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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: pork cutlet and apple sauce in a wholemeal bap with a bag of plain crisps

    Morning survived, and there's a couple of developer sessions this afternoon which will help fill up the time to COB

    Timesheet already submitted, as the authorising person asked for them early to get them out of the way before she goes off on holiday

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    Filthy weather from about 8pm yesterday through the night. Blue skies just before 6 this morning and a chilly 3oC, so we headed out. 20 minutes in there was a brief squall, and then about 50 minutes in the heavens opened with sleet.
    It eased up maybe 20 minutes later, and we're now dry and warming up.
    No snow here, unlike the videos I've seem from Plymouth and Dartmoor.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Thursday.

    Awoke at 05:10 with my stomach growling for some unknown reason.

    Damp.

    Grey.

    Sunless.

    Chilly in here at 13.1 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto.

    971.5 mBar, 28.6884 in Hg, 728.68 Torr, 14.09 psi, (down from 973 last night), 76% RH (GDR hair) 65% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 10th of September 2019 there was further discussion of the iRon and the propensity of Strangelove Mater to iRon everything in sight, while True Movies had renamed as Sony Movies Xmas before it disappeared off the EPG this year after yet another rename to "Great", in addition NF was afflicted with some sort of lurgie.
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  • Dactylion
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Morning denizens

    Last day of the working week!
    Morning

    Yaaaaaaay!!! Last day of week.... and a short week next week....

    No mega plans for the weekend... happyness is a a quiet long weekend! :-)

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Been rainy overnight but it's a sunny start. Not so warm at 5°C and not getting past 9°, with the barometers down yet more at 964/972mB

    Last day of the working week!

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  • NickFitz
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    Further viewing was the first half of an episode of World in Action from the early 1990s about New Age Travellers, on YouTube

    And I started looking through some SceneKit docs about materials and textures but decided it was too heavy going for a Wednesday evening - definitely a topic to approach earlier in the day, when one has some mental energy left to devote to it

    Thursday tomorrow, but Friday-shaped!

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been roast breast of lamb with chips. I like a bit of breast of lamb occasionally; it's very fatty so has a good flavour

    It was accompanied by a new episode of the Brighton nighttime police thing, as a new series of that has just started

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  • ladymuck
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    Afternoon all, New York calling, local time 1643

    Dull but dry on arrival. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) and that's the high for the day. Rain due soon.

    Currently in the Chelsea lounge at JFK and will be leaving for LAX in just under an hour.

    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    It's probably either/both:
    1. Save on flight tax because the tax on flying to Dublin is a lot less than the tax flying to Mexico, and then if you are just In Transit through LHR on the other flight then you pay a minimal tax.
    2. She needed one more sector/a couple more points to stay BA Gold, and the flight did that.

    But more likely, it's a late birthday present from HWMBO, who forgot it was her birthday last month and thought a trip to Dublin would make up for it.
    Option 1.

    HWMBO isn't on this trip but will be meeting me when I get back to Dublin next week for a weekend away.

    This trip will contribute towards the points needed for GGL renewal.
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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup with some white bloomer toast

    It's been a hectic morning. There was a long meeting to review various aspects of our product to decide whether it can go into production, all of which discussion was somewhat derailed when it was realised that nobody has ever planned which team will take it on for ongoing maintenance once it does - we aren't a long-term team, just a loose assortment of misfits brought together to get it shipped and move on

    And i hastily added the new PM to a system he needed to look at to get some work done, forgetting that I was supposed to go through a convoluted process to do so because it's stuffed full of extremely sensitive information. The people responsible seem to have calmed down a bit now I've confirmed he's got clearance

    Finally, I managed to deploy a bug yesterday which caused our staging service to go haywire and post the same data to an external system nearly three hundred times in the space of two hours. Maybe that meeting about being ready for production was a bit premature

    Oh well, back to the fray!

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  • xoggoth
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    How are you chaps keeping?
    Pretty spry for me age, lot more ancient than you.

    Walk with old fart group this morning. Except me, all ladies as usual. In cafe afterwards a lady I know decided to start talking about my, ahem, rear preferences. Not summit I'd have brought up meself with people I hardly know.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by covbob View Post
    Morning fellow denizens!

    Grey and dull here in the Midlands, although the sun has been making a valiant effort to shine through.

    Having one of my periodic bursts of wondering what I'm doing today. Been in the Civil Service as a permie almost three years now and out of my technical specialism for 18 months. I keep almost putting in my notice to jump back to the contract world and then seeing the mortgage that needs paying and my pension gradually growing... and don't do it.

    Knees hurt this morning. I passed forty a couple of years ago and my body seems to be gradually packing up in ways it never did before.

    How are you chaps keeping?
    Hi

    I'm OK thanks - keeping busy working with the Civil Service as a contractor!

    My right arm's never been the same since last year's Covid jab, though I don't know if it was that or RSI showing up at the same time. I've almost given up on my knees ever getting back to a half-decent state

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  • covbob
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    Morning fellow denizens!

    Grey and dull here in the Midlands, although the sun has been making a valiant effort to shine through.

    Having one of my periodic bursts of wondering what I'm doing today. Been in the Civil Service as a permie almost three years now and out of my technical specialism for 18 months. I keep almost putting in my notice to jump back to the contract world and then seeing the mortgage that needs paying and my pension gradually growing... and don't do it.

    Knees hurt this morning. I passed forty a couple of years ago and my body seems to be gradually packing up in ways it never did before.

    How are you chaps keeping?

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Wednesday.

    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    After the old farty arty thing I called in on loony lady 3 to help with problem with her phone. Took about 10s, she had the base unit upside down!
    Xogg Om.

    Dark.

    Dank.

    Dreary.

    Grey.

    Sunless.

    Wet.

    Hammering down & blowing a gale overnight.

    13.4 deg in here, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 11.5 deg in the leanto.

    974 mBar, 28.7622 in Hg, 730.56 Torr, 14.1266 psi, (down from 979 last night), 76% RH (GDR hair), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 10th of September 2019 the library computers didn't compute due to ongoing updations, much effort was expended in extracting roots from the bit of garden I was turning into more lawn, Die Hard II was viewed. and BR14 didn't have anything i related other than the iRon.

    The sun came out: thusly The Walk (unabbreviate) walked in the sunshine, gradually replaced by increasingly gloom gloom. Very gloomy now.

    Compared with yesterday's no scarf etc. today the scarf was pressed into service, removed for a while, put back on, then removed again as circumstances required.

    Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

    Entertainment: thing about The Terminator on iPlayer. Bits of Y&Y waffling on about the dire quality of new houses.

    Dunno what's wrong with me today: can't get Freecell higher than 78%, and one attempt was 65%.

    Oz customs: the usual usual. Thai food including mouldy dead frogs. Vietnamese chap with "only fish" found to have the usual boxes of inadmissable stuff: $460 fine.

    Tea: soup etc.

    Entertainment: PM.

    The Mentalist S1 E23: "Red John's Footsteps". The twins one.

    Freecell score: 89%, running average: 86%. Better but still no cigar.

    Dr Pimple Popper.


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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    A bit precipitous earlier, mostly when we were about 3km from home and from then until we got in the door, so only a meagre 7.52km walked.

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

    Bon voyage

    Still seems very strange to me that you have to fly from London to Dublin for the sole purpose of flying back to London to get to Mexico
    It's probably either/both:
    1. Save on flight tax because the tax on flying to Dublin is a lot less than the tax flying to Mexico, and then if you are just In Transit through LHR on the other flight then you pay a minimal tax.
    2. She needed one more sector/a couple more points to stay BA Gold, and the flight did that.

    But more likely, it's a late birthday present from HWMBO, who forgot it was her birthday last month and thought a trip to Dublin would make up for it.

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