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[ladymuck]

It took a good hour, not including the time spent sweeping up the back garden, to write an email to demonstrate how awesome I am. HMWBO verified it was a good email and he felt I was a great fit for the role.

Then I had a well deserved late lunch of scrambled eggs on toast.

Overcast now.

[xoggoth]

Usual sorta day. Old fart stuff this morning, Scrabble with old neighbours followed by coffee meet with local history society members. Afternoon fiddling around in the garden then local walky.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been an M&S Barnsley chop, with chips and beans. Very nice, very thick chop

In a sign of the dumbing down of the nation, it was labelled as a “double lamb chop”

The cooking instructions were a bit presumptuous too. I was supposed to preheat the oven to 170°C so I could stick it in there for five minutes after frying it. I’m not doing all that! Not to mention wasting all that energy! I fried it a bit longer and let it rest in the pan till the chips and beans were done, and it was fine

[ladymuck]

Watching the new series of Portrait Artist of the Year (Sky Arts).

Wasn't there some controversy about that a while back? I think it was about the quality of the artists / judging but I can't be bothered to search for it.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the Swedish border force thing on HBO Max, in which we learned that a magic mushroom growing kit is not actually illegal in Sweden and can therefore be imported, though if they’ve started sprouting, you’ll be in big trouble

And later, I read more of All You Need is Ears. He talks quite a bit about the technical side of things - not just things he did in the studio, though there’s a lot about that, but background stuff like how the Dolby system works to reduce the perception of tape hiss and so on

Thursday tomorrow!

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to do the shopping at lunchtime. The change of projects for me is part of a complete reorganisation of all the development work in the portfolio, so almost everybody’s moving around including product and delivery managers, and the end result is that tomorrow will be almost completely filled with meetings: project stuff in the morning, and then in the afternoon I’ve got to do an hour of initial knowledge transfer about the old project with the other devs in case I get hit by a bus, followed by the all hands stuff that comes round every so often, then the fortnightly developer thing, and finally the portfolio devs thing

Goodnight all