Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXV

[NickFitz]

First day back over and done with. A bit more hectic than I would have liked, but I suppose it gives me something to do

The shambolic transition to PSR continues to cause unnecessary hassle. This time, the agency they insisted we all transfer to has completely failed to do anything...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some Popeyes hot wings, reheated in the air fryer for a few minutes to crisp them back up, with ketchup

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Back to work after my week off to find that a critical bug surfaced bang on 09:00 this morning (not an automated thing, just somebody doing something then), and the process for deploying things has been changed in my absence so I no longer know how to ship the fix. Still, at least somebody has lost...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with wisps and strands of mares’ tails hither and yon, possibly presaging a turn in the weather. Today will be a hot one though: currently 18°C, it predicted to hit 29° though it’ll cool down later in the week, even dipping below 20° on...

[NickFitz]

Lunch, naturally, was sausages and burgers and other BBQ-related stuff

And I had enough of it that I didn’t bother having any tea in the end. I’m feeling a bit peckish now TBH, but it’s a bit late

In terms of TV viewing, I missed the wildlife stuff but watched 24...

[NickFitz]

Home again!

The BBQ kicked off a bit later than originally planned as our brother was held up due to a crash causing traffic jams in Chesterfield. Also, my younger niece had a migraine and didn’t make it so it was just us old-timers: my siblings and their spouses, and my sister’s...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s sunny with cumuli again. It’ll be quite warm here: already 18°C and expected to hit 25°. But it’ll be slightly warmer at the barbecue, where it’s expected to reach 26° - though a couple of days ago, it was predicted to reach 30° down there, so that’s...

[NickFitz]

The usual wildlife stuff was on today

And tonight, extremely bad things happened to good people in Parable of the Talents

Heading south for a barbecue tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from Popeyes

I keep thinking something in the flat is making a weird noise. But it’s actually the very faint sounds of the Caribbean Carnival coming from the park

[NickFitz]

Home!

The hygienist must have been running ahead of schedule as I was called in there about twenty minutes earlier than the nominal appointment time. They did the usual stuff, along with the usual nagging, and that was (I hope) me done with dentistry until next year
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[NickFitz]

At the dentist. Checkup done and all OK, so now waiting for the hygienist

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Things out there are much the same: lots of cumuli with the sun getting through the gaps when they’re in the right place. It’s 20°C and aiming for 23°, with the barometers creeping up a little more to 1008/1016mB

Next week, we’ll get...

[NickFitz]

Tonight I read more of Parable of the Talents. I get the feeling something bad is going to happen soon

Busy weekend ahead: I’ve got the dentist AND dental hygienist tomorrow, and on Sunday I’m heading south for a barbecue with the family. I wish I hadn’t had to spend about...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

To go along with it, a further episode of Murder 24/7 in which a bloke stabbed his ex-partner to death after taking the kids to school, then calmly called the police to turn himself in

[NickFitz]

Just had a followup phone call with the pharmacist, who agreed that the new cholesterol drug seems to have been the problem. So I’m staying off that, and he’s going to get back in touch about other options in a month or so, as he figured it was sensible to leave some time to be sure I’ve fully...

[NickFitz]

Morning? Afternoon, more like!

Lunch has been the remaining M&S steak slice

Moving in is going on at the far end of the adjacent block, presumably into the top floor flat from which moving out occurred two or three weeks ago ...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s cumulus central out there again today, with plenty of blue gaps so quite sunny too. Currently 21°C but it’ll reach 23° for a bit later; the barometers are up a little at 1006/1014mB

We had a few brief spells of rain yesterday, including...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Shelter (2026) in which Jason Statham plays a secretive man who turns out to have a hidden past as a deadly special forces operative. Nice to see him trying something new… But anyway, it may sound formulaic, but it’s a very good example of the formula...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been an M&S rack of ribs with chips

To accompany this, Murder 24/7 on iPlayer, which is a continuation of the case from last series about the DPD driver who was murdered by a gang with machetes and such, apparently because of mistaken identity