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[NickFitz]

Lunch was a hastily-eaten roast beef bap (wholemeal)

The reason for the haste, and for being unable to record this fact earlier, was that somebody - not me - had messed up the meetings and only left us thirty minutes for lunch

And I was very busy the rest of the day as I brought my code into contact with real data, where it immediately encountered an anomaly it hadn’t seen before and did strange things. It turned out this was a known issue with some legacy data from last year, but the developer who knew about it has left and it hadn’t occurred to anybody else to mention it, if they’d even remembered. Anyway, I quickly worked out a way of dealing with it, and got that done this afternoon

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon people
day#2 of my month off*.
not bored yet.
so far, so good.


*avoiding top tax rates for this fiscal year. anything done in March'll be paid next year.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and wet. Much rain overnight. Currently 5 degrees ('feels like' 2) with a high of 6 expected. Drizzle anticipated for most of the day. Barometer down 993 mBar.

Sunrise 07:37; Sunset 16:54 GMT

Slow start to the day today. The recent flurry of activity seems to have dissipated. Back to normal tick over.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday by all accounts, including the clock.

Damply dry.

Greyly sunless.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11.5 deg in the kitchen, 9 deg in the leanto.

987.5 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (up from 987 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of March 2020: see yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom & cold wind. Bracing out there today.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Archive hour about steel.

[WTFH]

Morning all
The overnight precipitation was heavy, but eased around 6am, and by half way round our walk it had stopped. Now just overcast an murky.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s yet another cloudy and breezy start, with additional emphasis on the breeze today. This means that the current 3°C “feels like” -6°, which seems a little harsh and suggests the expected high of 5° won’t be much better - though it looks like the breeze might have eased off a bit by then. Rain is due this evening (60-75% chance). And the barometers are hunkering back down at 983/991mB

[NickFitz]

In Berlin, the Red Army are closing in on the centre of the city, meaning things are going pretty badly for everyone else

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been some Turkish leftovers with chips and ketchup

To go with this, the latest episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody about an already convicted prolific child rapist, a number of new victims having come forward since he was banged up. So it wasn’t really in the spirit of the title, being more than 24 hours and not in the custody suite; but he got an extra five life sentences to add to the ones he already had, so that’s OK

[NickFitz]

That’s Monday out of the way!

I’ve been working on a thing that lets you drill down into an extremely large dataset, aggregating values at the top level and then letting you expand rows to see the breakdown; there’s about twenty columns and you can go down seven levels, with thousands of rows if you were to expand the whole thing. Last week, I spent a bit of time adding a loading indicator, as it could take two or three seconds for the data to load when you expanded a row. Then I set to work optimising the data retrieval and by this afternoon, I’d got it loading so fast that most of the time, your visual cortex doesn’t register the presence of the loading indicator before the new rows appear

[ladymuck]

I got home about 10 minutes before the plumber turned up (they were very early). The chap took one look at the boiler, asked me what the problem was, then said he'd send in a quote. Done and gone in under five minutes.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently.

Grey.

Wanly sunless.

Damply dry.

Chilly in here at 12.7 deg, kitchen: 11.5, leanto: 9.5.

992 mBar, 29.294 in Hg, 744 Torr, 14.39 psi, (down from 996 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of March 2020 BR14, Brillo, and scruff popped in, whilst NF popped out to the Chinese.

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

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Jim Naughtie waffling on about SepticLand. Thing about Constable & his paintings. Noon o'clock news. Y&Y <click>

Walk (abbreviated due to the earlier shopping trip, towpath) walked in the grey gloom.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Should Mandy be added to "Dead Celebs" do we think?

Oak Island nutjobbery: off to the EUSSR again again. One assumes that the Garden Shaft remains as full of water as ever & will never be discussed or even mentioned ever again.

NCIS S22 E3. Let's hope it's better than last week's dreary crap. Meh.

History thing: Gobekli Tepi. At least they managed to keep most of the ancient aliens nutjobs in the cupboard. Which was a plus.

[WTFH]

Morning all
It wasn't raining on our walk this morning!
Yellow warning of rain come into effect at lunchtime today.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull. Wet. Raining. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 5) with a high of 9 expected. More rain forecast. Barometer down to 998 mBar.

Sunrise 07:38; Sunset 16:53 GMT

In clientCo office this morning for a meeting then leaving at lunchtime to let a plumber in.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start again, though no rain this time. Slight breeze though, so the current 6°C “feels like” 2°, and presumably much the same ting will happen to the day’s high of 7°. The barometers are much of a muchness at 987/995mB

I see I forgot to sign off last night, which probably explains why I had such an unsettled night. Anyway, the days’s and evening's viewing was some wildlife stuff plus a bit of the C5 surgeons thing

And in Berlin, the Russians have launched their attack, though Zhukov has struggled because a hill was steeper than he expected. This was partly the fault of Stalin though, who’d kept him so busy in Moscow that he hadn’t had a chance to visit the location in question when drawing up his plans, as he normally would have done

Anyway, this means it’s possible the Soviet forces to the south of the city might make it first - though, unbeknownst to them, Stalin has specifically directed them on a course which will take them straight to the Nazi’s main nuclear weapons research centre in the southeast of the city, where he’s hoping they’ll be able to grab a load of uranium oxide before the Americans get a sniff of it