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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Quarantine (2008) in which a TV journalist and a cameraman accompany an LA fire crew on a shout. It turns out to be a medical emergency requiring doors to be broken down, but shortly after entering the building, it’s sealed shut from outside and they and the residents find themselves trapped as some foul virus starts to spread

It was OK, and like many of these things got better towards the end. Nothing special though; for this plot, I think I preferred the one that was filmed in those council tower blocks in Southampton, Containment, that I watched a few years ago

Then I was going to watch a further episode of Pluribus and call it a night as I need to drive south tomorrow. But I’d made the mistake of putting the mundane laundry on a bit later than I usually do, and it always takes longer to dry than bedding, for example, so I ended up watching three episodes before it was done

I’d forgotten that the series is by Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad fame, but the cold open of episode four soon reminded me: a character we haven’t seen before, alone in a situation unlike any other so far, and it soon becomes clear that this is the other, geographically distant, side of something that happened in an earlier episode. And it’s also clear that this will lead to a major twist in the story: maybe not this episode, maybe not even this season, but this guy's going to change everything, though he doesn’t know it yet

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Oh, and no shopping today! Tomorrow’s when I’m heading south for our delayed Easter family get-together, so I might pop into the Sainsbury’s down there on the way back. They sell Old Hooky, which for some reason isn’t stocked by the ones here. I’m planning a proper trip to the shops on Monday or Tuesday though, including popping into M&S - I somehow never get around to going there these days

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas. And lunch earlier was a ham bap

On the telly, the third episode of the documentary about the sinking of the ferry Estonia, which is starting to get into the conspiracy theories

The dog’s servants are back, but probably just to get some more stuff; they were on their balcony earlier. It looks like their big telly’s gone, so no more will I see that flickering away out of the corner of my eye. They seemed to watch a lot of sports

[WTFH]

Drizzling a bit here and I've spent a while this afternoon learning and ordering the bits needed to install a solar panel on a shed.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy with flecks of grey. A light breeze. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 06:01; Sunset 20:01 BST

Busy morning of meetings. Now off for the afternoon.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Quite a sunny day with some clouds here and there. It seems it’ll probably get cloudier though, and the wind will get up; there’s also a chance of showers around teatime. It’s 12°C (“feels like” 6°) and the expected high is 15°. The barometers are up a smidgeon at 1005/1013mB

Meanwhile, at the block opposite, a removals van has been backed up close to one of the doors. This, it would appear, heralds the departure of the dogs and their ancillary staff. A sad day; it was always nice to see them trotting to and from the Dogmobiles with whichever of their humans they’d pressed into service that day

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Dark.

Sunless.

NotSoChilly in here at 15.4 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.

1011 mBar, 29.854 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, covbob, LM, LondonManc, NF, openstrike and quackhandle popped in.

Raining that fine drizzle that's wetter than a really wet thing.

More cleaning of the springs, during which The Back twinged for the first time in a fair while so efforts were curtailed.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about the V2 and dear old Wernher. .

Noticed on the EPG that there was an ep of Skinwalker flagged as new: turned out to be rather less than new: 3 years old.

Further cleaning of the springs may resume later, or maybe it'll just be the usual rough vaccing. Depends on The Back.

Rough vaccing.

Freecell score: 88%, running average: 84%.

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Entertainment: PM <click>

Book.

Other book.

Taggart S10 E1,2,3 "Instrument of Justice". Wherein our hero has a new boss. Goodbye to the Biscuit. Or not.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
Overcast, looks like there was some overnight rain, but pleasant enough on our walk. Took delivery of a solar panel for the new shed. Still no word as to when the base is going in.

[NickFitz]

I finished watching the Artemis programme, then continued reading Here, There and Everywhere in which everybody has a terrible time during the recording of the White Album, leading to our narrator walking out on them one evening because he’s had enough of their tulip, and not working with them again until they hired him away to Apple to work on Abbey Road

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the shepherd’s pie that I started making the other day. Turned out very well

To go with this, I started watching Artemis: To the Moon and Back on iPlayer

[ladymuck]

In other news, I had a BP of 121/78 this morning which is so good, I suspect our Omron is acting up - or maybe the new batteries in it have helped.

I last measured my BP just over a year ago when it was 102/68.

[ladymuck]

HMWBO made a margarita for my post-work beverage.

Work itself was fine. I mentioned to the 'scrum master'/'delivery lead' that the sharepoint folder containing the work the various BAs do could be better organised and received what can only be described as AI generated word salad blathering on about 'a new information architecture policy' and a revised 'nomenclature' and sticking with the 'emergent conventions' for the time being.

[NickFitz]

That’s work done - now I have ten days off!

Though I don’t quite yet, as I promised to leave a decent writeup for the other dev (who’s off this week) of the stuff I’ve discovered about the obscure data issue we’ve been battling, and the various tools I’ve created to help track it down. This would have been done, but stuff that worked locally wasn’t working when deployed, and has been driving me up the wall for half the afternoon - until I realised I’d forgotten to push the most important changes to said tools

Anyway, that should all work now, and I’ll have full details of the specific 25 rows of data (out of around 21,000) that are causing the problem. The people we do this for can then have a look at them and work out what they want to do about it; it’s very likely to be a simple case of random user errors that have accumulated over the past year. With that done, it’ll only take about twenty minutes to write it up, so I’ll probably get around to it while dinner’s in the oven or maybe tomorrow - it just has to be ready for the other dev on Monday morning

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a ham bap, being the Sainsbury’s TTD cranberry and orange glazed ham I tried a few weeks ago. Very nice

The weather has brightened up as promised, though there’s still a fair amount of cloud hither and yon

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast but bright. Very fine rain that I had to squint to see. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:04; Sunset 20:00 BST

Yesterday I delivered my first bit of work for Gig3. they still haven't got their act together about the rest of what I'm supposed to be doing.

Today looks to be a quiet day, depending on what curve balls come my way...