very straightforward and elegant, so that was pleasing
Just discovered that one of my upcoming flights is in a Club Suite, this will be my first time trying it out. A bit disappointed that the second sector is in a plane that hasn't been upgraded to Q Suites, but the service will be just as good.
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