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[NickFitz]

Busy, busy, busy! Not me, of course. But the senior manager who has to officially tell us to start closing the project down is covering for an even-more-senior person's leave, and as a result has been too busy to deal with what has always, TBH, been the redheaded stepchild of projects in the department. So although the PM has made a nice organised plan of what we have to do, and I've made a nice list of everything that needs to be shut down or archived and who I need to liaise with to achieve this, we concluded at this morning's standup that we can't actually start on any of that until the shutdown is officially promulgated

So after standup, I went to Big Sainsbury's and did the shopping

As a result, lunch has been a couple of the nice garlic and herb chicken thighs from the hot food counter with a bag of plain crisps

Not sure what I'll do this afternoon should we remain rudderless. Read idiocy on Twitter until it's time to knock off, probably

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Grey.

Wet, very wet.

Windy to make the wet horizontal.

Sunless: to show there's a BH on the way.

Cool in here at 19.2 deg, 20 in the kitchen, 18.5 in the leanto.

999 mBar, 29.5 in Hg, 749.3 Torr, 14.489 psi, (untapped), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of November 2019 Ye Giante Ratte of Neathe was observed making its way from Ye Giante Ratte Holee near the sheltered housing to the greenery on the other side of what once was a road, whereas the ATM in Barclays ate my expired cashcard to my alarm, having forgotten it was expired.

[WTFH]

Slept in. Chopping wood on a school night is not a good idea. Overnight precipitation (but not much) has lead to an overcast morning. A short perambulation was had - less than an hour - but at least it achieved the necessary 2 project plans from MMtSH.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and blustery start out after a windy night. It's expected to continue much the same though it'll be a little warmer than it has been recently, reaching 22°C from its current 15°. The barometers are very much down at 991/999mB

[NickFitz]

Bit of old Traffic Cops earlier

And then yet more tinkering with Swift. I haven't really got the hang of the way the language uses optionals yet, but at least I got around to implementing a SwiftUI ViewModifier, which is one of those things that's quite straightforward to understand in the abstract yet one somehow feels one understands better after implementing even a very simple one

Didn't get around to reading any of my book, again. But there's a long weekend coming up, and I'm off the week after that, and maybe for longer if we get this project shut down by then and I decide to take a few weeks off before starting anything new, so I'll find time for it

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

A bit of wood chopping, chainsawing and stacking, and I think we’re already covered for the next 3 years (or two if it gets very cold)
Anyway, TFBSZ

[DoctorStrangelove]

Nonsense! I write everything (in the distant past when this was A Thing I did) as if it's FORTRAN IV with CAP16 assembler. .

Morning.

Tuesday. Wednesday. Damn the clock.

Dry.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 19.1 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 17 deg in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29.884343 in Hg, 759.06 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of November 2019 it was TPD's birthday, it having reached the grand old age of 14, whereas it was raining everywhere to celebrate.

Walk (greatly abbreviated due to ongoing and : plus there was some vehicle with flashing lights on the lane up the hill to the res) walked in the grey gloom and bracing wind.

Lunch: breakfast.

Entertainment: more of the not very funny Sledge Hammer. It looks very much as if it's in the territory of Things best left as Memories.

Since I felt a bit : I "watched" dear old Bob doing his painting thing on Sky Arts. Very restful.

Tea: beans on toast (the bread hasn't turned blue yet but it can't be long).

Raining.

Entertainment: The Seabees in the Pacific. Iwo Jima looked like a nightmare.

More Sledge Hammer.

Anything else I can find though it seems somewhat thin.

Enough Sledge Hammer.

"The Stone Tape (1972)" with lots of people shouting for no readily discernible reason other than the racket the ASR33 is making.

Another Sledge Hammer, this one had Leon from Blade Runner as a baddie.

As per fecking usual.

[ladymuck]

Much Trucking Hell, Only Connect, and Surgeons: Life in Their Hands has been watched.

I attended a webinar about titivating CV's and LinkedIn profiles.

Jobs at varying levels applied for. A role at Aldermaston looks interesting. Junior but a foot in the defence door could be worth pursuing.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been one of my homemade lamb burgers (incorporating fresh green and red chilis) on a brioche bun with ketchup, and fries. Very nice, and rather zingy

The AGM went much as expected. Apparently there have been problems with people who don't live here parking on our drive during the day, leading to discussion of gates, permits, and private parking enforcement. Some older bloke who's lived here for years mentioned that this has come up several times before over the years, and he didn't seem to think much would come of it. The gates probably aren't going to happen because, as the chap from the management company pointed out, people here get so many deliveries, and some of the older residents in particular would find it tricky to have to head down to the gate every time Wiltshire Farm Foods or Amazon turned up

I'm here all day and there often seem to be hardly any cars out there and plenty of room, so I'm not sure it's worth bothering about for now

Some of the garage roofs may need replacing over the next year or two as well, though I don't know if mine is one of those affected.

[NickFitz]

Can't beat DROP TABLE on the last day of a contract, eh?

It's actually terraform destroy (twice, once for staging, once for prod) which will tear down a bunch of AWS resources, after which I tell some other people they can get rid of the associated AWS accounts and domain names

[WTFH]

the one bit I can do entirely by myself will literally involve pushing a button and waiting a minute or two

Can't beat DROP TABLE on the last day of a contract, eh?

[NickFitz]

I'm trying to decide if this is worthy or not, but since you deem it to be, then so be it!

I thank you

I've started (and finished, unless there's something I've forgotten or somebody wants more detail on there) a Confluence page listing what needs to be decommissioned and how to do so. The "how to" bits largely consist of saying who to ask to actually do it; the one bit I can do entirely by myself will literally involve pushing a button and waiting a minute or two

It's the AGM of the limited company for these here properties at 18:00, on Zoom. I think I shall attend, though I can't think of anything to raise in AOB. The minutes of previous ones were among the documents sent to me by the solicitors of the seller during the purchasing process and it looks like they occasionally give advance warning of stuff that's going to be done around the place, like the other year when they repaved the path behind block B

[WTFH]

Aaaaand… SHUTDOWN!

I'm trying to decide if this is worthy or not, but since you deem it to be, then so be it!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sardine toasties

Gone rather grey out now

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Lots of lumpy fluff scurrying about. Dry and sunny. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1015 mBar.

No other news to report at this time.