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[NickFitz]

Tea has been some Turkish leftovers with chips and ketchup

To go with this, the latest episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody about an already convicted prolific child rapist, a number of new victims having come forward since he was banged up. So it wasn’t really in the spirit of the title, being more than 24 hours and not in the custody suite; but he got an extra five life sentences to add to the ones he already had, so that’s OK

[NickFitz]

That’s Monday out of the way!

I’ve been working on a thing that lets you drill down into an extremely large dataset, aggregating values at the top level and then letting you expand rows to see the breakdown; there’s about twenty columns and you can go down seven levels, with thousands of rows if you were to expand the whole thing. Last week, I spent a bit of time adding a loading indicator, as it could take two or three seconds for the data to load when you expanded a row. Then I set to work optimising the data retrieval and by this afternoon, I’d got it loading so fast that most of the time, your visual cortex doesn’t register the presence of the loading indicator before the new rows appear

[ladymuck]

I got home about 10 minutes before the plumber turned up (they were very early). The chap took one look at the boiler, asked me what the problem was, then said he'd send in a quote. Done and gone in under five minutes.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently.

Grey.

Wanly sunless.

Damply dry.

Chilly in here at 12.7 deg, kitchen: 11.5, leanto: 9.5.

992 mBar, 29.294 in Hg, 744 Torr, 14.39 psi, (down from 996 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of March 2020 BR14, Brillo, and scruff popped in, whilst NF popped out to the Chinese.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Jim Naughtie waffling on about SepticLand. Thing about Constable & his paintings. Noon o'clock news. Y&Y <click>

Walk (abbreviated due to the earlier shopping trip, towpath) walked in the grey gloom.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Should Mandy be added to "Dead Celebs" do we think?

Oak Island nutjobbery: off to the USSR again again. One assumes that the Garden Shaft remains as full of water as ever & will never be discussed ever again.

NCIS S22 E3. Let's hope it's better than last week's dreary crap.

[WTFH]

Morning all
It wasn't raining on our walk this morning!
Yellow warning of rain come into effect at lunchtime today.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull. Wet. Raining. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 5) with a high of 9 expected. More rain forecast. Barometer down to 998 mBar.

Sunrise 07:38; Sunset 16:53 GMT

In clientCo office this morning for a meeting then leaving at lunchtime to let a plumber in.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start again, though no rain this time. Slight breeze though, so the current 6°C “feels like” 2°, and presumably much the same ting will happen to the day’s high of 7°. The barometers are much of a muchness at 987/995mB

I see I forgot to sign off last night, which probably explains why I had such an unsettled night. Anyway, the days’s and evening's viewing was some wildlife stuff plus a bit of the C5 surgeons thing

And in Berlin, the Russians have launched their attack, though Zhukov has struggled because a hill was steeper than he expected. This was partly the fault of Stalin though, who’d kept him so busy in Moscow that he hadn’t had a chance to visit the location in question when drawing up his plans, as he normally would have done

Anyway, this means it’s possible the Soviet forces to the south of the city might make it first - though, unbeknownst to them, Stalin has specifically directed them on a course which will take them straight to the Nazi’s main nuclear weapons research centre in the southeast of the city, where he’s hoping they’ll be able to grab a load of uranium oxide before the Americans get a sniff of it

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been dull, damp and wet today, both at home and in Sussex. The high was 9 degrees. Barometer is at 999 mBar.

Sunrise 07:40; Sunset 16:51 GMT

The drive twixt and tween home and Mum's was uneventful. On getting home, I got a reasonable parking space which will be lost when I go to the office tomorrow.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place, because I couldn’t be bothered cooking and I had an £8 voucher I had to use there some time this week

The kitchen isn’t being completely neglected though: a wholemeal loaf is in the process of becoming in the breadmaker

[NickFitz]

Currywurst for lunch

To go along with this, a bit of Ice Road Truckers

[WTFH]

Dinner is prepped, a variation on Ottolenghi chicken with preserved lemons. Seed bread is prepped, to go in the oven at the same time as the chicken tagine.
Last night’s film entertainment was “Don’t Look Up” from five years ago. Funny, but also a lot of similarities to US politics right now.
On the joblist for this afternoon is to try to work out why the number keys have stopped working on my Zagg iPad keyboard. Very frustrating.

[NickFitz]

NF was celebrating the opening of his windows by opening the windows a lot, though the cold was a bit offputting.

A glorious time. After years of suffering, the relief was tremendous!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day again, and things seem a little damp after some rain last night. Mild enough though: 7°C (“feels like” 5°) and aiming for 8° this afternoon - though that will coincide with the chance of more rain, continuing into the night (50-70%). The barometers have moved cautiously upwards to 988/996mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Grey.

Misty.

Sunless.

Drizzly.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.

997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (up from 996 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of March 2020 Brillo and BR14 popped in and NF was celebrating the opening of his windows by opening the windows a lot, though the cold was a bit offputting.

Raining.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: book. End of book.

New book. Other book.

Sun's out.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Warm it wasn't.

Tea: baked spud & baked beans. Nice enough.

Entertainment: The invention of liquid paper back in the 1950s by the mum of one of The Monkees, Mike Nesmith.

Poetry <click> The book of the week thing about dry stone walls.

Secrets in the Ice. Crap Ses Gorge in the Swiss Alps: Roman dagger and slingshots found, dated about 15 BC from a previously unknown battle. Cache of food tins found on Axel Heiberg Island, Canada assumed to be from the Hans Kruger 1930 expedition (lost). Cancaicha rock shelter, Peruvian Andes, Pencuncho Basin, some 12k years ago, five skeletons and some obsidian tools. Mount Makalu: Yeti footprints.

Sergeant Cork. S3 E2 "The case of the 6 suspects".

Disaster thing on Blaze. Port Royal, Jamaica: destroyed by earthquake & tsunami at 11:43 in 1692, the 11:43 bit being confirmed by a gold watch they found in a concretion underwater. Well known for pirates. Maya village entombed by a volcano around 600 AD. Some theory or other about Thera/Santorina eruption and Minoan civilisation. North York Moors: prehistoric stone circles, alum mine, railway, WWII training trenches etc. exposed when the heather was burned off some years ago, plus some stones with funny writing.

Book.