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Morning all
I'm on holiday! a new concept for me.
Well, revisited, anyway.
Just working out ways to spend this extra wonga that's come into my possession .
got a new PC ordered, but that doen't even dent it.
It's a grey sort of day, though the high cloud layer appears fairly thin; altostratus, I think it may be. Still not as cold as it might have been at 11°C ("feels like" 8°) with an expected high of 17° this afternoon. The barometers are up a touch at 1011/1019mB
I finished The Andromeda Strain. It's good but the film is basically exactly the same story, so there weren't many surprises in it
And then I started reading Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack. It's written as the diary of a twelve year old girl from New York, recording the gradual collapse of civil order in the USA as a society wracked by division and inequality descends into violence; so basically a guide to what's going to happen over there in the next few months
A positive catch up with one of the directors of CosultancyCo today. More work, not less, coming my way. There was me thinking I ought to start looking for another gig.
A new cover for my garden bench arrived and it fits perfectly. Now the waiting game to find out if it's actually waterproof.
The last episode of High Potential season 1 was a good one! I need to acquire more of S2 before I start watching it.
Tea: caramelised onion sausages with chips and beans
And to go along with it, a bit of the traffic cops on motorbicycles
Before that, I did a bit of work on a WordPress plugin for somebody. This is the first time I've tried writing one of those in about fifteen years, so it was fairly slow going and a lot of tabs had to be opened at various pages of the docs. But I've got an admin page showing up now, so I can see about getting it to actually do some stuff
Not a bad day today, mainly pairing with the other dev. We had a fairly intense coding session this afternoon and, having got tests passing and so on, she decided to knock off at half four! Fine by me
Leftover chilli here for lunch - a nice mix of meat and three bean. Middle child has gone vegetarian which means nice leftovers several times per week now.
Blue sky with occasional wisps. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer up to 1024 mBar.
Sunrise 07:10; Sunset 18:27 BST
Meetings. Nagging people to find and give me information because they won't let me talk to someone with answers to my questions. Other than that, living the dream.
Blue skies here, almost Simpsonsesque, but a bit chilly with it.
Counting down the days in current PermieHellCo as I move back to the CS next year. In January it'll be five years since my last contract gig ended - but the state of the market seems to have absolutely tanked. It was getting hard to find decent gigs even then. Next month my Ltd Co will be closed. It's like the end of an era (sadly - I actually used to enjoy the freedom contracting afforded). Ho hum.
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