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[NickFitz]

Another day done, and it's the weekend!

By virtue of skipping a couple of meetings that weren't particularly important (or not in my opinion, at least), I got my prototype thing working

Only just remembered to submit my timesheet!

I've been considering whether I need to do any shopping. I think I can probably get away without it this week

[xoggoth]

The other problem with more TV channels is that they're all full of repeats and crap, and they don't really offer more viewing choice.

Yeh, U etc just do old stuff but there used to be a few things worth watching, rarely find anything now. Still, sticks are useful if you missed something recent and have an old TV that doesn't work with iPlayer, my5 etc catchups.

[DoctorStrangelove]

And following on from Mr Springsteen there's another 45 minutes of my life gone, watching some French long distance rifle shooter doing a review of Hollywood sniper movies.

He's not impressed. .

[ladymuck]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc

[NickFitz]

Hot dogs for lunch

It's gone all grey and overcast here

Too many meetings AGAIN this afternoon! I'm trying to work something out and I'd like to just get on with it. It's either really clever or an utterly deranged hack, and I won't know which until I've got it working

[sadkingbilly]

The other problem with more TV channels is that they're all full of repeats and crap, and they don't really offer more viewing choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc

[ladymuck]

Mahjongy thing soon with old usual ladies. Loony lady 3 is asking me about way of getting more TV channels. Trouble is, if she gets a Roku/Fire etc stick she will probably expect me to set it up, be constantly asking me how to use it, sign into channels etc. Non techy people with techy stuff are a pain in the ***.

The other problem with more TV channels is that they're all full of repeats and crap, and they don't really offer more viewing choice.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy after a bright start this morning. Currently 12 degrees with a high of 13 yet to come. Barometer up to 1008 mBar.

Sunrise 06:52; Sunset 16:37 GMT

This morning I went to get my head examined. It'll be a while before I get the MRI results but we all know it'll be

The headaches eased up about a week after I first saw the doctor so I'm pretty sure all the tests will come to naught.

[sadkingbilly]

Mahjongy thing soon with old usual ladies. Loony lady 3 is asking me about way of getting more TV channels. Trouble is, if she gets a Roku/Fire etc stick she will probably expect me to set it up, be constantly asking me how to use it, sign into channels etc. Non techy people with techy stuff are a pain in the ***.

yep. - you help setup summat, out of kindness/neighbourlyness, and you've signed up for a lifetime of unpaid on-call support.

[WTFH]

morning all
Clear skies overnight, but then some light cloud came in after 4am. A chilly 6C on the walk, but with stunning light on the cloud

Oooo...
Just noticed this is a Mod-eniummm - 373000

[xoggoth]

Mahjongy thing soon with old usual ladies. Loony lady 3 is asking me about way of getting more TV channels. Trouble is, if she gets a Roku/Fire etc stick she will probably expect me to set it up, be constantly asking me how to use it, sign into channels etc. Non techy people with techy stuff are a pain in the ***.

[WTFH]

morning all
Clear skies overnight, but then some light cloud came in after 4am. A chilly 6C on the walk, but with stunning light on the cloud

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently: must be judging by the racket the recycling engineers made.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Even chillier in here at 15.7 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto (was 10), 7.3 in the saltinghouse.

1001 mBar, 29.559 in Hg, 750.8 Torr, 14.518 psi, (up from 998 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of February 2020 wattaj and AndyGarbs popped in, WTFH's nerve block wore off at 22 o'clock, whilst NF, LM, and I all had chicken/turkey for tea, and I watched Mad Max as Mr Christian, with Hannibal Lecter as Captain Bligh.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Fecking raining: in the TD it goes bit by fecking bit. TD duly doing its random number generation thing: 3 mins to go changes to 16. Just like that.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Pick with rain all the way there, picked with rain all the way back. The only dry thing was the umbrella.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the fishing thing: Senegal.

Everything dried (ish): that requiring the iRon received the attentions of the iRon &everything is now airing upstairs. I feel poorer.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage Xmas Special 2014 plus The Number 48 House thing E4 of 5.

Tea: beans on toast: purchasing error: reduced salt & sugar: WTF? Meh.

Entertainment: PM.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start today, with just a few slight streaks of cloud hither and yon. Pretty windless too, so 6°C now "feels like" 5°. Can you tell the difference? I'm not sure I can! The expected high is 12°, and the barometers are bouncing back at 994/1002mB

Thursday! I got some good work done yesterday on a prototype for a thing we'll be planning out further in a meeting this morning, so I'm hoping to get that to the point of being a usable demo of what we're talking about. Too many meetings this afternoon though: an occasional "all hands" tech one mainly about strategy, which is usually pretty dull, and later a "catch-up" with the wider team within our subsection (can never remember what the Civil Service calls them). I could do without both of them when I've got something interesting to work on, though they come as a relief when working on dull stuff

[NickFitz]

Did a bit of mucking around with Swift. It occurred to me that you can extend built-in stuff, including defining arithmetic operators. This has led to code dealing with graphical objects becoming much simpler as I can now do things like multiplying a rectangle by 2 to make it twice as big, rather than having to explicitly perform the individual operations on its width and height

And after that, I read some more of Ambient

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all