Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXIV

[NickFitz]

Bit too sunny if anything! As it needed to be done, I betook myself to the GP surgery to get another sample bottle. Then it was back through the park from there and along to the kebab shop; and home. So tea has been kebab and chips, and very nice it was too

But I was very warm by...

[NickFitz]

Let the holiday commence!

Nice and sunny out now

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

It’s turned rather sunny and Simpsonesque out now

This morning was mostly spent documenting some stuff and closing a bunch of tickets. This afternoon, there’s the main developer fortnightly...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another cloudy start, and none the worse for that! Mild enough at 17°C with an expected high of 26°, and the barometers are down a little but still high enough at 1012/1020mB

It’s Viz week so I need to go to Big Sainsbury’s. Therefore,...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s book has been Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, based on a recommendation from somebody on Bluesky. It’s set in a small community near LA starting around 2024, where society is crumbling from the effects of climate change and the greed of the super wealthy, so quite far fetched…...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a burger, in a sesame seed bun with ketchup, and chips

This was accompanied by the next episode of Murder 24/7 in which the bloke who stabbed his wife eventually found that changing your story repeatedly is not the best way to handle questioning, though it took a retrial...

[NickFitz]

The surgery finally contacted me about my request to discuss the side effects of this stuff with a pharmacist, made through the form on their website. They explained that I shouldn’t have used the form on their website as they don’t monitor it; I ought to have phoned, in case it was urgent. I would...

[NickFitz]

Pork pie for lunch

This morning was all meetings: show & tell, followed by our sprint retrospective. But this project is now winding down as the data work I just finished was really the last big bit. So we were able to combine the retro with planning for the next sprint, and...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Some mackerel sky out, along with some slightly thicker cloud, meaning it’s not quite sunny and probably won’t be. It’s 16°C and intends to get to 25°, with the barometers down to 1015/1023mB. It was getting quite breezy last night, but this has dropped off...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was Murder 24/7 on iPlayer, about a bloke who stabbed his wife. Well, he insists he didn’t, and it’s a two-parter so that’s as far as they’d got; but he blew it right at the start of his interview by giving an account that was completely different in every respect to what he’d...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Barnsley chops with chips and beans

I got those chops off the market back when the car was having its MOT, so they’ve been in the freezer since then. Very nice, they were

[NickFitz]

Ham toasties for lunch

[NickFitz]

I sat down to work this morning only to find that it had been abolished and there was a new department with a similar name in its place

It’s the second time that’s happened since I started there!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

High, hazy cloud is gradually thickening, so it’s expected to be more cloudy than sunny today. It’s 15°C with an expected high of 25° this afternoon, and the barometers are up a tad more at 1017/1025mB

Feeling very tired again today. If...

[NickFitz]

Casting around for something to watch this evening, I remembered that Air Crash Investigation is on Prime (albeit under a different title) so I watched the episode about USAir Flight 1493 which landed on top of SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569 at LA International in 1991, due to a moment of forgetfulness...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

Sunny out now; quite a pleasant-looking evening

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a bit of pork pie

I’ve been feeling extremely under the weather today, again. I thought it might be hay fever, but apparently the pollen count is very low at the moment. And that made me realise: two weeks ago, I started feeling really tired all the time, getting headaches,...

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Dawn of a new era is it? That’s nice but meanwhile, the Internet won’t read itself!

• The Service - ”We called it, simply, The Service. The first time I entered its stash house—a $14,000-a-month penthouse near the Williamsburg waterfront—I was met by a wall of rankness. Not the burn of weed,

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another slightly cloudy start that’ll rapidly clear up, with sunny skies expected all morning and the cloud building back up again this afternoon. It’s 14°C and aiming for 24°, with the barometers up a little more to 1016/1024mB

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