Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCXLIV

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of …Lose the Time War, though I also found time to read up on some slightly obscure aspects of SwiftUI

Tomorrow will be a day of many meetings, because it’s sprint end/start day

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the pork in cider thing with chips

And the accompanying viewing was The Truth About My Murder on iPlayer, being the case of a young woman from Neath who was murdered by her boyfriend on the Bwlch Mountain road in 2007

[NickFitz]

Another day done, so that’s half the working week out of the way!

Unlike yesterday, I managed to be highly productive today. I was able to demo some stuff for the stakeholders at lunchtime, which they were happy with despite the UI being a bit messy. And this afternoon, I managed...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover kleftiko and roast spuds from Friday. Made a very nice change from the usual lunchtime options



Three prizes for me, though only £25 each. Still, £75 is better than nowt

That makes £125 for this year, £1350 for the tax year...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s a layer of high, thin cloud out, a bit thicker towards the north but with gaps towards the horizon in other directions which let the sun get through to varying degrees as it traverses the celestial sphere. The wind seems to have dropped as the current 7°C...

[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

[NickFitz]

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...

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

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...

[NickFitz]

Literally a flying visit ...

[NickFitz]

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...