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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka steak slice

[xoggoth]

Scrabble with old lady neighbour called off as she has to see a dentist so nowt social to do today. Been fixing me bin storage thing this morning. Walk planned later takes me past a sewage works, what fun.

[NickFitz]

Where did we go? Most odd.

No idea! It was returning blank pages, but they were the result of a 500 Server Error. Then for a while it was working but every URL returned the home page - I’d not seen that one before!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Is it still Wednesday?

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Windy.

22.7 deg in here, 24 in the kitchen*, 21.5 in the leanto, 19 out the back.

*I didn't have my glasses on to read the thermometer. YMMV.

1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (up from 1003 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile ont he 2nd of April 2020, between 10:00 and 10:39, Barrydidit, Brillo, covbob, MrMarkyMark, and vetran popped in.

Walk (abbreviated: 3 miles) walked in the bracing wind and wan sunshine. Warm it ain't.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Wonderlands E3/4. Kipling, Grahame, Enid Blyton.

Mysteries of the Missing: AF447: or how to stall from 35,000 feet into the Atlantic with the engines at full chat & killing everyone on board. Tunguska: inneresting illustration of possible cause using a light gas gun at NASA.

[NotAllThere]

Ah, we're back

Where did we go? Most odd.

Temperature 25.4 °C (expected 31°C later)
Wind speed 4 km/h from SSE
Wind gusts 6 km/h
Humidity 63%
Pressure 981 hPa

The Rhine is currently warmer than our local lido. 25.3°C.

[WTFH]

Morning all
I almost did some work there while the system was down.

Murky earlier, then the sun came out, but it's overcast again. No rain forecast.

[NickFitz]

Ah, we're back

Morning denizens

It's a gloomy grey day out and there's been a brief bit of drizzle. It's also pretty windy, so the current 19°C "feels like" 16° and the expected high is only 22°, for which much thanks. The barometers are up very slightly at 999/1007mB

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was E2 of the Lockerbie thing

And tonight’s reading was Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont by Saul Austerlitz

Wind’s windy out there

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb cutlets with chips and beans

We’ve had a couple of showers, and the wind’s getting up

[xoggoth]

Old fart arty this morning. Tiny bit of rain but so little almost none of it would have reached the ground. At least it was nice and cloudy on me walky.

[ladymuck]

The Kelpies were very fine. The ride on the Falkirk Wheel was good although probably better if done as part of a boating holiday rather than the somewhat tourist thing we did.

It's been a sunshine and showers type day but there's now yellow warnings of rainfall.

[NickFitz]

Another day done! There’s not a huge amount to do at the moment, as we gradually move towards maintenance mode

One interesting thing that came up though: thanks to the Machinery of Government changes announced the week before last, our official abbreviation is now four characters - in both previous incarnations, it was three. The data in the system I work on includes what is basically a representation of the structure of the entire department, as viewed in financial terms (it’s called a “chart of account” apparently), and many of the things in there include the abbreviation in their names. So is there any code that for some reason digs into those names to find parts thereof, and will break once that bit of the names becomes one character longer?

No, is the answer, because neither I nor any of the other people who’ve worked on it over the years would do it that way. In fact, none of the code cares about those names at all; they’re just for display purposes, and the data we generate with a script for our development environments just uses things like “Group 1” and so on. But while digging through the code just in case, it did occur to me that there might be something with a long enough name that adding one character would make it overflow the size of its column in the database. So tomorrow, I shall have some SQL fun constructing a query to identify any columns in any rows in all the tables that might be at risk

[NickFitz]

Home again!

Minus a little blood and a lot of sweat, as it’s both warm and very close out there

Several butterflies were encountered in the depths of the park. And on the way back, I made a detour to the chemist for the usual monthly job lot

Next up, lunch: yet more Popeyes hot wings from Saturday, as they were on a twofer

[NickFitz]

Sat in the waiting room

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Damp from overnight rain. Cloudy. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 20 expected. More rain due later. Barometer down to 1004 mBar.

Sunrise 05:27; Sunset 21:18 BST

Today we're off to the Kelpies and for a ride on the Falkirk Wheel. HWMBO's niece and family (the ones he did the BBQ for) are passing through so we're meeting up. HWMBO's eldest is doing the driving. Hurray for child labour.