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[NickFitz]

I finished The Andromeda Strain. It's good but the film is basically exactly the same story, so there weren't many surprises in it

And then I started reading Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack. It's written as the diary of a twelve year old girl from New York, recording the gradual collapse of civil order in the USA as a society wracked by division and inequality descends into violence; so basically a guide to what's going to happen over there in the next few months

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

A positive catch up with one of the directors of CosultancyCo today. More work, not less, coming my way. There was me thinking I ought to start looking for another gig.

A new cover for my garden bench arrived and it fits perfectly. Now the waiting game to find out if it's actually waterproof.

The last episode of High Potential season 1 was a good one! I need to acquire more of S2 before I start watching it.

[NickFitz]

Tea: caramelised onion sausages with chips and beans

And to go along with it, a bit of the traffic cops on motorbicycles

Before that, I did a bit of work on a WordPress plugin for somebody. This is the first time I've tried writing one of those in about fifteen years, so it was fairly slow going and a lot of tabs had to be opened at various pages of the docs. But I've got an admin page showing up now, so I can see about getting it to actually do some stuff

[NickFitz]

Not a bad day today, mainly pairing with the other dev. We had a fairly intense coding session this afternoon and, having got tests passing and so on, she decided to knock off at half four! Fine by me

[NickFitz]

Only a month until TPD's 20th birthday

How should we mark that momentous occasion?

Might have to break out the famous marching band

Yes, I think they ought to be here for the occasion!

[ladymuck]

Might have to break out the famous marching band

[covbob]

Only a month until TPD's 20th birthday

How should we mark that momentous occasion?

[covbob]

Leftover chilli here for lunch - a nice mix of meat and three bean. Middle child has gone vegetarian which means nice leftovers several times per week now.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of leftover spicy lamb and onion starter from Saturday

Quite sunny here, though there's some banks of white cloud about the place

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional wisps. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer up to 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 07:10; Sunset 18:27 BST

Meetings. Nagging people to find and give me information because they won't let me talk to someone with answers to my questions. Other than that, living the dream.

[covbob]

Morning everyone.

Blue skies here, almost Simpsonsesque, but a bit chilly with it.

Counting down the days in current PermieHellCo as I move back to the CS next year. In January it'll be five years since my last contract gig ended - but the state of the market seems to have absolutely tanked. It was getting hard to find decent gigs even then. Next month my Ltd Co will be closed. It's like the end of an era (sadly - I actually used to enjoy the freedom contracting afforded). Ho hum.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 17.5 deg, 16.5 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto, 12.7 in the saltinghouse.

1019.5 mBar, 30.1 in Hg, 764.7 Torr, 14.786 psi, (up from 1017 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of February 2020: same as yesterday.

Washing frenzy in progress. How have I reached the stage of doing the washing on Monday? As was always the case for decades.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: bit of a thing about swans on R4, the swans in question being post Mao Chinese.

I see that "They" have "improved" Sounds by making it worse. Twas always thus: some feckwhit techie thinks they've improved what was already good by ******* it up.

We shall find out how totally ****ed up it is when iRoning time arrives shortly.

It forgets that it's progressed to the next ep in the series. The old version didn't do that.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.

The last of the washing frenzy is about to meet the iRon, then it'll be over for another week: complete: all airing upstairs.

Tea: chilli con carne (with actual carne in this tin unlike the vegetarian option more recently enjoyed). Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM <click>

Oak Island nutjobbery. Alternatively there's a 1960s James Mason Le Carre on another channel that might just be a better bet since the nutjobbery is rapidly passing any innerest whatsofeckingever.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, with just a few small, flat bits of cloud towards the horizon. Still a little breeze left, though nothing like it has been; the current 11°C "feels like" 7° as a result, but we can expect a balmy high of 19° for much of the afternoon. The barometers are, as expected, up at 1010/1018mB

[NickFitz]

Later viewing this evening was also on Netflix: Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall, recorded in March. It's an interesting idea for a programme. The interviewee is guaranteed that it won't be broadcast (well, streamed) until after their death. There aren't even any members of the production crew in the studio, only the interviewer: the cameras are operated remotely, and the operators don't have an audio feed. She had a lot of good things to say, though not about Trump, Musk, Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu

In The Andromeda Strain, the containment of the space organism has started to fail!

Goodnight all