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[ladymuck]

Morning all

A dull and cloudy start has given way to blue sky and sunshine. Damp from overnight rain. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 25) and that's the high for the day. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 07:22; Sunset 18:12 BST

No plans for the day yet.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka sausage roll, again - I bought two but they both expired today, hence the repetition of yesterday

Turned Simpsonesque out now, but still very windy

[NickFitz]

Tuesday done, so just six more working days until my holiday starts!

Today, the thing I’ve been working on for the past year officially entered maintenance mode. It was also the kick-off for the third quarter, and I finally got some idea of what I’ll be working on next: some aspects of the departmental Intranet, including the “AI” chatbot

Clearly they hadn’t asked me if I fancied that, as I would have told them that I reckon chatbots are usually more trouble than they’re worth and a bit of work on beefing up normal search indexing would be preferable. But Number 10 is keen on “AI” so “AI” it is

There’s still a final and potentially quite big bit of work to do on the old thing. But that’s dependent on another team doing stuff, and they in turn are dependent on an external organisation doing stuff, and nobody can work out how to plan for it, including me. So it’s been shoved into the lumber room labelled “Tech Debt” and will probably end up being done in dribs and drabs, as and when there seems to be an opportunity to make some progress on it

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a chilli lambburger and fries; the burger proving very zingy from the green and red chilis therein

This involved the first use of my latest kitchen gadget, which was something of an impulse purchase at the weekend. I planned to get a stick blender for making soup, but ended up getting a quite expensive Braun thing that’s a stick blender, chopper, and food processor, all in one - well, all in a large box full of the various parts, but able to be used as all those things

So the chilis, onions, and garlic were first finely chopped with spices and stuff, then that was chucked in the food processor with the lamb mince and the whole lot whizzed together. And I’d found the paper discs for the burger press, which I couldn’t find for the life of me last time I made burgers. So there are three more in the freezer

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of the fare dodger thing from yesterday

Later, more of All You Need is Ears, in which he’s finally signed the Beatles - only to end up with Cilla Black as well. Persuasive chap, that Brian Epstein

Tomorrow I have to start getting used to the idea of working with other people again. It’s been quite nice to just chug along as the only developer on this thing for the last few months, but now I suppose I’ll have to be collaborative and that

Goodnight all