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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright and dry. Currently 23 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 29 expected. Cloudy should be mostly gone by lunchtime. Barometer down to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 04:51; Sunset 21:20 BST

Dinner was lovely, and would have been better had I not gotten a migraine half way through. I managed to last but couldn't eat anything past the first course due to battling nausea.

Fortunately, it shifted while I slept and did not put my grey hair banishing appointment at the hairdresser in jeopardy.

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) which is not only of no interest to people who aren’t Dylan fans, but probably highly annoying to them. I really enjoyed it

One thing I found intriguing in the concert footage was the way Scarlet Rivera, the violin player, kept her eyes constantly fixed on Dylan. He’s renowned for changing things as he goes along, having even been known to sing entirely new verses to songs that just happened to come to him mid-performance, or possibly because he’d forgotten the words and was making it up as he went along. But she gave the impression that she was ready for anything he might do; not bothered, just ready. And he seemed to realise that, as there were times when he glanced momentarily in her direction as if wondering if she’d realised what he was about to do, then looked back, reassured. It was only ever something like keeping his harmonica quiet because he wanted her violin solo to take precedence at that point, but the dynamics of it all were fascinating

Well, they were if you’re a Dylan fan, but I’ll shut up about it now for the sake of those who aren’t

After that, a rewatch of Rush (2013) about the days when driving an F1 car was tantamount to extremely fast suicide

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch was the rest of the cold cocktail sausages, and tea has been a rack of ribs and chips, this time from a new range at Sainsbury’s. Pretty nice overall, and at least it’s a change from the standard BBQ sauce that they seem to use on everything

This was accompanied by Police Interceptors of which I have a couple of episodes in reserve, due to trying to vary my viewing habits a bit more in recent weeks

[ladymuck]

I believe I have sufficient circumstantial evidence that the magpie which had been investigating my gooseberry bush has been stealing the fruits. I had one fruit on there the other day. Now it's gone.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start again, and starting to get warmer: 17°C now, and aiming for 25° this afternoon. It’s supposed to be cloudy too, but maybe that will come later. The barometers have shot up to 1017/1025mB

Somebody’s moving out of this end of the adjacent block! Two medium-sized removals vans are parked outside, and they’ve spent twenty minutes or more just unloading boxes and several very large rolls of what I assume is bubble wrap. I don’t know which flat it is, but I daresay I could watch the furniture coming out and cross-reference it with photos on RightMove

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with high level wispy bits. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 27 expected. Barometer up to 1030 mBar.

Sunrise 04:50; Sunset 21:21 BST

A bit headachy this morning. For the first time in a long time, I snoozed my alarm and had a longer sleep.

Off out for dinner to Kinkally this evening with friends.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday apparently.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

21.1 in here, 22.2 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto.

1023 mBar, 30.2 in Hg, 767.3 Torr, 14.84 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 31st of March 2020 covbob, LM, vetran and WTFH popped in: there was no news on the pineapple.

Quarter of an hour of Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves on Rewind TV.

About a quarter* of the walk walked in the sunshine. Didn't want to overstress the legs which were rather reluctant to go any further. *About 2 miles in all.

Looked at the parents & grandparents grave: the Agent Orange spray doesn't seem to have done much to the brambles on the grandparents' grave.

Whatever they've sprayed on the parents' grave seems to have successfully killed everything that might possibly have been of interest. The equisetum is, of course, totally unmoved by this.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: "Scott of the Antarctic (1948)". The Golden Age of Empire: 1912.

Book.

All of Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves on Rewind TV: mechanical shovel, thing for hammering in fence posts, neat thing for cutting up logs with a chainsaw, various jobs around his garden, the mule having its hooves trimmed by the blacksmith.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas & suchlike. Entertainment: PM <click> Blazian UFO bolloxy bollox.

Dead Ringers.

Some other bollox.

Dan Snow bollox about Stonehenge.

Taggart S13 E7,8,9. "Babushka": the Russian bride one.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc
CBS, etc.
Cool out on the walk, but very pleasant

Picked about 12kg of plums last night. More to pick this evening.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Brick (2025) on Netflix, a German film in which the residents of some Hamburg apartments awake to find their building completely sealed up inside a wall made of some unknown material, impervious to attack and also apparently capable of generating a force field of some kind. This was really good - way better than I expected it to be, in fact. Highly recommended

In A Game of Birds and Wolves, Doenitz has become head of the navy, and is using his position to throw every U-boat he has into the Battle of the Atlantic. Will the improvement in Allied tactics as a result of the war games at the Western Approaches be enough to withstand the onslaught?

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I couldn’t be bothered with cooking tonight so tea was from Popeyes

Very Simpsonesque out and apparently it’ll get fairly hot over the weekend. Not as bad as it has been, but I reckon the air conditioner will be getting a workout

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Sometimes we end Tech Debt Thursday with an hour-long chat on Slack about anything interesting that’s come up, but various people are off and others had gone to the Cardiff office for something, so it didn’t happen this week. So I went through a few tickets from the pentest earlier in the year. Some minor things I can’t change because it’s down to another team, and some others turned out to be OK after all. In particular, a bit of infrastructure was upgraded to TLS 1.3 in line with NCSC’s recommendations a couple of days ago, so that change ended up incorporated in our stuff when the unrelated security fix I released this morning was deployed! Always nice to be able to close a ticket because somebody else has done all the work

[ladymuck]

I did some work. Also reminded the programme manager that my contract is up in a month as I got warning yesterday that extensions take a while.

[ladymuck]

Morning all
I'd not say it was raining or even drizzling earlier, but the air was damp.

Om

[NickFitz]

Having dealt with a minor security update this morning, I was able to pop along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and get the shopping done at lunchtime

After I was back, I was due for a meeting with a user researcher to gather my opinion of some documentation of a new process I want to adopt for deployments. I’d been through the docs and made notes, which he greatly appreciated, and I’m hoping they’ll be able to make some improvements as I’m pretty sure I’d be unable to complete the process without help as things currently stand

With that done, I finally had a few minutes to spare for lunch, which was some of those cold cocktail sausages as they’re quick and easy

Back to the fray now