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[NickFitz]

It’s been such a busy day that I didn’t even have time for lunch!

Quite Simpsonesque out, with a cooling breeze which was appreciated just now when I popped round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription, it being that time again

The busyness was due to a never-seen-before bug which has screwed up the figures for this month. Upon investigation, hunting through logs and so on, I was able to ascertain that a few days ago, somebody managed to upload a file containing updates to the data three times within eight seconds, presumably mashing the submit button when nothing happened instantly. These uploads each kicked off a background task, as it takes about six minutes to process the data. It’s limited to two background workers at a time, so the first two started up straight away, the third coming in once one of them had finished. And it seems that the system was never designed to cope with two (or more) instances of this process running in parallel, as it's messed things up royally

I’m reasonably sure that I finally managed to identify the root of the problem, which was a few lines of innocent-looking code written back in 2019. And having worked out the unusual circumstances with which they were intended to cope, I was able to get confirmation from our subject matter experts that such circumstances should never arise, and ought to be treated as an error if they do. But who knows what was said by the experts of seven years ago, long gone by now?

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Currently in the sunny phase of a sunshine and showers type day. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Barometer up a smidge to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 04:45; Sunset 21:17 BST

Busy morning at the gig3 coalface, now kicking off an afternoon at gig2. Only three weeks left there, so I'm making sure I get my hours in to maximise the billing.

[sadkingbilly]

The interviews and other stuff might turn out to be interesting, but I’m not sure I’m too bothered about the 2049 stuff

I sometimes think I should watch it again to see if it grows on one. But then I decide not to, or not yet

I wouldn't bother. it's PISH!! (was on freeview the other night).

Morning all

apparently, 11 years ago, the REAL king billy* bought me a beer in my local bar in Den Haag
doesn't time fly

* Konig Willem-Alexander.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

18.2 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.6343 psi, (unchanged), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Anonimouse, Brillo, BR14, LM, NF, scruff, and WTFH popped in, and LM had celeriac soup. I know what soup is, the other I'm not sure about. I wonder if scruff's krugerrands are still in SA.

This morning's waking happened at 02:40ish, and the Second Sleep eventually returned, with waking at something after 08:10.

I suspect I did too much yesterday as the aches & pains are much worse than usual and the lumbar spine is complaining a lot. Thank feck for ibuprofen.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine, and a 30 second shower of rain. Bunch of skoolkids walking up the valley on a skool trip as I was walking down. Well it's better than being stuck in a classroom innit?

I really should remember that I'll never see my 60s again: totally & utterly fecked after yesterday's shopping expeditions with the post No Mow May lawn mowing.

Took at least half a mile to get the knots out of my back & persuade the legs to work properly.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the butterfly story: so far she's got to 8, of which the latest two are the very common small white and an equally common speckled brown. Only 52 to go, then, though the green hairstreak should make up for it a bit.

I wonder if they have those lovely tiny blue butterflies in Denmark.

Y&Y was waffling on about first jobs, which took me back: Granada TV Rentals (gone), then Telebank (gone), then 3M Gorseinon (my bit went 30 years ago: all gone now), then Siliconix (gone in 1992), then Styx (gone in 1993), then Alphr (still going as far as I know), then Reten Acoustics (still going, called something else, acquired), then the fraudster guy who ended up in gaol (never paid me, sacked me, never paid his rent or rates to the council), then Industrial Data Products (recently demised), then Applied Visuals (gone after some simulation software they used wasn't available anymore), then Tellermate the money weighing lot (still going: the Llanwern blast furnace is gone too so the atmosphere must be less sulphurous now), then Wolsey Comcare (gone), then Modemetric (gone), then Zirkon (taken over, moved elsewhere), then Modemetric again (gone, owing millions), then Philips Semiconductor (gone), then Scantronic (Cooper Security, now Eaton, never did visit that tool shop in the carpark), then the fruit machine company (gone), then the hair removal lot (moved from the Technium: still going as far as I know), then Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde (moved from Mount Pleasant to down the docks so you could watch the waves in the dock & wonder if the microwaves from the radar on that ship were frying your brain and would anyone notice).

Entertainment: Outback Wreckers. Watchout for those ticks & spiders mate. .

Am Dro. Holyhead. Bala. Three cliffs bay, estate near Dinefwr castle.

Blaze UFO bollox: UFOs and the Septic civil war. Apparently if the north had lost democracy would have been lost from the world. FFS. Complete & utter unbelievable bollox. <click>

[WTFH]

Morning all
Got caught in a brief shower just before 6, but apart from that a pleasant walk has been had.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny(ish) start for a change, but getting cloudier with a chance (35%) of a spot of rain around 9am. Not as warm either, being 11°C which “feels like” 5° and only expected to get to 16°. The barometers are steady at 1000/1008mB

[NickFitz]

In Future Noir they’ve ended up arguing over the script, brought in another writer (who thought the first script was excellent), and ended up taking parts of both. And, of course, funding being pulled and new funding secured, because that always seems to happen

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

I wonder what the diffs are from the 1996 First Edition. I'm not altogether sure I'm innerested enough to buy it to find out. . Oh. Added interviews with Sean Young, Harrison Ford, and Rutger Hauer, plus bits about the Director's Director's Cut Cut. Or something. I wonder if he finally caught up with Joe Turkel. Oh, and something about 2049, that dire turkey, all shiny with deafening music to make sure you couldn't hear the words. And absolutely nothing on the scale of "Tears in rain". 3 hours of boredom. Maybe I should burn the bluray so no one else has to suffer. .

The interviews and other stuff might turn out to be interesting, but I’m not sure I’m too bothered about the 2049 stuff

I sometimes think I should watch it again to see if it grows on one. But then I decide not to, or not yet

[NickFitz]

Tea has been sausage casserole out of the freezer with chips

This was initially accompanied by Apple’s developer conference thing, in which they got the embarrassing stuff out of the way right at the start: admitting that they’ve had to deal with a load of tech debt in terms of bugs they’ve allowed to accumulate, and also that everybody hates “Liquid Glass” so much that they’ve had to make it possible to turn it off - though they've avoided the embarrassment of an “off” switch by instead adding a slider via which you can turn it down, all the way to nothing

Once that was done, a bit more of the shoplifting thing that they’ve stuck the “Police Interceptors” name on for no good reason

[xoggoth]

Took ghastly old ll2 to music thing yesterday. Abba tribute band was good.

Just doing boring stuff today, like fixing my shed door that wouldn't close due to wonkiness as result of subsidence. Lesson learned too late, if you get a new shed/greenhouse put it on a solid concrete floor.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

And after a hectic morning, lunch has been a hastily-prepared pancetta omelette

Back to the fray now…

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and damp. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 17 expected. More rain due and the sun might make an appearance this afternoon. Barometer down to 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 04:45; Sunset 21:16 BST

Many meetings for gig1 this morning. Now to prep for many gig2 meetings. I need to also do something for gig3 but can't remember what.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Tonight’s reading is Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner (Third Edition, 2017) by Paul M. Sammon

I wonder what the diffs are from the 1996 First Edition. I'm not altogether sure I'm innerested enough to buy it to find out. . Oh. Added interviews with Sean Young, Harrison Ford, and Rutger Hauer, plus bits about the Director's Director's Cut Cut. Or something. I wonder if he finally caught up with Joe Turkel. Oh, and something about 2049, that dire turkey, all shiny with deafening music to make sure you couldn't hear the words. And absolutely nothing on the scale of "Tears in rain". 3 hours of boredom. Maybe I should burn the bluray so no one else has to suffer. .


Dreadful night's sleep: awake from the usual work nightmare at 04:00 (yes, literally) drenched in sweat, read book for hour & a half, dried off, got cold, then managed to return to the land of nod until 08:30.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

White sky.

18.3 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1008 mBar, 29.77 in Hg, 756 Torr, 14.62 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

A400 flew over Neath as I made my way down to town.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. No need to buy multiple tins of bully beef or packets of cheese this week. Remembered to buy some ibuprofen.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about Danish butterflies: woman who wants to see every species of Danish butterfly in one season.

Shopping trip to Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Next door's lawns duly cut: after the No Mow May it was fecking hard work on the big one: managed to preserve most of the orchids aside from one I didn't know was there and another that had fallen over.

Some excitement & much foul language when the fuse in the tin shed blew, requiring testing with a lamp to trace WTF was going on. Plugged in a different socket in the salting house to complete the lawn, the fuse can wait until my hands stop shaking. I wonder how old that fuse is, it's in an old switch that has variously supplied power to sheds for at least half a century, possibly more. . And it didn't blow as such, just failed, presumably of old age. Now I'll have to find the fuse wire so I can replace it. Nice bit of asbestos in the fuseholder. .

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas & such like. Entertainment: PM.

Skinwalker Ranch. EOS summing up type clipshow.

No NCIS since it finished last week & I don't bother with NCIS Hawaii.

History's Mysteries: TWA 800.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

As expected, it’s a gloomy, grey, drizzly start to the day. Must still be quite breezy too as the current 13°C “feels like” 8°. The expected high for the day is 16°, the rain will dwindle away during the morning, and there may be a bit of sunshine in the last few hours before nightfall. The barometers are down a bit at 1000/1008mB

[WTFH]

Morning all After a weekend up in Surrey/London, back home and it’s raining.