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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Gloomy and grey again, with the air of being about to rain although it supposedly isn’t. It’s 16°C (“feels like” 11°) and warming all the way up to 21° later, albeit briefly, while the barometers are much the same at 1006/1013mB

Time for me to head off for blood tests! According to the reminder text I got earlier, the main entrance is back in use, so that saves a few minutes

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a new episode of Traffic Cops

And tonight in Future Noir, I completed the very long scene-by-scene chapter - though it appears there’s additional stuff in later chapters relating to the differences in the assorted later cuts

Better get to sleep now as tomorrow, I have to go to the GP’s surgery for the annual blood tests at 9am. They no longer have the notice on their website about having to use the back entrance because of the flooding, so I assume the front is operational again. But I’ll need to allow extra time in case it isn’t, as the only way to get to the back (which is also the first floor because they’re in a dip, which is why it keeps flooding) is by going up to the university campus and doubling back through the adjacent sixth form college

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I was quite looking forward to having shepherd’s pie for tea tonight, but my memory had led me astray and there wasn’t any in the freezer. Oh well, at least I got the drawers organised a bit better while I was hunting for it. In the end, I had the last bit of some chicken casserole from a few weeks ago with chips

I thought about making shepherd’s pie with the lamb mince yesterday, but I didn’t bother because I thought I still had some

[NickFitz]

In a turnip for the books, gig1 have extended me to the end of the year! It's only max 2 days a week and could be binned at any time once the status of a programme that's winding down is known.

Gig2 is in a death spiral. Today's fun was someone saying that a process map should have the swim lanes denoting the task outcome rather than the roles...

Boomed!

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Today I learned more than I wanted to know about threading in Python. But it was worth it because I ended up with a script that allowed me to reproduce the concurrent updates problem reliably, which meant that I could finally get in there with the debugger and confirm exactly what was going wrong

In fact, I’m going to fix it by preventing concurrent updates! I’ll chuck a queue in at the point where the updates are triggered, and make sure each runs to completion before another can start. It won’t make any difference to the users as under normal circumstances they only upload stuff once a day at most; it’s easy to do; and it avoids the risk of trying to fix the mishmash of code that people have been hammering oddly-shaped bits into since 2019

[ladymuck]

In a turnip for the books, gig1 have extended me to the end of the year! It's only max 2 days a week and could be binned at any time once the status of a programme that's winding down is known.

Gig2 is in a death spiral. Today's fun was someone saying that a process map should have the swim lanes denoting the task outcome rather than the roles...

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Raining. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Rain set to ease up and stop by mid afternoon. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:18 BST

Meetings, meetings.

[sadkingbilly]

morning

bloody biblical thunderstorms yesterday.
garden was flowering well, until the 30 min hailstorm.
It now looks shattered. blooms battered and bedraggled.
still, got 400 litres* off the garage roof into the pond topup tank, which won't be needed for a wee while.

* 1 tonne in three days! :

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Wet. Otter's pocket wet with that fine rain.

Grey.

Misty.

Sunless.

Can't see Drummau.

17.9 in here, 18.6 in the kitchen (found a more accurate Hg thermometer), 16 in the leanto (Wilko garden thermometer).

1012.5 mBar, 29.899 in Hg, 759.44 Torr, 14.685 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 NF, quackhandle, xogg, and I popped in, whilst on the 30th Churchill and BR14 graced the page.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the butterfly thing and the thing about Kiefer Sutherland.

Book: The Horror, The Horror. With bells & fecking whistles on. Glad to finish that one, not that I'll remember much of it.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>

Book.

Nothing to watch on the Idiot Lantern, so: book.

Still nothing to watch on the Idiot Lantern: book.

Finished book.

I see the rats are deserting the sinking ship. Again. .

Is there anyone even mildly competent left in the country or are we on the way to the Farage Reich? Askin' for a friend like. .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy and spitting here. From what the forecast says, it seems we can expect a whole day of drizzle punctuated with rain, without even the saving grace of a brighter, sunnier evening that we’ve had for the past few days. 11°C at present but it “feels like” 7°, and the high will be 16°, though not until after teatime when the rain stops. The barometers are up a bit though, at 1006/1014mB

But: Thursday!

[WTFH]

Morning all
A bit rainy out, but not too bad.

[NickFitz]

In Future Noir, I’m into the very long chapter where he goes through the whole film scene-by-scene, filling in details about actors, props, general stuff that happened, and so on. It’s actually quite interesting

There’s been more showers. Still, after the recent heatwave, I reckon I wouldn’t mind too much if it carries on like this till autumn

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Went to old neighbour's for Scrabble, she beat me, just, both times. Hope I'm as with it as she is when I get to her age.

[NickFitz]

For tea, I had some lamb mince that Needed to be Eaten™ but I couldn’t be bothered dealing with anything too complicated. So I fried it up with some onions and garlic, mixed together various spices, and made a quick curry. A few dollops of that with chips; sorted

I didn’t quite get the balance right in the spice mix so the flavour wasn’t perfect, but it was perfectly adequate for a Wednesday evening

Turned nice again here, after a gloomy and often rainy day with occasional rumblings of thunder