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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 13 expected. Rain forecast off and on. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 06:53; Sunset 17:36 GMT

Gig3 is trying to get me to attend a Corporate Induction Day that will take all day. Need to work out just how mandatory my attendance is...

[xoggoth]

Old fart Mahjong at local cafe this morning, I won again. Wondering if to bother going shopping today, hate boring shopping, wish I had a butler to do it for me. Just done Wordle in 2 goes, lucky day.

[NickFitz]

Lunch never happened, because I went and did the shopping instead. So that’s out of the way and the weekend starts here!

As expected, we got stuck into the tech debt thing we’d been putting off, and made a bit of progress before lunch. After lunch, the other dev wasn’t up to working as she’d taken one of her animals to the vet and received some bad news - I don’t know what, thinking it better not to hassle her with questions. This left me on my own for the afternoon, and I pretty much got it all sorted out! There’s a few details left for the mopping up stage, so (with her approval) I’ve left those for her to finish up tomorrow

Now having a bag of salt & vinegar crisps to stave off the pangs of hunger while I decide what to have for tea

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribs and chips

Along with that, I watched the second part of Murder Case: The Hunt for Arlene Fraser’s Killer

[NickFitz]

I finished Peace and War; I enjoyed Forever Peace but it doesn’t have anything to do with the other two apart from being about war and peace

I also did a bit more work on the SwiftUI stuff

It started raining off and on here at lunchtime and it still is, having become steadier this evening; I think it hasn’t stopped for the last hour or more. Oh well, it’s good for the trees

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, etc.
Another mizzly morning, so bad that I took the head torch with me just in case, but didn't need it.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Was sunny: now grey.

Was damp, now wet.

Was clear, now misty moisty drizzly.

NotSoChilly in here at 14.8 deg, 13. something in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto.

1002 mBar, 29.59 in Hg, 751.6 Torr, 14.532 psi, (down from 1004 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom/wan sunshine/light misty drizzle. Nice enough.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: noon o'clock news. <click> Sadly the Orange Mother****er still isn't dead. Ho hum. Just living in hopeful anticipation of that moment of joy and celebration.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM waffling on about elections and the imminent attack on Eyeran by the Orange moron.

Taggart S7 E5,6,7. "Double exposure".

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast again. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 9) with a high of 13 expected. Moderate chance of showers. Barometer down to 1009 mBar.

Sunrise 06:51; Sunset 17:38 GMT

Ought to be a quiet day today. I have some laundry to do and the floors could do with a good clean.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I awoke unpaid, as the agency has screwed something up. I suspect it’s to do with the recent extension; probably somebody forgot to tick one specific checkbox, as I can see the approved timesheet in certain expected places in their execrable “portal”, but not in others. Oh well, I’ve emailed them about it so I’m sure it’ll be fine

It’s another grey day here after a rainy night, and more rain may (45-50%) be along soon, and continuing (50-60%) through the evening. The wind is a bit less vigorous than on many recent days, so the current 11°C - which is also the high for the day - only “feels like” 8°; but the barometers are pessimistic at 995/1003mB

[NickFitz]

…probably somebody forgot to tick one specific checkbox

“Due to an internal error” - yeah, somebody screwed up

They responded within five minutes to say it’s being dealt with ASAP though, which is pretty good going for a Friday morning! It took me longer than that just to get my act together to send the email saying “WTF?!”