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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with lumps of fluff. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 05:11; Sunset 21:04 BST

Packing this morning. Off to stay with Mum for a week. Undecided what time to leave but I'd like to get there quite early so I might go around 11 am. If I don't leave by 11.30 am, then I'll have to go after 3 pm and the traffic will be worse then.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning.

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, and vetran popped in.

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is this all the same 1st of april??

[DoctorStrangelove]

is this all the same 1st of april??

Yes. More than 200 posts FFS. Never fecking ending. Everyone locked in by Bunter & Co.

Currently at 17:34: there's about 8 or 9 more pages of this..

Of course, back in the day 200 posts a day was quite normal with the likes of Diver et al.

Al used to post a lot, but not as much as Diver did before he sawed his hand in half.

[NickFitz]

Pork pie for lunch

This morning was all meetings: show & tell, followed by our sprint retrospective. But this project is now winding down as the data work I just finished was really the last big bit. So we were able to combine the retro with planning for the next sprint, and indeed for the transition to maintenance mode. As I’m off next week, there’ll be one more sprint after this, assuming nothing comes up from the data analysts or the stakeholders. So until mid-August, I’ll just be pottering around dealing with any odd bits of tech debt that it would be nice to have sorted out before the end, if all goes well

After that, it sounds like I’ll be moving on to work on features for some other services that fall into the category of “nice to have” but don’t fit into the main flow of work for the relevant team. This means there should be a bit of variety and also less of the boring maintenance stuff

TIL: the new Prime Minister actively dislikes “roadmaps” and the like, preferring a narrative approach along the lines of “Here’s a problem these people had, and this is what we did/are doing to fix it.” I don’t suppose this will affect me in any way, but I gather the civil servants who communicate things upwards are all now preparing to start reframing things to suit

[NickFitz]

The surgery finally contacted me about my request to discuss the side effects of this stuff with a pharmacist, made through the form on their website. They explained that I shouldn’t have used the form on their website as they don’t monitor it; I ought to have phoned, in case it was urgent. I would have asked the obvious question, but I was trying to get some work finished off and also very tired because of the side effects, so I didn’t bother getting into it

Anyway, a pharmacist will phone me on Friday afternoon. Hope it isn’t urgent

[xoggoth]

U3A, AKA old fart group, coach trip to Weald & Downland museum in Sussex. Spent day with 3 ladies from my art group. Quite fancied the largish lady I sat next to on the coach but she's married darn it.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a burger, in a sesame seed bun with ketchup, and chips

This was accompanied by the next episode of Murder 24/7 in which the bloke who stabbed his wife eventually found that changing your story repeatedly is not the best way to handle questioning, though it took a retrial because of a hung jury before it was all sorted out

They rather glossed over the fact that the police, acting on information received, discovered crucial new evidence in the family home, which was the scene of the crime, halfway through the second trial. Why hadn’t they found it before then, despite at least two supposedly thorough searches of the property? Who can say

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s book has been Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, based on a recommendation from somebody on Bluesky. It’s set in a small community near LA starting around 2024, where society is crumbling from the effects of climate change and the greed of the super wealthy, so quite far fetched… oh, wait

Thursday tomorrow! Even better, I’m off next week!

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
It was mostly clear skies at 05:30, but there's now a mist that has come up the valley and looks like we are going to be in it shortly.
Also a really odd turnipy smell up the road.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another cloudy start, and none the worse for that! Mild enough at 17°C with an expected high of 26°, and the barometers are down a little but still high enough at 1012/1020mB

It’s Viz week so I need to go to Big Sainsbury’s. Therefore, I won’t be rushing out to do the shopping at lunchtime, but will do it tomorrow instead. Might go to M&S too while I’m over there