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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of Dawn, in which she’s still not very happy about being stuck with a bunch of aliens that are planning to genetically modify all surviving humans

Thursday tomorrow!

And it’s Tech Debt day too, so shouldn’t be stressful

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 18.9 deg, 19.4 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto, 13 out the back.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (down from 1011.5 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 11:45 and 13:15, AndyGarbs, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and I popped in, with NF giving us the Leicester death count. .

Mediocre night's sleep, being rather overtired after yesterday's exertions.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: old tools: thing for boring bung holes in barrels, Broom maker's thing for cutting thorns off blackthorne sticks, poacher's net weight for salmon, weight for spinning thread. Hogged mane on a Viking Horse aka Norwegian Fjord horse : very striking. Using a stick to stop rams going through hedges when the fancy takes them. Carding wool. Spinniing wool with a spinning wheel. Worsted thread: uncarded. Spinning flax. Spinning silk slub.

Bab5 S4 E1: the bit I missed yesterday despite having the dvds on the shelf to my right. .

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom, during which it decided to rain a little, sunny by the time I returned home.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: This cultural life: Ray Winstone.

Dashcam bollox.

Next door's lawn duly mown: much easier than mine was yesterday. .

Would have been even better if the drizzle hadn't started halfway through. .

Entertainment: Alaska Homestead thing. S3 E3. Log cabin. Have these people never heard of rainwater guttering?

Speaking of which, it's not drizzling any more, now it's raining properly. Fecking grass is loving it. .

Alaska Homestead thing S3 E4 Part I: house built of tyres. Scrap tyres. Scrap tyres now infested with insects, bats, mice, rats, racoons, though no elk so far. Built with south facing glazing, thus reaching 95 deg (I assume F, but who knows?). Maddest thing I've seen in a while, or a coon's age as the colonials are alleged to declaim on occasion. .

Tea: beans on wholemeal toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Bab5 S4 E2 "Whatever happened to Mr Garibaldi?".

Book. Other book.

Sky Arts: Spy Fiction. 4/4.

Expedition files: DB Cooper. Michael Rockefeller. <click> Plague Village on 5 <click>.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There are layers of high, thin cloud, so enough sunshine is getting through to make it “sunny” but in a rather washed-out kind of way. It might get a bit clearer later though. It’s a mere 11°C but will soar to 19° later, with the barometers up a whisker at 1005/1013mB

Thursday!

Due to the delays to Viz, I have to go to Big Sainsbury’s again. I’m not sure I’ll have time for that at lunchtime so might have to put it off until tomorrow. Then again, maybe I can squeeze it in if I’m not too busy

[WTFH]

Morning all
8C at 5:40 this morning, but I still went out in short sleeves. All was good until we walked along a path where the temperature dropped. Tomorrow may be the start of long sleeves for walks.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another sunny start to the day with occasional wisps here and there. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Once again, cloud cover set to increase later in the day. Barometer at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:30; Sunset 19:28 BST

It sounds mean but I am very much looking forward to going home tomorrow. My Mum's behaviour is much more challenging than my last stay just a couple of months ago. It's hard to tell if she's just being wilful or if she genuinely has no memory of how to do some simple tasks.

[sadkingbilly]

^^^^ dementia is SH1TE!!
had to watch <helplessly, it felt> my partner's mother deteriorate.
you have all my sympathy.
my worst nightmare, and one reason i haven't retired completely.
pottered in the garden today. topped up lily pond with 2.5 barrels <about 1/2 tonne> of stored rainwater and generally tidied up here and there.
now for lunch.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of leftover chicken in red wine sauce

I spent most of the morning updating the documentation on getting PyCharm working with the new remote development environments, because somebody else has apparently been struggling with it and the people who are running the transition don’t know how to do it as most people use VS Code. I don’t often make detailed notes of this kind of thing but I had this time, as I figured this situation might arise. So I got it all written up and even included screenshots of every step, adorned with bright pink arrows pointing at the various bits one has to click and so on

[sadkingbilly]

lunch was TTD prawns with sundried tomatos and basil pesto.
accompanied by little feat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHcGkGdiEHc

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

We spent the last hour in a meeting about setting up SLOs. The SLO guys were initially talking about tradeoffs between new features and reliability, until we pointed out that this thing is going into maintenance mode at the end of the month and is definitely not getting any new features before then. So it all just devolved into setting up some monitoring so somebody gets alerted if it starts running really slowly

It did make me realise, though, that we haven’t got anything set up to notify us if it just dies. Up to now, we've relied on the fact that the users would send us a message on Teams saying “Why is it dead?”

But strictly speaking, it’s other people’s responsibility to notice that level of infrastructure failure and sort it out. They get paid to be hassled by PagerDuty; I don't

It did remind me of the fact that the BBC iPlayer people have, or had a few years ago, a thing that alerted them if iPlayer mentions on Twitter suddenly increased, as that usually meant it had fallen over

[xoggoth]

No Mahjong this morning as only me and one lady turned up. After walky and boring shopping ran me old lady neighbour to the doctors. Didn't realise she is almost 90, she seems very with it mentally.