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[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Lunch was very late, as I nipped up to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s for such bits as I needed and by the time I got back, the other dev was ready to start looking at some stuff. So I worked with her on that until we both got bored determined, in our professional opinions, that the various matters at hand had been fully addressed; after which I had a Pukka steak slice

I meant to fill the car up last week as it only had a quarter of a tank and it was obvious petrol prices were heading upwards. But I forgot, and had to do it today instead at the new, higher price

Judging by such news as I’ve had time to read, this was probably still a lot cheaper than doing it next week

[ladymuck]

What a whiny post for an Om. I do apologise.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Dry. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 12 expected. Occasional light showers forecast. Barometer up to 1012 mBar.

Sunrise 06:22; Sunset 18:01 GMT

Grumpy today. Mainly because some manager at gig1 stalled the issue of a report to be issued to the client because they looked at it on Monday and never thought I needed to know that it was approved for release. So I've billed for the time I've spent waiting around for them to notify me. They still haven't notified me, rather someone else asked them and I've heard the news third hand. I am so fed up of ConsultancyCo; I really need to source a different route to this client if I want to return in the future. Getting on ClientCo's PSL is a pain in the proverbials and really isn't friendly to small companies.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Currently dry.

Grey.

Windy, very.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.7 deg, ? in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.576 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of March 2020 I visited various graves in the cemeteries, whilst AndyGarbs, covbob, LM, NF, and WTFH popped in, and someone was attempting to scam xogg with some bogus email about Amazon.

It's not dry any more. Horizontal drizzle.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: bit of a thing about the fall of Singapore followed by more of Bliar and the Weapons Inspectors. Dearlove still unrepentant despite the complete & utter lack of WMD.

No walk today from the looks of things: I don't do horizontal drizzle. Bet it's lovely down in SA1 at Ye Newe Sloughe of Desponde at the moment. I wonder if any of the Esteemed Customers managed to walk across that wind tunnel bridge across the Tawe.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Windy out, but dry for our walk, although looking at the dark clouds, it's raining nearby.
Excitement from yesterday evening was that the grass had dried enough (and it was light enough) to get the mower out for the first cut in a while. in places the grass was quite long. The excitement continued in that I had about 3 litres of fuel in the jerry can, which half-filled the tank on the mower and should give me enough for at least one more cut.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a cloudy sort of start again and going to be pretty windy all day, with rain expected this evening. It’s 8°C but “feels like” -2°, with an expected high of 12° that presumably won’t feel much better. The barometers are down some more at 997/1005mB

But: it’s Thursday!

[NickFitz]

I managed some productive meddling around with SwiftUI during the evening

And I read some more of The Three-Body Problem

Thursday tomorrow!

It’s our Tech Debt day. There’s some stuff the PM wants us to focus on, which the other dev has had more to do with than me; I don’t know whether she’ll want me to help, or if she’ll be happy to get on with it on her own. She doesn’t seem to think it’ll be too burdensome though, so once we’ve done that there may be time for me to finally dispose of the thing that’s dragged on since before Christmas - though I’ve just remembered that it may be better not to use that just yet, as it does some serious meddling with the structure of the database, and due to a platform bug that they thought they’d fixed earlier in the week and hadn’t, we might not be able to restore it if things go horribly wrong

But it also means there’s a good chance I’ll be able to nip along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s at lunchtime and get the shopping (of which there’s very little needed) out of the way

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

It was a tiring but productive day at the coal face.

Got home about 6.30pm. Nearly 12 hours out of the house

[NickFitz]

Pork cutlet with chips and beans for tea

And a bit of the motorway cops thing to go with it

[xoggoth]

ll3 was pain in the **** as usual. Took her to garden centre supposedly to buy a few packets of seeds and ended having to heft a huge sack of compost.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold chicken leg

It was supposed to get quite gloomy here but if it did, I missed it. It’s tending towards the Simpsonesque out there now. Still very breezy though

The daffodils in the central flowerbed have bloomed

[xoggoth]

Wander up to local history group coffee morning shortly. Taking ghastly old ll3 to the nursery for some planty things later.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Damply dry with puddle in saltinghouse.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 1 something in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto, 9 in the saltinghouse.

1005.5 mBar, 29.692 in Hg, 754.2 Torr, 14.584 psi, (up from 1000 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 20th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, LM was starting with a new client, NF and I popped in, whilst WTFH took a nice photo of the kestrel that was upsetting the guinea fowl.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the Eyrack war thing at 11:45.

Stuff in off the line, duly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Remaining stuff in off the line & airing upstairs: completed.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Nearly collided with a MAMIL who approached from behind without the courtesy of a bell or speech: what speech there was was me telling to feck off you moronic twat. Always happens when you're out without a gun. . Followed by another moron who did the same thing without the lycra. He'd have got 9x19 too if I'd had one handy.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock (or cod). Nice enough. The spud had spraint spraing which was rather irritating. Spraint, of course, is otter droppings. .

Entertainment: PM.

Scotland Yard. "The Tyburn case": the one about the woman found drowned in the Tyburn River sewer.

Alice Roberts Hospital through time thing? Poor sod with metastasized testicular cancer.

Bad Skin Clinic. Dr Pimplepopper instead. S1 E1.

Elementary S1 E17. Not on. Showing some crap about psychopaths instead. WTF?

Gito Hari waffling on about Welsh on S4C Yng Nghymraeg so subtitles were employed.

UFO bollox on Blaze: <click>

Looks like Wednesday evenings are now as devoid of any innerest on the idiot lantern as most of the other evenings. Ho hum. Might buy the Elementary box set the next time I'm in that Swansea.

Then again, I've never progressed further than S1E1 of Better Call Saul. .

I wasn't tempted to mow the lawn this week on a Wednesday having done it yesterday on a Tuesday.

[WTFH]

Morning all
After heavy rains and high wind overnight, apart from the wet ground it was blue skies and sunny on our walk earlier.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start with some cloud, but it’s starting to cloud over. There was some rain and quite a high wind last night and it’s still a bit breezy, so the current 7°C “feels like” 1°; the expected high is 11°. The barometers are down to 994/1002mB

I awoke with a slight soreness in the throat today, which reminded me that it was similar yesterday but soon passed off so I forgot about it. It seems to be lingering a little longer today, so perhaps I have some kind of lurgy. At least it seems pretty mild so far, if that’s what it is