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[xoggoth]

Local woods volunteer thing this morning.

Still can't figure out what's wrong with the fridge. How can temperature be 15 when ice keeps forming at the back? 3 thermometers all read the same and the door is properly closed. Only Stephen Hawking or Einstein could solve this puzzle. Anyone got their contact details?

[NickFitz]

Oh, and I took advantage of having to wait around to pop over to Big Sainsbury's - I didn't need much but I had a Nectar price on the coffee beans I like that expires today, so I decided it was worth the trip

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was sausages in finger rolls, a stock of the correct sausages having been procured when I was at M&S the other day

The process of destruction has been proceeding. Most sections of my list are now green, though I'll need to chase a pull request for some stuff I removed from another team's code earlier. This was written a year and one week ago, and the large team I dealt with then has since been reorganised into several smaller teams, so it can be tricky finding out who to prod - the people I could ping on Teams back then are doing other, albeit related, stuff now

Decommissioning some of it is probably not going to happen until tomorrow, as nothing has previously been decommissioned from the platform it's on and the team that are building said platform weren't expecting to have to work out the necessary technical and administrative procedures to take services down quite so soon in it lifecycle

[WTFH]

Birthday present for The Wife from MMtSH has arrived, as has wedding anniversary present from me to her.

Not going to say what they are in case she reads this.

[ladymuck]

^ I had to look up where I was going. A long weekend in Amsterdam with HWMBO.



Afternoon all

It's been a sunny but quite cloudy day. Currently 22 degrees and that's the high for the day. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

I have been camped out in CitizenM Tower Hill this afternoon, pretending to be a 'worker' while HWMBO actually works around the corner. Makes a change from sitting in my home office. Watching the mix of tourists and locals strolling past is quite the past time.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Blue sky in parts.

Cool in here at 18.7 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1012.5 mBar, 29.899 in Hg, 759.44 Torr, 14.685 psi, (up from 1009 last night), 81% RH (GDR hair), 76% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of November 2019 I spoke to 6 people on my walk, rather more than usual, speaking being defined as "Good morning" etc. , whereas LM was awaiting a flight in a Heathrow lounge and had forgotten the liquids bag in her handbag, whereas NF was finding it rather gloomy and sunless.

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc out. A bit autumnally chilly too on our perambulation.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, clouding over later as it so often does. Not as warm as yesterday either, though still mild enough at 12°C climbing to 20°. The barometers are continuing to avoid extremes: slightly up to 1005/1012mB

A look at the exercise app reveals that I spent 139 minutes walking yesterday

That's the thing with London: even if you use the Underground, you still get a lot of walking in just getting to and from the platforms. And I went for a bit of an amble through Bloomsbury too

[WTFH]

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Watched half an episode of Traffic Cops but I'm too tired for telly

Thursday tomorrow, apparently. Soon be Friday, and the start of my holiday!

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

A nice catch up had in Kingston. Took about 1h45m to get there on the bus and about an hour to get home. That meant I only paid £3.50 to get there and back.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon all

Sunny with a mix of lumpy and wispy fluff. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Barometer down to 1010 mBar.

Had a lovely dinner at Blacklock Chop House last night with HWMBO.

Half-millennium!

[NickFitz]

Home again!

I decided to walk back from the station, including a visit to a comparatively new chip shop down that way. This mainly served to remind me of how terribly unfit I am, as home is uphill from there (well, it's a hill by the relative standards of the regional terrain)

Anyway, the chippy seems decent enough. Mind, they have the vague "fish" listed on the menu, with no mention of cod or haddock, and the fish I got definitely wasn't either of those; just some generic but cheaper white fish. Nice enough though, and the chips and batter were both up to scratch

[NickFitz]

I always forget there’s a small Greggs near the EMR platforms at St. Pancras. Grabbed myself a steak bake and a sausage roll, and got the rearmost front-facing seat which happened to be unreserved

[NickFitz]

Meeting done, followed by a couple of pints in the pub over the road from the office. Now in a pub opposite St. Pancras, waiting for my ticket to become valid