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[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of last night’s Police Interceptors

Meanwhile in The Middle Kingdoms, they’ve only gone and invented bureaucracy, economists, and the state. This has led to rulers issuing ever-increasing numbers of decrees, including one who took it upon himself to specify, for the benefit of his subjects, the five acceptable ways of measuring the length of a fish. And it’s also led to the foundation and rise of Freemasonry, which has been eagerly embraced by noblemen, administrators, and military officers across the continent

The bread turned out very well, judging by external appearances

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been breaded cod with chips and beans

Still sunny but the breeze is getting more vigorous if anything. I still haven’t put the air conditioner on since finishing work, and I reckon it can probably stand down now

[NickFitz]

Today was the sprint transition day so there were several meetings. I showed off some stuff in the Show & Tell this morning to the wider… portfolio, I think that organisational level is called? Not long after that finished, we had the team sprint retrospective. This didn’t take long, as there’s only three of us now (PM, DM, me) and we’re generally knocking back feature requests as the thing will be going into maintenance mode soon. But it helped pass some time before lunch

This afternoon was sprint planning, which was mainly moving leftover stuff around and adding a couple of bug (or perhaps just misfeature) tickets. And not long after that, it was the weekly huddle for the whole… directorate? I think that’s it. Over five years I’ve been on this gig and I still only have the vaguest idea of how the Civil Service names its parts

That left the final hour to finish off something interesting to do with users uploading files which have been exported from Excel with the wrong settings (which are, of course, Microsoft’s default settings) and thus have a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark at the start. The fix is literally four characters: replace “utf-8” with “utf-8-sig” and it works for anything. But I ended up spending ages working on tests to prove it was broken without that and not broken with it, which was a useful rabbit hole as I’ll need to deal with some other changes to this area of code next, and now I have a better idea of how it’s organised

I’ve just put a wholemeal loaf on to bake, which I’d forgotten to do until too late the last couple of days. It takes five hours unless you use the “quick” option, but I tried that once and the resulting quality wasn’t quite good enough for me

[NickFitz]

Not much different for me. I really don't understand it, I open all the windows 2+ hours before bed and put a fan in one window but temperature in the bedroom hardly drops at all, 25' last night. Use a little almost silent fan from a computer, really helps. Been doing my walks close to sunset when that damn shiny thing is hiding behind the trees.

I did much the same last night and it only dropped about one degree, to around 26°C, but at least it cooled down a lot more overnight

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bratwurst with the usual trimmings

It continues to be warm but not yet intolerable. I’ve had the study window open all morning and there’s a reasonably cool breeze, so the area of my desk has remained around the 25°C mark. But now the sun’s getting round that side and it’s warming up more, I think I’ll have to close both window and blinds to keep things bearable

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Still sunny and no cloud. A cool 26 degrees at the moment with a high of 28 expected. Barometer down to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 04:54; Sunset 21:03 BST

I opted against travelling to gig3 offices this morning.

Productive morning spent drawing up a process map that still won't be what gig2 wants, but maybe it'll help them express what they want.

[xoggoth]

Last night was, I think, a little more bearable than the previous two

Not much different for me. I really don't understand it, I open all the windows 2+ hours before bed and put a fan in one window but temperature in the bedroom hardly drops at all, 25' last night. Use a little almost silent fan from a computer, really helps. Been doing my walks close to sunset when that damn shiny thing is hiding behind the trees.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny and Simpsonesque start, and expected to be not quite as vile: 15°C now, rising to 25° for a spell in mid-afternoon. The barometers are steady at 1015/1023mB

Tomorrow will see a brief resurgence of The Unpleasantness with a high of 28°, after which things will start getting back to normal, with daily highs dipping below 20° by early next week and rain expected most days

Last night was, I think, a little more bearable than the previous two

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc.
Phew, scorchio, etc.
Max was exhausted after his trip to the beach last night, and apart from him needing to go out at 02:30, he didn't want to go for a walk this morning, just a wander around the garden

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Warm in here at 22.6 deg, 23 in the kitchen, 23 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762 Torr, 14.74 psi, (down from 1017 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, NF, and vetran popped in, as did I, with NF thinking of phoning the Chinese to place his order.

Upstairs windows open all night to cool the place down a bit: the racket from the bypass wasn't too bad. Still hot in here.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the morning's unbearable heat.

In other news there's a leak in the canal up by Calor Gas. Dunno where the water is ending up but it's swirling down a hole like a good 'un.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: a thing about drug tests and the family courts. The usual chaos.

Book.

Someone is reroofing the shed next door. Well there's a thing.

Rain! I stood outside in it for a while until it stopped.

Cleaned the plugholes for the bathroom and the kitchen sink.

Now getting outside a mug of consistent yet mediocre coffee.

Yobs hammering up & down the towpath on motorbikes. Now where did I put that AK? Askin' for a friend. .

Took kitchen thermometer to bits, firkled around with the display, put it back together: still fecked, possibly even more fecked than it was before.

Found a mercury thermometer which is thick enough for me to read.

Minor potching in the garden.

Looked at the caterpillars currently consuming the nettles. They've grown a lot.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>. UFO bollox on Blaze.

Jack Hargreaves: Out of Town: Southall horse mart. Kent: shooting ducks on a lake formed by a closed colliery.

The Lugubrious One: "The Silent Weapon (1961)". The boomerang one.

More Blazian Bollox: With Dan Aykroyd: "wot lies beneath".

Possibly "Marilyn and the mob". Or how the Kennedys managed to share women with the Mafia. Who'd have thunk?

[NickFitz]

In The Middle Kingdoms, the Defenestration of Prague (often called the Third Defenestration of Prague but it depends how you count them, because the people of Prague have historically been very keen on defenestration) has led to the Thirty Years War, which didn’t really do anybody any good

No actual storm came, but it’s cooling down more quickly tonight - already at 17°C and there’s a reasonable breeze, so it “feels like” 13°

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

To go along with this, some new Police Interceptors

The maps still showing a decent amount of lightning over towards Rutland, but it only got within a couple of miles of here and there wasn’t even any rain to cool things down

[xoggoth]

Oldf arty farty thing this morning. No Karaoke this evening, cancelled as too hot and you can't open the hall windows apparently.

[NickFitz]

Thunder and lightning!

It’s mostly over towards Rutland and the bottom corner of Lincolnshire according to the map. But my living room window faces that way and there’s a lot of it! It might be moving closer too

[ladymuck]

Frustrating call for gig2 resulting in a whole heap of rework needing doing because no-one can explain themselves consistently from one day to the next. So glad this one ends in a month.