Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXIV

[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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[NickFitz]

There was yet more watery wildlife earlier

And this evening, a further episode of 24 Hours in A&E

Tonight, I read more of One Two Three Four. No mention of George Harrison going to visit my Auntie Josie and family in the middle of the night in Auckland during...

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was a sliced chicken and stuffing bap (white), and tea has been takeaway leftovers

I seem to be getting attacked by pollen again. I’ve gone round and shut all the windows, in a vague and probably fruitless attempt to stop it getting in

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy with gaps again, and there’s a light breeze to get the air circulating a bit. It’s 17°C now but the cloud will clear more this afternoon, letting it get to 22°. The barometers are up to 1014/1021mB

[NickFitz]

More watery wildlife on the box today

Tonight, I read more of One Two Three Four in which an ever-perceptive Ringo, after meeting a young Jeffrey Archer, said “He’s the kind of bloke who’d bottle your piss and sell it”

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the East African place

Very nice, but their chilli sauce is really hot!

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Lots of cumuli around, making it cloudy with sunny spells. Mild enough at 22°C, which is the high for today; the barometers are up a bit at 1009/1017mB

A bedding wash is underway

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was No Hard Feelings (2023) in which wealthy helicopter parents pay a penurious Jennifer Lawrence to “date” their son before he goes to Princeton. This rapidly turns complicated, because if it didn’t there’d be nothing to make a film about. It’s very funny,...