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[NickFitz]

I got some more bits done for the Swift app earlier

And for tonight’s reading, I turned to Peace and War by Joe Haldeman. I read his The Forever War last year and quite enjoyed it, and it turned out the best way to get the two others in the trilogy, Forever Peace and Forever Free, was to buy this omnibus volume of all three. So as it’s the first one, I’m reading War again before continuing with the other two

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

They're watching you. .

Do they know you're from Liverpool?

Just askin' for a friend, like. .

<- since I was reminded of it back in 2020 this very morn. .

Given that it’s happened at two different stores, I’m tempted to go to the one in the north of the city next week and see if I get the hat trick

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was initially accompanied by the NEW! series of the motorway cops that never seem to go on a motorway, but 5’s streaming seemed to pack up after a few minutes and it just sat there showing a spinny thing (“throbber” is the technical term). So I started watching a thing about Three Mile Island on Netflix instead

[DoctorStrangelove]

Lunch is only just about to happen, as I decided to do the quick run to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s, only to meet with roadworks there and back. But the main delay came from being “randomly selected” for a full trolley rescan - which also happened last week at Big Sainsbury’s


The rescan only showed one error, and it wasn’t mine - she’d somehow managed to miss the coffee beans

They're watching you. .

Do they know you're from Liverpool?

Just askin' for a friend, like. .

<- since I was reminded of it back in 2020 this very morn. .

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

My hopes of quietly ignoring Tech Debt Day were dashed as the other dev wanted to finally deal with a big change we'd started figuring out before Christmas! She’d made a lot of progress on it after I finished for the year, but it’d been on the back burner since then as it was potentially quite risky if we’d missed something. We decided to bite the bullet and go for it, and it all went smoothly in the end

[ladymuck]

Gig3 have issued log in details. Password reset, MFA set up, now waiting to be spammed with meeting invites.

[NickFitz]

Lunch is only just about to happen, as I decided to do the quick run to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s, only to meet with roadworks there and back. But the main delay came from being “randomly selected” for a full trolley rescan - which also happened last week at Big Sainsbury’s

This meant that by the time I got back, the other dev had already resumed work, so I felt it incumbent on me to join in. We’re now waiting for something to redeploy, so she suggested a tea break, which I’m using to guzzle some leftover lamb bits from the other night

The rescan only showed one error, and it wasn’t mine - she’d somehow managed to miss the coffee beans

[xoggoth]

Old fart Mahjongy thing this morning. Unexpected drop in by loony lady 3, her bus had been diverted due to a road closure.

[sadkingbilly]

First day at new gig was as expected. No log in details, no building pass Smile and invoice, as they say.

Morning

I charge extra for smiling. not in my SOW.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast again. Slightly damp. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 9 expected. Showers likely. Barometer up a snifter to 984 mBar.

Sunrise 07:21; Sunset 17:11 GMT

Tired this morning. Went to bed early, woke up about 2 and a half hours later with upstairs making a racket going out (who goes out after midnight on a Thursday morning?) After that I was dozing, semi waking up, etc.

First day at new gig was as expected. No log in details, no building pass Smile and invoice, as they say.

[Pondlife]

Good Morning all,

Wind 19 kt from the West/Northwest
Temperature 9°C
Humidity 87%
Pressure 984 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Broken clouds at a height of 1100 ft
Overcast at a height of 1600 ft

Definitely lighter in the mornings now but still dreary and grey.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Irritating beeping from one or other of the smoke detectors. Then the batphone.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Damply damp.

Chilly in here at 13.8 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.

982 mBar, 28.998 in Hg, 736.56 Torr, 14.242 psi, (up from 976.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020 covbob, DaveB, LM, WTFH, NF and I popped in to sort out how many meals resided in NF's freezer and whether spirits counted as an antiviral. and the assembled congregation were reminded of by DaveB.

"It's time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture,"

Sounds painful. . Time for a Jimmy. .

Walk (towpath, unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. Still got wet feet, these shoes being "Waterproof" and long past their best.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Julian Barnes waffling on about books. R4 trail about the fecking olympics <click with extreme prejudice>

Foyle's War S8 E3 "Elise". It ended with a bit of a bang, though I did notice an edit, presumably to spare the feelings of we afternoon telly watchers.

Tea: beans on toast/baked spud with added scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM which went <click> a lot since it covered things I didn't want in my head.

Look at Life: Gardens to order.

5: The Railway Map of Britain. Even managed to mention the Penydarren Tram Road, or rather, Richard Trevithick’s engine.

BBC4: Hurricanes and Heatwaves: the history of the weather forecast. <click>.

Book. Well that's good: no one's been buried alive in a pit for heresy in this chapter: which was the "kinder" death if you confessed to heresy: if you didn't it was the fire.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Dawn chorus started just before 6:40, at which time it was starting to get bright out and not raining (although it had been raining overnight). I was happy that so far on the walk, my choice of clothes had been correct - no need for the waterproof trousers, so it was jeans & a long coat. About half an hour later the heavens opened
Got back home around 7:45 and have hung my jeans up to dry.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start again. It may be 6°C, but it “feels like” 3° and it’s getting no warmer than 7°. It’s also maybe (50%) going to rain around teatime and in the night. The barometers are negligibly up at 969/977mB

But it’s Thursday!

It’s also the day when we’re supposed to deal with tech debt, but I’m hoping we’re light on that this fortnight and I can get more done on my current thing, as it’s close to being ready to hand off to the stakeholders so they can say it’s not what they wanted

I’ve also remembered that late last year, I proved that it was feasible to do the shopping by popping along the road to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s on Thursday lunchtime so I don’t have to do it in the evening or on Friday. So I might do that

[NickFitz]

More Swift stuff done, now at the level of writing tests to work out some of the idiosyncrasies of SwiftData

And I also finished The Jane Austen Project. It’s an entertaining read

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all