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[NickFitz]

Another day, another airport! Although this is nothing compared to previous, more bonkers, trips nor the one coming up in a couple of weeks' time.

Anyway, we are at Lisbon airport, in the ANA lounge. (Not ANA the Japanese airline) Last time we were here the lounge was an overcrowded zoo and I hated it. This time, it's much calmer, and cleaner.

You've still got time to arrange a change at Vladivostok

[sadkingbilly]

You've still got time to arrange a change at Vladivostok

or Ushuaia Airport

[NickFitz]

Mundane laundry done

[NickFitz]

An interesting thing I found out while my contract extension was being sorted out: the contract with the consultancy that's supplying the rest of this project team comes to an end at the start of April and if it doesn't win the tender process for the new contract, which is happening now, they'll all vanish at that point. This would mean that the sole remaining repository of knowledge about this very complex project that has directly affected every online service in the department will be… me!

In fact, the project is expected to be largely done and dusted at that point. But because it's involved putting in place a new digital infrastructure for everything, there will almost certainly be questions arising for ages to come which I'll be expected to have some kind of answer to. I suppose I should start paying a bit more attention to whatever it is we're doing

Anyway, the bad news this week is that I've got to start work at 7am on Thursday, as I'm playing a small role in the migration of a service from the old PaaS to the new one and that's when we're doing it

[eek]

So another week with 2 days in London and a Show on Wednesday night to kill the time.

Tomorrow it's Tina the Musical - which annoyingly starts at 7pm not 7:30 but hopefully has the person who came third on Pop Idol and has managed a decent career in the West End...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade Adana kebabs in a pitta bread with sweet chilli sauce, with fries

I'd left the kebab meat for these in the freezer for months and it seemed to have dried out a little, which in turn gave it a slightly grainy texture once it was cooked. Tasted OK though; I'll have to remember not to leave them so long in future

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was a new episode of Traffic Cops, just for a change

And then I read more of the Colditz book. It covers some stuff that wasn't mentioned in Pat Reid's books, and also goes into a lot more depth about things, having the benefit of material that has been published or otherwise come to light since he was writing in the 1950s, such as Hauptmann Reinhold Eggers' memoirs of life there from the German point of view

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Seems like a cloudy start out, and expected to stay that way. Marginally warmer than it was at the weekend at 1°C heading for 4°; it'll get a touch warmer over the next few days, but that comes with some rain. The barometers are anticipating this by dropping to 993/1001mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
A little misty out, but we were up early and had a good walk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Speaking of Colditz reminded me of The Gingham Glider. . A.K.A. "The Colditz Cock" apparently.

Morning.

Wednesday apparently, after the evening's extended viewing.

Dry.

Grey.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 8.5 deg in the kitchen, 7 deg in the leanto.

1003 mBar, 29.62 in Hg, 752.3 Torr, 14.547 psi, (untapped but somewhere between 1013 and 1003), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 22nd of December Brillo had the chance of a gig in that Swansea, I went shopping, BR14 was stressed by what was going on with his partner's mum (dementia, respite care), covbob had a cold, and NF observed that the Polish cafe over the road was always busy on a Sunday.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the initial grey gloom, followed eventually by some sunshine.

Lunch: brunch. Nearly reached the end of the BBE 2014 Weetabix. . They haven't killed me yet.

Entertainment: "The Shadow War (not Bab5)" on R4: more chinese perfidy. We plainly didn't use the right kind of opium back in the day..

Tea: chilli con carne (tinned) with rice. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM <click> when the talking head came on.

Book (the backroom boys one): upsetting.

Maigret: the one with the candle auction (it's some sort of French thing) for an old house. Bit of a locked room thing.

Secrets in the Ice: stone me that narrator is irritating. 8 grave sites: Massacre site in Russia: at a guess offed by the Mongols. US Plane (C47) found on Canadian glacier (not the B36 they lost complete with nuke): crashed without loss of life during search for a missing Skymaster. ANITA in Antarctica: anomalous neutrinos. Glow in the dark snow in Russia. .