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[NickFitz]

Another week done!

My hopes of quietly ignoring Tech Debt Day were dashed as the other dev wanted to finally deal with a big change we'd started figuring out before Christmas! She’d made a lot of progress on it after I finished for the year, but it’d been on the back burner since then as it was potentially quite risky if we’d missed something. We decided to bite the bullet and go for it, and it all went smoothly in the end

[ladymuck]

Gig3 have issued log in details. Password reset, MFA set up, now waiting to be spammed with meeting invites.

[NickFitz]

Lunch is only just about to happen, as I decided to do the quick run to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s, only to meet with roadworks there and back. But the main delay came from being “randomly selected” for a full trolley rescan - which also happened last week at Big Sainsbury’s

This meant that by the time I got back, the other dev had already resumed work, so I felt it incumbent on me to join in. We’re now waiting for something to redeploy, so she suggested a tea break, which I’m using to guzzle some leftover lamb bits from the other night

The rescan only showed one error, and it wasn’t mine - she’d somehow managed to miss the coffee beans

[xoggoth]

Old fart Mahjongy thing this morning. Unexpected drop in by loony lady 3, her bus had been diverted due to a road closure.

[sadkingbilly]

First day at new gig was as expected. No log in details, no building pass Smile and invoice, as they say.

Morning

I charge extra for smiling. not in my SOW.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast again. Slightly damp. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 9 expected. Showers likely. Barometer up a snifter to 984 mBar.

Sunrise 07:21; Sunset 17:11 GMT

Tired this morning. Went to bed early, woke up about 2 and a half hours later with upstairs making a racket going out (who goes out after midnight on a Thursday morning?) After that I was dozing, semi waking up, etc.

First day at new gig was as expected. No log in details, no building pass Smile and invoice, as they say.

[Pondlife]

Good Morning all,

Wind 19 kt from the West/Northwest
Temperature 9°C
Humidity 87%
Pressure 984 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Broken clouds at a height of 1100 ft
Overcast at a height of 1600 ft

Definitely lighter in the mornings now but still dreary and grey.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Irritating beeping from one or other of the smoke detectors. Then the batphone.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Damply damp.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.

982 mBar, 28.998 in Hg, 736.56 Torr, 14.242 psi, (up from 976.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 covbob, DaveB, LM, WTFH, NF and I popped in to sort out how many meals resided in NF's freezer and whether spirits counted as an antiviral. and the assembled congregation were reminded of by DaveB.

"It's time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture,"

Sounds painful. . Time for a Jimmy. .

Walk (towpath, unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. Still got wet feet, these shoes being "Waterproof" and long past their best.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Julian Barnes waffling on about books. R4 trail about the fecking olympics <click with extreme prejudice>

Foyle's War S8 E3 "Elise". It ended with a bit of a bang, though I did notice an edit, presumably to spare the feelings of we afternoon telly watchers.

Tea: beans on toast/baked spud with added scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM which went <click> a lot since it covered things I didn't want in my head.

Look at Life:

[WTFH]

Morning all
Dawn chorus started just before 6:40, at which time it was starting to get bright out and not raining (although it had been raining overnight). I was happy that so far on the walk, my choice of clothes had been correct - no need for the waterproof trousers, so it was jeans & a long coat. About half an hour later the heavens opened
Got back home around 7:45 and have hung my jeans up to dry.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start again. It may be 6°C, but it “feels like” 3° and it’s getting no warmer than 7°. It’s also maybe (50%) going to rain around teatime and in the night. The barometers are negligibly up at 969/977mB

But it’s Thursday!

It’s also the day when we’re supposed to deal with tech debt, but I’m hoping we’re light on that this fortnight and I can get more done on my current thing, as it’s close to being ready to hand off to the stakeholders so they can say it’s not what they wanted

I’ve also remembered that late last year, I proved that it was feasible to do the shopping by popping along the road to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s on Thursday lunchtime so I don’t have to do it in the evening or on Friday. So I might do that

[NickFitz]

More Swift stuff done, now at the level of writing tests to work out some of the idiosyncrasies of SwiftData

And I also finished The Jane Austen Project. It’s an entertaining read

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I got distracted by some Swift stuff for this app I’m working on, and decided I couldn’t be bothered with cooking - also, I didn’t have anything in that I fancied. So I went on Deliveroo and ordered something from the Turkish place

It arrived in ten minutes! Definitely the fastest food delivery I’ve ever received

This was accompanied by a further episode of 999: What Happened Next on 4. Turns out driving to a tiny village in the middle of nowhere during the Covid lockdown to commit a crime made it extremely easy for the police to track your movements via CCTV and ANPR, as there were hardly any other cars on the roads

[NickFitz]

Another pretty productive day!

I got bogged down for a while this afternoon tracking down some weird behaviour in a React component. I think I figured it out in the end; at any rate, it’s doing what it ought to now. The other dev was busy with some other stuff but she knows much more about React than I do, so she said she’d have a look tomorrow to check I haven’t done something else weird that merely happens to work at the moment

It rained quite heavily for a while after lunch, but the sky cleared a bit towards the end of the day so we got an hour or so of sunny spells

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a sardines-in-tomato-sauce toastie

Still grey here, though the drizzle stopped

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

981 mBar, 28.97 in Hg, 735.8 Torr, 14.23 psi, (up from 979 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 BR14, covbob, LM, and NF popped in, and I bought this very chromebook from an Argos shop that isn't there any more.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the rain. Dry to start & didn't stay that way for long. Ho hum.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the 11:45 thing. <click>.

Foyle's War S8 E2 "Trespass". Begin's finest hour: killing 90 odd people in The King David Hotel bombing. Getting his hand in for later. Then bringing their terrorism to London. Plus the rent-A-Nazi follower of Moseley MBGA.

Sun came out & it turned into a pleasant looking afternoon, rather more pleasant than this morning's grey & miserable walk.

Book: Mercator has ended up in prison for Believing The Wrong Things: such as Reading the Bible in Translation and Evil Things like that. Fortunately his wife burned all his letters before the inquisitors had chance to read them. . Otherwise Mercator would probably have been and not in a Good Way. .

At least William Tyndale was strangled before he burned unlike the unfortunates in this country under Bloody Mary.

Tea: Tesco battered (or might be breaded) cod. A bit meh, if I'm honest about it. Entertainment: PM <click>

Look at Life: The Straits of Dover and the introduction of the one way system.

Scotland Yard. "The bullet from the past" (1957). with Ballard Berkeley.

Yesterday: Abandoned Engineering. London: deep tunnels, SOE, Interservices Research Bureau, Ian Fleming. Hotline subsequently went through the later telephone exchange. Pinelands, NJ: Lakehurst AFB. Hindenberg fire. Grimsby Ice Factory. Killed by the 1970s cod war. Italy: Rovegno colony as built by dear old Musso. Subsequently used by Italian partisans to off German POWs and fascist supporters in 1945.

TLC: Bad skin clinic. Woman used some "Orange" creme off the interweb which set off her eczema. Chap with familial lipomas, lots of them. They keep coming back, it's the 2nd time he's had them removed. Chap with acne keloidalis nuchae: laser, steroid, antibiotics. Woman with a large epidermoid cyst on her face: cheesy goodness. .

Elementary S1 E13. "The Red team". Military industrial complex war games paranoia.

Bit of "Science fiction: Mary Shelley to Isaac Asimov" thing on Sky Arts.