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[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".

[WTFH]

Morning all
Gentle spitting at the start of the walk, but within a few minutes that had stopped. Miracle of miracles.
A bit breezy out, but the dawn chorus was in full song by 6:45

[NickFitz]

On my way to newClientCo for Day1. A "stand up" that takes an hour every week is at 9 am so I've been asked to turn up at 8.30 am to be shown around etc. Decided to take the train instead of drive as it's hopefully a more predictable journey. Google maps was estimating between 1h10m and 2h if I were to drive it.

Commuting!

Old skool

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day, and drizzly too at the moment, with more of the same likely off and on. Mild enough at 8°C with 10° expected by lunchtime; there’s no breeze to speak of, so the “feels like” figure of 6° is down below the fold. The barometers have plummeted further to 969/977mB

[ladymuck]

^^ om



Morning all

The sun is not yet ris. Cloudy. Wet but no active precipitation. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 12 expected. Barometer down to 983 mBar.

Sunrise 07:23; Sunset 17:09 GMT

On my way to newClientCo for Day1. A "stand up" that takes an hour every week is at 9 am so I've been asked to turn up at 8.30 am to be shown around etc. Decided to take the train instead of drive as it's hopefully a more predictable journey. Google maps was estimating between 1h10m and 2h if I were to drive it.

[NickFitz]

Much mucking about in Xcode this evening, trying to get SwiftData to do something it seemed unwilling to do. But I cracked it in the end

This meant that I only had time for a couple of chapters of The Jane Austen Project, in which the time travellers’ subterfuge is starting to unravel

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by Police Interceptors, which turned out to be the last in the series - but another series has already started!

[NickFitz]

No rain here yet, but the radar suggests it may arrive soon

I did, in fact, manage to get some stuff done this afternoon. There was one thing which I thought was going to be quite tricky involving a complex React component, but it turned out after I read the docs for it (and understood them, and read part of a basic React tutorial to make sure I understood) that it was really easy to do! So that was pleasing

But then I got waylaid, having to work with the other dev on filling out a long and incredibly tedious form for the forthcoming annual pentest of the app. This involved things like dumping out a list of every URL in the app, then going through them comparing them to the same list from the form a couple of years ago (last year’s has been lost) to check what to include where. Using a diff tool helped with this, but it still wasn’t exactly exciting

But that’s Tuesday done, meaning I’m halfway through the week

[ladymuck]

The forecast light rain is now heavier rain.

[xoggoth]

Not too rainy on my short walk after old farty arty thing but pretty wet now. My conservatory roof is leaking, had to put a big plastic storage box underneath. Won't be able to seal it until the warm dry weather comes.

[sadkingbilly]

Lunch has been a ginster's cornish pasty with lots of HP sauce, in true manly fashion.
still bloody raining though, bugrit bugrit bugrit.............................

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a roast beef bap (wholemeal)

We’re remarkably free of meetings today! I may even get some stuff done this afternoon

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast and damp. Some spits and spots of rain. Currently 9 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Light rain forecast all day. Barometer down to 988 mBar.

Sunrise 07:25; Sunset 17:07 GMT

I was up and out reasonably early for a Tuesday morning for a 09:10 blood test.

Annoyed the agency sorting out Gig3 because the contract review raised some red flags even though the overall assessment was OK. "You may not get the outcome you desire" Gotta love a thinly veiled threat. Such things don't scare me! I'll still be starting tomorrow but at least I have a paper trail of me asking for some clauses to be reviewed. It really annoys me that the 'senior recruiter' references employment in all of their communications. It's not hard to drop that word.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damp.

Misty.

?Drizzly? It probably wasn't then but it is now.

Grey.

Sunless.

Blue sky in parts (WTF?).

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

984.5 mBar, 29.07 in Hg, 738.44 Torr, 14.278 psi, (down from 986.5 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 WTFH & NF discussed Italian VPNs, covbob resigned, AndyGarbs found bogroll in Aldi, Brillo popped in, and I visited the library computer room & found it almost empty, whereas covbob discovered he was the only one in the office.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus since I didn't feel like listening to today's ep of the 11:45 thing about living in Bristol and running a shop.

Foyle's War S8 E1 "High Castle": the naughty Septic Nazi loving businessman one.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the light drizzle. Not as warm as yesterday.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM. Let's see how quickly it irritates me and goes <click>: all of 17 minutes.

A thing on Yesterday about WWII Luban in 1945: final death throes of the Wehrmacht.

Bit of another thing about WWII in the east, the "Eastern Wall". 32km of tunnels etc.

A Tale of Two Cities: how London changed over a couple of centuries. Might have been awake for some of it.

Horizon waffling on about sewage treatment works and the recovery of useful stuff and the cleaning of effluent so it can return to the river. No tulip sherlock as they say. . . Wet wipes are not popular in the STW world.

Thing about Easter Island: from the perspective of the original inhabitants. Still didn't really explain why all the trees disappeared though the rat theory seems plausible.