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[NickFitz]

Weekend!

The stakeholders came up with one of those "minor" details that hadn't previously been mentioned about the stuff we're working on which I thought could be a bit tricky. But then I worked out a way of doing it that was very straightforward and elegant, so that was pleasing

[xoggoth]

Old fart Mahjongy thing this morning. I won again. Walky and boring shopping soon followed by equally boring preparation of rubbish for trip to the dump tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: cold pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

It's sunny and rather Simpsonesque out now, but it's getting a bit breezy

This morning was mainly devoted to tedious upgrades, as expected. There's a meeting with "stakeholders" in a while, after which we should be able to get back to the interesting stuff

I must admit, the term "stakeholders" always makes me think back to working on Ubisoft's "Night Hunter" in which you played Dracula and Professor Van Helsing would appear once you'd collected all the treasures, chasing you around and throwing stakes at you as you tried to make it to the exit to the next level

[ladymuck]

Morning all

It was a cloudy start but has brightened up since. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer down to 1029 mBar.

Sunrise 07:09; Sunset 19:08 BST

Tired today. Took a while to get myself motivated enough to get up.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 16.8 deg, 15.5 in the kitchen, 13.5 in the leanto.

1022.5 mBar, 30.19 in Hg, 766.9 Torr, 14.83 psi, (up from 1022 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of February 2020 there was discussion of the 2020 CUK meetup . Talk about tempting providence. . BR14 was watching the decimation in Midsummer Murders, whilst I was watching ST:V: the one where the WWWC talks to "god", while eek relieved LM of the burden of said Xmas do, and LM celebrated with free wine when the wine bar's electric card reader thing didn't work.

Damn thing logged me out this morning.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Took a while to get up to speed for some reason.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The Bottom Line (calm down xogg) waffling on about e business startups. TWATO with that Davis chap waffling on about something.

4 lawns mown. Knackered now & bathed in sweat. Glad I don't have to do the idle git's lawns any more. You can't mow them: they'd required strimming/brush cutting before you could even start.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, and not as cool as the last couple of days.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, albeit with cloud about. Should get sunnier later, though. It's 9°C and soaring to 17° later, which seems quite decent for autumn; the barometers are down a touch at 1016/1024mB

Thursday!

I think I'll go shopping tomorrow morning, but I'm not sure; I may go this evening instead

[NickFitz]

Tonight I finished A for Andromeda, in which it transpired that whatever sent us the message may not have had our best interests at heart, or was at least likely to prioritise its own agenda

Next up: Andromeda Breakthrough (which the back cover mistakenly prefixes with The)

Thursday tomorrow!

Unfortunately, it's "tech debt" Thursday, when the various project teams in our subsection are supposed to put their work on hold and come together to deal with the kind of stuff that gets put off otherwise: security updates to dependencies, version upgrades for libraries and frameworks, and boring stuff like that. Shame, as we've made excellent progress on our stuff this week and it would be good to get it wrapped up. But with luck, there won't be much tech debt to deal with and we can get back to it later in the day

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been battered cod with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the remainder of the motorbike cops thing from yesterday

[WTFH]

Currently watching the latest Travelling Turtle which "dropped" (as the young people say) yesterday.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been salt & chilli chicken thigh fillet in a wholemeal bap, with a bag of plain crisps

There was a bit of sunshine earlier but now there's big clouds with little gaps, so only a glimmer now and then. There's even been a few spots of rain, but that seems to have given up

One of the flats in the adjacent block is being vacated this week - they had a Transit van (hired or maybe borrowed, I assume) here over the weekend, including parking down there at night, and the last couple of days have seen a box van coming, loading, and going. I reckon it's the people who had a lot of guitars on view in their estate agent photos

Anyway, this inspired me to have a look on Rightmove and there are six flats up for sale at the moment: three of them in that block, two in the block opposite, and the one downstairs and across the hall in our block that went on the market a couple of months ago. I think that's the most to have been on sale simultaneously since I moved here!

One of them is the old lady on the ground floor opposite, who has the paper delivered around half-seven each morning and a delivery from Wiltshire Farm Foods every week. They're still coming and there are lights on of an evening, so at least she hasn't popped her clogs

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another sunny start to the day. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 26 expected. It is likely to cloud over as the day progresses with a slight chance of a shower mid-afternoon. Barometer steady at 1031 mBar.

Sunrise 07:07; Sunset 19:11 BST

That's 4 minutes of daylight less than yesterday . Looking at the times down at home, it's shifted 16 minutes earlier there (06:51 / 18:55). Oh the joys of latitude!

Feeling pensive today. Not sure why.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 16.7 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.

1024 mBar, 30.24 in Hg, 768.1 Torr, 14.85 psi, (unchanged), 55% RH (LIdl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of February 2020 eek's daughter's interview lasted 22 minutes, eek, wattaj, AndyGarbs and SimonMac popped in, and it was hammering down old women & sticks in Neath.

Just managed after a mere 7 minutes to arrange the next flu jab for 16:00 on the 4th of October. First time I've used the landline since it was changed to that interweb version.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the slightly wan sunshine.

Managed to twinge my back doing up the shoe laces before going out.

Lots of butterflies on that ivy bush again today.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling about something I've completely forgotten, though I think 40 year mortgages came into it at one point, plus Yodel.

Just spent some time in the deep history of the Book Thread: I can't remember many of those books, thankfully most have met Oxfam.

More gardening: much ivy & brambles decimated. Looking forward to the next bonfire: it'll be a good one.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Back is still complaining but at least I'm still more or less mobile.

Scotland River thing.

Digging for Britain. Very small chance this lasts longer than last week's ep.

Maigret and the 7 little crosses.

Some bollox or other on Blaze about the magic helicopter on the bin laden offing thing.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Cool out, but overcast. A pleasant walk earlier. Now just sorting out a couple of playlists for the holiday.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and somewhat misty start out, so I suppose we're squarely in the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. It's 8°C out there right now, rising to 16° this afternoon, but it'll remain cloudy or mostly cloudy all day. The barometers are steady enough at 1017/1026mB

I wonder what Wednesday will bring? I know it'll bring everybody at work back from yesterday's day out, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are meetings to make up for the meetings that didn't happen yesterday because everybody else was in one really big meeting