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[NickFitz]

Tea has been the last of the weekend leftovers, which lasted until now because there were things that Needed to be Eaten the last couple of days

Turning sunny again out there now

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka sausage roll

Still grey here but the rain has stopped

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Started off grey and damp from overnight / early morning rain. Now brightening up. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:43; Sunset 21:21 BST

The weekly all hands programme meeting at gig3 this morning was spent cleaning my hairbrush. It's one of those bristle ones and each tuft of bristles seems to have a never ending supply of fluff firmly tucked within. Each time I thought I had it pretty much clean, I looked from another angle and there was more to be found. I haven't cleaned it in a long while; it's my own fault.

[xoggoth]

Bit too many things today, group walk this morning, "book reading" thing afterwards and, as usual, I've hardly read anything, then Scrabble with old lady neighbour. At least I've finally got my shed fixed.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Wet.

Drizzly.

Grey.

Sunless.

Misty over by there: can't see Drummau so it must be raining, March Hywel invisible too.

19.8 deg in here, 21.25 in the kitchen (nice graduations on this thermometer), 19 in the leanto.

1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.6343 psi, (up from 1008.5 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the the 30th of March 2020 LM's fan heater arrived, NF posted a picture of a clogged fan heater fan, and Brillo popped in.

Sleep was disturbed last night: the 4 a.m. reading took place, with the land of nod eventually reentered sufficiently to finally awaken at 08:12, just in time to turn the wireless on, then turn it off again due to lack of innerest, probably due to our glorious leader spouting some nonsense or other.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the thing about 1976: cricket. Well it was a good year for playing it, being a drought and all. .

Book.

Still can't see Drummau or March Hywel.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. I achieved warmth by the end of it, as in unzipping the waxed jacket.

Mix: Oz customs thing: more Chinese foods: AuD3756 fines. More concealments: MDMA and ketamine. All good clean fun.

PBS: The Titans E2: Eisenhower and dear old Khrushchev. All the way through to the U2 incident & "the Military Industrial Complex". Plus all those wonderful CIA takeovers in middle & south America: making things safe for Cocacola and United Fruit.

The Great supporters of Freedom & Democracy busily overthrowing democratically elected governments so they could install the usual bunch of fascist dictators of whom they are so enamoured.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. The Beeb are saving £500M by killing off news programmes so I wonder how much longer that & TWATO have to run. .

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town: dogs. clocks. The latter being the more inneresting.

No ginger prof this week: the last half of Bab5 S1 E7 War prayer.

My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance

Poor old Londo, it's just as well he didn't know what was coming. .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and rainy start, after overnight rain heavy enough to wake me a couple of times. But I felt like I didn’t sleep so well anyway, being beset by vivid but inconsequential dreams; I ended up ignoring the first alarm and having to drag myself out of bed when the second went off. It’s mild, being 16°C, which is where it was overnight; the rain’s expected to finish soon, though it’ll remain cloudy, with the day’s high being 21°. The barometers are up a little at 1003/1010mB

Two of the young magpies were just round the back, pulling up moss on the corrugated roof of one of the garage blocks. I’m a bit worried about the third, as I don’t think I’ve seen it for a couple of days. I noticed from the start that one of them seemed a bit more clingy, so maybe it’s just staying closer to home while the two bold ones go off adventuring. But it’s also possible they’ve lost one, which would be a shame

[WTFH]

Morning all
Very murky earlier but it has lifted slightly. There's been some overnight rain, but it was dry on the walk.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a bit of new Police Interceptors

And in Future Noir, they’ve finally found all the original negatives and so on and been able, after a few years of legal holdups, to make The Final Cut. Also some stuff about the flying cars ending up in museums and so on

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

^^ celery?

It’s the most widely used Python task manager - basically a thing that allows you to say “run this code, but not yet” or “as and when” so you can kick off long-running processes without having to wait for them to finish. In this case, users upload a spreadsheet and get sent to a page that shows a list of uploads and whether they’ve been processed, any errors found, and so on. But actually processing the data takes six or seven minutes, and you can’t expect them to wait that long for a response to come back when they’ve submitted the form; so that’s spun off as a background task, and Celery manages the business of starting it up when there’s spare processing capacity, maybe retrying it if there’s a problem, ensuring it’s shut down properly once it’s finished, and all that kind of thing

[NickFitz]

It also looks like there may be a new series of 24 Hours in A&E. I haven't double checked it's not a repeat yet.

I saw that - a whole series too, rather than letting it out in dribs and drabs. Looks like a brand new one too, as it’s showing yesterday as the “first broadcast” date

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken thighs roasted with a bit of Jamaican jerk seasoning and a lemon and herb jus, and chips

Bit of an experiment but it turned out quite well, that. And it used up a lemon before they shrivel up

[ladymuck]

It also looks like there may be a new series of 24 Hours in A&E. I haven't double checked it's not a repeat yet.

[ladymuck]

^^ celery?

The space for doing was not optimally used this morning.

About 10 mins before the afternoon run of back to back meetings started, I put a wash on but obviously didn't have time to hang it out when it finished. It finally got draped about the airer about 3 hours after the beep.

[NickFitz]

Another day done, and as soon as I was finished I got a wholemeal loaf going in the bread maker. It takes five hours, so it always feels too late to start if I leave it much past 17:00

The people who are in charge of the data reckon there’s no need for my cunning plan to fix it, on the grounds that the people who work with it have been advised to fix their own bits manually and if they don’t, it can’t be that important. Fair enough

So that left me in peace to work on my solution to the problem. In fact, I ended up spending more time working out how to test it, as testing Celery tasks turns out not to be as straightforward as testing normal things. I might ditch that for now in favour of just getting the fix deployed, as I know it works from manual testing and they also want to do that, so they aren’t worrying about it at the end of the month

[sadkingbilly]

hello again

sun's just come out here
another tough morning at the office.

just installed a local AI to check what all the fuss is about.
none of the models knows much about Zsystems though *

ah, well, I won't be joining the sad sacks in SotM thread anytime soon.

*wrote me a win11 jukebox app in 5 goes <> 30 mins though, and it works