Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCXLIV

[NickFitz]

Tonight's reading was more of This Is How You Lose the Time War. It’s growing on me

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: southern not-fried chicken with fries and ketchup

Haven’t had that in a while, or not the Sainsbury’s version. Made a nice change

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And now there’s an extremely bright full moon rising - well, risen - out there

Strictly speaking it isn’t quite full yet but the moment of fullness is just before lunchtime tomorrow, and 99.5% full seems good enough

[NickFitz]

Nice and sunny out, but a bit chilly I think

[NickFitz]

Another Monday done

I was singularly unproductive today; didn’t have any energy or focus. This was even before the stuff about the agency change came to my attention

I spent a bit of time this afternoon looking at the four umbrella companies on offer from the agency...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a sausage bap

Turned sunny out there now

At ClientGov, I found out earlier that they’re switching suppliers in a couple of months and my contract will be moved over to whoever the new lot is. Not sure what this means yet; I’ve saved myself the hassle...

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Links are up

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Time to tear yourself away from the horrors of the news and read something enjoyable instead

• Master and Commander - ”When a scraggly band of folk musicians arrived to tour the UK, residents of a small Welsh town were enamored—until they learned that the band’s leader ruled with an iron

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s back to grey out, though it may brighten up later. Breezy too, so the current 8°C “feels like” 2°; it’ll soar to 14° this afternoon though. The barometers are a touch down at 999/1007mB

Monday again. Let’s see if there’s...

[NickFitz]

There was a bit of wildlife stuff on the telly over teatime

Tonight, not being in the mood for serious and weighty works of history, I started reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. I tried starting this a while ago (possibly a couple of years...

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Literally a flying visit ...

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Tea has been the Guinness-braised beef short ribs I made last week, with chips and peas

This was accompanied by a new episode of Forensics: The Real CSI on iPlayer, about the stabbing of a young lad in Birmingham

[NickFitz]

This morning’s forum wrangling has been the tags import, as for whatever reason that step runs between threads, which I got working on Friday, and posts. It wasn’t a particularly complicated one though

Time for lunch: a leftover pork chop in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce ...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny day with a mainly blue sky to welcome in March. There’s some high, thin stuff and mare’s tails towards the east, but it’s all clear to the west. It felt a little chilly when I poked my head out of the window though, and apparently it’s 8°C...

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff on the box today, as usual

This evening, I started reading The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh (published in 2000, so not actually new any more). It seems to take an interesting approach to the subject, but I’ll probably read it a bit at a time...

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I fancied a burger for tea tonight, but Five Guys in town unexpectedly shut down late last year - it was just a few days after I last ordered from there, I think. There’s another one, but it’s right across the other side of the city on the outer ring road. So I decided to give Burger King a try....

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Indeed! Always a source of interesting reflection and introspection



I though that one was good - a lot better than some of the other disowned ones ...

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Afternoon denizens

It’s cloudy with gaps allowing for sunny spells out, and drying after a very rainy night. There’s a bit of a breeze again, so the current 8°C (which is also the high for the day) “feels like” 3°. The barometers are optimistic though, being up to 1005/1013mB...

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Vault (2021), mainly because Netflix have emailed me repeatedly to tell me that it was leaving Netflix today (yesterday now) so I thought I’d see what all the fuss was about. It turned out to be an OK film in the “bank heist requiring ingenuity”...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury’s TTD slow-cooked lamb kleftiko with little roast potatoes, and it was very nice

They wittered on the packaging about cooking new potatoes with it. Instead, I cut some spuds small and chucked them in the casserole with the lamb and the sauce, then started...